Hong Kong: Security

(asked on 28th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the blocking of Hong Kong Watch’s website in that territory, what assessment they have made of the extraterritoriality clause of the Hong Kong National Security Law.


Answered by
 Portrait
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 11th April 2022

Article 37 of the National Security Law says that the law applies to any Hong Kong Permanent Resident worldwide who commits a crime under the law. Article 38 says the law applies to "a person who is not a permanent resident of the region" wherever in the world they infringe the law.

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