Hong Kong Overturns Falun Gong Convictions
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In a case seen as a key test of judicial independence under Chinese rule, Hong Kong’s top court overturned the convictions of eight followers of the Falun Gong spiritual group who were accused of assaulting and obstructing police during a 2002 protest.
A summary of the decision said, “The freedom to demonstrate peacefully is a constitutional right.” The former British colony was returned to China in 1997.
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