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    The End of Free Speech in Hong Kong

    The conviction of a pro-democracy activist is a watershed moment.
    by Timothy McLaughlin Jul 27, 2021 5 minutes
    Source: Getty ; The Atlantic

    Updated at 9:46 a.m. ET on July 29, 2021.

    Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.

    For 15 days this month, prosecutors and defense lawyers in a Hong Kong courtroom wrangled over the history and parsed words in this phrase. The back-and-forth included numerous forays into the obscure in an attempt to pinpoint the exact meaning of the slogan, created five years ago and popularized during 2019’s pro-democracy protests. There were diversions into ancient Chinese history and poetry; the former nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek made a cameo, as did the American civil-rights leader Malcolm X. The crux of the argument: Could these seven words transform a dangerous-driving incident more than a year ago into an act of terrorism and secession?

    Today, a panel of judges said emphatically that they could and they had. It found Tong Ying-kit, the first person to face trial under imposed by. Tong will be sentenced at a later date. He faces the possibility of life in prison.

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