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Hong Kong’s Judiciary Lose Their Nerve

Three cases present a disturbing precedent

Our Correspondent
Apr 27, 2020
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Hopes are every day more in jeopardy that the Hong Kong judicial system would long stand as a barrier to an executive increasingly controlled by the Communist Party and Beijing’s emissaries. Just one day last week saw three cases where decisions by judges suggested that either their individual prejudices or informal pressures from above were behind deci…

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