‘No voice’: Without an opposition, Hong Kong’s ‘patriots only’ Legislative Council leaves marginalised groups behind

Leaning into the microphone on a mahogany desk in the Legislative Council, Lamia Sreya Rahman had exactly three minutes to make her case to the 30-odd lawmakers and government officers before her.The Hong Kong-Bangladeshi, then a second-year university student, read out her carefully timed speech condemning the city’s police for allegedly racially profiling South Asians … Continue reading ‘No voice’: Without an opposition, Hong Kong’s ‘patriots only’ Legislative Council leaves marginalised groups behind