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Letters

Your correspondent Neil Russell (“Post-Covid-19 Hong Kong: why we can expect more protests”) is undoubtedly correct in his assertion that “last year’s protesters will be out in greater force once Hong Kong is back to something approaching normal”.
Certainly they will be greatly encouraged by support from the United States. Just the other night, we had Senator Lindsey Graham on Fox News warning China to “release all the Hong Kong democracy advocates that had been jailed since the virus started”.
The reality of civil disorder, arson, vandalism, and petrol bomb assaults seems to be of no consequence to the politicians and news media in the US, and Britain is no better.
The coronavirus outbreak has turned the mainstream media and politicians in both countries against China. There is a distinct danger both countries will now attempt to use Hong Kong as a stick with which to beat the central government.
HK opposition will rue the day they turned to Washington for help
As for those hordes already arrested for crimes in relation to the riots, time for the legal department and the judiciary to get busy and give them their day in court.
B.J. Carroll, South Horizons


Targeting of political activism plain to see
If Secretary Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah really believes that all is well with the Hong Kong justice system, then why doesn’t she just ignore the remarks made by “overseas politicians” criticising the arrest of 15 pro-democracy figures (“Charges ‘won’t be dropped’ against 15 held for unlawful protests in Hong Kong”, April 26)? As Shakespeare would say, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
I’m no lawyer, but it seems blindingly obvious to me that if you arrest 15 high-profile activists for doing something that tens or hundreds of thousands of other people also did but have not been similarly arrested for, then it is clearly the targeting of political activism.
Lee Faulkner, Lamma

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