#CarrieLam goes light about the courts and says nothing about her forthcoming power to appoint judges. 1/n

https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202006/20/P2020062000907.htm

She also repeats the usual assurance that the #NationalSecurityLaw will only target “an extremely small minority of people”, a phrase usually confined to those destined to be prosecuted in the Mainland or by the Mainland, and applies it to all of Hong Kong. 2/n

If so, why then the large and elaborate new institutional structure? She also makes it seem like #HongKong can take comfort from the protections of the #ICCPR. I wonder whether she has read it and realizes the many problems that the NSL promises to raise under the ICCPR. 3/3