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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Three Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were arrested on Sunday, just before voting began in a "patriots only" district election that has marginalised formerly popular ...
The last batch of 45 Hong Kong activists entered their final pleas on Tuesday for light sentences in a landmark national security trial over charges that they had formed a "conspiracy to subvert ...
Anti-government protests and clashes with local authorities wracked Hong Kong on August 5, the day of a citywide strike.This footage show groups of demonstrators in two different districts of Hong ...
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. [22] [23]
At the beginning of the year, National Security Department of Hong Kong police arrested 55 people for initiating or participating in the internal election of the pro-democracy camp, accusing them of violating the national security law. On the day before, 47 of them were accused of subversion. [3] The 47 did not eat during the 14-hour trial period.
A dramatic manifestation of the far reach of the Hong Kong national security law was the mass arrest of 54 pro-democracy activists on 6 January. The arrested stood accused of subverting state power, a crime under the national security law, for their participation as candidates or in other capacities, in the 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries, which was part of a plan to increase pressure ...
The group known as the Hong Kong 47 include some of the city's biggest pro-democracy figures. They were charged in 2021 under a controversial national security law (NSL) imposed by China.
Verdicts in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date, involving some of the city's best-known pro-democracy activists, will be delivered as early as Thursday, more than three years ...