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Hong Kong has been downgraded to a “watch list” over its response to human trafficking, with the US government saying that security laws enacted in the city in 2020 and in March had restricted the ability of NGOs to engage with officials to combat trafficking. The “2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Hong Kong,” which was released by the US Department of State on Monday, prompted swift objections from the city’s government in a lengthy statement issued in the early hours of Tuesday. “We vehemently oppose and firmly reject the unfounded and false remarks in the Report against the situation in H...
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A 29-year-old man has been charged with three counts of sedition under Hong Kong’s new security law over graffiti left on the back of bus seats. The man was arrested in Tseung Kwan O by police officers from the national security department on Sunday for “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention,” according to a police statement on Tuesday. He also faces two counts of “destroying or damaging property.” Police said he was suspected of “writing words with seditious intention on multiple occasions on the back of bus seats on different public buses in March and...
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A Hong Kong protester convicted of inciting secession has filed the city’s first legal challenge against a new security law that saw his scheduled early release from prison axed on national security grounds. Ma Chun-man, who is serving a five-year sentence in jail, claimed the Commissioner of Correctional Services’ decision to revoke his early release was retrospective and a violation of his rights and of procedural fairness. He asked the High Court to order his immediate release. The commissioner’s decision came days after the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, known locally as Article...
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Political reform to realise direct election is not a priority for Hong Kong, Chief Executive John Lee has said as he prepares to mark his second anniversary in office. Lee was asked whether he planned to deal with political reform over the next three years of his term as leader during a weekly press briefing on Tuesday. Before assuming the role on July 1, 2022, Lee said that May he would prioritise tackling housing issues and push forward the legislation of Article 23 – the city’s homegrown security law – during his tenure as chief executive. He added then that political reform was not his pri...
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A man has been charged under Hong Kong’s new security legislation over the publication of “seditious” statements on social media. Au Kin-wai, 58, did not apply for bail and was taken into custody after he appeared before Magistrate Don So at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday morning. The social media posts allegedly involved the words “Revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified,” a slogan dating back to China’s Cultural Revolution, the court heard. Au, who faces one count of “knowingly publishing publications that had a seditious intention,” was not required to enter a plea. So...
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A government taskforce behind the fast-tracked legislation of Hong Kong’s homegrown security law will receive an award for completing the “historical mission,” Chief Executive John Lee has said. Hong Kong passed the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, known locally as Article 23, in March, weeks after it was introduced to the public with a one-month consultation period. During a regular press briefing on Tuesday, Lee said the special taskforce behind the legislation, which consisted of the Department of Justice, the Security Bureau, and the police, would be awarded for their “heroic work...
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A Hong Kong man was denied bail under the city’s new domestic security law after he allegedly wore a t-shirt with a banned protest slogan and a yellow mask. Defendant Chu Kai-pong, 27, was brought to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday to face one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention.” He was also charged with failing to show his proof of identity to the police and loitering with intent. Hatred and contemptAccording to the charge sheet, Chu was intercepted by the police on Wednesday near Shek Mun MTR station. He was said to have wo...
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The government has not violated a UN human rights treaty that protects people’s freedom of movement by cancelling the passports of six UK-based Hong Kong activists, the city’s security chief has said. Security for Security Chris Tang on Wednesday defended the authorities’ move to axe the passports of Nathan Law, Christopher Mung, Finn Lau, Simon Cheng, Johnny Fok and Tony Choi. The six are wanted by authorities under the national security law. He said UK politicians had been “slandering” the Hong Kong government since the national security law was enacted, and that the UK had been offering pro...
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Beijing’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong has expressed “strong opposition” to what it saw as “political theatrics” from foreign consulates on the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Consulates representing the US, UK and the European Union put on “shoddy political theatrics” at their offices in an attempt to “create division, incite conflicts and maliciously vilify the image of China,” the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said in a statement on Tuesday night. Tuesday marked 35 years since the Tiananmen crackdown occurred on June 4, 1989, which ...
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A former Hong Kong pro-democracy district councillor has said that she was asked by police about her plans on June 4, which will mark the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing. Meanwhile, a top government advisor has said commemorating the incident in private would not constitute an offence under the city’s domestic security law. According to ex-Sai Kung district councillor and frequent runner Debby Chan, a police officer called her last week and asked if she was “going to run on June 4.” The officer was also said to have asked for details about any plans to go for a run ...
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