‘Beijing’s Plan to Export Revolution Hasn’t Changed’: Ching Cheong
Veteran political journalist Ching Cheong told RFA that the newly established Bauhinia Party, which has close ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is part of a broader strategy to control every aspect of life in the former British colony by eventually replacing its people:
Policy Address 2020: Democrats slam Carrie Lam as prioritising development of China over Hong Kong
CANDICE CHAU | HONG KONG FREE PRESS “She bet on the future of Hong Kong on the greater bay area and on the mainland economy. That will ruin the international city of Hong Kong,” said democrat Wu-Chi wai Hong Kong’s pro-democracy politicians have criticised the 2020 Policy Address as being geared towards the development of […]
How the Chinese Communist Party Moves Against Academic Freedom—in Western Countries
RUTH INGRAM | BITTER WINTER Beijing’s stranglehold on free speech, not only at home, but increasingly across the globe, is alarming academics in the free world. The CCP has tightened its noose around critics of the regime, not only within its own borders. In a move which threatens academic freedoms everywhere, any student or educator […]
Australia Offers Safe Haven to Hongkongers in Wake of Draconian Security Law
<!–[CDATA[ Lau Siu-fung and Hwang Chun-mei | Radio Free Asia Australia on Thursday said it was suspending its extradition agreement with China and extending stays for visa-holders from Hong Kong, after the ruling Chinese Communist Party imposed a draconian security law on the city that threatens anyone criticising the authorities or showing support for the […]
China Lawyer Crackdown Enters 6th Year with Fears for the Same Fate in Hong Kong
Joyce Huang | Voice of America Thursday marks the anniversary of the start of a sweeping purge involving more than 300 rights lawyers and activists in China that began on July 9, 2015. The ongoing sweep known as the 709 Crackdown is named for the date. Prominent Chinese lawyers at home and abroad, who had […]
Hong Kong: Two Journalists Face Heavy Jail Term for Documenting the Occupation of the Legislative Council Building
<!–[CDATA[[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Hong Kong Secretary for Justice to drop the absurd rioting charges against the two reporters who documented the occupation of the Legislative Council building. On June 10th, almost a year after the brief occupation of the Legislative Council building […]
Tear gas, pepper spray, arrests as Hong Kong protesters mark 8 months since Yuen Long mob attack
<!–[CDATA[ Rachel Wong | Hong Kong Free Press A District Council chair was among those arrested as police fired tear gas and pepper spray to break up a protest on Saturday, eight months after the Yuen Long mob attack. Last July, over 100 white-clad men indiscriminately attacked passengers and protesters with rods and other weapons […]
China Pressures World Into Silence on Its Human Rights Record: Report
<!–[CDATA[ Cathy He | New Tang Dynasty The Chinese regime’s intensifying efforts to thwart global scrutiny of its human rights abuses pose an “existential threat” to the international system, a rights group said on Jan. 14. Human Rights Watch (HRW), a U.S.-based nonprofit, in an annual report documenting human rights conditions around the world, said the Chinese […]
An Urgent Appeal: Stop Police Brutality in Hong Kong
We have been horrified to see reports of police firing teargas, pepper-spray and rubber bullets at close-range at shoppers, peaceful protesters and innocent by-standers on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and again on Saturday 28 December. We are profoundly disturbed by scenes of children and young people being severely beaten, and of rubber bullets being fired into people’s faces
Hong Kong Protesters Count Down For Liberation, Revolution at New Year
At Prince Edward, riot police turned out in force to make arrests, and to remove memorial bouquets placed at the MTR station for those widely believed by protesters to have died in an assault on protesters and train passengers by riot police on Aug. 31.