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Top court warns Hong Kong against risk of prosecuting “thought crimes”

China Hong Kong Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal Andrew Cheung Kui nung

Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong’s highest court on Friday overturned the conviction of a protester for carrying plastic zip fasteners, with judges warning that the authorities’ expanded interpretation of the law risked creating a “thought crime”. Chan Chun-kit was sentenced to five-and-a-half-months’ jail by a lower court after his arrest in November, 2019, towards the […]