Howard Cheng :verified: · @Howard
475 followers · 1164 posts · Server mastodon.lifebystills.co.uk"#China’s top legislative body has left it to #HongKong’s leader and a relevant committee to decide whether a defendant in a national security trial should be allowed to use a foreign lawyer in a significant interpretation of the city’s Beijing-imposed law."
#china #HongKong #jimmylai #onecountrytwosystems #onecountryonesystem
Howard Cheng :verified: · @Howard
472 followers · 1142 posts · Server mastodon.lifebystills.co.uk"#HongKong’s human rights lawyers are fleeing abroad amid an effort to cleanse the city of dissent. The pressure is part of a wider crackdown by the ruling #CommunistParty on lawyers across China, say activists, legal scholars and diplomats."
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-exodus
#China #CCP #CPC #Freedom #Democracy #OneCountryTwoSystems #OneCountryOneSystem #RuleOfLaw #RuleByLaw
#HongKong #communistparty #china #ccp #cpc #freedom #Democracy #onecountrytwosystems #onecountryonesystem #ruleoflaw #rulebylaw