Proposed Hong Kong extradition law changes spark concerns.
Business and human rights groups are expressing concern over proposed changes to Hong Kong's extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainlandThey say the move would harm the Asian financial hub's attractiveness to international business.
However, changes to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance would expand the scope for the transfer of criminal suspects to China and remove the legislature's right to scrutinize individual extradition decisions filed by Hong Kong's chief executive.
"The amendments would tarnish Hong Kong's reputation for the rule of law, and should be scrapped," Richardson said, adding the legal changes would put Hong Kong people "at risk of torture and unfair trials." The groups warned that fear of extradition to China — which routinely uses trumped-up charges of tax evasion or other economic crimes to punish political critics — could stifle civil society and freedom of speech in Hong Kong, where civil liberties are already under assault from pro-Beijing groups.
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