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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.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Your state department propaganda posting, try being less obvious/more competent

[-] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

Your state department propaganda posting

Says the guy who is defending a authoritarian government.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every government is authoritarian. You’re just probably lucky enough to never have had a government on your back.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Wielding authority is morally neutral, what matters is who wields it and how. The US engages in constant surveillance of our own citizens and other countries, has military bases on every continent, has been at war nonstop for our entire 2+ century existence, has the largest prison population on earth and explicit legal allowance for prison slave labor, and is currently the largest material supporter of the Palestinian genocide. China may not be perfect but they're not even close to the worst offender on human rights, your priorities betray your fundamentally biased political agenda.

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