New Hong Kong Security Law Prompts Rise in Self-Censorship

HONG KONG—China’s new countrywide protection regulation for Hong Kong is sending shudders by a town wherever persons are used to speaking freely, prompting some to rapidly transform behavior and disguise their assistance of the city’s protest movement for panic of getting to be a goal.

While authorities have built assurances that the regulation would only implement to an “extremely compact minority” of persons, the scope of the legislation has specified police a broad mandate to implement it, spreading alarm further than activists, journalists and teachers already underneath far more…