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The law was enacted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on July 7, 2015 and implemented on the same date. [4] The law is part of a series of laws implemented under Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping's administration as part of efforts to strengthen national security.
The UK should officially designate China a national security threat, Tory frontbencher Dame Priti Patel has said, as she accused the government of “desperation” in its early dealings with Beijing.
The new law in the Chinese language took effect immediately after publishing, [25] the China's State paper Xinhua also supplied text, translated in English "for reference only" [26] under title "The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region". [27]
The South China Morning Post reported that the Chinese central government believed that the political climate in Hong Kong, due to the protests, precludes the passage of national security legislation under Article 23, while Chief Executive Carrie Lam added that the protests made the law more necessary than before, and so China resorted to ...
Britain, which handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, has said security law that punishes offences like subversion with up to life imprisonment has been used to curb dissent and freedoms.
Former Tory MSP and constitutional law expert Professor Adam Tomkins was speaking as more ministers quit Boris Johnson’s Government. UK’s national security under threat due to mass ...
The passage of the National Intelligence Law was part of a larger effort by the Chinese central government to strengthen its security legislation. In 2014, China passed a law on counterespionage, [ 5 ] in 2015 a law on national security [ 6 ] and another on counter-terrorism, [ 7 ] in 2016 a law on cybersecurity [ 8 ] and foreign NGO management ...
Hong Kong on Tuesday formally began the process to enact a controversial homegrown national security law in a move that could have deep ramifications for the city’s status as a global financial hub.