Spirit of Sun Yat-sen Flickers in a Court at Hong Kong

A judge at the former British Crown Colony refuses to bar Hong Kongers from listening to or singing a pro-democracy song.

AP/Kin Cheung, file
A candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park, on June 4, 2019 to honor victims of the Chinese government's crackdown at Tiananmen Square. AP/Kin Cheung, file

Blink, and you might miss it. A flicker of freedom broke out behind Communist China’s Iron Curtain of tyranny the other day, as a judge defied an order from Beijing to ban a song associated with pro-democracy protesters. Hong Kong’s government, now a puppet of Beijing, had sought a court order to bar the song from being played on the internet, expecting the judge to rubber stamp its demand, as would be the case on the mainland. Not so fast.

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