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Cannes to screen Hong Kong protest documentary, risking controversy

Reuters
Posted at Jul 16 07:07 AM

HONG KONG/PARIS (Reuters) - The Cannes Film Festival will show a new documentary on Friday chronicling the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests and shining a light on protesters’ stories, in a surprise addition to the line-up for the cinema showcase. Read more »

Remembering China's Tiananmen Square crackdown

Isaac Lawrence, AFP
Posted at Jun 05 11:22 AM

A woman (L) holds a front page copy of a newspaper from after China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 in Hong Kong on Friday after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Read more »

Jailed HK tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 14 months for Oct. 1 illegal assembly

Jessie Pang and James Pomfret, Reuters
Posted at May 28 01:16 PM

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai was given a new prison sentence of 14 months on Friday over his role in an unauthorized assembly on Oct. 1, 2019, during one of the city's pro-democracy rallies that year. Read more »

Hong Kong leader flags 'fake news' laws as worries over media freedom grow

Sharon Tam, Reuters
Posted at May 04 07:19 PM

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the government was working on "fake news" legislation to tackle "misinformation, hatred and lies," as worries grow over media freedoms in the global financial hub. Read more »

Jimmy Lai among five Hong Kong democracy activists jailed

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 16 05:51 PM

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was jailed for 12 months on Friday along with four other veteran democracy activists for helping to lead one of the city's biggest-ever protests. Read more »

China reveals foreigner jailed for 11 years, mainland students arrested over Hong Kong protests

William Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 16 12:59 PM

Top law enforcement agency releases details of four national security cases involving mainland students. State television also gives more information on the case of a Chinese-born Belize businessman who was prosecuted a year ago. Read more »

Youngest Hong Kong protester sentenced for rioting

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 03 06:03 PM

A Hong Kong teenager became the youngest person so far to plead guilty to rioting during 2019's huge pro-democracy protests on Wednesday, as he admitted throwing a petrol bomb at police when aged just 14. Read more »

Veteran Hong Kong activists on trial over huge democracy rally

Su Xinqi, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 17 06:21 PM

Veteran Hong Kong activists flashed protest salutes and accused authorities of "political persecution" as they went on trial Tuesday for organizing one of the biggest democracy protests to engulf the city in 2019. Read more »

Hong Kong democracy activists appear in court over banned Tiananmen vigil

Jessie Pang, Reuters
Posted at Feb 05 06:49 PM

Twenty-four activists appeared in a Hong Kong court on Friday on charges related to a June 4 vigil last year marking the anniversary of China's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Read more »

5 Hong Kong democracy protesters seek asylum in the US

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 09:56 PM

Five Hong Kong democracy protesters who reportedly fled to Taiwan have arrived in the United States intending to seek asylum, an activist group said on Saturday. Read more »

Hong Kong national security police make 11 new arrests

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 05:07 PM

Hong Kong's national security police arrested 11 people in dawn raids on Thursday, including a veteran human rights lawyer, on suspicion of helping a group of activists make a failed bid to flee the city by speedboat. Read more »

Hong Kong opposition shudders as mass arrests herald 'a harsh winter'

Jerome Taylor and Yan Zhao, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 03:29 PM

The mass arrests of Hong Kong opposition figures under a new security law has demolished assurances only a "tiny majority" would be targeted, analysts say, as China shrugs off international censure to purge the city of dissent. Read more »

Joshua Wong joins Hong Kong dissidents arrested for 'subversion'

Jerome Taylor, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 06:18 PM

Jailed dissident Joshua Wong Thursday joined the ranks of Hong Kong democracy figures arrested under a new security law as the United States threatened fresh sanctions in response to Beijing's mounting crackdown in the finance hub. Read more »

Hong Kong student shot by police goes on the run ahead of trial

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 23 12:21 PM

A warrant was issued Tuesday after a court no-show for a Hong Kong student who was shot by police during last year's democracy protests, as an activist group claimed he had gone "into exile". Read more »

HK radio host arrested under nat'l security law, for money-laundering for protesters' study in Taiwan

Kathleen Magramo, South China Morning Post
Posted at Nov 22 08:16 AM

Wan Yiu-sing, from internet radio channel D100, was arrested with his wife at their home, according to the couple’s lawyer. His program discusses last year’s anti-government movement, with a crowdfunding page for donations to demonstrators. Read more »

Policing protests in Hong Kong

Kin Cheung, AP
Posted at Oct 01 07:06 PM

A pedestrian talks on his phone as he passes by policemen during the China National Day in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on Thursday.  Read more »

Hong Kong police swoop on postponed poll protests

Su Xinqi, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 06 09:53 PM

Nearly 100 people were arrested by Hong Kong police on Sunday as riot officers swooped on democracy protesters opposed to the postponement of local elections.   Read more »

Man suspected of stabbing Hong Kong officer arrested on flight

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 02 02:36 PM

HONG KONG - A man suspected of stabbing a Hong Kong police officer in the shoulder during a protest was arrested on board a flight that was about to take off for London, police said Thursday. Read more »

Hong Kong police fire water cannon at crowds protesting new security law

Scott Murdoch and Yanni Chow, Reuters
Posted at Jul 01 04:43 PM

Hong Kong police fired water cannon on Wednesday to break up the first protest since China introduced sweeping security legislation and they made their first arrests under it, warning of punishment for advocating secession or subversion. Read more »

Hong Kong police ban major security law protest

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 05:45 PM

Hong Kong police on Saturday banned a major demonstration against China's planned national security law for the city which critics fear would smother the financial hub's treasured freedoms, organisers said.  Read more »