A U.S. congressional report has urged the United States to impose sanctions on 29 Hong Kong judges appointed to preside over national security cases, citing their role in the arbitrary imprisonment of over 1,000 political prisoners.
“The United States government should consider imposing sanctions on judges to counter the erosion of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong,” the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) stated in their report released on May 11.
The report said the National Security Law (NSL) imposed on Hong Kong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2020 had created “a parallel legal system that weakens judicial independence and strips criminal defendants of basic due process protections.”…