1/ Today, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a bill to sanction 49 Hong Kong judges, prosecutors & gov't officials. They range from appeals judges to low-level prosecutors. If passed, it would make clear that ANYONE participating in persecution can be held accountable.

NEW: The #Hongkong Rule of Law Report 2022 is out, detailing how Hong Kong's #ruleoflaw has devolved into a tool of oppression.
Read it here: hkrlm.org/2023/10/23/rol…

Never forgive. Never forget.

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I invite you to compare and contrast the example of prosecutorial conduct in para 8 with what happens on the regular half a world away.

With apologies in advance to Arlo Guthrie, I'm amusing myself by writing some HK-themed lyrics to 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree'.

'Cause if there's one constant in life, it's Officer Obie.

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The trauma of covering the pandemic has battered journalists, and the industry is losing a generation of reporters and editors to despair and moral injury (@oliviamesser / Study Hall)

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47 defendants in the biggest #NSL case to date. 83% of those on bail chose to contest the charge, whereas only 17% of those in detention did so. Tell us again how the presumption against bail does not impinge on the right to a fair trial.

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That's right: Beijing is now threatening *retroactive* NSL 'interpretations'

#Breaking NPCSC passed interpretation of article 17 and 47 of HK's #NSL - CCTV

Over 20 pro-democracy legislators applied for judicial review of this act that Richburg sees fit to joke about. Most of these ex-legislators are now in jail or in exile. Yes I get that wearing masks is a nuisance but using the mask ban to joke about it is just tone deaf.

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#notreal #butitcouldbe

(Paraphrasing Alvin Y.H. Cheung is unhappily vindicated (again)) The act is lacking in legal candour: there is a gross mismatch between what the legal act expresses, and what the legal act purports to be. #Hongkong

'Perhaps most damaging of all, however, is the prospect that a lawyer from outside the jurisdiction might witness the extent to which Hong Kong’s legal system has been debased — and tell the truth about it.'

Canadian officials knew for years existing laws didn’t curb foreign influence, according to documents.
Meanwhile Canada’s public safety minister says government will consider establishing a foreign agents registry. globalnews.ca/news/9321299/c…

Well done #Hongkong government! In the process of preventing a foreign lawyer from seeing what a farce the Hong Kong legal system is, they have demonstrated that very point.