I have been complaining for many years – it’s not particularly fun but someone has to do it – about the lamentable speed with which prosecutions proceed in Hong Kong. You will notice that a sentencing involving 2014 Umbrella Movement democrats predated both Covid-19 and the 2019 “arrestfest.” I will not repeat the details. Suffice to say that, in the absence of special circumstances, two years between arrest and trial is widely regarded as an infringement on the rights of the accused, and three years as so unacceptable that less serious cases at least should be dropped altogether. But that is …