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Huenya passes three security measures

The Huenyan Federal Legislature has passed three security measures aimed at securing the country further as it recovers from the Golden Blade insurgency.

The first measure, the Ensuring Proper Alignment of Huenyan TRC-Derived Entities Act (23-2025), affects the Special Investigative and Prosecutorial Service (SIPS). The SIPS was originally created as the Huenyan truth commission after the Second Xiomeran Civil War. It later became a standalone entity tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes. It was also tasked with investigating and prosecuting crimes related to ethnic bias or intimidation, as well as separatist movements within Huenya. Huenyan officials said that the Act, which will place SIPS under the Huenyan Justice Department, will ensure that SIPS has the resources and tools necessary to complete its mission. They also said that the move was meant to alleviate longstanding concerns that SIPS, being totally independent of any meaningful oversight, had become somewhat of a rogue agency that needed guardrails in place to ensure that it did not exceed its intended role. The new law passed unanimously in the Chamber of Executives. It passed with a 243-75 vote in the Chamber of Deputies.

The second measure passed is a sweeping law banning the use or display of symbols associated with terrorist or ethnic nationalist movements and ideologies. The Preventing the Usage of Antisocial Harmful Symbols Act (24-2025) was passed by a unanimous vote of the Chamber of Executives. It passed with a 299-19 vote in the Chamber of Deputies.

The new law bans both individuals and “organized groups” from displaying symbols or images linked to “dangerous terrorist, ethnic separatist, and related groups that threaten the stability of the Huenyan Federation and the safety of its people”, according to the Act. The law authorizes the SIPS to identify symbols and imagery barred under the Act. It further authorizes the SIPS to “investigate, detain and prosecute displays or usage of proscribed symbols or imagery under this Act”. The SIPS has tentatively listed symbols or images connected to the Golden Blade insurgency, ethnic Xiomeran nationalist group Xiomeran Defense League, and Necatli supremacist group Tlamiquiliztli Cihuatlampa as the first set of proscribed material under the Act.

The final measure, the Stopping Terrorist Organizations and Parties (STOP) Act (25-2025), explicitly bans membership or participation in specific “insurgent, separatist, or terrorist organizations”. This measure passed unanimously in the Chamber of Executives, and with a 278-40 margin in the Chamber of Deputies. A Federal Proscribed Organizations List will be created and maintained by SIPS and the Department of Justice, with oversight from the President and the Legislative Subcommittee on National Security. Providing aid or support to a proscribed organization, even if not a member of said organization, will also become a Federal offense subject to arrest and prosecution. The Golden Blade insurgency, the XDL, and Tlamiquiliztli Cihuatlampa will be the first groups added to the FPO List, officials confirmed.

President Xiadani signed the new measures into law within an hour of their final passage in the Legislature. “These new laws will ensure that proper oversight exists over SIPS to keep it within fair and legal bounds, while also ensuring that we are doing everything we can to prevent terrorists, insurgents and ethnic nationalists from having any power in Huenya,” the President said.

Huenyan officials indicated that the President and Legislature were keen to move these new laws quickly into force to boost Huenya’s ability to fight internal security threats. With Huenya’s Independence Day set to be celebrated in five days, the government is reportedly seeking to further bolster its increasingly robust response to internal threats to prevent any significant incidents. The new laws will not likely go quietly unchallenged, however. Some civil liberties organizations have already pledged to sue the government over the Preventing the Usage of Antisocial Harmful Symbols Act, claiming it goes too far to suppress speech. Other groups, such as the XDL and Tlamiquiliztli Cihuatlampa, are promising a more violent response if the Huenyan government does not rescind the STOP Act.

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