BEIJING — China appointed a hardliner known for stamping out protests on the mainland as the head of Hong Kong’s new security agency on Friday, state media said, days after imposing a sweeping law on the territory that criminalizes dissent.
Villagers watch as Zheng Yanxiong who is the Communist Party Secretary of Shanwei prefecture speaks on TV, in the village of Wukan where residents are demanding the government take action over illegal land grabs and the death in custody of a local leader in Wukan, Guangdong Province on December 20, 2011.
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.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.
Zheng rose through the ranks of the local government in southern Guangdong province which borders Hong Kong, to serve as secretary general of the provincial Communist Party committee.
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