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HONG KONG: Hong Kong lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security bill within a fortnight of it being tabled, fast-tracking a major piece of legislation that critics say further threatens the China-ruled city's freedoms.The package, known as Article 23, punishes offences including treason, sabotage, sedition, the theft of state secrets, external interference and espionage with sentences ranging from several years to life imprisonment.Hong Kong’s leader John Lee said the law would come into effect on March 23 and called it a “historic moment for Hong Kong”.This new slate of laws comes on top of an earlier, China-imposed national security law that had already triggered sanct

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