Hong Kong Court Lifts Reporting Ban on National Security Case for 47 Democracy Activists

Hong Kong Court Lifts Reporting Ban on National Security Case for 47 Democracy Activists
Queue tapes at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts, in Hong Kong, on Aug. 17, 2022. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court lifted restrictions on Thursday on reporting pre-trial proceedings of a landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy campaigners that has dragged on for more than a year.

The decision comes one day after the lifting of a reporting restriction for another national security case involving a civil society group behind Hong Kong’s annual candlelight vigils commemorating victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.