The Hong Kong government has defended recent legal changes that make it illegal to withhold smartphone passwords from police in national security investigations, amid a US travel alert and criticism from foreign organizations and media.

Hong Kong authorities have defended legal changes that have made it illegal to withhold smartphone passwords from police in national security investigations, after the United States sent a new alert to its citizens travelling to the city. The government on Friday also expressed “strong dissatisfaction with misleading information and sweepingly generalised descriptions” by foreign organisations and media regarding the amendments to the Beijing-imposed national security law earlier this week, as.....