More than 80% of people convicted under Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) have been wrongly criminalized and should never have been charged in the first place, according to new research by Amnesty International published on the fifth anniversary of the law being enacted.
The organization’s analysis of 255 individuals targeted under national security legislation in Hong Kong since 30 June 2020 also showed that bail was denied in almost 90% of cases where charges were brought, and that those denied bail were forced to spend an average of 11 months in detention before facing trial.
Says the guy who is defending a authoritarian government.
Every government is authoritarian. You’re just probably lucky enough to never have had a government on your back.
Wielding authority is morally neutral, what matters is who wields it and how. The US engages in constant surveillance of our own citizens and other countries, has military bases on every continent, has been at war nonstop for our entire 2+ century existence, has the largest prison population on earth and explicit legal allowance for prison slave labor, and is currently the largest material supporter of the Palestinian genocide. China may not be perfect but they’re not even close to the worst offender on human rights, your priorities betray your fundamentally biased political agenda.