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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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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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A strange, indeed barely believable, controversy has erupted over a question which appears hardly disputable: whether Hong Kong still enjoys the degree of press freedom that it did before 2020. “Nothing has changed” is the official line pushed by government spokesmen in Beijing, echoed by local Grenville Cross in newspaper pieces. For the opposite view we have Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiéres or RSF if you are subject to Quebec Province language laws) who are the compilers and curators of the relevant international league table, the World Press Freedom Index. The message of...
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It is a commonplace political observation that carelessly passed legislation often has unintended – and maybe ridiculous – effects. Our newly minted local legislators seem to have neglected this important warning. We are all, these days, eager to secure national security. However, attempts to achieve this by jailing those convicted of national security offences for long periods have reached a curious position. Readers will recall that – under the national security law bestowed on us by Beijing – national security offences come, like Pacific Coffee, in three sizes: small, medium and large. Thos...
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In the 46th month since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, the city held a raft of events to mark National Security Education Day. China’s top man on Hong Kong affairs urged it to prioritise economic development after the passage of a second security law. City officials continued to defend the homegrown security law – known locally as Article 23 – saying it did not damage the city’s rule of law and press freedom. They rebutted criticism from the US and European Union as “smears” and “hypocrisy with double standards.” The national security trial of pro-democracy media mogul J...
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Hong Kong has again ranked low in a global press freedom index, as a watchdog cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures and journalist arrests under Beijing’s national security law. The city placed 135 out of 180 countries and territories in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s annual press freedom ranking, released on Friday to mark World Press Freedom Day. Sandwiched between the Philippines and South Sudan in the ranking, Hong Kong continued to be among the few developed places to place poorly. Its press freedom ranking rose five places from last year’s 140. Bu...
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Hong Kong’s new, homegrown security law does not undermine press freedom, the city’s justice secretary has stated, amid concern that legislation against external interference and theft of state secrets may affect reporting. In an opinion piece published in Ming Pao on Monday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said Article 23 would not have any “unreasonable restrictions” on the work of the media. Criticism against the government was allowed “no matter how sharp or severe,” he added. “As long as the media industry adheres to the professional principles of truth-seeking, fairness, objectivity, impa...
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