Outstanding documentation of how crisis becomes pretext for silenceing dissent. The pattern with the Wang Fuk Court fire is textbook authoritarian: a tragedy happens, authorities arrest anyone asking inconvenient questions about culpability. I saw something similar unfold in 2019 during the protests when any criticism got labled as incitement. The fact that a student petition calling for regulation and investigation triggers sedition charges really shows how fragile the gov perceives its legitimacy to be.
Outstanding documentation of how crisis becomes pretext for silenceing dissent. The pattern with the Wang Fuk Court fire is textbook authoritarian: a tragedy happens, authorities arrest anyone asking inconvenient questions about culpability. I saw something similar unfold in 2019 during the protests when any criticism got labled as incitement. The fact that a student petition calling for regulation and investigation triggers sedition charges really shows how fragile the gov perceives its legitimacy to be.