IT’S RARE FOR THE CCP TO LOSE IN COURT: Surprise for Chow Hang-tung.

Chow Hang-tung (to her surprise) wins her appeal against conviction for ‘inciting’ others to take part in an illegal assembly – last year’s Tiananmen vigil. Expect the Department of Justice to blow taxpayers’ money trying to get that reversed.

Quick summary of the judge’s reasoning. She concluded that the HK Police ban on the vigil was not lawful. Expect a sorely vexed Security Bureau. . . . Meanwhile, a teenager gets up to three years in a training centre for such sins as rewriting lyrics to the national anthem.

Expect the Chinese government to figure out a way to keep Jimmy Lai from being represented by a famous foreign lawyer, though.

Meanwhile, our ruling class is big on bogus incitement charges too.