Friday, 03 Jul 2020 02:28 PM MYTBEIJING, July 3 — China appointed a hardliner known for stamping out protests on the mainland as the head of Hong Kong’s new security agency today, state media said, days after imposing a sweeping law on the territory that criminalises dissent.
The office — which has investigative and prosecutory powers — will monitor intelligence related to national security and process cases, in some circumstances handing them over to mainland authorities. The 56-year-old is known as a hardliner who stamped out often-violent anti-corruption protests that erupted in Wukan, a village in the province, in 2011.
On the same day, the State Council also named Luo Huining — currently director of Beijing’s Liaison Office in the semi-autonomous city — as the national security adviser to the city’s newly-formed national security commission chaired by Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
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