Hongkongers face ever-increasing red lines on a daily basis: legislative and district councils purified, rallies cancelled, Geography exams to include the controversial nine-dash line to mark Chinese sovereignty in the South Sea, textbooks censored, and ‘sensitive’ books removed from library shelves.
The latest one is that organ donors should not opt-out.
The Hong Kong government disclosed that there were 5,785 cancellations of organ donation registration in the past five months. It was described as ‘unusual’ as half of the cases were found to be either unregistered or cancelled before, and it did not rule out the possibility that a ‘small number of people intended to disrupt the Centralised Organ Donation Register and create an administrative burden for the government….