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Photojournalists stationed outside Hong Kong’s top court were made to stand across the road in police-approved areas on Monday, when the court heard an appeal from seven high-profile pro-democracy figures. Three media zones were set up early Monday morning outside of the Court of Final Appeal, when judges heard the appeal of seven prominent democrats against their conviction over knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 18, 2019, at the height of the protest and unrests. Of the seven, four are currently in detention. Albert Ho and Lee Cheuk-yan were taken to court in Correct...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong courts must ensure that a conviction is “proportionate” to the protection of fundamental rights, lawyers representing seven veteran democrats have argued at the city’s top court in an appeal against convictions linked to an unauthorised demonstration in 2019. The Court of Final Appeal (CFA) on Monday heard an appeal from prominent pro-democracy figures Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Jimmy Lai, Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and Cyd Ho, who were found guilty of organising and knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 18, 2019. On that day, organisers...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong police have apprehended a 62-year-old man over suspected “offences in connection with seditious intention,” marking the eighth arrest under the new security law in a case linked to jailed human rights activist Chow Hang-tung. Police made the arrest in Sha Tin on Monday, according to a statement, adding that the man had been held for investigation. National security police made their first arrests under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, more commonly known as Article 23, last Tuesday. Chow was among six people apprehended in connection with social media posts made on a Fac...
Hong Kong Free Press
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...
Hong Kong Free Press
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