Zheng Yanxiong – a party official best known for tackling protests on the mainland – will head the new national security agency, unbound by the city's laws.
The appointment came as a man accused of deliberately driving his motorbike into a group of police officers became the first person in Hong Kong to be chargedChina's authoritarian leaders say the suite of powers will restore stability after a year of protests and will not stifle freedoms.for possessing flags and banners while the local government has made clear certain political views, especially calls for independence, are now outlawed.
The office has investigation and prosecution powers and will monitor intelligence related to national security and process cases, in some circumstances handing them over to the mainland for trial. "He is a tough enforcer, a law and order person," Willy Lam, an expert on China's Communist Party at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told Agence France-Presse .
A loyalist of president Xi Jinping, Luo built a reputation for enforcing Communist Party discipline and tackling corruption.
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