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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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Hong Kong’s Catholic Diocese has axed a vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown for a third consecutive year. The Hong Kong Catholic Social Communication Office told HKFP it had instead held a service to pray for the Catholic church in China, and the country itself, more than a week ago. Separately, Cardinal Stephen Chow last Thursday wrote a prayer published in the Sunday Examiner and the Kung Kau Po, weekly newspapers owned and operated by the city’s Diocese, calling for “forgiveness” days ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The 1989 crackdown ended ...
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The national security trial of Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been adjourned after his legal team told the court he felt unwell. Lai, 76, who founded now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, has been detained since December 2020. He has pleaded not guilty to two charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law – punishable by life imprisonment – and one count of conspiring to publish seditious materials. Lai appeared in court on Monday, the 87th day of the trial, where his lawyer Robert Pang told the court that Lai was feeling unw...
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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...
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China’s national security agency in Hong Kong has hit back at foreign governments’ condemnation of a court’s decision to convict 14 democrats under a Beijing-imposed national security law. The Office for Safeguarding National Security (OSNS) on Sunday issued a statement slamming the US and other governments, days after a panel of three High Court judges found 14 democrats guilty of taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion. They now join 31 former lawmakers and activists who earlier pleaded guilty to that charge in awaiting sentencing. Two of the 47 democrats – barrister Lawrence Lau an...
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The Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the city’s redevelopment body, has announced a series of free “citywalk” tours in Central and Sheung Wan to showcase Hong Kong’s history and vibrance. The body will hold 40 guided tours in October catering to over 500 local residents or tourists, URA’s managing director Wai Chi-sing said on Sunday. These tours will highlight the URA’s redevelopment projects as well as historic spots, shops and street art in Central and Sheung Wan, Wai said. The tours will feature the three themes – history and architecture; food and community; and art and culture. The URA wil...
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HKFP photojournalist Kyle Lam has won a Hong Kong Press Photographers Association prize for his shot of a refuse collection point in Kwai Chung, where cleaners had displayed art retrieved from bins. See also: Cleaners’ art collection transforms Hong Kong refuse point into gallery Lam’s shot won the top prize in the “Focus at the Frontline 2023” category on Saturday. The paintings – which were collected by cleaners over several years – were taken down and thrown away per the Housing Department’s request last March. The department was worried that too many people would visit the spot and obstruc...
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More than three years after they were arrested, 16 democrats who pleaded not guilty in a landmark national security case finally heard their verdicts from Hong Kong’s High Court. They are among 47 defendants in the case, of whom 31 pleaded guilty. Most of the 47 have been held in custody since February 28, 2021. The court separately announced that another national security case concerning the disbanded Tiananmen vigil group would not begin this year. Meanwhile, Chow Hang-tung, a defendant in the case, become one of seven people arrested under the city’s new security law. Hong Kong 47: 14 convi...
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Eight people have been convicted of rioting in Yau Ma Tei in 2019, a verdict that marks the last one for riot trials linked to protests sparked by a university campus siege. A total of 11 defendants appeared at District Court on Friday after their trial in October. They had pleaded not guilty to rioting in the vicinity of Nathan Road and Gascoigne Road in Yau Ma Tei on November 18, 2019, as clashes broke out at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in nearby Hung Hom. Wong Chun-yuen, Cheung Kin-sum and Ovin Cheung were found not guilty by judge Peony Wong, InMedia reported. The remaining eight ...
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By Xinqi SU Hong Kong (AFP) - La plupart sont en exil ou en prison. Mais une poignée de militants pro-démocratie, comme Chan Po-ying, tentent encore de faire entendre une petite "voix" discordante à Hong Kong malgré le renforcement continu de la répression. Jeudi, en marge d'une audience qui a déclaré 14 militants coupables de "subversion" pour leur rôle dans la contestation de 2019 qui a ébranlé le territoire rétrocédé par Londres à la Chine en 1997, elle et une poignée de manifestants ont osé se rassembler devant le tribunal. "Hong Kong devrait rester un endroit où l'on a la liberté de parol...
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