BREAKING: Top court upholds law criminalising calls to boycott Hong Kong elections
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Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal unanimously rejected a legal challenge to a law banning calls to boycott the city's elections, including through casting blank votes. The five-judge panel determined the prohibition was justified to prevent coordinated campaigns aimed at weakening government authority following the enactment of national security legislation. The appellant was So Tsun-fung, a former student union leader.
Hong Kong’s top court has rejected an appeal by a former student leader against a law which criminalises calls to boycott local elections by casting a blank vote.
Five Court of Final Appeal judges on Wednesday unanimously dismissed the appeal by So Tsun-fung, a former head of the now-disbanded student union of the Chinese University […] ...
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