In a few days, the Chinese Communist Party Congress must extend the mandate of President Xi Jinping beyond the planned ten years.
At the same time, 2000 kilometers from the capital, an old cardinal defender of human rights will be tried in Hong Kong.
His wrong?
Running a fund to help anti-government protesters on the island.
The "612 Humanitarian Relief Fund", since dissolved, was intended to finance part of the legal and medical costs of those arrested during the gigantic demonstrations for freedoms of 2019. Cardinal Zen, one of the highest Catholic prelates in Asia, aged 90 years old, had encouraged its creation.
Considered
"a prophet with the stature of a Mandela or a Solzhenitsyn",
according to one of his relatives, this bright and courageous man, hated by the Beijing regime, has seen most of the pro-democracy figures in the territory sent to prison or flee abroad in the last three years, and dozens of associations close their...
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