Posted on 07/27/2021 7:04:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law was found guilty of secessionism and terrorism on Tuesday.
The Hong Kong High Court handed down the verdict in the case of Tong Ying-kit, age 24. He’s accused of driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers while carrying a flag bearing the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” on July 1 last year, a day after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation on Hong Kong following months of anti-government protests in 2019.
Tong’s defense lawyer has said it’s impossible to prove that Tong was inciting secession merely by having used the slogan.
The defense also said there is no evidence that Tong committed the act deliberately, that he avoided crashing into officers and that his actions couldn’t be considered terrorism since there was no serious violence or harm to society.
While Hong Kong has its own Legislative Council, Beijing’s ceremonial legislature imposed the national security law on the semiautonomous city after it determined the body was unable to pass the legislation itself because of political opposition.
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CCP court. Guilty until proven innocent, and that won’t happen.
The antifa model of "democracy" (and that of the Democrat Party as well).
How long until his organs are harvested?
Sounds a lot like the guy convicted the other day for taking pictures inside the capitol on Jan. 6 who was also forced to say that Dear Leader won.
CCP court. Guilty until proven innocent, and that won’t happen.
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When you go to criminal court under the CCP system, you are already guilty and it just a matter of how harsh the sentence will be.
Of course, you won’t care much, having been beaten within an inch of death, tortured, raped and so forth while waiting the relief of the trial and sentencing.
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