Hong Kong Proposes Restricting Prison Visits by Lawyers, Doctors for ‘National Security’ Reasons

Hong Kong Proposes Restricting Prison Visits by Lawyers, Doctors for ‘National Security’ Reasons

Hong Kong officials submitted a proposal to the Legislative Council on July 3 to amend local prison rules, which would empower the Correctional Services Department (CSD) to impose—based also on “specific purposes” such as “maintaining national security”—restrictions, conditions, or prohibitions on visits to all inmates. The authorities also sought to abolish other relevant provisions that allowed prisoners awaiting trial access to their own meal…