{"id":46715,"date":"2022-07-25T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/24\/british-judges-have-failed-to-curb-hong-kongs-crackdown-on-dissent"},"modified":"2022-07-25T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:19:07","slug":"british-judges-have-failed-to-curb-hong-kongs-crackdown-on-dissent-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46715","title":{"rendered":"British judges have failed to curb Hong Kong\u2019s crackdown on dissent | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The judges who sit on the court of final appeal are only legitimising Beijing\u2019s draconian rule, writes <strong>David Alton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong regime\u2019s repeated incarceration of the veteran activist Alexandra Wong for peaceful protest reveals just how fearful it is of even the mildest dissent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/hong-kong-activist-grandma-wong-jailed-for-eight-months-over-pro-democracy-protests\" title=\"\">Hong Kong activist \u2018Grandma Wong\u2019 jailed for eight months over pro-democracy protests, 14 July<\/a>). Just 24 hours earlier, it jailed Koo Sze-yiu, a 75-year-old activist with terminal cancer, for planning to protest against the Beijing Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>What does this say about Hong Kong\u2019s judicial system? It also poses the question once again as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/hong-kong-judicial-independence-overseas-judges\" title=\"\">why six British judges<\/a> continue to sit on Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/24\/british-judges-have-failed-to-curb-hong-kongs-crackdown-on-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judges who sit on the court of final appeal are only legitimising Beijing\u2019s draconian rule, writes David AltonThe Hong Kong regime\u2019s repeated incarceration of the veteran activist Alexandra Wong for peaceful protest reveals just how fearful it is o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,86,80,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-protest","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions\/46716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}