South China Morning Post
New Hong Kong law allows national security procedures to extend to older cases
Hong Kong’s new legislation enables certain criminal cases to be retroactively brought under national security procedures even if the alleged offences occurred before the 2020 national security law was enacted. The subsidiary legislation…
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