カテゴリー: Protest
‘In the current situation, everything must be done to avoid violence,’ German chancellor says in BeijingThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has said the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong “must be guaranteed” after meeting with the Chinese pr…
Chief executive did not concede to other demands including an inquiry into police violenceHong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has said her government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that has ignited months of protests and plunged the territory i…
The embattled Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, said she has caused ‘unforgivable havoc’ by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to a leaked audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group …
University and secondary school students attend pro-democracy rallies in central Hong Kong on Monday as part of a wider anti-government movement that has plunged the region into its biggest political crisis in decades. The boycott follows a weekend mar…
Arrests come as Indonesian police ban demonstrations promoting separatismFour Australians who allegedly took part in a pro-independence demonstration in West Papua are being deported, Indonesian immigration authorities have said.The four Australians wi…
Three students believed killed in dormitories on Sunday, as video emerges of last week’s clashes in which soldiers fire on peaceful protestsThree West Papuan students have reportedly been killed in their dormitories by militia groups amid growing tensi…
After 1997 UK replaced passports giving right of abode with visa-free travel documents with no work rightsCalls for the UK to restore the right of abode to people in Hong Kong are growing as the political crisis in the former British colony escalates.A…
Cantopop star says city has become a police state as young people fight for their lives “We are officially in a police state,” the Hong Kong Cantopop star and activist Denise Ho told a sold-out audience in Sydney on Sunday night.Speaking at the Sydney …
Fears of Tiananmen-style crackdown as regional officials’ tactics only serve to fuel unrestHow far will China go to end Hong Kong’s unrest, now in its 13th week and still growing? Senior officials have spoken not only of “terrorist acts” but of “colour…
Activists take over shopping complex and vandalise rail station after trying to choke city’s international hubPro-democracy protesters have taken over a shopping complex in Hong Kong, vandalised a railway station and burned a Chinese flag as hundreds o…
Former student leaders among dozens detained in move critics say is attempt to deter protesters from planned rallyHong Kong police have launched a wave of arrests against prominent democracy activists and protesters, marking a new phase in government e…
Three of the most high-profile pro-democracy campaigners are among those who were heldJoshua Wong was a key student leader during pro-democracy protests in 2014 that paralysed parts of Hong Kong for 70 days in what came to be known as the “umbrella mov…
Pro-democracy figure said protesters must keep up the fight or outcome will be ‘unimaginable’Joshua Wong was serving a prison sentence for his role in the 2014 “umbrella movement” when Hong Kong’s current protests broke out.He said: “Agnes [Chow] visit…
Beijing’s worldview cannot conceive of a leaderless movement: there have to be saboteurs behind itOn Friday morning, as Hong Kong woke up, the news came in as thick as the incessant rain: Andy Chan Ho-tin, the head of the outlawed Hong Kong National pa…
Activist Agnes Chow and Andy Chan, head of banned pro-independence party, also heldSeveral prominent pro-democracy figures have been arrested in Hong Kong in an apparent crackdown on protests that have plunged the city into its worst political crisis i…