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Apr 12, 2019
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Hong Kong’s claim to have a politically independent judiciary has been questioned in the past, but seldom more so than in the wake of the conviction this week of nine defendants for their role in the 2014 Occupy Central campaign, better known as the Umbrella movement.

The movement saw five weeks of peaceful demonstrations and sit-ins involving up to one …

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