South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Miscarriage of justice in Hong Kong legal system raises questions that must be answered” – below is their description.
The credibility of Hong Kong’s legal system is at stake because of questions raised over a 2019 drugs case that sentenced a young noodle-shop worker to 23 years in prison, says the SCMP’s Cliff Buddle. The special projects editor explains why an investigation must take place to look into the unfair conviction of the man, who was recently released after his successful appeal.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.
