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China Has Stifled Hong Kong’s Voice, But Not Its Spirit

As the setting sun glinted off the skyscrapers in Hong Kong’s financial district, a huge video screen on top of one of the soaring towers projected a slogan celebrating the fifth anniversary of the ... Read More

China to sanction US Congress members and others who ‘acted egregiously’ on Hong Kong

China will apply tit-for-tat sanctions on US Congress members, officials and heads of non-governmental organisations that Beijing deems to have "acted egregiously" on Hong Kong-related issues. The ... Read More

Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approve security law giving government more power to curb dissent

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers ... Read More

Bleak Assessments of Hong Kong’s National Security Law, Five Years On

June 30 marked the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of a heavy-handed national security law (NSL) on Hong Kong, which has altered the sociopolitical landscape of the city by undermining its ... Read More

Appeal hearing for 13 pro-democracy activists begins in Hong Kong national security case

The appeal proceedings of 13 individuals, part of Hong Kong’s landmark national security case in which 47 pro-democracy activists were convicted, commenced on Monday. Amnesty International stated the ... Read More

Hong Kong wraps up pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai's security trial

HONG KONG, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court said it will deliver its verdict in media tycoon Jimmy Lai's national security trial at a later date, after closing submissions concluded on Thursday, ... Read More

Research suggests majority of Hong Kong national security convictions wrongfully issued

Amnesty International research released on Monday concluded that more than 80 percent of those convicted under the Hong Kong national security law have been “wrongly criminalized” in the five years ... Read More

"Authoritarians in the Academy": The National Security Law and the Shuttering of Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

Timing is everything. As I explain in my book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech, the overlap in 2020 of the ... Read More

Overseas bounties, patriotic education and suppression: how the national security law is changing Hong Kong

Ka Hang Wong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ... Read More

Trump pressed China's Xi to release jailed Hong Kong media tycoon, sources say

HONG KONG/WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when the two leaders met in South Korea last ... Read More

Hong Kong Has Become Just Another Chinese Captive

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Under Great Britain, Hong Kong was a free city. Not democratic, since residents didn’t choose or control their government. Nevertheless, the ... Read More