Joint checkpoint plan on track to become law for Hong Kong’s high-speed cross-border rail
Pan-democrats hit out at panel chairwoman as bid to delay vote on controversial legislation fails
A highly controversial bid to allow mainland Chinese laws to be enforced on the Hong Kong side of the cross-border rail link passed its first major hurdle in the legislature on Monday amid rowdy scenes as four protesting opposition members were physically removed from the chamber.
“We have also witnessed how the chairwoman ... has exhausted all means since this morning to violate the rules of procedures to so-called wrap up the work today,” said lawmaker Charles Mok, convenor of the opposition camp which considers the joint-checkpoint or “co-location” arrangement to be unconstitutional. “The pan-democrats will for the first time issue the strongest condemnation against Ip.”
