The next articles are reprinted with permission from the “Hong Kong Regulation & Coverage” weblog on Substack of Samuel Bickett, previously an American company lawyer who was arrested in 2019 for allegedly interfering with a police officer who refused to establish himself and who was beating a youth who reportedly had jumped a turnstile. Bickett was finally sentenced to 4 months and two weeks in jail. The expertise turned him right into a human rights lawyer. He’s now primarily based in Washington, DC as a authorized fellow on the Georgetown Middle for Asian Regulation.
Decide Kwok has remodeled from an unassuming civil servant to a virulently pro-Beijing nationwide safety choose.
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Decide Kwok’s brazen politicization of 4 NSL circumstances, and the shortage of penalties for it, exhibits how far Hong Kong’s judiciary has fallen.
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