1989tiananmencrackdown
Pro-Beijing groups have set up a patriotic carnival in part of Causeway Bay’s Victoria Park, where annual vigils were held for decades to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The event period covers the crackdown’s 35th anniversary on Monday, with the festivities open to the public from Saturday until next Wednesday. In April, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department told HKFP that an organisation had applied to use the football pitches, central lawn and basketball courts for a “public event” between May 27 and June 8. The Federation of Hong Kong Guangdong Community Organisations is among 28...
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The Hong Kong government has rebutted international criticism of the city’s first arrests under a new, homegrown security law and the trial of Hong Kong’s 47 democrats, after a US government body said Thursday’s verdict showed “the Chinese Communist Party is pulling the strings” in Hong Kong. In a statement issued on Thursday night, the government condemned the Western countries’ accusation as “simply do not stand up to the facts.” Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), an agency of the US government, criticised verdicts of the landmark case concerning 47 democrats on Thursday, ur...
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A 53-year-old woman was arrested by Hong Kong national security police on Wednesday over “seditious” online posts, becoming the seventh person apprehended under the new law in a case linked to jailed human rights activist Chow Hang-tung. Police said they arrested the woman on Hong Kong Island on suspicion of committing “offences in connection with seditious intention,” contrary to the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, which was enacted in March. That brought the total number of arrests under the city’s homegrown security law – which is known locally as Article 23 and stands apart from ...
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Pro-Beijing groups in Hong Kong are seeking to organise a carnival in part of Causeway Bay’s Victoria Park, where annual vigils were held for decades to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The event period is set to cover the crackdown’s 35th anniversary on June 4. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) told HKFP on Friday that an organisation had applied to use the football pitches, central lawn and basketball courts for a public event between May 27 and June 8. The application was being handled at the moment, the department said. The department did not provide any further informa...
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The national security trial of three former leaders of a now-disbanded Tiananmen vigil group will not begin this year, a Hong Kong judge has said, more than two years since the group was charged. Chow Hang-tung, Albert Ho, and Lee Cheuk-yan, formerly of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, appeared on Wednesday in the High Court for a second case management hearing. The trio, along with the alliance itself, were jointly charged in September 2021 under the Beijing-imposed national security law with inciting subversion of state power. Chow and Lee had bee...
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU)’s head has been cleared of misconduct and mismanagement allegations, after whistle-blower emails accusing him of mismanaging funds prompted a six-month-long investigation. The complaints about the institution’s president and vice-chancellor Zhang Xiang were not substantiated, a statement published by the HKU Council on Saturday read. In a separate statement on Sunday, Zhang – who has maintained his innocence – said that while the investigation “affirmed” his innocence, his colleagues had dealt with “immense mental pressure” over the past six months and the uni...
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A Hong Kong court has upheld the convictions of three activists over their refusal to comply with a request for information issued by the city’s national security police. Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong, appeared at Hong Kong’s High Court on Thursday afternoon to hear the verdict of their appeal against their convictions and sentences. The trio – who were part of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which organised the city’s annual vigils to remember victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown – were jailed for four and a half months last...
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