#PoliceState
Mass Arrest and Political Persecution in Hong Kong During Coronavirus Crisis
On April 18, Hong Kong police arrested over ten pro-democracy figures including former legislator and barrister Margaret Ng of the Civic Party.
Ng carried the book "China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law?" with her when she entered the Central Police Station.
Published in March 2020, the book was edited by legal scholars Cora Chan of the University of Hong Kong and Fiona de Londras of the Universiry of Birmingham.
Ng contributed a chapter titled "The Legislature as a 'Vetogate'" where she examined the deterioration of rights and the erosion of the legal system in Hong Kong, after the government's attempt to implement the "Article 23" anti-subversion law in 2003. Ng wrote, "What Hong Kong needs to actively explore now, as a matter of urgency, is the survival of the rule of law under the threat of such powerful and fast-moving authritarianism."
　
Source: Stand News #Apr18
#MargaretNg
Mass Arrest and Political Persecution in Hong Kong During Coronavirus Crisis
On April 18, Hong Kong police arrested over ten pro-democracy figures including former legislator and barrister Margaret Ng of the Civic Party.
Ng carried the book "China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law?" with her when she entered the Central Police Station.
Published in March 2020, the book was edited by legal scholars Cora Chan of the University of Hong Kong and Fiona de Londras of the Universiry of Birmingham.
Ng contributed a chapter titled "The Legislature as a 'Vetogate'" where she examined the deterioration of rights and the erosion of the legal system in Hong Kong, after the government's attempt to implement the "Article 23" anti-subversion law in 2003. Ng wrote, "What Hong Kong needs to actively explore now, as a matter of urgency, is the survival of the rule of law under the threat of such powerful and fast-moving authritarianism."
　
Source: Stand News #Apr18
#MargaretNg
#Court #RuleofLaw #MassArrest
Barrister Margaret Ng After Arrest: When the Rule of Law is Endangered, Will the Legal Professionals Walk Out or Stand and Fight?
Former legislator and barrister Margaret Ng spoke to the press as she walked out of the Central Police Station in the evening of April 17. She was arrested by the police with more than ten pro-democracy figures.
Ng, aged 72, said it was her first time being arrested and it is important to reflect on whether human rights are respected in the existing public order ordinance.
When asked to comment on the rule of law in Hong Kong, Ng expressed that it has never been easy to safeguard the rule of law, since she practiced law.
Rather than arguing for the death of rule of law or not, Ng believes that what matters the most is whether the legal professionals are willing to "walk out or stand and fight".
Source: Stand News #Apr18
#MargaretNg Brings China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19598
Barrister Margaret Ng After Arrest: When the Rule of Law is Endangered, Will the Legal Professionals Walk Out or Stand and Fight?
Former legislator and barrister Margaret Ng spoke to the press as she walked out of the Central Police Station in the evening of April 17. She was arrested by the police with more than ten pro-democracy figures.
Ng, aged 72, said it was her first time being arrested and it is important to reflect on whether human rights are respected in the existing public order ordinance.
When asked to comment on the rule of law in Hong Kong, Ng expressed that it has never been easy to safeguard the rule of law, since she practiced law.
Rather than arguing for the death of rule of law or not, Ng believes that what matters the most is whether the legal professionals are willing to "walk out or stand and fight".
Source: Stand News #Apr18
#MargaretNg Brings China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19598
#Court #Judiciary #MargaretNg
Barrister Margaret Ng worries the criteria to become a judge would be lowered, thus affecting the quality of trials in Hong Kong
"...In early November (2019), the police found a large number of petrol bombs in a flat in Wan Chai. Four men and one woman were arrested and charged with the possession of explosives. However, the prosecution from the Department of Justice agreed that the defendants' names were written incorrectly and the charges stated in Chinese were different from its English version. Eventually, the prosecution dropped all charges. But just as the defendants were leaving the court, they were arrested again and had to go through the judicial process all over again.
Dr. Ng said that these types of judicial errors have been cropping up a lot, 'Now people can see how crude the judicial system is.... It gives a bad impression'...
Read Full Interview:
https://telegra.ph/Dr-Margaret-Ng--Case-overload-at-Courts-04-19-2
Police Arrest Prominent Democracy Figures including Margaret Ng
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19598
Barrister Margaret Ng After Arrest: When the Rule of Law is Endangered, Will the Legal Professionals Walk Out or Stand and Fight?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19613
Loss of Autonomy? Hong Kong Government Follows Beijing to Revise Stance on Basic Law #Article22
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19607
Barrister Margaret Ng worries the criteria to become a judge would be lowered, thus affecting the quality of trials in Hong Kong
"...In early November (2019), the police found a large number of petrol bombs in a flat in Wan Chai. Four men and one woman were arrested and charged with the possession of explosives. However, the prosecution from the Department of Justice agreed that the defendants' names were written incorrectly and the charges stated in Chinese were different from its English version. Eventually, the prosecution dropped all charges. But just as the defendants were leaving the court, they were arrested again and had to go through the judicial process all over again.
Dr. Ng said that these types of judicial errors have been cropping up a lot, 'Now people can see how crude the judicial system is.... It gives a bad impression'...
Read Full Interview:
https://telegra.ph/Dr-Margaret-Ng--Case-overload-at-Courts-04-19-2
Police Arrest Prominent Democracy Figures including Margaret Ng
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19598
Barrister Margaret Ng After Arrest: When the Rule of Law is Endangered, Will the Legal Professionals Walk Out or Stand and Fight?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19613
Loss of Autonomy? Hong Kong Government Follows Beijing to Revise Stance on Basic Law #Article22
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19607
Telegraph
Dr. Margaret Ng : Case overload at Courts
Dr. Margaret Ng, an experienced barrister, writer and former LegCo member, was interviewed by Initium Media in December 2019. Part 1 of the interview was published last month in which she talked about issues with the Department of Justice. In this part of…