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Lawyers for Hong Kong government argue Beijing’s decision endorsing ‘co-location’ arrangement ‘as good as binding’
Appellants insist the set-up, which allows national laws to be enforced at the high-speed rail terminus in West Kowloon, violates the city’s mini-constitution
Lawyers for the government, however, maintain any questions of constitutionality were cleared up when China’s top legislative body approved the scheme
December 29, 2020
When 12 Hong Kong democracy activists fled the city by boat to escape what they feared would be targeted prosecutions for their role in last year’s protests, they ended up in a far worse situation: on trial in mainland China.
For months their families in Hong Kong have lobbied to bring the twelve back home to a judicial system that still commands a deep level of trust for its independence even as it’s become ever clearer that the other institutions of Hong Kong’s government its executive and legislature are now fully aligned with Beijing.
“I honestly never thought we would get to this stage,” said one member of the legal community in November
Top Hong Kong Court Upholds 2019 Mask Ban
Posted by John Chan | Dec 21, 2020
Hong Kong’s highest court has upheld a ban on mask wearing imposed by the government at the height of the 2019 protests, a major blow for the city’s pro-democracy movement. The ban, introduced using a colonial era law known as the Emergency Regulations Ordinance (ERO), was issued by Chief Executive Carrie Lam in an effort to “deter violent and illegal behavior” in October 2019. The Court of Final Appeal’s decision overturned rulings by lower courts that had constrained the scope of the law, finding it to be applicable to all public gatherings. The South China Morning Post’s Chris Lau