A Hong Kong court has ordered 47 pro-democracy activists charged with conspiracy to commit subversion under its national security law be kept in custody after the Department of Justice appealed an initial decision to grant 15 of them bail.
Authorities say the activists were involved in a plot to paralyse Hong Kong’s government by participating in an unofficial primary election last year.
The League of Social Democrats Chairman Avery Ng says the Department of Justice’s appeal of the decision to grant bail to fifteen of the defendants is absurd, ridiculous, and inhumane. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for May 31st.