The trauma of covering the pandemic has battered journalists, and the industry is losing a generation of reporters and editors to despair and moral injury (@oliviamesser / Study Hall) studyhall.xyz/the-reporters-… mediagazer.com/210506/p13#a21…

Well done #Hongkong government! In the process of preventing a foreign lawyer from seeing what a farce the Hong Kong legal system is, they have demonstrated that very point.

Canadian officials knew for years existing laws didn’t curb foreign influence, according to documents. Meanwhile Canada’s public safety minister says government will consider establishing a foreign agents registry. globalnews.ca/news/9321299/c…

"Perhaps most damaging of all, however, is the prospect that a lawyer from outside the jurisdiction might witness the extent to which Hong Kong’s legal system has been debased — and tell the truth about it."

(Paraphrasing Alvin Y.H. Cheung is unhappily vindicated (again)) The act is lacking in legal candour: there is a gross mismatch between what the legal act expresses, and what the legal act purports to be. #Hongkong

Are you 🤢 of existing social networks? Then Upchuck is for you #notreal #butitcouldbe

Over 20 pro-democracy legislators applied for judicial review of this act that Richburg sees fit to joke about. Most of these ex-legislators are now in jail or in exile. Yes I get that wearing masks is a nuisance but using the mask ban to joke about it is just tone deaf.

#Breaking NPCSC passed interpretation of article 17 and 47 of HK's #NSL - CCTV

news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/compon… That's right: Beijing is now threatening *retroactive* NSL "interpretations"

47 defendants in the biggest #NSL case to date. 83% of those on bail chose to contest the charge, whereas only 17% of those in detention did so. Tell us again how the presumption against bail does not impinge on the right to a fair trial.

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With apologies in advance to Arlo Guthrie, I'm amusing myself by writing some HK-themed lyrics to "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". 'Cause if there's one constant in life, it's Officer Obie.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlx1Xg… I invite you to compare and contrast the example of prosecutorial conduct in para 8 with what happens on the regular half a world away.

NEW: The #Hongkong Rule of Law Report 2022 is out, detailing how Hong Kong's #ruleoflaw has devolved into a tool of oppression. Read it here: hkrlm.org/2023/10/23/rol…

1/ Today, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a bill to sanction 49 Hong Kong judges, prosecutors & gov't officials. They range from appeals judges to low-level prosecutors. If passed, it would make clear that ANYONE participating in persecution can be held accountable.