Case comes amid flurry of legal action against government critics, some of it under a national security law imposed on the former British colony a year ago
Hong Kong singer and prominent pro-democracy activist Anthony Wong Yiu-ming leaves the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts over a charge with ‘corrupt conduct’ at a 2018 election rally, in Hong Kong, China, on Aug. 5, 2021.A Hong Kong judge cleared on Thursday singer and pro-democracy activist Anthony Wong of a charge of “corrupt conduct” filed this week by the city’s anti-corruption watchdog over an appearance at an opposition election rally in 2018.
His case comes amid a flurry of legal action against government critics, some of it under a national security law that Beijing imposed on the former British colony a year ago and some under other laws. Judge Peter Law ordered Wong to “not breach the peace, show good behaviour and not violate any law related to election conduct for 18 months”.
Book publishers have admitted to self-censoring, cinemas have pulled a documentary on the protests and a university cancelled a press photography exhibition. A contemporary art museum said national security police could vet its collections.
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