Trial of the ‘Hong Kong 47’ symbolises China’s attempts to dissolve civil society
[ad_1] When Hong Kong police arrested dozens of pro-democracy politicians, lawyers, scholars, journalists, NGO workers and activists in early morning raids across the city on 6 January 2021, a sense of terror spread across the city. Under Beijing’s new national security law, the most influential members of Hong Kong’s civil society were accused of “conspiring…