Beijing: China has said the lack of tough security laws in Hong Kong is a key reason for months of increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrations and that the enactment of such legislation is an “urgent task”.
The call came in a lengthy statement issued late on Saturday by the head of the Chinese government department that oversees Hong Kong.
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