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More than 80% of people convicted under Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) have been wrongly criminalized and should never have been charged in the first place, according to new research by Amnesty International published on the fifth anniversary of the law being enacted.

The organization’s analysis of 255 individuals targeted under national security legislation in Hong Kong since 30 June 2020 also showed that bail was denied in almost 90% of cases where charges were brought, and that those denied bail were forced to spend an average of 11 months in detention before facing trial.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

The analysis found that of the 78 concluded cases under the NSL at least 66 (84.6%) involved legitimate expression that should not have been criminalized according to international standards

These cases fall well short of the high threshold required for criminalization under international standards.

These people were wrongly criminalized! According to their country's laws? Well no, according to totally undefined """international standards""". Are we going to apply those standards to, for instance, checking whether people imprisoned in the US are 'wrongly criminalized'? Of course not.

After checking the most recent ten pages of articles, out of 120 entries there were five about the US, not a single one of which had anything to do with the indiscriminate mass arrests of immigrants. There are as many unique news stories about the new law in Georgia requiring foreign NGOs to disclose their sources of funding, as there are about the US in total. If you search 'ICE', there is one (1) article that mentions it in the headline, which when sorted by 'Most Relevant' is the NINTH article to appear, and which is complaining about the National Guard mobilization against the protests against ICE, not even ICE itself.

"Amnesty International" is an attack dog of the US State Department that has no purpose but to generate headlines bashing the enemies of the Empire, with the very occasional half-hearted jab at the most obviously inexcusable crimes of the US and Europe to maintain their cover as some sort of impartial third-party. On their 'Take Action' page, "Join the fight for freedom [sic] in Hong Kong" is displayed before "Lift the blockade on Gaza and stop the genocide", which should tell you everything you need to know about their priorities.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Amnesty International Exposes Human Rights Violations at El Paso Immigrant Detention Facility May 14, 2025.

Matter of fact if you want to see them more critical of USA, there you go: Yemen: US Air Strike that has Left Dozens of Migrants Dead Must Be Investigated May 19, 2025.

If you want them to write more reports, consider supporting them, instead of complaining.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you want Hong Kong to pass better national security laws, consider supporting the Chinese state financially, instead of complaining about their handling of domestic matters. berdly-smug

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Your logic is very dumb and funny, but let me simplify it for you:

  • Supporting Amnesty = more reports and more research due to better funding.

  • Supporting CCP = more human rights abuses due to better funding.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I notice it's always the same vague term of "human rights abuses" when liberals breathlessly talk about "the CCP". Is there any reason you can't be specific, like how communists are specific about governments and policies we don't like? Like I get that the idea is to imply that there are just tooo many to name but that trick wears thin when you can never actually name them. You'll notice nobody here is talking about the zionist entity's "human rights abuses", we talk about it's ethnic cleansing and genocide. I live in the country with the world's biggest population of prison slaves, so I just say that. So please, what do you actually mean by "human rights abuses"?

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