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The Hong Kong government on Friday released the draft of a controversial new national security bill in the Chinese special administrative region, which includes life sentences for treason, insurrection and sabotage offences. The draft bill has reached Hong Kong’s 70-seat legislature, known as the Legislative Council, or LegCo. The legislation cleared the first and second of three readings in the council on Friday, the South China Morning Post reported. A bills committee was set to deliberate it clause by clause in the afternoon. Treason, insurrection, incitement of members of Chinese armed for…

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