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Hong Kong’s education authorities have urged four schools to bolster their national security education curricula, including two institutions for special needs students. The government reports have been prepared by the Education Bureau under the School Development and Accountability (SDA) framework since the 2003-2004 school year. In all, reports on ten schools were published. The bureau singled out Tsuen Wan Government Primary School as one of the schools that needed to step up its efforts to develop national security education. “The school needs to expedite the development of various curricul...
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Four years on from the 2019 protests and unrest, Hong Kong was finally able to legally restrict the performance and distribution of the movement’s anthem Glory to Hong Kong – a move that its composer foresaw back in 2020. But why is the song controversial, and where did it come from? How did the government win at the appeals court? Was the song already illegal? And how did YouTube seek to comply with the legal ruling? HKFP examines how the government enacted the ban, and how a city – once a bulwark of free expression in Asia – came to insist that a song was a threat to China, the world’s secon...
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Google has blocked Hong Kong users from accessing pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong on YouTube following a court order. It comes days after Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said the government was “anxious” for the tech company’s response to the ruling. Last Wednesday, a court banned people from “broadcasting, performing, printing, publishing, selling, offering for sale, distributing, disseminating, displaying or reproducing” the song with seditious intent. The Court of Appeal sided with the government, overturning last year’s decision by a lower court rejecting the injunction that c...
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The defence should be allowed to call a witness to the stand for a second time “in the interests of justice,” the lawyer for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai has argued at the landmark national security trial. But his submission drew the ire of the three judges presiding over the case, who questioned the defence’s failure to ask the former CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company about messaging app evidence in the first place. The defence is seeking to ask Cheung Kim-hung about messages on Slack, a workplace messaging app that the paper’s staff used to discuss the newspaper’s editorial direction. The...
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Hong Kong authorities intend to increase the number of government-appointed members in a body that reviews social workers’ licenses, local media have reported. The potential move came after the city’s social welfare minister said changes were needed to “better protect national security,” saying that people who have “committed serious crimes” have been approved to become social workers. Authorities were planning to introduce legislation to restructure the Social Workers Registration Board, Ming Pao reported on Sunday. The 15-member board is tasked with regulating the city’s social workers. The ...
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A US law which authorises sanctions against mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials for perceived human rights violations could be “highly subjective,” the national security trial of Jimmy Lai has heard. The prosecution on Friday presented reports written by Wang Guiguo, the chair professor of Chinese and comparative law at the City University of Hong Kong. Wang was invited to give his views on US laws relating to Hong Kong that arose in the aftermath of the anti-extradition protests in 2019. During the unrest that year, activists had called on the US to enact legislation that would punish Ho...
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The leader of Hong Kong radical protest group “Dragon Slayers” – allegedly behind a thwarted bomb plot during the 2019 demonstrations – was the only one in his team that was insisting on killing police officers, a court has heard. Prosecution witness Wong Chun-keung continued to testify against his former team members at the High Court, where seven people are standing a jury trial under the city’s anti-terrorism act. Prosecutors accuse the group of planning to carry out a bomb attack to murder police officers during a legal rally in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019, when the city was at the height...
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A Hong Kong appeals court has sided with the government in its attempt to ban protest song Glory to Hong Kong, overturning last year’s decision by a lower court that cited free speech concerns. Three Court of Appeal judges handed down the judgement on Wednesday, writing that the injunction sought by the authorities was “necessary” to persuade online platforms to remove the “problematic videos.” Popularised during the 2019 protests and unrest, Glory to Hong Kong has been confused with China’s anthem March of the Volunteers at international sporting events – mix-ups that have prompted investigat...
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Canada will grant work permits to Hong Kong permanent residency applicants to allow them to stay in the country while they await a decision on their applications. “Due to a high volume of applications, processing times for this pathway have grown, and many applicants are at risk of seeing their temporary status in Canada expire before their permanent residence applications are finalized,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said in a Tuesday statement. The new policy, to be launched on May 27, will grant Hong Kong applicants a new open work permit, allowing them to extend their...
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The verdict for Hong Kong’s largest national security case is expected to be delivered at the end of May, more than three years after the 47 democrats who were charged were brought to court. The democrats were arrested in 2021 for organising the primaries in a bid to win a majority in the 2020 Legislative Council election. They were charged with conspiring to commit subversion, a crime under the Beijing-imposed national security law that could see them jailed for life. The defendants – among them ex-lawmakers and high-profile activists – were accused of planning to indiscriminately veto govern...
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