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Frances Hui is policy and advocacy coordinator for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. / Credit: "EWTN News Nightly"/ScreenshotCNA Staff, May 31, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Fourteen pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been convicted of subversion while billionaire Catholic convert Jimmy Lai, 76, remains imprisoned and on trial on similar charges.The 14 were among 47 activists charged with conspiracy to commit subversion through an unofficial primary election in 2020 under a national security law passed by China following anti-government protests that year. It is the s...

The U.S. has denounced Hong Kong’s new national security law as a tool to potentially silence dissent both at home and abroad, but so far the action from Washington has been notably muted

The U.S. has denounced Hong Kong’s new national security law as a tool to potentially silence dissent both at home and abroad, but so far the action from Washington has been notably muted, disappointing those fighting for the Chinese territory's democracy and freedoms. Since the law’s swift passage on March 19, the U.S. has announced visa restrictions on an unspecified number of unnamed Hong Kong officials but taken no further action. While the new law, known as Article 23, now expands the Hong Kong government’s powers to go after those it accuses of spying and to t...

  FILE – President Joe Biden, left, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Woodside, Calif., Nov. 15, 2023. The United States views Hong Kong's new national security law as a tool to potentially silence the dissent both at home and abroad, but has reacted cautiously so far, a disappointment to those fighting for democracy and […]

The U.S. denounced Hong Kong's new national security law as a way to suppress dissent, but has taken little action in response as the U.S.-China relationship is rocky.