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‘End of academic freedom’: University of Hong Kong to fire pro-democracy activist and law prof. Benny Tai
28 July 2020 by Rachel Wong (HKFP)
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Benny Tai is to be fired for misconduct by the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he is currently serving as an (...)
Benny Tai was convicted of public nuisance charges related to his leading role in the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement.
HONG KONG — The University of Hong Kong’s governing body voted on Tuesday to fire an associate law professor who was convicted last year of charges related to his leading (...)
Voters show they prefer activist candidates, but winners of unofficial polls still face hurdles. Beijing has hit out at those involved, though organisers deny charges of breaching national security law.
Beijing on Tuesday 14 issued its strongest warning over unofficial polls held last weekend (...)
The 33-year-old points to recent statements citing potential national security law breaches in withdrawing from opposition task force. Group of winners vow to remain defiant, labelling themselves a new ‘resistance bloc’ in Hong Kong politics. A former lawmaker [Au Nok-hin] and driving force (...)
Beijing has stepped up its rhetoric against the Hong Kong pro-democracy camp’s primary election, slamming it a “blatant provocation” towards the city’s mini-constitution and the newly-enacted national security law.
Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO)
The HKMAO issued a strongly-worded (...)
For several months in 2019, the world’s news media was front-paging the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement almost on a daily basis. However, towards the end of the year, with the street violence subsiding and the fierce battles at two universities ending in the defeat of the students and (...)
Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office also says organiser Benny Tai ‘illegally manipulated’ the city’s election system, acted as political agent for foreign forces. Some 610,000 Hongkongers voted last weekend to determine who gets the opposition ticket for the Legislative Council elections in (...)
Primary turnout enables opposition to inch towards gaining majority in Legco polls, activist says
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3092952/hong-kong-elections-primary-turnout-enables-opposition-inch
by Kimmy Chung (SCMP) Published: 4:05pm, 13 Jul, 2020
Co-organiser of (...)
The number, which represents 5.5 per cent of registered voters, far exceeds overall target of 170,000 people. Primary held to whittle down candidates for the opposition camp’s Legco drive had been mired in uncertainty after government warning.
Nearly 229,000 Hongkongers voted on the first day (...)
Hong Kong police have raided the Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) office in Wong Chuk Hang. The polling organisation is a co-organiser of this weekend’s primary legislative election for the pro-democracy camp.
Officers entered the premises on Friday 10 evening, according to Stand News. (...)
Patrick Nip speaks on latest plans for employees which also require them to swear allegiance in writing and uphold Basic Law. Proposed rules come nearly a year after government workers part of mass protest in support of civil unrest.
Hong Kong’s civil servants will not be allowed to join (...)
Police can raid premises without a court warrant, seize equipment from social media giants and demand information from political groups operating outside city. Failure to comply with new regulations decided at meeting of Committee for Safeguarding National Security will lead to HK$100,000 Bne, (...)
Education Bureau orders schools to assess their books and immediately remove those that ‘possibly violate’ the law. Principals appeal for clearer guidance on review process as critics issue warnings about infringements on academic freedom.
Hong Kong education officials have told schools to (...)
In a city where China has made some ideas suddenly dangerous, people are trying to figure out where the boundaries lie, and how their lives have changed.
A barge draped with enormous red banners celebrating China’s new security law was sailing across Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbor only hours (...)
At least nine titles by Joshua Wong, Horace Chin and Tanya Chan are not available to the public. Bar Association chief and authors themselves call for authorities to justify their policy decision.
Hong Kong libraries have taken at least nine titles written by localist or democracy advocates (...)
Beijing enacts new security law aimed out stamping out opposition to ruling communist party, extinguishing business interests and fragile democratic freedoms along with it.
The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative (...)
Hongkongers have deleted their social media accounts and scrubbed online traces of political content as Beijing passed sweeping national security legislation for the city on Tuesday 30.
The unprecedented law, which targets secession, subversion, foreign interference and terrorism, came into (...)
Only by building resilient organizations can we keep the movement alive.
To Beijing, Hong Kong has long been feared as the foothold where Western forces can creep into mainland China and “corrupt” its people with dangerous ideas like free speech and association. Indeed, Hong Kong people have (...)
Beijing hopes that the imposition of the ‘National Security Law’ will mean the end of the democratic movement in Hong Kong. Colin Sparks argues that they are likely to be disappointed.
The Hong Kong police have wasted no time in using the new national security law. Adopted unanimously, of (...)
The criminalization of dissent in Hong Kong takes place within a global wave of national militarization and securitization.
On Tuesday this week, national security laws that prohibit acts of secession, subversion, foreign interference, or terrorism in Hong Kong were passed unanimously by (...)
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