Sir Geoffrey Nice & Benedict Rogers

Sir Geoffrey Nice, KC was lead prosecutor in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic for the UN and has been Chair of both the Uyghur Tribunal and the China Tribunal, and is a Patron of Hong Kong Watch.

 

Benedict Rogers is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch, and author of The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny (Optimum Publishing International, 2022).

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Sir Geoffrey Nice & Benedict Rogers

When will the West stand up to Xi Jinping?

Since the Umbrella Movement democracy protests in 2014, China’s president Xi Jinping has been dismantling Hong Kong’s freedoms – and its very democratic essence – in plain sight. The culmination of the city-state’s metamorphosis from open society to authoritarianism is marked by the trial of Hong Kong entrepreneur, media mogul and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai,