Before we start let’s remember that the Bar Assoc is one of the last institutions left in HK that provides any alternative narrative to the barrage of Beijing.
The attacks are daily and sustained….
The SCMP report
- Security officials say barristers’ group mistaken in saying amendment to immigration law will mean authorities can override right of residents to freely enter and leave city
- The change is aimed at stopping asylum seekers from coming to Hong Kong and is allowed under a global aviation agreement, it says
Hong Kong’s Security Bureau has accused the Bar Association of causing “unnecessary misunderstanding” after the barristers’ group voiced concern over a proposed legislative amendment it said would empower immigration to ban anyone from leaving the city.
The bureau’s rebuttal on Saturday came two days after the association expressed concern that the government proposal could give “apparently unfettered power” to the immigration director to stop any individual from boarding a flight out of the city.
“In regard to the recent written submission by the Hong Kong Bar Association to the Legislative Council, in which the association’s standpoint about the relevant provision failed to reflect correctly the objectives of the provision and relevant facts, and led to unnecessary misunderstanding, we feel disappointed,” the bureau said in a statement.
