Hong Kong’s ‘bigoted, discriminatory’ LGBT refugee decision shows gov’t bill to speed up court cases won’t fix surge of legal challenges, NGO says | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Thank you all the kind souls who donated and helped the Egyptian brother reach safety in Canada.

Everyone who helped on his case knew of this severe and systematic injustice but were unable to reveal its details for fear of jeopardizing the court case.

Few make it to safety and even fewer have the courage to retell the story to reform the wretched refugee court system in Hong Kong.

He has rewritten his story to no longer be about his personal trauma but about how his body of experiences can bring greater love and justice for others in the same shoes.

#hongkonger #refugee #lgbtq

感恩在這裏協助過這位難民朋友的弟兄姊妹。沒有你們的幫助他根本不可以到加拿大，並且沒有機會剖白自己的經歷。

很少人最終移居安全地方，更加少人願意挺身而出指出制度，政制的腐敗。

他不再活在抑鬱裏而把自己慘痛的經歷變成追求公義的動力。

轉化是救恩！

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Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers and a human rights organisation said on Wednesday that the government’s proposed legal amendments to speed up the handling of court cases – including those related to refugee non-refoulement claims – will not address the “root causes” of the judiciary’s …

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