When Poon walks into Hong Kong’s District Court, it feels like home. Like clockwork, the sexagenarian opens her bag for a security check, fills her empty bottle – no liquids are allowed past the screening – and makes sure her phone is on silent. Then she settles into a plastic chair in the courtroom’s public gallery, greeting the other retirees for whom the routine is just as familiar. “I go almost every day,” Poon told HKFP this month, after a case in which a woman was sentenced over her participation in a protest in 2019. Poon is among a group of elderly spectators who spend much of their re…
