カテゴリー: Hong Kong
New modules on the Chinese leader’s ideas are aimed at cultivating ‘affection for our country’ and a ‘sense of national identity’The new school year began this week in Hong Kong with a significant new addition to the curriculum for some students: the t…
Chris Patten condemns ‘dark day for press freedom’ as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articlesTwo journalists from the closed Hong Kong media outlet Stand News have been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials – the f…
David Neuberger was part of court panel that dismissed appeal of Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy activistsDavid Neuberger, the former president of the UK’s supreme court, has resigned from his role as chair of a legal advisory board to an interna…
Former governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protestChris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as “unjust” a decision by the Chinese city’s top court to uphold the conviction of Jimmy L…
Media tycoon and six others had been found guilty of taking part in unauthorised assembly in one of year’s biggest demonstrations in cityHong Kong’s top court on Monday unanimously dismissed the bid to overturn the convictions of media mogul Jimmy Lai …
Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a yearHong Kong has become a global trade hub for “the world’s most brutal regimes”, according to a report examining the city’s role in facilita…
Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government criticsTwo exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been blocked from accessing their pensions, depriving them of tens of thousands of US…
The three British judges still on territory’s top bench under pressure to quit after two others stepped down last weekPressure is increasing on the last remaining British judges who sit in Hong Kong’s top court to resign, after two senior justices step…
Lord Sumption, who last week quit territory’s top court, speaks out on ‘paranoid atmosphere’ under Chinese ruleA British judge has described the “paranoid atmosphere” in Hong Kong as he explained his decision to step down from the territory’s top co…
Beverley McLachlin’s decision comes after British judge Lord Sumption quit court of final appeal, condemning ‘impossible political environment’A former chief justice of Canada’s supreme court has announced she is stepping down from Hong Kong’s court of…
Police say spectators ‘turned their backs toward the pitch and did not stand for the playing of the national anthem’Three people have been arrested for turning their backs and remaining seated when China’s national anthem was played prior to Hong Kong’…
Democracy campaigners welcome move by Lord Sumption and Lord Collins, who cited political situation in statementTwo of the last remaining British judges to sit on Hong Kong’s top court have resigned, with one citing the political situation in the forme…
Sanmu Chen appeared to write the date of massacre in the air as anniversary becomes increasingly sensitive in Hong KongHong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write “8964” in the air with his hand, a reference to the da…
Events marking the day troops ended a peaceful protest with deadly violence are banned in China and Hong KongChinese and Hong Kong authorities have arrested or put under surveillance several dissidents ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square M…
Last week’s conviction of dissidents came in the biggest case since introduction of a new national security lawThe verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national securi…