Hong Kong Now Ranked as One of the Worst Civic Spaces Alongside North Korea and Other Authoritarian Regions

Hong Kong police arrests Wong, a white-haired activist, on July 1, 2021. Song Bilong/The Epoch Times

On March 16, The International Civil Society Organization CIVICUS released “People Power Under Attack 2022,” a report evaluating citizens’ freedom movement worldwide.

In the latest report, Hong Kong has dropped from the second worst “Repressed” category to the worst, “Closed” category.