In Hong Kong, where almost 300 people including Australian Gordon Ng have been arrested on national security grounds since the introduction of draconian security laws in 2020, wearing the wrong T-shirt can land you in jail.
What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletterThere has been more unsettling news out of Hong Kong, where Beijing’s strangulation of political dissent has been paraded through the court system with frequency this year.
Indeed, almost 300 Hongkongers have been arrested on national security grounds since 2020, and dozens of pro-democracy activists are now languishing in the city’s prisons.Born in Hong Kong, Ng moved to Australia at 13. He attended Waverley College in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, before studying mathematics and commerce at the University of New South Wales, eventually returning to Hong Kong to work in the finance sector.
A pedestrian passes the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. A British judge resigned from the top court because the rule of law in the city was in “grave danger” and judges operate in an “impossible political environment created by China”.Ng and his 44 co-convicted now face an anxious wait to learn their fate at upcoming sentencing hearings, expected any time before the end of the year.
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