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BY RUTH MARGALIT
From The Scroll
A landmark national security trial in Hong Kong is underway for the 16 pro-democracy activists who’ve spent the past two years in prison after pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit subversion. The defendants were a part of a group of 47 activists arrested during a raid in January 2021 after they organized an unsanctioned primary to select candidates to challenge a city assembly election they saw as undemocratic and deferential to Beijing. Chinese officials have denied interfering in the city’s political process, even after imposing a controversial national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 that’s been criticized as a tool to chill dissent.
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