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Hong Kong law was being “weaponised” against the city’s democracy movement, and British lawyers and judges should not sit on cases in the city, the director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has said. The Judiciary, in response, has said judges “decide cases impartially and independently.” The statement came on the eve of UK judge David Neuberger quitting the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, which advises the Media Freedom Coalition, an NGO that advocates for press freedom at the state level. IBAHRI is secretariat for the High Level Panel...
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The mood of Hongkongers born in mainland China has consistently been better than those born in the city, a survey has found. The Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) released the results of its latest public sentiment index on Tuesday. The poll, which has been conducted since 1992, aims to quantify Hongkongers’ sentiments in relation to livelihood issues, their satisfaction with the government and other topics. Figures from the institute showed that, in the first half of the year, the public sentiment of those born in the city stood at 100.6, while the index stood at 130.5 for th...
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The Hong Kong government has expressed its endorsement of a top court decision which rejected a bid by prominent democrats to overturn their convictions for knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 18, 2019. After the Court of Final Appeal handed down its judgement on Monday, a government spokesperson said later that evening that it welcomed the apex court decision and maintained that Hong Kong citizens have the right to “peaceful assembly and procession conducted in accordance with the law.” “That said, these rights must be exercised in conformity with the relevant legislat...
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A 20-year-old Hong Kong man has been jailed for eight weeks over his involvement in an unlawful demonstration at a shopping mall in June 2020. Student Isaac Lee was put behind bars by Magistrate Edward Wong on Monday, after pleading guilty last month to taking part in an unlawful assembly in Kwun Tong’s apm mall on June 30, 2020, hours before the Beijing-imposed national security law came into force, local media reported. On that day, around 100 people gathered in the shopping centre for a “sing with you” demonstration, a form of protest popularised in the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement. ...
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Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Jimmy Lai, Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and Cyd Ho have lost an appeal to overturn their convictions for knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 18, 2019. The Court of Final Appeal delivered its verdict on Monday, after hearing the appeal in June. A panel of judges unanimously rejected the democrats’ argument that their conviction was disproportionate to the protection of their basic human rights. “The defendants’ proposition is unsustainable. It is contrary to all established princi...
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Foreign visitors to Hong Kong’s new national security exhibition have said it tells a different story about the events of 2019 compared to Western media by describing the pro-democracy protests and unrest as a “colour revolution.” The National Security Exhibition Gallery opened to the public for free on Wednesday as a permanent exhibition at the Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui. Chief Executive John Lee told the opening ceremony that safeguarding national security was “always a work in progress” and the gallery would promote security awareness among residents. But many visitors to the galler...
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Hong Kong’s first national security convict Tong Ying-kit has said he was “misled” by “fake news” and disinformation when he drove a motorcycle with a protest flag into three police officers in July 2020. Tong, who was jailed for nine years in 2021 for inciting secession and terrorist activities, on Thursday attended the first graduation ceremony of the Ethics College managed by the Correctional Services Department (CSD). He helped hoist a Chinese national flag at the event. Tong was among 60 male inmates and 15 female prisoners who completed a Diploma of Applied Education programme at the eth...
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A Hongkonger charged with sedition under a new security law over wearing a T-shirt that bore a protest slogan has said he intends to plead guilty. Chu Kai-pong, 27, appeared in front of Chief Magistrate Victor So at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday. He faces one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention,” under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, known locally as Article 23. Chu’s barrister Steven Kwan said Chu intended to plead guilty to the sedition offence, and asked the court to adjourn the case to September 16, when Chu...
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An elderly busker has been sentenced to two weeks in jail over unlicensed public performances of the protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong. Li Jiexin’s conviction on Tuesday marked the second time he had been sentenced to jail over unlicensed performances, both involving the protest song popularised at the height of pro-democracy protests in 2019. Judge Ivy Chui at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday sentenced Li to 18 days in prison after the septuagenarian pleaded guilty to eight counts of performing a musical instrument and raising funds without a permit, local media reported. Li or...
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A Hong Kong man charged over anonymous comments posted in an online forum following an attempted murder-suicide against a policeman did not intend to incite people to wound officers, a court has heard. Yung Cheong-ming, who last August pleaded not guilty to the incitement charge, appeared before Deputy District Judge Amy Chan at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Monday. Yung’s charge of inciting others to wound with intent related to an incident on July 1, 2021, when a man stabbed a police officer before taking his own life, on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to mainland China. T...
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