Hong Kong Protests Haven’t Hurt Rule of Law, Judge Says
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Hong Kong’s two-month street occupation hasn’t damaged the Chinese city’s rule of law, according to Leonard Hoffmann, a visiting judge on the former British colony’s Court of Final Appeal.
“In every society there is room for points to be made by civil disobedience,” he said today, citing the example of the suffragettes who won British women the right to vote in the early 20th century.