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The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025
The moves that barred the media mogul’s choice of lawyer are immune from legal challenge, giving the national security committee what one expert called ‘the powers of a police state’
The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been described as “ death by a thousand cuts ”. Critics have been jailed , elections have been transformed into “ patriots only ” affairs, journalists have been harassed and hundreds of thousands of people have left .
This week, an obscure legal development has, in the eyes of some legal experts, inflicted another cut on the city’s once revered legal system.
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