Taipei, Taiwan – Closing arguments are due to begin in Hong Kong on Wednesday in the high-profile trial of 16 pro-democracy activists and legislators, more than 1,000 days after they were ...
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's long-awaited trial over charges that he "colluded with foreign forces" has begun in Hong Kong. The 76-year-old, who has been in prison since December 2020 ...
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai allegedly tried to trigger mainland China's political and economic collapse, a court in Hong Kong has heard. Mr Lai, a 76-year-old UK citizen and founder of ...
HONG KONG--Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to an illegal assembly during mass anti-government protests in August 2019, while seven others ...
Forty-seven Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are being charged with subversion under the territory’s national security law. The offense carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Three key democracy activists were sentenced to jail yesterday. They had all pleaded guilty to charges stemming from their involvement in a 15-hour siege of the city’s police headquarters during ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about international human rights and national security. When people think of Hong Kong, they don’t usually think of political ...
NGOs and bookshops are closing, media organisations are leaving and democracy activists are on trial “Ideas are bulletproof”. Three words, stamped out in multicolour tiles above a doorway ...
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court rejected an activist publisher’s latest effort Friday to use a British lawyer to defend him against national security charges as Beijing tries to crush a pro ...
Human rights in Asia suffered one setback after another in 1989. The peaceful Chinese democracy movement was crushed, leaving as many as 1000 dead and tens of thousands to be arrested throughout ...
The enactment of a national security law in Hong Kong prompted activists to discuss the prospect of setting up a ...