CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG TO GET NEW COMMISSION FOR SAFEGUARDING NATIONAL SECURITY

An editorial in the South China Morning Post (June 23) observed that a summary of the new national security law for Hongkong was published over the weekend by the official Xinhua News Agency. It said that the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has scheduled a decision on an unusually rapid timetable, starting another three-day meeting June 28. The new law, according to Xinhua, would create a Commission for Safeguarding National Security, answerable to the central government in Beijing, with new police and prosecuting departments to enforce new statutes. The structure allows the chief of the new commission to appoint judges and hear national security cases, which China has often defined as anything that threatens the party-state’s monopoly on power.





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