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A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four years and seven months in jail over rioting and wounding others during the Yuen Long mob attack at the height of the 2019 protests and unrest. Tang Siu-hung, a 42-year-old driver, was prosecuted last July along with three others, four years after an incident on the night of July 21, 2019, when dozens of men wearing white shirts attacked commuters in Yuen Long MTR station after protests on Hong Kong Island. Tang pleaded guilty to rioting and conspiracy to wound with intent. During sentencing on Thursday, district court judge Daniel Tang said that the d...
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Hong Kong’s leading press group can mount a legal challenge to the Transport Department’s new policy restricting media access to vehicle ownership records, a High Court judge has ruled. Judge Russell Coleman handed down his judgement on Wednesday, approving the application by the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) for a judicial review of the policy. The two sides should within 14 days agree a date for the hearing, which should take place no later than July 8. The HKJA applied for a judicial review on April 5, three months after the government revised policies governing access to the reg...
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Hong Kong police have arrested a woman on suspicion of sharing test papers from the city’s university entrance examination online. The documents were leaked on Chinese social networking site Xiaohongshu, local media reported. A 23-year-old woman surnamed Lau was detained on Wednesday for allegedly breaching the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority Ordinance, police said in a statement on Thursday. She was granted bail pending investigation and must report to the force in mid-May. The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) said it filed a police report on Tuesday fol...
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Jimmy Lai had mentioned in late November 2019 the idea of conducting a primary poll to “continue the momentum” of the pro-democracy camp in a legislative race originally scheduled for 2020, an activist has told the media tycoon’s landmark national security trial. The Apple Daily founder said organising a primary election could unite the votes of pro-democracy electors and secure the legislative seats of the democrats, paralegal Chan Tsz-wah testified in court on Wednesday. Chan has pleaded guilty to with conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces. According to Chan, Lai made...
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A Hong Kong court has refused three activists’ applications to challenge their convictions over refusing to comply with a data request from national security police at the city’s top court. Chow Hang-tung, a human rights lawyer and the former vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, the group that once organised the city’s annual candlelight vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, represented herself in court on Wednesday. Chow appeared before High Court Judge Anna Lai along with former Alliance members Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong ...
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A team established to rebut criticism of Hong Kong’s new security law will continue to operate, the government has said, citing continued “misinformation and slanders from time to time.” In a written response to questions raised by pro-Beijing lawmaker Starry Lee, the Security Bureau said there remained a “need for the continued operation of the ‘Response and RebuttalTeam’.” Authorities announced on January 25 that a special team would be set up to respond and rebut “smears” against new security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law, days before they launched a one-month public consult...
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai wanted to “lead” protesters in 2019 amid concerns that the violent actions of “radicals” would threaten the movement’s international support, an activist has testified during the Apple Daily founder’s national security trial. Paralegal Chan Tsz-wah, who stands accused alongside Lai and is now testifying against him, said on Tuesday that the media mogul hoped to set up a leadership group to re-orient radical protesters in 2019. Lai hoped to establish peaceful, non-violent actions as the primary mode of protest after a man who expressed pro-establishment views was...
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A Hong Kong court has rejected media mogul Jimmy Lai’s challenge against a national security committee’s decision to bar a British lawyer from taking part in his ongoing security trial. Three Court of Appeal judges on Tuesday refused to grant permission for Lai to appeal against the decision of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security. The committee was empowered to make a decision barring the mogul’s lawyer, King’s Counsel Timothy Owen, from representing him at his national security trial, after Beijing issued its first-ever interpretation of the security law at Hong Kong’s request. T...
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A routine UK government report on Hong Kong that described the city as being on a “negative trajectory” has been met with condemnation from authorities over what they called “wanton slander and political attacks.” The latest six-monthly report, published on Monday, details political, judicial and constitutional developments in Hong Kong from July through December 2023. According to the UK government, the reports reflect a “commitment to the faithful implementation of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration,” a treaty between the UK and China that guaranteed Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy ...
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A Hong Kong man who tried to flee to Taiwan while facing a charge linked to the 2019 protests has been jailed for three years and 10 months, after he pleaded guilty to a petrol bomb plot and perverting the course of justice. District Judge Ernest Lin put defendant Tang Kai-yin behind bars on Tuesday, almost eight months after the 34-year-old finished serving a three-year sentence in mainland China, local media reported. He was among 12 Hongkongers intercepted by Chinese coastguards in August 2020, when they attempted to escape to Taiwan on a speedboat. Most on board were on bail pending trial ...
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