A general #timeline of Beijing's 40 days' national security law legislation for HK:
May 21: NPC pre-opening presser announced the resolution to strengthen the legal system and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security in HK was on agenda
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May 22: NPC deputy chairman Wang Chen gave a report to the congress on the draft resolution.
May 23: Vice premier Han Zheng received HK's delegates to Beijing and said the law would only target an extremely small number of people.
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May 28: The resolution was passed in NPC with 2,878 supporting votes, 1 opposing vote and 6 abstention votes. Premier Li Keqiang talked briefly about the law at the NPC closing presser. Public security minister Zhao Kezhi vowed to "instruct" HK police on quelling unrest.
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June 3: HK's leader #CarrieLam, SJ Teresa Cheng, SfS John Lee and police chief Chris Tang visited Beijing to submit their "opinions" on the national security law. Lam said there was no need for her to convey opposing voices.
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June 15: Deputy director of the HK Macau Affairs Office Deng Zhonghua said at a semi-official forum that Beijing would reserve jurisdictions over certain national security cases in HK.
June 18-20: NPC Standing Committee convened to scrutinize the bill. Xinhua published...
...an "explanatory memo" on some of the bill's articles in the evening of June 20, revealing that Beijing would set up a national security agency in HK, appointing an advisor to HK's own national security committee, and no HK law can contravene the national security law.
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Xinhua's explanatory memo also included that special teams of police, prosecutors and judges will be set up in HK, which gave #CarrieLam the power to select judges for national security cases. The arrangement sparked heavy criticism from the city's legal sector.
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June 21-27: HK officials and Beijing loyalists - except for the city's sole rep in NPCSC Tam Yiu-chung - continued to lead the cheering on a law that they never saw the full terms.
June 28-30: NPC Standing Committee convened for a second time in two weeks to scrutinize...
...the bill, hearing reports from Shen Chunyao, the NPCSC's legal work committee head and Li Fei, the NPCSC's constitution and law committee head. Xinhua reported at noon on June 29 that bill is finalized and ready for vote, two days ahead of the 23rd anniversary of HK's handover
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