Hong Kong’s Article 23, a year of restraint but what about broader impact?

For Chan Po-ying of the League of Social Democrats, the immediate impact of Hong Kong’s local version of the national security law when it came into force a year ago came like a punch to her gut.

With the passage of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance last March, she would have to wait 2¼ years longer before her husband “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, a former lawmaker, would be freed. He had been jailed for six years and nine months last November in a landmark sedition trial.