Lifestory: Wanted Hong Kong activist fears for safety, hopes for US asylum
JAMES POMFRET and JESSIE PANG, of Reuters, speak with Anna Kwok, among those recently designated as a fuguitive by the Hong Kong police with a $HK1 million dollar bounty offered for her arrest…
Wanted Hong Kong activist’s relatives taken for questioning by police
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong national security police on Tuesday took away exiled activist Nathan Law’s parents and brother for questioning, local media reported, one week after the police issued an arrest warrant and a bounty on Law’s head. Local media, citing unnamed sources, said Law’s relatives were taken away from their homes in Hong […]
Essay: Bounties on exiled Hong Kong activists show the ambitious reach of China’s political repression
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRENDAN CLIFT, of the University of Melbourne, argues that while the issung of warrants for the arrest of eight exiled pro-democracy figures may be “futile overreach”, the intention behind them remains condemnable…
Hong Kong police arrest four men accused of aiding overseas activists
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong national security police on Wednesday arrested four men it accused of supporting overseas dissidents and of advocating for independence from China, two days after issuing warrants and bounties against several foreign-based activists. The four men “were suspected of receiving funds from operating companies, social platforms and mobile applications to support […]
Hong Kong leader says eight overseas activists will be “pursued for life”
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong chief executive John Lee said on Tuesday eight overseas-based Hong Kong activists who were issued with arrest warrants for alleged national security offences would be “pursued for life”. Hong Kong police issued arrest warrants for the eight overseas-based activists on Monday, accusing them of national security offences, including foreign collusion […]
Essay: Top democracy activists were executed in Myanmar – four key things to know
US-based scholar of Myanmar politics and culture, THARAPHI THAN, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the execution this week of four pro-democracy activists in Myanmar…
US lawmakers demand HSBC explain actions against Hong Kong activists, Americans
Washington DC, USReuters Influential US lawmakers have demanded that one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC Holdings Plc, explain its actions in freezing accounts of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, moves that could leave it liable to severe sanctions under US law. The bipartisan group of six senators and seven members of the House of Representatives […]
Veteran Hong Kong democrats found guilty in landmark unlawful assembly case
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A Hong Kong court found seven prominent democrats guilty of unauthorised assembly charges, including 82-year-old barrister Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 72, the latest blow to the city’s beleaguered democracy movement. Lee, who helped launch the city’s largest opposition Democratic Party in the 1990s and is often called the former […]
More than 50 Hong Kong activists arrested under security law as crackdown intensifies – media
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters More than 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of violating the city’s national security law, local media reported, in the biggest crackdown yet against the opposition camp under the contentious new legislation. Police also arrived at the offices of pro-democracy online media outlet Stand News, according to […]