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Bombadil | Jimmy Lai’s Trial : Discipline and Punishment of Hong Kong
In the Jimmy Lai case, the judges delivered a verdict spanning 855 pages. This is perhaps the most vivid footnote to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. (The Hong Kong independent media outlet The Witness has provided a detailed analysis of this judgment.) Jimmy Lai’s refusal to plead guilty and his act of disobedience, along with the many resisters currently imprisoned—perhaps this is the greatest tragedy in Hong Kong today, and it is also the very spirit of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone from 441 BC. When Antigone—the earliest civil disobedient in human history—stood in opposition to the…
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