It would not be surprising if mainland lawyers shrank from defending Hongkongers accused of committing offences on the mainland or those sent there to be tried for flouting the national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing. “The worst case scenario is that no more lawyers will dare to speak up for Hongkongers in politically sensitive cases,” Ren said. Haunted by the ‘709 incident’ Although China built its criminal justice system from scratch from 1979 when it reformed the economy and opened up, the network of lawyers practising human rights law only began expanding in the 2000s.

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