HK Government Should Apologize, Make Compensation to National Security Crime Victims: HK Rule of Law Monitor Report

A scene outside the High Court on the day the application by the Department of Justice to ban "Glory to Hong Kong” was heard, in Hong Kong, on July 21, 2023. Sung Pi-Lung/The Epoch Times

Commentary

In its third year since the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) implementation of the “National Security Law (NSL)” in Hong Kong, and the damage to the Hong Kong rule of law, human rights, and government accountability system has become increasingly apparent. The ”Hong Kong Rule of Law Monitor,“ a group formed by legal professionals recently released a report summarizing the state of Hong Kong’s rule of law in 2022, in which it describes ”rule of law” as now being utilized by the authoritarian regime as a tool to undermine freedom and human rights. Moreover, the same “rule of law” guise has also been taken as an excuse to enforce the current NSL and the vintage colonial-era sedition law. The concerns about the NSL from both legal academics and practicing lawyers have become a worrying reality.