{"id":39702,"date":"2024-05-30T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39702"},"modified":"2024-05-30T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:41:15","slug":"hong-kong-convicts-14-activists-of-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39702","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong convicts 14 activists of subversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of 2019 such as nurse Winnie Yu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were among&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-56228363\">the 47 activists charged with trying to &#8220;overthrow&#8221; the government<\/a>&nbsp;by organising an unofficial primary in 2020 to pick candidates who can run for office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They would have &#8220;[created] a constitutional crisis for Hong Kong&#8221; if they had indeed been elected to the legislature,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/legalref.judiciary.hk\/doc\/judg\/word\/vetted\/other\/en\/2022\/HCCC000069A_2022.doc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the court ruled on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three High Court judges Andrew Chan, Alex Lee, and Johnny Chan agreed with the prosecution&#8217;s argument that they would have &#8220;pursued a course of conduct which was to indiscriminately veto any budgets or refuse to pass any budgets&#8230; to be introduced by the government&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As evidence, the court also cited letters and campaign materials found at the defendants&#8217; homes and on their devices when they were arrested more than three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law. They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of 2019 such as nurse Winnie Yu. They were among&nbsp;the 47 activists charged with trying to &#8220;overthrow&#8221; the government&nbsp;by organising an unofficial primary in 2020 to pick candidates who can run for office. They would have &#8220;[created] a constitutional crisis for Hong Kong&#8221; if they had indeed been elected to the legislature,&nbsp;the court ruled on Thursday. The&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39704,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions\/39704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}