This weekend, because the world marks Worldwide Girls’s Day, the Hong Kong human-rights barrister Chow Grasp-tung is making ready to return to courtroom on March 9 to defend herself towards a regime with the world’s highest proportion of ladies in its jail inhabitants — about thrice the worldwide common.
Chow is a protagonist in one other Hong Kong present trial, simply weeks after British writer Jimmy Lai was sentenced to twenty years in jail for printing truths that displeased the Chinese language Communist Get together (CCP). She is charged with “incitement to subversion” and faces as much as 10 years in jail for her function in commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Sq. bloodbath by way of peaceable candlelit vigils.
Denied bail, she continues to problem Hong Kong’s authorities even from jail, most just lately by bringing a judicial assessment towards a costume code that forces feminine inmates to put on lengthy trousers even in brutal summer season warmth, whereas males can put on shorts. In January 2026, a male choose dismissed her authorized problem as baseless and ordered Chow to pay all prices.
