Hong Kong’s largest-ever national security trial is just one of several launched since China imposed the law in 2020 and could see some former lawmakers jailed for life
Called on to enter a plea at the start of Hong Kong’s largest-ever national security trial Monday, Leung Kwok-hung said he had nothing to answer for.
Those elections never took place: they were postponed due to the pandemic and by the time a vote was held — in December 2021 — it was under a completely different, “patriots-only” system,for the minority of seats still democratically elected. “The endgame … was to bring about an acute crisis in Hong Kong, triggering a bloody crackdown,” prosecutors said in their submission to the court, according to local media.
At the West Kowloon Law Court on Monday, around 20 defendants crowded into a glass holding pen, separated from a panel of three judges by a crowd of bewigged lawyers. Most present were those pleading not guilty, as well as two defendants who had changed their pleas since earlier proceedings. Also in court were several defendants who have already pleaded guilty. Joshua Wong, the one-time poster boy of the city’s opposition movement, sat on the defendant benches flanked by two prison guards, as did Lester Shum, another leader of the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
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