China will have jurisdiction over 'very serious' national security crimes with offenders facing up to life in prison, according to the text of a new law published late Tuesday, June 30.
PROTEST. People watch after police entered a shopping mall to disperse people attending a lunchtime rally in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, as China passed a sweeping national security law for the city. Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP
also empowers China to set up a national security agency in the city, staffed by officials who are not bound by local law when carrying out duties., toppling the legal firewall that has existed between the city's independent judiciary and the mainland's party-controlled courts. The full text of the law, officially released on Tuesday, gave 3 scenarios when China might take over a prosecution – complicated foreign interference cases,"very serious" cases and when national security faces"serious and realistic threats."
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