Beijing allows four pro-democracy lawmakers to serve out their terms even after they were barred from running for re-election. ( read original story ...)
China Moves to Resolve Controversy Over Delayed Hong Kong Elections
Beijing stepped in to settle uncertainty over a controversial yearlong delay to Hong Kong’s legislative elections, approving plans to keep the city’s current lawmakers in office for at least 12 more ... ( read original story ...)
They fought for freedom in Hong Kong. Now, they must find it in exile.
As its political structures unravel, a city that once offered safe harbor to the downtrodden is now exporting a new generation of asylum seekers. ( read original story ...)
Beijing Attempts To Remake Hong Kong In Its Image As National Security Law Takes Hold
Educators, journalists, political figures and ordinary citizens have been intimidated and even arrested as China moves to stifle protest and civil society with its new law. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong residents defend free press as China cracks down
Last year, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong to demand full democracy, many egged on by a tabloid newspaper critical of China's ruling Communist Party. On Tuesday, they ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong rallies around Apple Daily after arrest of founder Jimmy Lai
Newspaper prints 500,000 copies, up from 100,000, as readers queue for hours to buy pro-democracy tabloid ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily vows to fight on after owner arrested
Hong Kong's Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to fight on in a front-page headline ... ( read original story ...)
‘The next Hong Kong’: Taiwan’s foreign minister sounds warning over China
Joseph Wu tells visiting US health secretary Taiwan lives under constant threat of its freedoms being quashed by Beijing ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s security law is transforming the city even faster than expected
It's been less than six weeks since a security law banning secession, subversion and collusion came into force in Hong Kong. But it's already having a dramatic effect on the city's political, media ... ( read original story ...)
China’s unrelenting crackdown on Hong Kong
Monday’s arrests underscored the speed with which the former British colony’s political freedoms — including rights to assembly and freedom of the press — are being curtailed by Beijing. ( read original story ...)
From Belarus to Hong Kong, journalists ‘are bearing the brunt of the global surge in repression’
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Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon, 8 others under new security law
Police in Hong Kong on Monday raided the offices of local newspaper Apple Daily and arrested several people, including the media organization's outspoken pro-democracy founder Jimmy Lai. ( read original story ...)
Apple Daily: Hong Kong newspaper defiant after crackdown
The arrests have sparked condemnation of the escalating crackdown on dissent. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China had "eviscerated Hong Kong’s freedoms". On Tuesday, Apple Daily's front page ... ( read original story ...)
‘Apple Daily must fight on,’ Hong Kong tabloid front page reads after owner arrest
Hong Kong's Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to "fight on" in a front-page ... ( read original story ...)