As Hong Kong comes under Beijing’s increasing control and protest is banned, the courts are one of the last avenues citizens have to push for change in the city.
Henry Li in the apartment he shared with his late husband Edgar Ng in Hong Kong in September. The Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled that the city’s existing inheritance laws are discriminatory. HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court on Tuesday upheld a decision granting same-sex married couples equal inheritance rights, handing the LGBTQ community its latest victory even as the city’s civil society comes under more pressure from Beijing.
The following year the court ruled in favor of Li and Ng, deciding that same-sex married couples should enjoy the same legal protections as heterosexual couples. The government appealed the judgment in October 2020, and Ng died by suicide two months later following years of depression. There have been a string of incremental wins for same-sex couples and LGBTQ rights advocates in the courts this year.That same month, another court sided with a lesbian couple who argued that both women should have parental status over their child born through in vitro fertilization. Previously, the Hong Kong government only recognized the woman who carried the baby as the mother of the child.
Still, Hong Kong is coming more under the control of Beijing, which has aggressively restricted the space for LGBTQ and gender rights activism within China. Hong Kong LGBTQ activist Jimmy Sham has been detained for more than two years for violation of the national security law.
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