China's Hong Kong law set to bar foreign judges from national security cases

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Beijing's planned national security legislation for Hong Kong is set to block its foreign judges from handling national security trials, people ...

The Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress could not immediately be reached for comment. China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hong Kong's foreign judges stem from an arrangement established at its 1997 handover to help maintain its credibility as an international financial hub. The Hong Kong Bar Association said China's plan to impose the law without public consultation or local legislative scrutiny had caused"deep unease in the local and international community".JUDICIAL TRADITION

"In Macau ... only judges of Chinese nationality can hear cases relating to national security, and I believe that will be a very good reference," Tsang, a former Hong Kong police commissioner, told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

 

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This is a good move. Violence Rioters and Terrorists destroyed HK infrastructure and received a fine!! Hopefully, certain countries stop sponsored these Riotors and prevent interfering in China HK internal affairs. Fact: during UK colonised, Hong-Kong never have Democracy.

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