{
  "id": 8241719,
  "title": "Advocates call for stronger consent laws as Hong Kong to criminalise persistent child sexual abuse and ‘cyberflashing’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/advocates-call-for-stronger-consent-laws-as-hong-kong-to-criminalise-8241719",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T11:33:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hong Kong Free Press",
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    "url": "https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/18/advocates-call-for-stronger-consent-laws-as-hong-kong-to-criminalise-persistent-child-sexual-abuse-and-cyberflashing/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A campaign group has continued to urge the government to impose limits on a defence allowing a sexual assault suspect to claim they mistakenly believed they had been given consent, after authorities announced stronger protections under upcoming sexual offences reforms. The group, which calls itself We Are X, after the placeholder name assigned to sexual […]",
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