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Nearly 200 political figures from around the world have added to growing condemnation of Beijing's planned new security law in Hong Kong.

Signatories from Europe, Asia, north America and Australia called the plans a "comprehensive assault on the city's autonomy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms".

China is seeking to pass a law that would ban "treason, secession, sedition and subversion" in the territory.

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