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Portuguese national sentenced to 5 years in Hong Kong prison under security law over ‘demonising China’
A Portuguese national has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to incite secession under the Beijing-imposed national security law, after a judge ruled that he had “demonised China” in social media posts which advocated independence for the city. District Court Judge Ernest Lin said Joseph John, also known as Wong Kin-chung, had…
Portuguese national set to plead guilty to conspiring to incite secession under security law
A Portuguese national has indicated he intends to plead guilty to conspiring to incite secession under the Beijing-imposed national security law after being remanded in custody for over a year. Joseph John, also known as Wong Kin-chung, appeared in front of District Judge Ernest Lin on Thursday, when his lawyer said that the 41-year-old would…
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
‘We just really f***ing love Hong Kong’: Can you criminalise us?
If the Chinese government was really stupid enough to believe that the new national security laws could silence Hongkongers, I guess they were disappointed. The new laws conveniently took effect on the 23rd anniversary of China’s takeover of Hong Kong. Yet despite a historic police ban of the 17-year tradition, on the very first day…
Another Hong Kong uprising: defying the sovereign, or a simple demand for local standards of justice?
The contrast in perspectives was striking. Hong Kong’s sudden massive resistance to a local law with national implications made international headlines. An unprecedented number of people… between one and two million… turned out on successive Sundays in June and another half-million repeated the exercise on July First, the anniversary of Hong Kong’s 1997 transfer from…
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Exclusive: Wanted by Beijing, activist in-exile Wayne Chan says he won’t stop fighting for Hong Kong independence
Days after he learned he was wanted by police on suspicion of violating the national security law, exiled pro-independence activist Wayne Chan told HKFP that he chose to leave Hong Kong so that he could continue to say things that are banned. Chan – now in the UK – fled Hong Kong in early June…
How a student’s column in a US college newspaper sparked a fiery debate over ‘Hongkonger identity’
A column entitled “I am from Hong Kong, not China” written for an American college newspaper has sparked a campus-wide debate over what it means to be Chinese. Frances Hui, a journalism student at Boston’s Emerson College, wrote last Monday’s opinion column for her school’s newspaper the Berkeley Beacon. After summarising Hong Kong’s history and recent politics,…
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