DECRYPTION – Justice imposed heavy prison sentences on the main leaders of the democratic cause.
Special envoy to Hong Kong
« Keep quiet please ! » (Quiet please). Dressed in his scarlet red robe, the judge wearing an English Whig wig calls the crowded room of the Kowloon court to order this Tuesday. The language of Shakespeare is still in use in the courts of Hong Kong, but the former British colony has come under the yoke of one-party China. The long-awaited verdict in the mass trial targeting 45 leaders of the democratic cause, locked in an aquarium-like dock, is about to fall on this sticky November morning.
In a few minutes, the magistrate laconically imposes heavy sentences on these supporters of the island's freedom, arrested during a vast dragnet in 2021, the culmination of this ongoing trial. for 118 days. They are found guilty of «subversion» against the Chinese state, under the draconian National Security Law imposed by Beijing
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