First India, now Hong Kong. @amnesty closed its offices in HK “with a heavy heart” citing “recent targeting of local human rights & trade union groups signals an intensification of the authorities’ campaign to rid the city of all dissenting voices.” #NSL
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
https://twitter.com/austinramzy/status/1452519400653803525
A recently thriving civil society is being taken apart, unions and NGOs forced to close down, as dissent is silenced in Hong Kong through the lashings of a national security law, whose first trials are now making their way through the courts. nytimes.com/2021/10/24/wor…
It is anticipated today that the verdict in the 2nd #NSL trial will be given, in HKSAR v Ma Chun Man. Ma’s lawyers have run human rights arguments in this case of alleged incitement. A summary is here: hongkongfp.com/2021/09/30/def…
This is a useful paper to consider on the first NSL verdict produced by @laiyanhoeric & others at Georgetown. It may some shed some light on how the #humanrights arguments will be considered in other cases. As he says: “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Finger-crossed.”
https://twitter.com/laiyanhoeric/status/1452401997697589252
Activist Ma Chun Man has been convicted in Hong Kong for shouting pro-independence slogans at a series of protests, now treated as an incitement to secession under #NSL. This is how the court is reported to have squared the human rights arguments under the Basic Law with the NSL.
https://twitter.com/xinqisu/status/1452559141461848066
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