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Hong Kong's Show Trial

Does pleading guilty get you freed?

Our Correspondent
Aug 18, 2022
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Hong Kong's legal system has become a tale of two cities. In one, discernible only to officials and their supporters, nothing has changed and the rule of law continues as strong as ever.

In the other, more visible, or at least more reportable outside the city, the rule of law has effectively been supplanted for some cases by a mainland-style system in wh…

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