HONG KONG—Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Monday to three months in prison for breaching court bans on disclosing personal information about a police officer who injured a protester during 2019 pro-democracy protests. Wong rose to prominence in 2014 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and was in custody after he indicated his intention to […]
SEOUL, South Korea—The South Korean organizers of a regional rugby tournament have apologized for mistakenly playing a song embraced by Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters as China’s national anthem, an incident that sparked strong reaction from the city’s government. “Glory to Hong Kong”—whose lyrics call for democracy and liberty—was played before the men’s finals between South […]
HONG KONG—A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it would cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democracy news outlet. Citizen News announced its decision in a Facebook post Sunday. It said it would stop updating its site on […]
A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site. For more than two decades, the statue has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
The trial of 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists resumed on Monday. They are being charged under the national security law imposed by Beijing. The law punishes what Beijing broadly defines as subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces. Authorities can punish violators with up to life in prison.
A protest at a top university in Hong Kong. During a graduation ceremony on Thursday, ten graduates launched a protest. They were showing their support for their fellow students who had been sentenced to prison due to their pro-democracy activities.
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 […]
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 […]
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 police on Thursday raided the premises of the closed June 4th Museum that is dedicated to the victims of the 1989 crackdown by the Chinese communist regime on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
HONG KONG—One of Hong Kong’s most established pro-democracy civic organizations said it is letting go its paid staff and halving the size of its steering committee after Beijing stepped up its suppression on opposition activity in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China is best known […]
White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said the United States is considering “further options to respond” after the arrests of more than pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong.
The United States on Dec. 7 imposed sanctions on 14 Chinese officials over their role in curtailing freedoms in Hong Kong, the latest response by the Donald Trump administration to Beijing’s widening crackdown on the city since it imposed a draconian national security law earlier this year.
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp lawmakers staged a final protest on Nov. 12 before collectively resigning in protest of the government’s dismissal of four colleagues. Carrie Lam’s pro-Beijing government expelled the four opposition members from the legislature on Nov. 11 for what the Chinese Communist Party calls endangering China’s national security. This happened after Beijing granted […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators threatened mass resignations on Nov. 9 amid reports Beijing plans to disqualify four opposition lawmakers who had been accused by the ruling camp of potentially unlawful filibustering in the legislature. Earlier on Monday, local news site HK01 reported, citing unnamed sources, that Beijing might make the move later this week […]
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Sept. 24 for allegedly participating in an “unauthorized assembly” in October 2019 linked to the government’s anti-mask law, his attorney said. “Wong is accused of participating in an unlawful assembly on Oct. 5 last year, when hundreds marched to oppose an anti-mask ban the government […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong police arrested two opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over anti-government protests in July last year, one of whom they accused of rioting during an incident in which he was attacked by a mob. Police said Democratic Party lawmakers Lam Cheuk-ting and Ted Hui were among 16 people arrested. Lam was arrested on the […]
Feng Xiaoyan—a researcher for China’s local legislature, the People’s Congress in Linyi City, Shandong Province—has been forcibly admitted into a mental hospital. She was detained after distributing pro-democracy leaflets in Beijing on April 28.
