A Hong Kong Dissident, Charged With One Crime, is Convicted of Another

Alvin Cheng's treatment underscores the alarming lengths some Hong Kong judges will go to secure convictions

The following article is reprinted with permission from the “Hong Kong Law & Policy” blog on Substack by Samuel Bickett, formerly an American corporate lawyer who was arrested in 2019 for allegedly interfering with a police officer who refused to identify himself and who was beating a youth who reportedly had jumped a turnstile. Bickett was ultimately s…