Justice

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Court removes verdicts from database
China’s Supreme People’s Court has restricted public access to court rulings on its China Judgements Online (CJO) web portal, according to media reports. Several million cases had already been removed from the CJO database by early 2021, Chinafile reports. A judge of the People’s Court told the online magazine that the court decisions and details […] continue reading →
Paul Harris – defender of the ‘Right to Demonstrate’
For Paul Harris, an explosive term ends in January 2022. “I will try to protect freedom in Hong Kong. I don’t know if I will succeed,” he had told the British newspaper The Times when he was elected chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association for a year in early 2021. He was aware that […] continue reading →
China’s global hybrid war
As the world’s largest, strongest, and longest-surviving dictatorship, contemporary China lacks the rule of law. Yet it is increasingly using its rubber-stamp parliament to enact domestic legislation asserting territorial claims and rights in international law. In fact, China has become quite adept at waging “lawfare” – the misuse and abuse of law for political and […] continue reading →
Three and a half years in prison for activist Tony Chung
His fight for an independent Hong Kong has ended for 20-year-old Tony Chung with a years-long prison sentence for the time being. A court sentenced the activist to three and a half years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to charges of secession. Chung was the founder and chairman of the Student Localism movement. It […] continue reading →
Hong Kong: Nearly six years in prison for “Captain America 2.0”
In Hong Kong, a democracy activist has been sentenced to a long prison term for the second time under the National Security Act. The 31-year-old was accused of shouting slogans at at least 20 gatherings between August and November 2020 and also spreading them via social media. He called for the city’s independence from the […] continue reading →
Chronicle of a political crime
A major matter between the US and China has been resolved. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is allowed to return home without punishment. At the same time, Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are granted amnesia after more than 1,000 days in Chinese custody. The chronology of events presents a politically loaded economic thriller caught between a power struggle between the rising and the acting world power. continue reading →
More prison sentences for pro-democrats in Hong Kong
The political purge in Hong Kong continues. On Tuesday, a court sentenced nine activists and former politicians to prison terms of up to ten months. The pro-democracy defendants were punished for organizing and participating in a vigil for the victims of June 4, 1989. The event last year had taken place in Hong Kong’s Victoria […] continue reading →
New prison sentences in Hong Kong
A Hong Kong court handed down further sentences against pro-democracy activists and former politicians on Tuesday. The case focuses on events surrounding an unsanctioned demonstration on October 20, 2019, when the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called for a march against a public mask ban and police violence, which was followed by an estimated 350,000 […] continue reading →
Hong Kong activist accuses figurehead Lai after custody
Detained Hong Kong democracy activist Andy Li has pleaded guilty to violating the National Security Act, incriminating movement figurehead Jimmy Lai in the process. The 30-year-old, who used crowdfunding platforms to organize donations from overseas for the 2019 protest movement, and a 29-year-old co-defendant confessed in a court on Thursday to “colluding with foreign forces”, […] continue reading →