National security law: Beijing’s plan to appoint adviser will not affect Hong Kong autonomy, judicial independence, former justice minister says

Hong Kong’s autonomy and judicial independence will not be undermined by Beijing’s plan to appoint a national security adviser to the chief executive, the city’s first postcolonial justice minister has said.Elsie Leung Oi-sie, a former vice-chairwoman of the Basic Law Committee, said on Sunday that the role of the Beijing-appointed adviser, who would sit on a national security commission led by the chief executive, would only remain advisory.Leung was speaking a day after China’s top…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3089961/national-security-law-beijings-plan-appoint-adviser-will