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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You are misunderstanding what it means. The article specifically about this explains it better:

When Hong Kong returned to China in 1997, it was promised that trials by jury, previously practiced in the former British colony, would be maintained under the city’s constitution. But in a departure from the city’s common law tradition, the security law allows no-jury trials for national security cases.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which is also the standard the world over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's absolutely not. There used to be right to trial by jury in all cases in Hong Kong before China took it away, which is what this article is about. So already it's clearly not the "world standard." Another example, United States routinely holds jury trials with classified national defense information and goes to great lengths to create a system to do this, since there is a constitutional guarantee to a trial by Jury. Process explained in this article: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/14/trump-trial-classified-documents-public-00102023 in regards to the trump case, which is a great example involving highly sensitive national security information. And that involves a jury too. I'd say you could just search online yourself and find out how wrong you are, but i doubt you're arguing in good faith. So as you can see, the standard in China is not the same thing as the standard "the world over." This was a right forcibly removed from the people of Hong Kong by China.

Take your authoritarian apologist made up nonsense elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

LOL, unironically accusing me of authoritarian apologia because I am for the reintegration of a former British colonial holding with the country the British stole it from.

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