New Hong Kong law allows national security procedures to extend to older cases

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Hong Kong has enacted a new law allowing national security procedures to apply retroactively to criminal cases predating the 2020 national security law. This law enables the chief executive to certify cases under an expanded classification of offenses endangering national security.

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, which introduces a classification mechanism for “other offences endangering national security” under the city’s domestic national security law, was gazetted and came into effect on Tuesday. Under the new law, any case certified by the chief executive will be...