カテゴリー: Protest
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…
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Tributes lit in the windows of the US consulate building and the European Union’s office are a ‘political show’, says China China has berated the US and EU consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre , bl…
Residents light candles, lay flowers and paint messages as police enforce ban on annual vigil for massacreHong Kong vigil leader arrested as 7,000 police enforce ban on protestsA man walked down a Hong Kong street on Friday wearing a shirt hand-painted…
Hong Kong, Macau and China ban gatherings, and Taiwan has a serious Covid outbreak, leaving people to remember the massacre alone or onlineFor the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there will be no formal commemoration event held in …
From Belarus to Hong Kong, why is popular protest being crushed? Get the magazine delivered to your home.Last August, thousands took to the streets of Belarus to bravely protest against rigged elections, in a mood of defiance and hope that the arm of t…
Detention of of veteran pro-democracy activist clear sign of authorities’ zero tolerance to dissentPolice in Hong Kong have arrested a 65-year-old democracy activist as she staged a lone demonstration over China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown, in a vivid…
Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was taken with forceMuhammad Anwar was not aware of any danger when he took the day off work to join his friends at a demonstration …
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Protesters against Narendra Modi’s controversial citizenship law remain detained in prisons rife with coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn ashen-faced Natasha Narwal emerged on bail from Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail…
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…
Parit Chiwarak, one of students jailed over protests calling for monarchy reform, is unable to stand, lawyer saysTwo Thai students imprisoned for leading mass protests that called for reform of the monarchy are in deteriorating health after spending up…
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…
Case against RTHK producer Bao Choy has become central to Hong Kong authorities’ press clampdownAn award-winning Hong Kong news producer has been found guilty of criminal conduct after she accessed a public database while investigating an attack at a c…
Junta has also threatened to revoke doctors’ passports and bar them from medical practiceAt least 139 medics in Myanmar are facing charges and possible jail time, according to local media, as the junta escalates a crackdown on doctors who have been inv…