On Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement over the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Legislative Council s decision to adopt electoral reform, in which he claimed the bill "severely constrains people in Hong Kong from meaningfully participating in their own governance".
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Hong Kong democracy campaigner Figo Chan (陳皓桓) yesterday wore an <i>Avengers</i> hoodie into court for his jail sentence in a nod to his love of the comic series and its tale of heroic redemption. Prison will make him a “better man,” he said.
Chan, 25, was one of eight activists jailed for taking part in 2019’s pro-democracy protests, the latest in a long line of democracy figures behind bars.
It was a prospect Chan was sanguine about.
“It’s better for me to be jailed when I am still young,” he said ahead of his sentencing.
“I can do sports and train my muscles. Isn’t
Hong Kong Secretary for Security John Lee (李家超) this month sent letters to media tycoon Jimmy Lai (黎智英) and branches of HSBC and Citibank threatening up to seven years in jail for any dealings with the billionaire’s accounts in the territory, documents showed.
The letters, signed by Lee, were sent to Lai after Hong Kong authorities announced the freezing of his majority stake in publisher Next Digital and local accounts of three companies owned by him under Hong Kong’s National Security Law.
One of Lai’s financial advisers said that while the amount of funds in the accounts was relatively small, they represented