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China names hardliner as head of HK national security agency

Police detain and search a man during a protest against the national security law in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was rocked by several months of huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests last year, a movement Beijing is keen to suppress through the new law. - EPA pic, July 3, 2020.

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. Zheng Yanxiong will take the helm of the controversial national security agency set up under the legislation that empowers mainland security agents to operate inside Hong Kong openly for the first time, unbound by the city’s laws.

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