Shrinking group of pro-democracy campaigners – who themselves expect arrest – say authorities want to make political dissent in effect illegal ... ( read original story ...)
Pompeo Angers China With Hong Kong Threat, Plan to Send Envoy to Taiwan
Pompeo made the comments late on Wednesday. Hong Kong police arrested 53 people in dawn raids on democracy activists on Wednesday in the biggest crackdown since China last year imposed a security law ... ( read original story ...)
Communist Hong Kong
China taunts the world as it arrests the entire democratic opposition. ( read original story ...)
Protesters Given Prison Terms for Beating Reporter at Hong Kong Airport
The sentences, stemming from an attack on a journalist for China’s state news media, were the heaviest yet in connection with the 2019 protests, a lawyer said. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong grants bail to arrested pro-democracy activists
Authorities in Hong Kong said Friday they have granted bail to most of the 55 pro-democracy activists who were arrested this week in a sweeping crackdown on dissent. One of ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police release all but three of those held in crackdown
No one has yet been charged as some pro-democracy figures say they were arrested for political reasons ... ( read original story ...)
See Hong Kong police arrest former pro-democracy lawmakers
Hong Kong police said they arrested 55 former pro-democracy lawmakers and opposition activists for the crime of "subverting state power" in connection with an informal primary election that took place ... ( read original story ...)
In Hong Kong, We Thought We Had More Time
In 2016, a few weeks before Donald Trump was elected, I cast my first ballot in a Hong Kong election. The vote, like every vote in Hong Kong, was rigged: Half the city’s legisla ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong arrests 53 activists under national security law
Hong Kong police arrested 53 former lawmakers and democracy proponents Wednesday for allegedly violating the new national security law by participating in unofficial ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong fourth wave: slight coronavirus rebound as more than 40 new cases expected; pandemic adviser praises Sinovac vaccine’s 78 per cent protection rate
Hong Kong is expected to report a slight Covid-19 rebound on Friday with more than 40 new cases, according to a source, as a leading government pandemic adviser said the Sinovac Biotech coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police widen purge to eliminate pro-democracy camp
But the police kept banging on the door and threatened to storm in.” Mr Lau, 27, was one of 53 pro-democracy activists, politicians and lawyers arrested in Hong Kong early on Wednesday in the largest ... ( read original story ...)
Former Hong Kong lawmaker returned to jail after failing to surrender British National (Overseas) passport
A former opposition lawmaker charged with taking part in an unauthorised rally last summer in Hong Kong has been remanded in custody once more after officers from the police force's national security ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong protests: jury begins deliberations in inquest over death of student who fell from car park in 2019, told bar high for ruling he was unlawfully killed
A jury began deliberations on Friday over whether a Hong Kong student's fall from a car park near the site of a protest two years ago was a homicide or an accident. But Coroner Ko Wai-hung told the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arrested under national security law
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested Thursday over an alleged violation of the city's national security law, just a day after police arrested dozens of former lawmakers and ... ( read original story ...)