The law would impose a “terrorist” label on any group “practicing or intending to advocate by any means to disturb public order or endanger the safety of the community and its interests, or risk its security, or harm national unity.”
CIHRS cast doubt on the government’s intentions to use the law exclusively to combat terrorism, saying, “the law uses vague and mysterious terminology to define terrorist groups,” which would allow it to be applied to any group that “calls to change any laws or stage demonstrations to protest a governmental decree.”