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.
  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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.