Top court warns Hong Kong against risk of prosecuting “thought crimes”

Hong Kong, China Reuters Hong Kong’s highest court on Friday overturned the conviction of a protester for carrying plastic zip fasteners, with judges warning that the authorities’ expanded interpretation of the law risked creating a “thought crime”. Chan Chun-kit was sentenced to five-and-a-half-months’ jail by a lower court after his arrest in November, 2019, towards […]