Vigilantism

• The Hong Kong government has extended its efforts to suppress political dissent overseas, issuing arrest warrants for eight exiled pro-democracy figures and offering bounties of HK$1 million (around A$191,000) each.
• The targeted pro-democracy figures, who now live in Australia, the US and UK, were selected from a longer list of wanted dissidents.
• Their “very serious crimes”, according to police, consist mostly of calling for sanctions to turn the tide of political repression in Hong Kong.

How extradition with Hong Kong works

• However, the national security law was drafted in Beijing and applied to Hong Kong after the tumultuous, protracted protests that gripped the city in 2019.
• The international law of extradition (technically, in Hong Kong’s case, the surrender of fugitive offenders, as only states engage in extradition) includes certain safeguards.
• Numerous Western countries, including the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, suspended their extradition agreements with Hong Kong when the national security law was imposed, foreseeing the politicisation of criminal justice.

China’s never-ending mission to muzzle its critics

• The pro-democracy figures targeted this week knew which way the wind was blowing when they left Hong Kong.
• They will probably never return there, a sad fact to which they may already be reconciled.
• However, they may also need to reconsider their travel to jurisdictions which do maintain extradition agreements with Hong Kong or China.

Hong Kong’s society brought to heel

• Hong Kong’s government and political system have been stripped of democratic elements, and its national security and law enforcement apparatus are now dictated by the mainland.
• Compared with its mainland counterpart, the Hong Kong government goes to greater pains to paper over its actions with a veneer of law and legal process.
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  Hong Kong democracy protester's sentencing sets a harsh precedent for national security law

  Hong Kong’s civil society has been brought to heel via a suite of repressive reforms spanning the legal, political, education and media sectors.

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