Officers stand inside the police headquarters in Wan Chai after the complex was blockaded by protesters calling for the complete withdrawal of the government’s extradition bill. Photo: Bloomberg Officers stand inside the police headquarters in Wan Chai after the complex was blockaded by protesters calling for the complete withdrawal of the government’s extradition bill. Photo: Bloomberg
Officers stand inside the police headquarters in Wan Chai after the complex was blockaded by protesters calling for the complete withdrawal of the government’s extradition bill. Photo: Bloomberg
Grenville Cross
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Opinion

Grenville Cross

If Hong Kong’s extradition bill protesters want to defend the rule of law, they must also be prepared to face it

  • Attacking officers and refusing to let those inside the police headquarters leave are criminal acts, while besieging government offices to force the chief executive to interfere in prosecution decisions could be seen as an attempt to pervert justice

Grenville Cross
Grenville Cross

Updated: 8:41pm, 26 Jun, 2019

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Officers stand inside the police headquarters in Wan Chai after the complex was blockaded by protesters calling for the complete withdrawal of the government’s extradition bill. Photo: Bloomberg Officers stand inside the police headquarters in Wan Chai after the complex was blockaded by protesters calling for the complete withdrawal of the government’s extradition bill. Photo: Bloomberg
Officers stand inside the police headquarters in Wan Chai after the complex was blockaded by protesters calling for the complete withdrawal of the government’s extradition bill. Photo: Bloomberg
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Grenville Cross

Grenville Cross

Grenville Cross SC is a criminal justice analyst, a barrister (Queen’s counsel and senior counsel), and vice-chairman of the senate of the International Association of Prosecutors. He is sentencing editor of Hong Kong Cases and Archbold Hong Kong, and co-author of Sentencing in Hong Kong. He was the director of public prosecutions from 1997 to 2009.