Hong Kong: Chinese courts competent for "serious" security breaches

Life imprisonment could be imposed for crimes against national security committed in Hong Kong and Chinese justice will have jurisdiction over the most " serious " of them, according to a new law passed on Tuesday by China whose content comes from 'be published.

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This legislation, which makes the Hong Kong opposition fear an unprecedented decline in freedoms since the 1997 handover by the United Kingdom of this territory, which currently has autonomy status, also provides for the establishment by Beijing of 'a national security agency.