• loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    You are misunderstanding what it means. The article specifically about this explains it better:

    When Hong Kong returned to China in 1997, it was promised that trials by jury, previously practiced in the former British colony, would be maintained under the city’s constitution. But in a departure from the city’s common law tradition, the security law allows no-jury trials for national security cases.