投稿者: Verna Yu in Hong Kong
Xu Zhiyong is being held in secret detention and has been denied access to a lawyer, say friendsA prominent Chinese activist detained for criticising President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is being held on a state security charge t…
Analysts say epidemic poses gravest threat to authorities since Tiananmen Square – and Beijing’s tight control could backfireThe coronavirus crisis in China has posed unprecedented political challenges to the authorities and prompted them to further cr…
In city of 11m, officials threaten with punishment those who delay reporting symptomsCoronavirus outbreak – live updatesOne of Wuhan’s most senior doctors has died after contracting the coronavirus as authorities began a sweeping campaign inside the ci…
Detention of prominent scholar Xu Zhiyong comes amid wider crackdown on freedom of speechThe Chinese authorities have detained a prominent activist and legal scholar who issued a blistering attack on president Xi Jinping for mishandling the coronavirus…
Xia Baolong is a long-time ally of Xi Jinping who represents a sign Beijing wants to exert more control over the cityCoronavirus latest updates A hardliner notorious for the demolition of thousands of Christian crosses on churches has been appointed th…
Widespread anxiety that epidemic could last many months and basic necessities will run out is gripping the cityCoronavirus – live updatesIt is reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Queues form at the crack of dawn every morning in front of supe…
Exclusive: Dr Jiang Yangyong’s movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protestsThe Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government’s cover-up of the the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in 200…
Demands for freedom of speech in the wake of Li Wenliang’s death have been censored by the authorities amid widespread outpouring of anger Coronavirus outbreak – latest updatesThe death of a whistleblowing Chinese doctor who was punished for trying to …
The ‘yellow economic circle’ movement aims to promote locally owned businesses – and shun Chinese onesEmily Mak works in finance but every lunchtime in the run-up to lunar new year on Saturday she heads to a bustling Hong Kong market street to distribu…
Police detain 400 and fire teargas as anti-government protests continue into 2020A huge New Year’s Day march in Hong Kong has ended in mass arrests and street clashes as the anti-government movement – now almost in its eighth month – continued into 202…
More than 900 minors have been arrested in pro-democracy protests. They say it’s their ‘responsibility to do something’Twelve-year-old Samuel was arrested one summer evening while trying to flee from riot police at a protest. He was tackled to the grou…
Sea of protesters pour on to streets calling for elections and inquiry into police tacticsHundreds of thousands of protesters have filled the streets of Hong Kong in a mass show of support for an anti-government movement that shows no signs of flagging…
Police have fired 10,000 canisters in protests, sparking health scare over possible harmful effectsAngel Chan is more cautious about where she takes her two children, aged three and five, to play these days.“Police have thrown teargas all over the city…
Team goes in to polytechnic campus to gather evidence despite claim 20 protesters are still hold up insideHong Kong police and firemen have entered a university which had been under police siege for more than 10 days despite protesters’ pleas for them …
A protester recalls conditions inside campus and questions where the movement goes nextIt took a lot of courage for Peter Lui to go down the sewage drain – but he thought it was better than surrendering to the police who had besieged Polytechnic Univer…