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Jimmy Lai trial

samedi 16 mars 2024 à 08:25

The key witness in the trial of Jimmy Lai, in Hong Kong, had been tortured into condemning Lai.

That testimony proves no more about Jimmy Lai than the testimony of a prisoner in Guantanamo that had been tortured would prove about anyone.

However, there is a crucial difference between China and the US on this point: US courts recognize this point and won't accept testimony that was extracted by torture. Chinese courts don't care. China deals with such blow back by treating those who criticize the phony trials of political prisoners into the next batch of political prisoners, in line for phony trials of their own.

The worst evil of the charges against Jimmy Lai is not the dishonesty of the trial itself, it is the basic decision: to treat raising funds to call for democracy as a crime.