Jailed democrats’ plan constitutionally allowed under Basic Law, Hong Kong legal scholar says

[HKFP] - 11/20/2024

Democrats’ plan to veto the budget was constitutionally allowed under Hong Kong’s Basic Law, a legal scholar has said, a day after 45 pro-democracy figures were jailed for conspiring to commit subversion over the scheme. The remarks came after the city’s largest national security case came to a (…)



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