Hong Kong, March 23, 2026 (AFP) - New Hong Kong rules force people to give up passwords in security cases

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People in Hong Kong will now face a year in jail if they refuse to give police their phone or computer passwords in investigations involving the city's strict national security law, the government said on Monday. The new rules apply to the implementation of Hong Kong's national security law, which was imposed by Beijing in 2020 after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in the financial hub. One of the amendments that came into effe......

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