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The verdict in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date – which saw 14 pro-democracy figures convicted of conspiring to commit subversion and two acquitted – demonstrated that the city’s common law system was intact and effective, a government advisor has said. Ronny Tong, a member of the city’s top advisory body the Executive Council, said on Friday the court had “set an unprecedentedly high threshold” for the conviction of subversion under the Beijing-imposed national security law. The acquittals were proof of the rigorous legal processes in Hong Kong, he added. The 16 who stood tr...
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Hong Kong’s Department of Justice has announced it intends to appeal the acquittal of two pro-democracy figures, who were found not guilty of conspiring to commit conspiracy over their roles in an unofficial primary election in July 2020. Lawrence Lau and Lee Yue-shun were acquitted by a panel of three High Court judges on Thursday morning – becoming the first two people tried under the Beijing-imposed security law to be cleared of their charges. Director of Public Prosecutions Maggie Yang on Thursday afternoon said that she had received instruction from Secretary for Justice Paul Lam that the...
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Four members of pro-democracy party the League of Social Democrats were arrested on Thursday after attempting to stage a protest outside the courthouse where 14 democrats were convicted of subversion under the national security law. Figo Chan, a member of the LSD, said on Facebook that Chan Po-ying, Dickson Chau, Yu Wai-pan, and Raphael Wong had been arrested for disorderly conduct outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building. Also present was activist “the Bull” Tsang Kin-shing. Chan Po-ying is the chair of the LSD and wife of jailed pro-democracy activist and former chair Leung Kwok-hung, wh...
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A Hong Kong court is set to rule on 16 pro-democracy figures’ involvement in the city’s largest national security case to date. It has been more than three years since they were arrested and charged along with 31 others in connection with an unofficial legislative primary election. On Thursday, three hand-picked national security judges are set to deliver their verdicts for 16 former lawmakers, ex-district councillors and activists, all of whom pleaded not guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion in August 2022, as the lengthy judicial process finally nears its end. If convic...
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Sixteen Hong Kong democrats who pleaded not guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion await their fate, as a panel of three judges prepare to hand down their verdict in the city’s largest – and to date, longest lasting – national security trial. Two days have been set aside for the verdict hearing, which comes almost three and a half years after they were among 47 arrested under the Beijing-imposed security law in January 2021 over their roles in unofficial primaries held in July 2020 in an attempt to gain a controlling majority in the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) elec...
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It is nice to know that we still enjoy the rule of law, as we are constantly reminded. Still, there are some important differences between the rule as practised in Hong Kong and what happens in other places. This was brought home to me last week by reports of the legal problems of Sam Kerr. Kerr is a footballer of extraordinary gifts who plays for Chelsea Women and Australia, the country she comes from. Last season’s output here – this year she has been sidelined by a knee injury. Kerr went out with friends and team-mates to celebrate her team’s victory in the Women’s FA Cup last year and had ...
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The top US diplomat in Hong Kong has called for the release of media mogul Jimmy Lai and other detained activists, sparking a complaint from Beijing’s foreign ministry of interference in China’s internal affairs. US Consul General Gregory May made “unfounded comments” on Hong Kong’s judicial cases in an online seminar hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said in a statement on Thursday. The office said it “strongly opposed and condemned” May’s remarks, which it described as openly supporting and embolde...
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The verdict for Hong Kong’s largest national security case is expected to be delivered at the end of May, more than three years after the 47 democrats who were charged were brought to court. The democrats were arrested in 2021 for organising the primaries in a bid to win a majority in the 2020 Legislative Council election. They were charged with conspiring to commit subversion, a crime under the Beijing-imposed national security law that could see them jailed for life. The defendants – among them ex-lawmakers and high-profile activists – were accused of planning to indiscriminately veto govern...
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai had wanted to bring together legislators, overseas groups, the power of the community, and other sectors to achieve “China implosion,” a court has heard during a landmark trial under the Beijing-imposed national security law. Paralegal Chan Tsz-wah, who stands accused of conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces, told the court on Friday that the Apple Daily founder mentioned the idea of bringing China to economic collapse and the fall of its political regime in January 2020. Lai faces two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces a...
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Jimmy Lai had mentioned in late November 2019 the idea of conducting a primary poll to “continue the momentum” of the pro-democracy camp in a legislative race originally scheduled for 2020, an activist has told the media tycoon’s landmark national security trial. The Apple Daily founder said organising a primary election could unite the votes of pro-democracy electors and secure the legislative seats of the democrats, paralegal Chan Tsz-wah testified in court on Wednesday. Chan has pleaded guilty to with conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces. According to Chan, Lai made...
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