Hong Kong

111 reporters are behind bars in a handful of Asian countries, accounting for 30 percent of those imprisoned, says the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The 62-year-old Canadian citizen is one of six overseas pro-democracy activists with a bounty being offered for information leading to their arrests.

The watchdog urged that concerted action is needed in response to the Hong Kong authority’s expanding transnational suppression.

The United States has urged Hong Kong to stop using its ‘national security laws to silence dissent.’

A Hong Kong-registered cargo ship called Xin Xin Tian 2 was sailing over the cable, Estlink 2, when the outage occurred.

‘We call on the Hong Kong government to stop using its national security laws to silence dissent,’ said Gregory May, U.S. consul general in Hong Kong.

Washington condemned Hong Kong officials’ sentencing of pro-democracy activists for up to 10 years under a Beijing-backed law.

Hong Kong may now be used by Russia, North Korea, and the Chinese regime to evade international sanctions against the Russian war, lawmakers said.

The PLA said the port visit was intended to demonstrate China’s ‘firm determination’ to safeguard national sovereignty.