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Joshua Wong Chi-fung (Chinese: 黃之鋒; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Jīfūng; born 13 October 1996) [1] is a Hong Kong activist and politician. He served as secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosisto until it disbanded following the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020. Wong was previously convenor and ...
Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong were convicted of sedition Thursday, in a verdict that could have profound implications for press freedom in the Chinese territory.
A Hong Kong court is due to sentence two former editors on Thursday who have been found guilty of sedition after publishing articles about the national security crackdown in the city under China ...
The Stand News trial, which began in 2022, was Hong Kong’s first against journalists under a colonial-era law that made sedition, defined as inciting hatred or contempt against the Chinese ...
The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also known as the Greater Chinese Democratic Jasmine Revolution, [2] refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia; [3] [4] the actions that took place at protest sites, and the response by the Chinese government to the calls and action.
On the day of the anniversary, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed a bill to outlaw the insulting of the Chinese national anthem, where those convicted of intentionally abusing it could face up to three years in prison and a fine of HK$50,000 ($6,450). The bill was supported by 41 lawmakers, all from pro-Beijing factions, and just one ...
Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest media entities and remains one of the world's largest film industries. [1] The loose regulation over the establishment of a newspaper makes Hong Kong home to many international media such as the Asian Wall Street Journal and Far Eastern Economic Review, and publications with anti-Communist backgrounds such as The Epoch Times (which is funded by Falun ...
A Hong Kong court found 14 people guilty of subversion on May 30 at the start of a verdict hearing in the city's biggest case against the pro-democracy bloc since China imposed a national security ...