HONG KONG

June 1, 2020

China’s Parliament passed a new legislation for Hong Kong called the “NPC Decision on Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanisms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to Safeguard National Security”.

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The law will for the first time empower China to draft national security laws for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The scope of the laws could cover any activity that “seriously endangers national security”.
It also enables organs of the central government “for the protection of national security” to set up “institutions in the HKSAR”, a provision that has been a particular source of concern.
The law could also block foreign judges from sitting on national security cases. Hong Kong’s court of final appeal has 15 foreign judges, under a system aimed to ensure judicial independence for a global financial centre.

Source : The Hindu