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The Hong Kong government will observe the outcome of major electoral overhauls before considering direct voting to elect the city’s leader or legislature, an official in charge of constitutional affairs has said. Universal suffrage, or the direct elections of Hong Kong’s chief executive and Legislative Council, has been a key demand for the city’s pro-democracy movement, with activists calling for the right to choose their leader and lawmakers in large-scale protests in 2014 and 2019. Such calls, however, have been muted since Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 to quell dissent. M...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s justice secretary, chief justice, and its two professional legal bodies, have backed the city’s judicial independence, after two of the top court’s overseas judges resigned on Thursday. Meanwhile, the city’s leader said rights and freedoms have been maintained after one of the judges cited the “political situation” as his reason for quitting. British judges Lord Jonathan Sumption, 75, and Lord Lawrence Collins, 83, quit the Court of Final Appeal, with the latter citing the “political situation.” Chief Justice Andrew Cheung said in a statement in the early hours of Friday that Non-P...
Hong Kong Free Press
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