Tag: Hong Kong democracy movement

More than four years after a Beijing-drafted national security law came into force in Hong Kong, 45 leading democrats finally learned their fate when a mass trial under the legislation ended on November 19....

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai recently testified at his national security trial, stating that encouraging other countries to support the city's pro-democracy movement should not be seen as seeking foreign interference. Lai, who...

Beijing has criticized US legislators for showing support for Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon who is currently in prison in Hong Kong and is facing a national security trial next week. The Chinese...

The Hong Kong government recently decided to renumber several lamp posts that previously bore codes referencing the date of the Tiananmen crackdown. The numbers “8964” and “6489” have been replaced with new codes. This...

Hong Kong's Secretary for Justice, Paul Lam, made it clear that no one should interfere with the legal proceedings in the city. This statement was in response to US President-elect Donald Trump's promise to...

The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, a significant pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign that lasted for 79 days in 2014, began with class boycotts on September 22. Students took to the streets outside the government...

In August, 50 months since Beijing imposed a security law on Hong Kong, two former editors of shuttered online media Stand News became the first journalists found guilty of sedition in the city since...

Hong Kong's new National Security Exhibition Gallery has caught the attention of foreign visitors, who say it offers a unique perspective on the events of 2019 compared to what they have seen in Western...