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New members of Hong Kong bar operators’ group must attend national security lectures

Chairman of Hong Kong Bar and Club Association announces requirement after completing course under government scheme

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Chin Chun-wing, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar and Club Association, shows his certificate after completing a government course on safeguarding national security. Photo: Handout

A Hong Kong bar operators’ association has started requiring new members to attend lectures on national security, becoming the city’s first catering industry group to implement such measures.

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Chin Chun-wing, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar and Club Association, said that those who joined the group starting from Monday would now have to participate in lectures held to “shoulder the important responsibility of promoting national security”.

“This decision of the association is only the first step. We will fully cooperate with government and national policies and strive to promote national security education in the future,” he said, urging more groups to join the effort.

Chin announced the new measure after he completed a course under the government’s new National Security Education District Tutor Training Scheme and became a qualified tutor on Monday.

Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong in June 2020 prohibiting acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces in response to the anti-government protests that rocked the city for months in 2019.
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Hong Kong also enacted its own Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, mandated under Article 23 of the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution, in March.

Chin said the course had helped him gain a better understanding of the city’s national security legislation as well as the concept of safeguarding national security.

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