The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kongs rule of law

The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been described as “death by a thousand cuts”. Critics have been jailed, elections have been transformed into “patriots only” affairs, journalists have been harassed and hundreds of thousands of people have left. This week, an obscure legal development has, in the eyes of some legal experts, inflicted another cut on the city’s once revered legal system. On 17 March, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA), the city’s top bench, rejected an application from Jimmy Lai. The 77-year-old pro-democracy activist is now on trial for alleged national security

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