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...
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,...
“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...
The other defendants in the case were media tycoon Jimmy Lai, veteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan and former legislators “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and Cyd Ho. They are currently serving jail terms for other offences, while Lai and Leung are also...
SELINA CHENG | HONG KONG FREE PRESS Amid reports that the police are set to reject an application to hold the event on coronavirus health grounds, the city's leader says whether such ''gatherings" can go ahead depends on them not...
