Hong Kong’s top court rejects challenge to law banning calls for election boycotts

“Hong Kong’s top court has dismissed a legal challenge against a law barring calls to boycott the city’s “patriots-only” elections, ruling that the prohibition is necessary to counter “organised campaigns” seeking to undermine the establishment following the enactment of the national security law. In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, five Court of Final Appeal judges unanimously found that criminalising incitement to undermine elections was essential to further Beijing’s objective of ensuring...

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