OPINION
Beijing’s latest outrageous crackdown on Hong Kong freedoms
By Benedict Rogers
April 19, 2020 | 6:06pm
Martin Lee leaving a police station in Hong Kong after being arrested.
Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
On Saturday, Hong Kong authorities arrested Martin Lee, one of the territory’s most senior barristers and the grandfather of its pro-democracy movement. The decision to round up the 81-year-old Lee, along with a dozen other prominent pro-democracy politicians and activists on bogus charges, represents an all-out assault against what little remains of Hong Kong’s rule of law.
Beijing has been tightening the screws on Hong Kong’s freedoms and autonomy over the past six years. During that time, we have seen the disappearance of anti-regime booksellers, the disqualification of pro-democracy legislators, pressure on academic and media freedom, a law criminalizing perceived insults to the national anthem, the expulsion of a growing number of foreign activists and journalists and the arrest and imprisonment of peaceful protesters.
The repression has escalated over the past year. In April, the government of Chief Executive Carrie Lam proposed a law that would have allowed the extradition to mainland China of Hong Kongers the Beijing regime accuses of criminal acts. That sparked sustained mass protests, with more than 2 million Hong Kongers pouring into the streets at the height of the movement.
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