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More than 10,000 arrests and nearly 3,000 prosecutions, with 82% given jail including ‘extraordinary high’ proportion of children
Protesters involved in the 2019-2020 pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong have been treated extraordinarily harshly by the criminal justice system compared with (...)
1. This is not an “Israel-Hamas Conflict” between equal powers, but ongoing ethnic cleansing by Israel against Palestinians
In the mainstream news and media, the ongoing crisis in the Gaza Strip and Palestine is euphemistically referred to as the “Israel-Palestinian Conflict” or the (...)
Prison visitors say they could be targeted by police for helping jailed pro-democracy protesters.
A major detention facility in Hong Kong is overflowing after a years-long crackdown on political opposition and peaceful dissent, official documents show.
The Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre, (...)
The lyrics of Glory to Hong Kong, a song popularised during the 2019 extradition bill protests, contain the phrase, “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” a slogan that was ruled to be capable of inciting secession during the city’s first national security trial.
Hong Kong’s High (...)
Hong Kong national security police have questioned seven relatives and acquaintances of two wanted activists, in the latest move against eight overseas-based pro-democracy figures for whom arrests warrants and HK$1 million bounties were issued.
It was the latest such action against their (...)
For more than two years, many people who took part in the 2019-2020 uprising have been imprisoned in Hong Kong, including trade unionists Lee Cheuk-yan, Carol Ng and Winnie Yu.
A further step was taken on 3 July when arrest warrants were issued for eight opponents exiled abroad (including (...)
For [the Registration of Persons Office] to continue to uphold a policy ruled as unconstitutional to this day … would mean that the Immigration Department is violating constitutional rights,” said Christine Chu of trans concern group Quarks.
Thirteen transgender people on Saturday applied to (...)
The move, which sees arrest warrants for overseas activists including Ted Hui and Elmer Yuen, came two days after Hong Kong marked the third anniversary of the Beijing-enacted national security law.
Hong Kong national security police have issued arrest warrants for eight self-exiled (...)
A SILENT PROTEST took place outside of the Ximen MRT last month on April 16th to call attention to the plight of the 47 defendants in what is Hong Kong’s largest national security trial to date. The protest began at 2 PM and lasted until 4 PM.
The 47 include activists from a number of (...)
Dolores Lee a lancé cette pétition adressée à Government of the United Kingdom et à 6 autres My name is Dolores Lee and I’m starting this petition for my friend and colleague Carol Ng. I’ve known Carol for many years, working together as Cabin Crew for British Airways and also as Trade Union (...)
The death of Queen Elizabeth should remind Hongkongers that the lack of democracy in the city is an outgrowth of British colonial rule
In June of 1970, a short-lived group of left-wing activists from Hong Kong universities known as the ‘Republicans’ Student League’ published a scathing open (...)
When Queen Elizabeth II passed away, a large number of Hong Kong people went to the British Consulate to mourn, but Ta Kung Pao criticized it: “It shows that some people in Hong Kong still have a deep-rooted”colonial mentality“and Hong Kong’s”decolonization“’ There is still a lot of work to be (...)
The latest government figures show more than 4,000 teachers left their jobs in the past school year, a five-year high and a 70 percent spike from the year before.
As Hong Kong students return for the new academic year, veteran teacher Wong is counting down the days until the political (...)
Trial by jury has been used by Hong Kong’s common law legal system for 177 years but legislation imposed by China in 2020 to curb dissent allows cases to be heard by dedicated national security judges.
Hong Kong’s justice minister has ordered a non-jury trial for the city’s largest national (...)
Role: Former Chairperson, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
Charges: Conspiracy to commit subversion Denied bail on 4 Mar 2021 pending trial (High Court. Not scheduled. Expected to be in 2023.
Bio:
Carol Ng is the former chairperson of the HKCTU and the British Airways Hong (...)
– Former chairman of Hospital Authority Employees Alliance confirms group voted to disband after special general meeting Hong Kong Journalists Association head says organisation has no plan to disband but amendment will give group ‘flexibility’
Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA) (...)
News Highlights, May 2022
1. Amendments to Laws and Updates on Administrative Measures
2. The State of Civil Society 2.1 The Courts 2.2 Political Figures and Activists 2.3 Media 2.4 Educational Institutions 2.5 Arts and Culture 2.6 Law (...)
Former district councillor Tiffany Yuen and ex-chairwoman of the now-defunct Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions Carol Ng saw their case moved from the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to the higher court on Tuesday.
Two more defendants in the high-profile national security case (...)
Hong Kong’s one-man election drives home Beijing’s broken promises to the territory.
After weeks of speculation, on April 8 the Chinese government unveiled its pick of Hong Kong’s next leader—John Lee, a former senior police official.
Hong Kong used to be the only territory under Chinese (...)
On March 8, public hospital unionist Winnie Yu is being sent back to prison.
Placed in pre-trial detention in February 2021, she had been granted bail five months later. Her bail has now been arbitrarily revoked on the grounds that Winnie Yu sold handicrafts and coffee at Lunar New Year in (...)
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