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KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO. May 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM. HONG KONG (AP) — Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that ...
KANIS LEUNG. May 29, 2024 at 5:53 AM. HONG KONG (AP) — Verdicts in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date, involving some of the city's best-known pro-democracy activists, will be ...
KANIS LEUNG. May 8, 2024 at 9:23 PM. HONG KONG (AP) — An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government's request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and ...
the right to institute legal proceedings in the courts against the acts of the executive authorities and their personnel; the right to social welfare in accordance with law; freedom of marriage and the right to raise a family freely; and. other rights and freedoms safeguarded by the laws of Hong Kong SAR.
The 2021 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was a general election held on 19 December 2021 for the 7th Legislative Council of Hong Kong. [2] Under the drastic Beijing-imposed electoral overhaul, the total number of seats was increased from 70 to 90 seats, with the directly elected geographical constituencies (GCs) reduced from 35 to 20 ...
The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government 's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's High Court is set hand down a verdict this week against 16 democrats in a landmark subversion trial that critics say could have major repercussions for the city's opposition democratic ...
Human Rights Watch was co-founded by Robert L. Bernstein, [8] Jeri Laber, and Aryeh Neier [9] as a private American NGO in 1978, under the name Helsinki Watch, to monitor the then- Soviet Union 's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. [10] Helsinki Watch adopted a practice of publicly "naming and shaming" abusive governments through media ...