A British court sentenced two men on June 18 for offences under the UK's National Security Act after a jury found them guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service: Yuan Songbiao, an administrative manager at Hong Kong's London Economic and Trade Office, received eight years, while former Heathrow border officer Wei Zhiliang was sentenced to ten years, including a concurrent four-year term for misconduct in public office after he unlawfully searched the Home Office database to locate a dissident targeted by China's "Fox Hunt" unit. The judge found both men acted out of loyalty to China with close ties to a foreign intelligence service, rejecting defence arguments that their roles were minor. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's government gazetted new national security subsidiary legislation on June 9 allowing the city's Chief Executive to issue certificates designating any criminal case — including those predating the National Security Law — as a national security matter, a designation that cannot be challenged in any court.