Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested six people in connection with a raid on a stall at a Lunar New Year market they said had been selling “seditious publications” inciting people to overthrow the government.
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Nearly 30 activists plead guilty to ‘subversion’ in Hong Kong security case
Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong, Benny Tai and dozens of other defendants pleaded guilty to subversion charges brought under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law after they took part in a democratic primary in the summer of 2020, local media reported.
Hong Kong’s intrepid press corps battle dislocation, nostalgia and unemployment
While the implementation of a draconian national security law since July 1, 2020 has ushered in a crackdown on pro-democracy media organizations, activists and politicians in Hong Kong, many journalists have already joined the steady stream of people leaving their home to seek a less restricted life elsewhere.
US human rights report cites China’s violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet
China’s abuses targeting Uyghurs, Hongkongers and Tibetans are among some of the worst human rights violations around the world, the U.S. Department of State said Tuesday.
“The Chinese government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang against predominantl
One year after mass jailings, Hong Kong remembers the 47
One year after dozens of opposition politicians and pro-democracy activists were put behind bars for “subversion” after taking part in a democratic primary in the summer of 2020, Hongkongers in exile say the mass arrests, which were widely condemned by the international community, struck a “devastating blow” to the city.
Two charged amid international outcry over raid on Hong Kong media outlet
Authorities in Hong Kong on Thursday charged two senior editors at the now-shuttered pro-democracy Stand News with “sedition” and denied them bail, following a raid on the news website by national security police.
Acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam and former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen
Hong Kong National Security Police Freeze Tiananmen Campaign Group’s Assets
National security police in Hong Kong have frozen the assets of a group that organized vigils for Tiananmen massacre victims, as the city’s public broadcaster was warned on Wednesday that its reporting must ‘safeguard national interests.’
“This morning, the liquidator of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
香港支联会宣布解散，六四烛光千万人接棒
代表着“六四烛光”的香港支联会周六（9月25日）宣布解散。这标志着这个催生于1989年发生的轰轰烈烈的学生民运动，并在这个民主运动被镇压下去之后高举“六四”火炬陪伴世界走过了30多年的香港公民组织正式走入历史。
支联会的全称为“香港市民支援爱国民主运动联合会”
Chinese Activist Under Surveillance Proposes to Jailed Hong Kong Barrister
A rights activist in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has proposed marriage in an open letter to his girlfriend, a Hong Kong rights lawyer and activist who is currently in prison on remand for “inciting” others to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
Ye Du, whose birth name is Wu Wei
香港警方在机场逮捕前苹果日报员工
香港警方在一份声明中表示，一名57岁的男子因“串谋勾结外国或外国势力危害国家安全”在机场被捕。
另据香港多间传媒报道，前《苹果日报》主笔、英文版执行总编辑卢峰在机场被警方拘捕，指其涉嫌勾结外国势力。香港记协在一份声明中强烈谴责警方再次针对新闻工作者
China Using Law to Curb Dissent, Political Opposition in Hong Kong: UK
Hong Kong and Chinese officials are engaging in sweeping curbs on dissent and political opposition, a U.K. government report said this week, as European Union officials joined a chorus of international criticism over a draconian national security law. Over the past six months, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has moved to
China’s Young People ‘Know Little’ of 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
As the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on dissidents ahead of Friday’s anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, younger people living in mainland China are largely unaware of the momentous events of the spring of 1989.