Hong Kong Top Court Upholds Law Banning Election Boycott Calls
Hong Kong's top court has rejected a challenge and upheld the law that criminalizes calls for boycotting elections.
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Hong Kong’s top court rejects challenge to law banning calls for election boycotts
Hong Kong’s top court has dismissed a legal challenge against a law barring calls to boycott the city’s “patriots-only” elections, ruling that the prohibition is necessary to counter “organised campaigns” seeking to undermine the establishment following the enactment of the national security law. In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, five Court of Final Appeal judges unanimously found that criminalising incitement to undermine elections was essential to further Beijing’s objective of ensuring...
By Brian Wong
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Hong Kong’s top court has rejected an appeal by a former student leader against a law which criminalises calls to boycott local elections by casting a blank vote. Five Court of Final Appeal judges on Wednesday unanimously dismissed the appeal by So Tsun-fung, a former head of the now-disbanded student union of the Chinese University […]
By Hans Tse
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