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Hong Kong has made its 100th arrest under the National Security Law imposed on the former British colony by China last year, while dozens of democracy advocates yesterday returned to court for a mass bail hearing before their trial on subversion charges. Former Next Digital executive director Stephen Ting (丁家裕) was detained on fraud allegations, the <i>Oriental Daily</i> newspaper reported, citing people it did not identify. Police issued a statement late on Tuesday confirming the arrest of a 61-year-old man “after in-depth investigation by national security department.”...

5 February 2021, 18:19 UTC Responding to Hong Kong’s Education Bureau (EDB) announcing its new guidelines and curriculum in relation to safeguarding national security, Amnesty international Hong Kong’s Programme Manager Lam Cho Ming said: “The new measures on school management and national security education, including the establishment of taskforces to monitor student behaviour and activities, would significantly curb freedom of expression on campus in Hong Kong. “Banning expression of political opinion on campus is not a national security issue; it is a sweeping restriction and a bl...

Diplomats denied courtroom access The passengers feared they would be prosecuted for their activism in support of democratic opposition in Hong Kong under new national security laws. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has dismissed calls from the US Embassy for the 12 to be released as interference in China’s “judicial sovereignty.” The US Embassy said it had requested permission to observe the hearing, but that the request was denied. “Their so-called ‘crime’ was to flee tyranny,” the embassy statement said. “Communist China will stop at nothing to prevent its people from seeking f...

The trials of 10 people from Hong Kong detained at sea while allegedly en route to Taiwan got underway in mainland China, a court official said on Monday, as campaigners urged fair hearings and the United States called for the group’s “immediate release”. The defendants are part of a group of 12 who were intercepted by the Chinese coastguard on August 23 and have been held virtually incommunicado in a mainland prison since. They face charges of illegal border crossing and organising an illicit border crossing, which could carry a sentence of up to seven years in jail. Their case has att...

China Trial Of 'Hong Kong 12' Begins As US Decries 'Tyranny' By Beiyi Seow, with Su Xinqi in Hong Kong 12/28/20 AT 9:36 AM A group of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who tried to escape the city by speedboat for sanctuary in Taiwan went on trial in China on Monday as the United States urged the immediate release of dissidents it says "fled tyranny". Ten of the so-called "Hong Kong 12" were in court in the southern city of Shenzhen to face charges linked to an illegal border crossing. Chinese authorities took them into custody after their boat was intercepted on August 23. The hearing be...