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HONG KONG PROTESTS

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 3, 2023
Hong Kong police issue arrest warrants for eight overseas activists
Issuing wanted notices and rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($127,656) each, police said the assets of the accused would be frozen where possible.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 26, 2023
Hong Kong police keep tight tabs on first authorized protest in years
Hong Kong police permitted a small protest march in one of the first demonstrations to be approved since the enactment of a sweeping national security law in 2020.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2022
Beijing laws are the barrier to improving Hong Kong’s human rights image
To improve Hong Kong's deteriorating image, the starting point is at home, not overseas
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2022
Hong Kong is unrecognizable after two years under new security law
The landscape for free expression in Hong Kong after Beijing enacted the National Security Law has become increasingly desolate, and conditions are set to worsen.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 17, 2021
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists are running out of options
Most of the groups advocating for meaningful elections and freedom of expression have disbanded. China's crackdown 'exceeded the threshold of what we can bear.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2021
Hong Kong jails activist for over three years in latest secession case
The latest sentence will add to concerns that the security law imposed by Beijing in June 2020 is being used to crack down on political opposition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 25, 2021
Free speech or secession? 'Liberate Hong Kong' at heart of landmark case
Activists say a ruling to outlaw the slogan will tighten limits on free speech.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 29, 2021
In a scarred Hong Kong, 'beautiful things are gone'
People who want a democratic future are regrouping behind an invisible front line: The memory of what happened in 2019.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 12, 2021
Beijing official says 'real enemies' want Hong Kong to be 'pawn in geopolitics'
Luo Huining, director of China's Hong Kong Liaison Office, said the financial hub remained one of the world's most competitive economies.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 9, 2021
How China is tightening its grip on Hong Kong’s media scene
The moves by the city's Beijing-appointed government have raised more questions about Hong Kong's viability as a financial hub.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 28, 2021
Hong Kong court hands Jimmy Lai another jail term for protests
Lai is among the besieged members of the pro-democracy movement that Hong Kong has been imprisoning or detaining while they await trial as Beijing tightens its hold over the city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 28, 2021
Hong Kong has a new type of prisoner: Pro-democracy activists
With fraught political future and the threat of another arrest, the arrested protesters are emblematic of the uncertainties facing the city's stricken democracy movement.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
May 20, 2021
Hong Kong court denies jury trial to first person charged under national security law
The landmark decision marks a departure from the global financial hub's common law traditions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 15, 2021
More than 40% of Hong Kong expats may leave, survey shows
Singapore figured among the most popular potential destinations, while some mentioned Tokyo, Taipei and Thailand as alternatives, the lobby group said in a report.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
May 6, 2021
Joshua Wong’s Hong Kong prison sentence keeps getting longer
Wong and thousands of others held a vigil on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, defying an unprecedented ban on the event.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 22, 2021
Hong Kong activists retreat as China-style justice comes to their city
On March 23, a Hong Kong High Court judge denied former Democratic Party lawmaker Andrew Wan’s bail appeal and sent him back to Lai Chi Kok prison.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2021
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 14 months in prison for unauthorized assembly
Lai was found guilty in two separate trials for unauthorized assemblies on Aug. 18 and Aug. 31 2019, respectively.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2021
Hong Kong schools devote a day to China’s national security
The shift to a forceful inculcation of national security issues, even among young children, comes as Beijing increases its control over almost all sectors and institutions in Hong Kong.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2021
'Tankie man': Pro-democracy Hong Kongers stand up to Western communists
The people who've been dubbed “tankies” often identify as Marxist-Leninists and are fiercely against U.S. interference in foreign politics, especially in countries that are socialist.

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