SPECIAL SERIES The Early Edition explores the local impacts of the Hong Kong handover 25 years later (new window).If the threats are repeated or if he is harassed, then that changes the dynamic, he said, adding the Canadian Security Intelligence Service could then become involved. Houlden says Canada has a long list of issues with China and it's not practical to raise each one. Gordon Houlden, the director emeritus of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, says China might send people to Canada to watch Victor Ho's activities.įormer diplomat Gordon Houlden agrees and adds the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong may have already tried to express concerns about China infringing on the rights of Canadian citizens.Ĭhina would not be foolish enough to snatch him, said Houlden, who is also director emeritus of the China Institute at the University of Alberta.īut he expects China may send observers to watch Ho in Canada and suggests Ho be very cautious about traveling. But because China only has mutual legal assistance agreements with a few dozens of countries - and most developed countries or liberal democracies have no agreements with China for deportation and mutual recognition of judicial decisions - its global impacts are still limited. It has created immense chilling effects on people in Hong Kong. CBC EXPLAINS What you need to know about China's new national security law for Hong Kong (new window).Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, says the national security law is meant to deter international involvement in Hong Kong by threatening to take extraterritorial legal action. Jie Cheng, associate professor at the Peter A.
China has approved a contentious law that would allow authorities to crack down on subversive and secessionist activity in Hong Kong, sparking fears that it would be used to curb opposition voices in the semi-autonomous territory.Įmail requests to the Chinese consulate in Toronto to clarify the charge were unanswered. Anyone convicted under this law can face a minimum of 10 years to life in prison.Ī woman walks past a promotional banner of the national security law for Hong Kong, in Hong Kong this summer.
They should know about the Hong Kong government warrant, it's in Chinese and English and federal officials should ask the Hong Kong government to clarify about this because it involves a Chinese-Canadian national, Ho says.Ĭhina's government in Beijing enacted the national security law in Hong Kong in July 2020, signaling a growing authoritarian rule over the previously free-wheeling city that was handed back to China 25 years ago. A person can be charged under the vaguely worded law for subversion, secession, sedition and terrorism. In late July, he and two other activists held a news conference in Toronto to announce the formation of a virtual parliament in exile that would be democratically elected by Hong Kong's diaspora living around the world.īut one week later, Ho along with pro-democracy businessman Elmer Yuen, and Baggio Leung, a former Hong Kong lawmaker-elect, were placed on Hong Kong's national security bureau's wanted list for allegedly subverting state power. He's lived in Metro Vancouver for 25 years.
Many Hollywood films that screen in the country have certain scenes omitted or altered.Victor Ho, of Richmond, B.C., just south of Vancouver, is the retired editor-in-chief of Canada's Sing Tao Chinese-language newspaper.
Huaxia Film Distribution and China Film Co, the film’s distributors in China, did not respond to a request for comment.Ĭhina has placed a limit on the number of overseas films that can be shown in domestic cinemas. “It’s only us who need special guidance and care for fear that a cartoon will ‘corrupt’ us,” DuSir wrote. Numerous online commentators mocked the edits, saying they resembled a PowerPoint presentation.ĭuSir, a film review publisher with 14.4 million followers on Weibo, noted that the Chinese version ran one minute longer than the international one, and questioned why the extra time was needed. In the international version, the film ends with Gru and Wild Knuckles riding off together after the latter faked his own death to evade capture.
It also states Gru, a co-conspirator of Wild Knuckles, “returned to his family” and “his biggest accomplishment is being the father to his three girls”.