カテゴリー: Freedom of speech
Ma Chun-man, who carried the superhero’s shield and chanted pro-democracy slogans at rallies, was convicted under new security lawsA Hong Kong man known as “Captain America” for carrying the superhero’s shield at protest rallies has been sentenced to m…
Threats force several scholars to withdraw as ‘far-right fringe groups’ accuse event of being ‘anti-Hindu’An academic conference in the US addressing Hindu nationalism is being targeted by rightwing Hindu groups, which have sent death threats to partic…
Andy Li and Chan Tsz-wah were accused of conspiring with media mogul Jimmy Lai to call for sanctions on China and Hong KongThe Hong Kong activist Andy Li and paralegal Chan Tsz-wah have pleaded guilty to foreign collusion, becoming the second and third…
End of Civil Human Rights Front comes days after police suggested its past rallies may have violated national security lawA major civil society group that was behind some of Hong Kong’s biggest protests has disbanded under increasing pressure from poli…
The Pegasus project shows we could all soon be ruled by states that know everything about us, while we know less and less about themHere in India, the summer of dying is quickly morphing into what looks very much like a summer of spying.The second wave…
Five members of a Hong Kong union behind a series of children’s books about sheep trying to hold back wolves from their village have been arrested for sedition. The arrests were made by the new national security police unit, which is und…
Powerful chilling effect as dissenters are detained, often without charges, and face life in prisonOne year after Beijing imposed a national security law (NSL) on Hong Kong, the city has been drastically and fundamentally changed. Political opposition …
‘Tragic’ closure of Sabeen Mahmud’s community venue T2F in Karachi comes as PM Imran Khan accused of fostering censorship and intoleranceDanial Shah turned to Sabeen Mahmud, for help with his first photo exhibition when all other organisations refused …
Bao Yinan from East China University of Political Science and Law accused over WeChat statementsA Chinese academic has been suspended by his university after he advocated polygamy on his personal WeChat account, sparking a new discussion around China’…
Key figure in 2019 anti-government protests was imprisoned for more than six months under national security law imposed by mainland ChinaThe Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for tak…
Activist Joshua Wong separately sentenced over Tiananmen vigil protest in 2020A court in Hong Kong has sentenced three people to years in jail on riot convictions, despite no evidence they were actually involved in rioting. In a separate case, the acti…
Authorities lambast British-born Paul Harris for criticising treatment of pro-democracy campaignersBeijing and Hong Kong authorities have accused the British-born head of Hong Kong’s bar association of being an “anti-China politician” after he criticis…
Seven figures including Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted over unauthorised marchSeven of Hong Kong’s most senior and prominent pro-democracy figures, including the lawyer and former legislator Martin Lee and the media tycoon Jimmy Lai, h…
Bajrang Dal hardliners in Madhya Pradesh threaten violence over plays ‘disrespectful to the Indian flag’Rightwing Hindu vigilante groups in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have forced the cancellation of an annual theatre festival, after threatening…
Animation features an owl teaching young children about the need for the controversial law in crackdown on educationHong Kong students as young as six will be taught about the national security law under a dramatic overhaul of the education curriculum….