Some students had become very emotional; word was circulating that one of them (and perhaps more) was considering suicide. I don’t mean just the burden of litigation; I mean the burden of being young in Hong Kong these days and daring to stand up or speak out. Even secondary-school students in uniform have been stopped on their way to school, searched and harassed by the police. And that we, the public, are looking to the courts as our last safeguards. And yet the Hong Kong courts have readily granted the police sweeping injunctions.

Source: New York Times November 17, 2019 02:37 UTC