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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Hong Kong's biggest national security trial to date kicked off this week
Some of Hong Kong's most high-profile political activists3 went on trial Monday. The 16 defendants4 could face up to life in prison if convicted under the controversial national security law.
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
Hong Kong's biggest national security trial to date kicked off this week. Sixteen of the city's most prominent lawmakers, activists and journalists are being tried for subversion5 against China after they organized an informal primary. NPR's Emily Feng reports it's a landmark6 legal case that will test whether Hong Kong's judicial7 system remains8 impartial9.
EMILY FENG, BYLINE10: Only 16 people are contesting their charges of conspiracy11 to commit subversion, for which the maximum penalty is life in prison. Thirty-one other activists arrested at the same time have pled guilty and are waiting to be sentenced. All of them have been detained without bail12 for nearly two years, awaiting trial.
BAGGIO LEUNG: And they are facing a Beijing hand-picked judge with no juries. And so when we combine those both together, you can imagine the result.
FENG: That's Baggio Leung, an activist2 and former Hong Kong lawmaker who now lives in the U.S. He knows many of those arrested. And among those contesting their charges this week are former lawmaker Claudia Mo, journalist Gwyneth Ho and Professor Benny Tai. They were at the heart of a loose coalition13 of pro-democracy activists active during mass anti-government protests in 2019. And with them behind bars now, gone is much of Hong Kong's political opposition14. That's Beijing's intention.
LEUNG: I think they are trying to create a chilling effect to the world and to Hong Kongers to, OK, this is what I will do if you come out again.
FENG: The 16 activists are going to trial after they tried to organize a primary poll. It was meant to gauge15 how much political support they had before heading into legislative16 elections that were ultimately postponed17. And that effort was seen as treasonous under a national security law Beijing pushed into action in 2020.
JOEY SIU: And back before the implementation18 of the national security law, you see all these political activities and political parties still surviving in Hong Kong.
FENG: That's Joey Siu. She's another Hong Kong activist who once campaigned for one of the 47 activists arrested. Now that law has decimated Hong Kong's once-vibrant independent media and civil society.
SIU: You see that all these kinds of political activities have been really uprooted19 from the scene of Hong Kong.
FENG: The arrest of the political figureheads from many of these parties means that the limited multiparty governance of Hong Kong is over, and the law can be used to enforce the will of just one party - that of Beijing.
Emily Feng, NPR News.
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