Hong Kong’s newly minted national security police raided the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Friday, confiscating “evidence” that protesting students had broken a draconian national security law imposed on the city by Beijing. One year after riot police besiegedRead More →
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has signaled a further clampdown on dissent in Hong Kong, with a public denunciation of a pro-democracy group and apparent plans to make changes to the city’s judiciary. Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of theRead More →
The father of a Hong Kong University of Science and Technology student who died in a fall during a standoff between riot police and demonstrators during last year’s protest movement has called on the public to come forward with anyRead More →
The Canada-based New Hong Kong Cultural Club has been helping Hong Kong residents leave the city amid a crackdown on last year’s protest movement and an ongoing clampdown on peaceful dissent under a draconian new national security law. Dozens ofRead More →
July 1, 2020, will be remembered as Hong Kong’s official day of death, the day when China assumed control of the city. British Hong Kong was a colonial territory of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1997, apart from aRead More →
Authorities in Hong Kong have revoked the license of a public school teacher for allegedly promoting pro-independence views, the city’s education bureau said in a news conference on Tuesday. Education secretary Kevin Yeung told journalists that the teacher had designed hisRead More →
Hong Kong police on Friday turned down an application by march organizers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) to hold a pro-democracy march on Oct. 1, China’s National Day, saying there was a risk of violence and widespread transmission ofRead More →
Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was arrested Thursday for taking part in a protest at the height of the city’s pro-democracy unrest last year, but he vowed to continue resisting China’s crackdown on dissent. The arrest of the territory’sRead More →
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, who has been released on bail after his arrest Monday, said Thursday he has accepted imprisonment as his “destiny” and that the widespread support he has received proves his struggle for democracy is aRead More →
Samuel Chu, one of six activists now living overseas who Hong Kong has reportedly issued arrest warrants for under its new national security law, has told VOA he will not stop fighting for democracy for Hong Kong. According to China’sRead More →
Authorities in Hong Kong commandeered a tourist hotel in the bustling shopping district of Causeway Bay, closing off nearby streets overnight, and installing an emblem of the ruling Chinese Communist Party on a building that will serve as temporary headquarters for Beijing’s feared stateRead More →
Allegedly, on July 5 a paragraph of a pre-written speech by the Pope where he supported freedom in Hong Kong was not read by Francis. To avoid further wild speculations, the Vatican may publish the text of the 2018 ChinaRead More →
It gets worse every day: a new document allows the police to enter private premises without a warrant, freeze assets, and crack down on criticism posted online. by Massimo Introvigne On July 6, 2020, the newly established Committee for Safeguarding the NationalRead More →
Hong Kong’s status as one of Asia’s most thriving press hubs appears to be on life support with the onset of a new national security law imposed by China on the semi-autonomous territory this week. The law, a response toRead More →
The ruling Chinese Communist Party on Friday appointed a former mayor who cracked down on the rebel village of Wukan to head its national security office in Hong Kong. China’s cabinet, the State Council appointed Zheng Yanxiong, former mayor and Communist Party secretary of Guangdong’sRead More →
Hidden in the new law, a provision states the CCP can now act against every person on the planet criticizing it. by Massimo Introvigne Much has been written about the new Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National SecurityRead More →
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that China’s newly enacted Hong Kong national security law was “an affront to all nations” and that Washington was taking steps to end special permissions for the Chinese region. “The United StatesRead More →
China on Tuesday approved draconian new security legislation for Hong Kong banning activities deemed subversive or secessionist, paving the way for its feared state security police to operate in the city. The law’s approval by the National People’s Congress (NPC) standing committee after months ofRead More →
China’s top law-making body is expected to pass a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday – a move that many critics and ordinary Hong Kongers fear will empower the Communist Party to tighten its control and threaten theRead More →
China unveiled the details Saturday of a planned national security law for Hong Kong that will allow the Communist Party to markedly expand its power in and tighten its control of the Asian financial hub. China’s top lawmaking body, theRead More →
31 Years Since Crackdown, Domestic Repression Worsens, Goes Global The Chinese government should accept responsibility for the massacre of an untold number of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators around June 4, 1989, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should cease all harassment ofRead More →
