Hong Kong’s top court has overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists.
  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I sometimes wonder what I would do or who I would be if I had a fraction of these individuals’ courage.

    Having regained my freedom, I would leave. Hong Kong, it seems, is a lost cause – which saddens me to no end because I spent 6 years there as a kid. It was completely different than mainland China, which I moved to after. It was a beautiful mix of western and Chinese culture. It was its own thing.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    The prosecution needed to prove that the alliance was a foreign agent, the judges wrote, adding that the lower courts “fell into error” when they based their rulings on the police commissioner saying he had reasonable grounds to believe this was fact.

    Getting jailed because some pig believed something to be a fact. Nightmare fuel.

  • RandAlThor@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    31·
    7 hours ago

    Goddamn Hong Kong court under commie China might be more independent than the US Supreme Court! What does that say about US or the state of the world?