The high court, whose judges are handpicked by the Hong Kong government, has reinforced the message that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is always a one-party state controlled by the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Daring to challenge the incumbent power is an act of treason.
Even so, coupled with other charges he faced for his peaceful participation in the 2019 democratic protests, he will be in prison until at least 2027.
The defendants exercised what is merely a mundane practice in democratic countries—choosing the best candidates to run for elections—yet they are branded as trying to subvert state power.
When the court becomes simply an arm of the incarceration system targeting political discontent, it completes the carceral archipelago.
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