{"id":104467,"date":"2016-11-08T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=104467"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:48:43","slug":"damocles-sword-also-shield-separatists-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/damocles-sword-also-shield-separatists-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Damocles sword&#8217; also shield against separatists, or kind of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013<\/p>\n<p>When the National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee interpreted the Basic Law to overturn a Court of Final Appeal on a right of abode case in 1999, Ronny Tong Ka-wah, who chaired the Bar Association then, warned a \u201cDamocles sword\u201d was hanging over the city\u2019s judiciary after the Government refused to ask Beijing not to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, China\u2019s top legislature exercised their power to interpret the city\u2019s mini-constitution thrice under different situations. It did the fifth time on Monday. This time, the \u201csword of Damocles\u201d was hanging over the heads of a bigger crowd. Anyone who advocate independence, self-determination or branded as \u201chidden pro-independence activists\u201d could be in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CTXPgdnxDs\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/11\/07\/damocles-sword-also-shield-against-separatists-or-kind-of\/\">&#8216;Damocles sword&#8217; also shield against separatists, or kind of<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/11\/07\/damocles-sword-also-shield-against-separatists-or-kind-of\/embed\/#?secret=CTXPgdnxDs\" data-secret=\"CTXPgdnxDs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;Damocles sword&#8217; also shield against separatists, or kind of&#8221; &#8212; Voice of Hong Kong\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013 When the National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee interpreted the Basic Law to overturn a Court of Final Appeal on a right of abode case in 1999, Ronny Tong Ka-wah, who chaired the Bar Association then, warned a \u201cDamocles sword\u201d was hanging over the city\u2019s judiciary after the Government refused to ask&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":104470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cy1108-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-raX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86524,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/beijing-speaks-loud-against-hk-independence-but-silent-on-article-23\/","url_meta":{"origin":104467,"position":0},"title":"Beijing speaks loud against HK independence, but silent on Article 23","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"April 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Y","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chris Yeung&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chris Yeung","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/category\/column\/chris-yeung\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cy0401.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":85183,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/voice-of-the-40s-50s-by-2047\/","url_meta":{"origin":104467,"position":1},"title":"Voice of the 40s-50s by 2047","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"March 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\u5c08\u6b04&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\u5c08\u6b04","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/category\/column\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cy0317.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":95090,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/95090\/","url_meta":{"origin":104467,"position":2},"title":"Drop the new election rule before it is too late","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"July 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.\u201d The traditional wisdom of the pre-1997 colonial government may no longer be the \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d approach in governance in 2016 Hong Kong. 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