Freedom in Hong Kong

Chan Wai Yiu was arrested for participating in the 2019 anti-extradition protests after returning to see his sick mother.

In their decision, the Court of Final Appeal judges unanimously allowed the appeal and overturned the three convictions.

Around a dozen attackers were eventually jailed; but Lam and six others who had tried to defend the public, were also arrested and charged with rioting.

After the implementation of the National Security Law, many civic groups in Hong Kong were forced to disband.

One newspaper vendor says she won’t fear threats for doing legitimate business.

Despite her family in Hong Kong being interrogated by the national security police, Carmen Lau said she will ‘continue fighting for democracy.’

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 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.’

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.’

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

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

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

The Hong Kong government is facing international criticism following the landmark sedition case.