HK Bar Association ‘gravely concerned’ by security law
The Hong Kong Bar Association has warned that the new security law imposed on the city by Beijing will stifle freedoms in the city and overrule its independent judiciary. – EPA pic, July 2, 2020.
A SWEEPING new security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing undermines the semi-autonomous city’s independent judiciary and stifles freedoms, the city’s influential Bar Association has warned. In a scathing critique, the group detailed how the new law dismantles the legal firewall that has existed between Hong Kong’s independent judiciary and China’s Communist Party-controlled courts since the 1997 handover.
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