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[HKFP] - 03/4/2025
A Hong Kong court has dismissed an appeal by a former student leader challenging the city’s election law after he was handed a suspended sentence for inciting blank or invalid votes in the 2021 legislative election. The appeal lodged by Jacky So, former president of a students’ union at the (…)
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