カテゴリー: Protest
Independent online news portal to cease operations amid ‘worsening environment for media’ in cityThe Hong Kong independent news outlet Citizen News has said it will cease operations from Tuesday in the face of what it described as a deteriorating media…
Staff and students say the recent destruction of massacre monuments is a manifestation of a new and uneasy culture on campusSophie Mak, a recent graduate of law and literature, had walked past the fiery orange monument between classes for five years. A…
Student unions should keep their memory alive, writes Peter van den DungenThe ruthless campaign by the Chinese government to extinguish all memories of the massacre at Tiananmen Square has now resulted in the removal of the sculpture from the campus of…
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where…
Lai and seven other democracy campaigners handed prison sentences for commemorating victims of massacreThe Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to up to 14 months in prison for organising, taking …
City streets emptied during nationwide demonstration after massacre of villagers by soldiersThe streets in towns and cities across Myanmar were deserted on Friday as the public held a “silent strike” to protest against the military government, days aft…
Almost a year on from the coup, resistance to the military is growing stronger and more organisedOn Sunday morning, a small group of protesters walked together in Kyimyindaing township, Yangon, waving bunches of eugenia and roses. They carried a banner…
Judge sentences 20-year-old to three years and seven months in prison for secession and money launderingA 20-year-old student activist who was arrested while attempting to seek asylum at the US consulate in Hong Kong has become the youngest person sent…
This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his governmentIt is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime mi…
Lawyers say judgment demonstrates increasingly harsh stance taken by authorities over lese-majesty lawIt was last December that Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, a Thai student activist, and her friends strolled into a shopping mall in Bangkok wearing crop…
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Repeal of ‘black laws’ designed to modernise agricultural sector is huge victory for farmersNarendra Modi has announced he will repeal three contentious farm laws that prompted a year of protests and unrest in India, in one of the most significant conc…
Narendra Modi has announced he will repeal three contentious farm laws that prompted a year of protests and unrest in India, in one of the most significant concessions made by his government and a huge victory for India’s farmers. They had fo…
Analysts say Maha Vajiralongkorn’s trip abroad could be sign he considers situation is under controlThailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has reportedly flown to Germany in what is believed to be his first trip abroad since pro-democracy protests escalat…
Wave of abductions amid military crackdown in conservative Balochistan province has mobilised women to protestThe surroundings of the Missing Persons protest camp in Pakistan’s troubled region of Balochistan are sadly familiar to 12-year-old Ansa. For …