The Department of Justice (DoJ) today updated the “Annotations of the Hong Kong National Security Law & Sedition Offences in the Crimes Ordinance” to cover the developments in the laws relating to safeguarding national security up to June 30, 2024 as well as judgments of individual major cases thereafter.

The updated contents have been uploaded to a dedicated website for people to assess.

The DoJ launched the English and Chinese versions of the annotations in December last year and June this year respectively.

Since the annotations’ launch, there have been important developments in the relevant laws relating to the safeguarding of national security, and the courts have handed down judgments in relevant important cases.

The DoJ collated and summarised these important judgments with a view to enabling the public to better understand the National Security Law (NSL) and related laws, and facilitating the legal sector’s research and application of the NSL and related laws.

Separately, the DoJ today published the “Proceedings for the National Security Legal Forum ‘Looking Back & Ahead, New Dawn for Development’”, in order to share with the public the fruits of the legal forum that it organised on June 8 this year.

The proceedings comprise the relevant speeches and discussions at the forum, compiled and translated by the DoJ, and have already been uploaded to DoJ’s website for public access.