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Hong Kong national security law: Beijing legal scholar says bail conditions must meet higher thresholds than in other cases




The threshold in determining whether to grant bail to suspects in Hong Kong’s national security law cases should be “much higher” than for those charged with ordinary crimes, a criminal law expert from mainland China has said.Professor Xiong Qiuhong recommended exercising greater caution in such cases as she said they involved threats to the nation, something the city’s courts had not dealt with before.She also said China’s top legislative body might be open to amendments to the law a few years…



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