Lawmakers and civil society groups denounced a new Hong Kong national security law, Article 23, on Capitol Hill on March 22. The law intends to strengthen the existing draconian national security law that went into effect in 2020.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) agrees to a deal with Westminster that will restore the government in Northern Ireland. The DUP leader says they haven’t completely achieved everything they wanted, but they have made progress on every front. The Qatari prime minister says “good progress” has been made towards a new Israel–Hamas hostage release deal. […]
One of the most prominent faces of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement revealed Sunday that she is living in Canada and will not return to meet bail conditions as police investigate allegations she endangered national security. Agnes Chow, a former student activist and politician, broke more than two years of public silence in a social media […]
The national security trial of Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was postponed for the second time on Dec. 13 after his British lawyer was denied a visa extension, according to local reports. The trial has been pushed back to Sept. 25, 2023, and is expected to last 40 days, pending a decision by […]
The U.K. government is under renewed pressure to impose sanctions on officials in Hong Kong following the arrest of a senior Catholic cleric on Wednesday. A long-standing critic of Beijing, 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen has defended freedoms in Hong Kong and spoken out for Catholics in mainland China. The move demonstrates Beijing’s accelerating campaign to quash dissent under […]
Hong Kong police on May 11 arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, along with four other pro-democracy figures allegedly linked to a fund supporting Hong Kong protesters, according to local media reports. The arrests were made under a draconian Beijing-imposed national security law used to quash dissent in the city. Hong Kong National Security Police Unit […]
HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court on Friday increased a jail sentence to five years, in line with a Beijing-imposed national security law, for a student charged with “inciting secession.” Lui Sai-yu, 25, an engineering undergraduate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was charged with inciting secession in April 2021 with messages on social media calling for […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong police arrested six activists on Wednesday for suspected sedition and contravention of a national security law in connection with what the police called “causing nuisance” at court hearings in December and January. Police, who typically do not identify arrested people, said the six were aged 32 to 67, had been arrested for […]
Following discussions with the UK government, the president and deputy president of the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday resigned from their roles in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKCFA). UK Supreme Court judges have long sat on the HKCFA “in fulfillment” of the government’s obligations towards the former British colony and have done so with […]
Hong Kong has seen its freedoms deteriorate over the years, but it fell off the cliff in 2020 when Beijing imposed the national security law. Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law tells the Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders that what Beijing is doing to Hong Kong is a wake-up call in the world.
Hong Kong is widening its security supervision for those Beijing has taken issue with. According to terms published on the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s website, banks in Hong Kong will be obliged to report disclosures on clients who breach the city’s national security law.
HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s legislature passed a new film censorship law on Wednesday to “safeguard national security,” though critics say it will dampen creativity in its world-famous movie industry and further reduce freedoms in the former British colony. The Chinese communist regime imposed a sweeping “national security law” over its most restive city last year, and […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong has convicted a second person under its sweeping national security law for chanting pro-independence slogans, amid a political clampdown in the city. Ma Chun-man was convicted of inciting secession on Monday after he was found to have chanted slogans such as “Hong Kong independence, the only way out” on 20 occasions between […]
International rights group Amnesty International said on Oct. 25 it would close its Hong Kong offices because a China-imposed security law had now made it “effectively impossible” for rights groups to work freely without the risk of reprisals. Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, the chair of Amnesty’s international board, said in a statement that the two […]
The U.S. State Department has expressed serious concerns about the continued deterioration of freedoms in Hong Kong, telling Beijing to cease its “politically motivated prosecutions” and release those “unjustly detained” in the regime’s ever-expanding clampdown. “We note in particular the increase in politically motivated prosecutions, including through the National Security Law, targeting Hong Kong’s teachers, […]
HONG KONG—Recent court judgements have freed Hong Kong authorities to use national security powers to deploy tough colonial-era laws in a clampdown against opposition groups, alarming activists and lawyers in the city. Police have launched investigations into acts that took place before the national security law was imposed a year ago, despite assurances by Beijing […]
HONG KONG—A closely monitored national security case involving 47 Hong Kong democracy activists charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, most of whom have been in custody for more than six months, will resume on Nov. 29, a judge ruled on Thursday. Magistrate Peter Law in the Western Kowloon Court ruled more time was needed for […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong national security police arrested three members of the political organization Student Politicism on Monday. The three were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to incite subversion, according to Li Kwai-wah, senior superintendent of the police national security division. They are accused of using social media and setting up street booths to disseminate messages […]
