On Thursday, defence lawyers urged the three-judge panel to be as lenient as possible in sentencing Tong, whom they described as a “decent young man.” The prosecution said the court could consider “commentaries and legal text” from mainland China. But...
The contents in question included three children’s books based on the anti-extradition bill protests, the 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested as they tried to flee the territory by speedboat to Taiwan, and a brief strike by hospital workers calling...
“Over the course of one year, the law was applied to completely dismantle Hong Kong’s free society on almost all fronts … completely transforming Hong Kong’s political and legal landscape and stifling freedom of the press and free expression of...
The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), an industry group with members — including Google, Facebook and Twitter — warned the Hong Kong government in a letter that the companies might stop offering services in the city if their employees were made...
So, as long as Apple lived it provided a rallying point for resistance and this was never going to be tolerated. The politics of Hong Kong’s only democracy supporting media company can hardly be overlooked but, as a journalist, It...
Hong Kong Next Digital media group’s board of directors announced on Wednesday 23rd June, 2021 that Apple Daily will cease all its operations from Sunday, 27th June due to the government’s decision to freeze its financial assets, leaving the media...
Hundreds of police officers raided the headquarters of jailed pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai's Next Digital in Tseung Kwan O at around 7.30 a.m. on Thursday, confiscating dozens of computers and arresting CEO Cheung Kim-hung, head of operations Royston Chow,...
Chow Hang-tung, vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and the 20-year-old delivery person were arrested over social media posts under section 17A(1D) of the Public Order Ordinance, police said, without disclosing specifics...
“We condemn the actions taken by the PRC to disbar Lu Siwei following his efforts to represent the Hong Kong 12. We call on the PRC to restore the livelihood of Lu Siwei and the many lawyers who have been...
