HK proposes legal amendment that will put foreigners in Hong Kong at risk of extradition to China
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/03/26
By: Duncan Deaeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Deputy Minister of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),
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Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正), on Monday, March 25 expressed concern at the possibility of Hong Kong adopting a controversial new law regarding extraditions.
Chiu said that the new proposed amendment to the law concerning extraditions represents a potential threat to Taiwanese citizens, and that if passed, Taiwan would be forced to consider issuing a travel alert citizens traveling to the Chinese Special Administrative Region (SAR).
The new proposed law on extraditing criminals was proposed by the Hong Kong Security Bureau to the city’s Legislative Council in February 2019. It was presented as a remedy to solving to the legal gridlock related to the murder of 21 year old Poon Hui Wing (潘曉穎), which occurred in Taiwan in March, 2018.
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Currently, Hong Kong is unable to legally form legal agreements with Taiwan because of authoritarian legal measures imposed by Beijing. This means that the suspect in the Poon Hui Wing murder case, Chan Tung-kai (陳同佳), cannot be sent to Taiwan to face trial under current Hong Kong law. [FULL STORY]
