Hong Kong

The government has faced criticism from lawmakers and human rights campaigners over how it handles China.

Resistance to the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression in Hong Kong has garnered bipartisan support in the United States.

Hong Kong sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to 10 years in prison, in the largest single prosecution under the CCP-imposed national security law.

There have been ongoing concerns over the physical and mental wellbeing of Jimmy Lai, with the statement noting the 77-year-old’s health ‘is deteriorating.’

The Australian minister has issued a statement in response to the developments in the Beijing-controlled Hong Kong.

Legal scholar Benny Tai was among those sentenced on Nov. 19.

The case marks the longest sentence handed down in connection with the 2019 pro-democracy protests.

The report alleges that the Hong Kong government is pushing a pro-CCP narrative using a network of government agencies and associations.

Patrick Keane, who sits on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, faced protests outside his lecture in NSW, concerned at his role in legitimising Beijing’s rule.

British Judge Nicholas Phillips will leave Hong Kong’s top court when his terms ends on Monday due to ‘personal reasons.’

This is the first prison term handed down by Hong Kong’s court in a sedition case against journalists since the city’s handover to Beijing in 1997.

Pleading guilty to sedition, he told police that the slogan was intended to remind people of the 2019 mass protests.

The bill requires the U.S. president to ’remove the extension of certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices.’

Analysts see the move as part of broader efforts to increase online control in the former British and Portuguese territories.

American investors, researchers, and journalists could be targeted for their regular operations under the city’s new national security ordinance Article 23.

Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam have been convicted over 11 articles they wrote, which the CCP regime found to be ’seditious.’