Hong Kong has strongly condemned comments made by UK-based NGO Hong Kong Watch and dozens of other activist groups on the impending new security law, after they said the legislation would bring “further devastating consequences” for human rights in the city. The government said on Tuesday night that the groups had made “skewed remarks” that authorities were undermining human rights with the upcoming enactment of legislation under Article 23 of the city’s mini-constitution. “The joint statement smacks of deliberate smears and is no further from the truth,” a government spokesperson said in a st…