Here’s the full report – another depressing must read
Tom Kellogg Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Asian Law writes to the China Law Discussion list
Following up on Jerry and Carole’s posts, I’m taking the liberty of posting the link to my center’s most recent report on the HK NSL, in which we try to both assess the law itself, and the — significant, wide-ranging, and deeply damaging — impact of the robust implementation of the law over the past seven-plus months.
We also attempt to track all of the NSL arrests that have taken place over the past seven months (we stopped about two or three weeks ago, as we shifted from research and writing to report production), and came up with a total of 105 arrests by the newly-created NSD, mostly for specific alleged NSL crimes. This to me remains a shocking number, and perhaps on its own demonstrates the vigorous use to which the NSL has been put since Day One of its implementation.
Comments on the report welcome — we have a lot of Hong Kong law gurus on this list, and I would love to hear from interested parties what we got right, what we missed, and what we may have gotten wrong.
GT-HK-Report-Accessible
