On September 28, 2025, at 2:00 PM local time, over a hundred people gathered at the National Monument in Dam Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands, for a demonstration themed “Unite Against CCP Tyranny.” Participants included members of the Civil Resistance Association andRead More →
‘We have to learn how to master that fear,’ says Carmen Lau. By Alice Yam and Jasmine Man 2024.09.11 London In 2021, former pro-democracy District Councilor Carmen Lau fled a crackdown on political opposition and dissent in Hong Kong, losingRead More →
China-based family members of Chinese students in Europe and North America targeted in retaliation for students’ overseas activism Students face ‘surveillance’ at protests and online Universities urged to combat threats to academic freedom and human rights Chinese and Hong KongRead More →
86 Groups Urge Rebukes, Sanctions Against Beijing’s Latest Assault on Right (New York) – National governments should strongly oppose the Hong Kong government’s introduction of so-called Article 23 national security legislation, which will further devastate human rights protections in HongRead More →
HONG KONG – Forty-seven pro-democracy activists and political figures in Hong Kong reported to authorities Sunday and were formally charged with subversion under a controversial national security law. The charge relates to their participation last year in unofficial election primariesRead More →
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Beijing on its treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong in the first conversation between top officials of the two powers since President Joe Biden took office. “I made clear theRead More →
Hong Kong’s government is seeking to amend the city’s immigration laws to enable security chiefs to ban passengers from taking any form of transport in or out of the city, sparking concern that the authorities may be getting ready toRead More →
A website dedicated to publishing first-hand accounts of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement has warned its users to prepare for large-scale internet blocks, filters, and censorship in future, in the first indication that China may be exporting its Great FirewallRead More →
Journalists’ groups have condemned orders to four Hong Kong media organizations from the city’s national security police requiring them to hand over materials linked to the arrests of dozens of pro-democracy activists for “subversion.” The Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA)Read More →
At least 50 pro-democracy activists have been arrested in Hong Kong Wednesday in the biggest crackdown on opposition forces in the semi-autonomous city under the new national security law. Hong Kong news outlets say those arrested in the early WednesdayRead More →
Authorities in Hong Kong have transferred 24-year-old democracy activist Agnes Chow to a top-security prison that places Category A prisoners convicted of violent crime in solitary confinement, according to the city’s Apple Daily newspaper. Chow was sentenced to seven months’Read More →
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai is heading back to detention after the city’s highest court revoked his bail Thursday. The 73-year-old Lai was arrested on December 3 and spent three weeks behind bars before posting aRead More →
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan on Thursday held the retrial of an activist who expressed support for last year’s protest movement in Hong Kong. Xu Kun, a resident of Panlong district in the provincial capital, Kunming, stood trial byRead More →
For Hong Kong activists, the past year has been one of despair and dread. Facing possible persecution under the new National Security Law, many have been forced to choose between their political causes and their homes. Former legislator Baggio LeungRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have indicted 12 Hong Kong protesters detained as they fled to the democratic island of Taiwan on charges relating to “illegally crossing a border,” the state prosecutor’s office said in a statementRead More →
Police in Hong Kong on Monday arrested eight people — including two directly elected members of the District Council — over a peaceful graduation protest at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), three of them under the national securityRead More →
A Hong Kong court ruling has strengthened calls to establish an independent mechanism for complaints against the police amid intense outcry at home and abroad over alleged arbitrary arrests and excessive police use of force. Once regarded as Asia’s finest,Read More →
Managers at Hong Kong’s i-Cable TV network announced they would be firing at least 40 journalists, editors, and production crew at the morning editorial meeting on Tuesday. Those targeted received phone calls or letters informing them of the decision andRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong say they have handed over the cases of 12 Hong Kong protesters detained as they fled to the democratic island of Taiwan to the state prosecutor, paving the way for a trial.Read More →
Three prominent pro-democracy activists were taken into custody Monday in Hong Kong after pleading guilty to charges related to a protest outside a police headquarters last June. Joshua Wong and fellow members of the now-disbanded Demosisto political party, Ivan Lam, and Agnes Chow, all in their twenties, took the guilty plea at the advice ofRead More →
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 →
