Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, leader of the Pro-Beijing New People’s Party, has entered the race to be Hong Kong's next Chief Executive, but her support for security legislation is raising concerns about civil liberties. Ip resigned from the Executive Council (Hong Kong's core policy-making body) in 2003, after seeming to oppose pro-democracy demonstrations. Her newly announced campaign platform includes support for enacting the national security legislation under Article 23 of the city-state's Basic Law, which allows Hong Kong to enact laws "to prohibit treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government.''
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