Taipei, Taiwan – Closing arguments are due to begin in Hong Kong on Wednesday in the high-profile trial of 16 pro-democracy activists and legislators, more than 1,000 days after they were ...
More than two years have passed since pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were rounded up in the early hours of the morning. Police arrested teachers, lawyers, journalists and some lawmakers.
Pro- democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai allegedly tried to trigger mainland China 's political and economic collapse, a court ...
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's long-awaited trial over charges that he "colluded with foreign forces" has begun in Hong Kong. The 76-year-old, who has been in prison since December 2020 ...
HONG KONG--Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to an illegal assembly during mass anti-government protests in August 2019, while seven others ...
Forty-seven Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are being charged with subversion under the territory’s national security law. The offense carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Three key democracy activists were sentenced to jail yesterday. They had all pleaded guilty to charges stemming from their involvement in a 15-hour siege of the city’s police headquarters during ...
NGOs and bookshops are closing, media organisations are leaving and democracy activists are on trial “Ideas are bulletproof”. Three words, stamped out in multicolour tiles above a doorway ...
The city enacted tough new security legislation with little public outcry, partly because those who would have opposed it were either in jail or in exile. By Tiffany May Reporting from Hong Kong ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about international human rights and national security. When people think of Hong Kong, they don’t usually think of political ...
Sweden has launched the trial of a former Syrian army officer over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 during ...