HONG KONG—Senior Hong Kong lawyers expressed alarm on June 21 at plans for the city’s leader to select judges for national security cases, calling it the most serious challenge to the territory’s vaunted judicial independence since the 1997 handover to Chinese rule.
The move was among the details of a new national security law for Hong Kong released by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled Xinhua news agency on Saturday—legislation that is expected to be passed soon by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Chinese regime’s rubber-stamp parliament.
