BEIJING/HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Beijing announced details of a draft of new national security legislation for Hong Kong on Saturday (June 19), paving the way for the most profound change to the city's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING/HONG KONG - Beijing announced details of a draft of new national security legislation for Hong Kong on Saturday , paving the way for the most profound change to the city's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
China says the law is aimed at tackling separatist activity, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, but critics fear it will crush wide-ranging freedoms that are seen as key to Hong Kong's status as a global financial centre. It was agreed at a National People’s Congress Standing Committee meeting that concluded yesterday that the new legislation would aim to strike a balance with Hong Kong’s common law and human rights conventions, according to the SCMP report.
The chief executive of Hong Kong will choose a judge from different levels of the judiciary for handling national security cases, according to online news website HK01, without saying how it got the information. The draft of the legislation does not include a clause prohibiting judges with foreign nationalities from handling national security cases, the HK01 report said.
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