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A hotline police are planning to set up to let people provide tip-offs over suspected national security law violations will tear Hong Kong apart, Democratic Party legislator James To warned on Thursday.

Sources say the force is yet to decide when to launch the hotline, while earlier reports said it could come as soon as next month.

On RTHK’s Newswrap programme To said that such a hotline – which will be similar to one launched last year for people to contact police about illegal activities related to anti-government protests – is unnecessary and the end result will be “disastrous”.

He said it will destroy trust among society, as it encourages people to report on each other.

“It will be a serious blow to freedom in Hong Kong and will undermine the trust between people… much of the reports will be related to individuals’ political opinions,” he said.

To added that the police’s national security unit already has “tremendous” powers and it doesn’t need a hotline that will “disintegrate society and seriously undermine trust between families, students and teachers, and among friends.”

Calls made to the new hotline will not be picked up by officers and informants won’t have to identify themselves.

People will be able to send videos, photos and information to the police through the mainland’s Wechat or Korea’s Line app.

But WhatsApp, one of the most popular platforms in Hong Kong, might not be used, after the force’s last attempt to use the app for a reporting hotline resulted in its accounts being suspended.

Political parties and legal heavyweights have criticised the security law, saying it infringes upon the city’s freedoms guaranteed under the Basic Law. But Beijing and Hong Kong officials deny this.

The authorities say the law is aimed only at a minority of people and is needed to bring back stability to the city which has been rocked by social unrest since last year.
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A former European Commission Director General for Energy is warning that Ireland will become an ‘Energy Island’ within the EU on New Years’ Eve.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is likely to be one of the biggest game releases this year – to put it mildly – and when it does finally emerge from development, it’s likely to absorb the attention of consumers and media alike. So in response to the latest delay announced this week, it seems other developers are again scrambling to get out of Cyberpunk’s way, with Path of Exile moving an entire expansion to make way for the futuristic juggernaut. Path of Exile’s 3.13 end-game expansion was originally scheduled to release on 11th December, meaning it would have popped up the day after Cyberpunk 2077’s new release date. While developer Grinding Gear Games anticipates it will still be able to hit the planned date with a “high quality expansion” and the game’s development schedule has not been affected, the delay to Cyberpunk 2077 means the expansion’s release will now be moved to early next year. “We do not want to put our players in a position of having to choose between these two games, so we have decided to step out of the way and delay the release of Path of Exile 3.13 until January,” the blog post explained. “During the month of delay before release, we will start work on the 3.14 expansion. Read more
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More than 6,000 government officials fraudulently benefited to the tune of R41m from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) benefit, parliament heard on Wednesday. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) told parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) that a total of just more than R41m was claimed by 6,140 government officials from […]
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The state is charging Bongani Bongo with corruption in land deals amounting to R124m during his tenure as an official in Mpumalanga in 2012.
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David Correia, a business partner of former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, pleaded guilty to defrauding investors and lying to the FEC on Thursday.
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