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Former members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Nathan Law, Ted Hui and Baggio Leung, as well as democrats/indigenous figures Sunny Cheung, Ray Wong, Brian Leung, Glacier Kwong and Alex Chow, held an online press conference and decided to jointly launch the 2021 Hong Kong Charter, in hope to unite the convictions of the separated Hong Kong ...
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 ...
Few protests took place in June 2021 and there were no large-scale demonstrations in threat of the national security law.The anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre on 4 June saw only small crowds or single individuals engaging in vigils in the vicinity of Victoria Park – the venue of large vigils on the same occasion in past years – before police dispersed them.
Hong Kong's top court on Monday upheld the convictions of seven of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists over their roles in one of the biggest anti-government protests in 2019. Jimmy ...
On 22 February 2021, Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, proposed that Hong Kong's governance had to be in the hands of "patriots".Observers considered it possible that the definition of "patriot" would require candidates for public office to embrace the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, as also suggested by Hong Kong Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland ...
The 2021 Hong Kong electoral changes had made blank voting appear as a possible form of protest. Legal scholar Johannes Chan from the University of Hong Kong pointed to legal difficulties in banning voters from casting blank ballots.
The Hong Kong Alliance, which had disbanded in September, and its liquidators received a letter dated 7 October from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) which requested the removal of the Pillar of Shame from campus by 13 October. The letter stated that the university would consider the statue abandoned and subject to action by the university "in ...
The survey also shows that more than 40% of people are pessimistic about Hong Kong's future competitiveness. 58% of the respondents did not intend to leave Hong Kong, 77% of the interviewed members believed that the quality of life in Hong Kong was good, and 48% of the respondents believed that Hong Kong was close to the mainland market. [34]