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The Hong Kong White Collar (Administration and Clerical) Connect Union said the scope of unions is “not confined to the narrow definition of employment relationships.”
An independent Hong Kong trade union has defended its actions and comments made in opposition to the city’s national security (...)
“All the promises of 1997 will continue to be honoured and called by the same names as before. Except that there has now been, in Beijing’s view, a rectification of names. ” Suzanne Pepper writes.
The day after Hong Kong’s re-vamped Legislative Council election was held on December 19, the central (...)
• While some jobs and expats in law and banking are heading to Singapore, the city state is facing domestic demands to prioritise local workers
• Relocation firms have seen a marked rise in moves from Hong Kong to Singapore, with others heading to Britain, Australia and Canada
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On Tuesday, January 4, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that the Hong Kong authorities do “not seek to crackdown on press freedom.” HKFP rounds up media industry incidents since the onset of the national security law.
July 2020
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club issued an open letter to Chief (...)
Deputy assignment editor Ronson Chan – who also chairs the Hong Kong Journalists Association – and former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen were among those apprehended.
Over 200 national security police officers were deployed on Wednesday 29 to raid the offices of non-profit online news outlet (...)
Police have confiscated computers and taken away boxes of material from the Stand News offices, as features disappear from the website.
The head of a Hong Kong press group and editor at Stand News Ronson Chan has been released by police, hours after he was taken into police custody early on (...)
Assets totalling HK$61 million have been frozen by the authorities as the website disappears from the internet.
Stand News has said it is halting operations after seven years and removing all content, following a police raid and seven arrests on Wednesday 29. Meanwhile, assets totalling HK$61 (...)
Since Beijing’s national security law for Hong Kong came into force, at least 50 organisations — including unions, churches, media groups, and political parties — have disbanded this year alone. The trend accelerated in the second half of 2021, with bastions of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement (...)
• Members from such bodies say risks are too great, referencing fall of major unions accused by state media of foreign collusion or dabbling in politics, as well as the demise of Apple Daily
• For now, most have withdrawn to reflect, but observer says their disappearance does not guarantee (...)
« If the police endorses the non-violent struggle led by Gandhi, why should it not respect the right of the people of Hong Kong, » writes veteran democrat Lee Cheuk-yan in his mitigation.
Lee Cheuk-yan, former chairperson of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic (...)
“Your honour, the people of Hong Kong who took part needed no person or organisation to incite them,” an emotional Lee Cheuk-yan told the court. “If there was a provocateur, it is the regime that fired at its own people.”
Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil symbolised the “struggle of (...)
Since the Communist Party-imposed national security law became operational last year in Hong Kong, more than 100,000 people have left the city, activists continue to be jailed, some independent media organisations have folded, and the main liberal opposition groups, along with many free trade (...)
Amnesty pulls out of Hong Kong, marathon runners made to hide political attire, another student union folds, and lawmakers pass a film censorship, anti-doxxing and updated flag law - HKFP rounds up month 16 of the security law.
October began with a sea of red Chinese flags around Tsim Sha (...)
Amnesty International will close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of the year, the organization announced today.
The local ‘section’ office will cease operations on 31 October while the regional office – which is part of Amnesty’s global International Secretariat – is due to close by the (...)
Rights NGO Amnesty International says it will close its Hong Kong offices by the end of 2021, citing security law.
by Tom Grundy (Hong Kong Free Press-HKFP)
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/10/25/breaking-rights-ngo-amnesty-international-to-close-its-hong-kong-offices-citing-security-law/
Amnesty (...)
Protesters abroad burned flags, displayed pro-independence symbols and chanting the “liberate Hong Kong” slogan - acts that are all considered illegal in Hong Kong.
Self-exiled Hong Kong pro-democracy figures and overseas activist groups have waved pro-independence banners and set fire to (...)
Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) announced plans to break up in September, saying the national security law posed risks to the safety of members. Membership votes in favour of dissolving, closing the curtains on the confederation’s 31 years in operation.
HKCTU, Hong Kong’s biggest (...)
“Unfortunately, given the lack of foreseeable space for our organisation to continue our mission, we hereby announce the disbandment of Student Politicism,” the group wrote on Facebook.
A Hong Kong pro-democracy student group has announced its disbandment, citing no “foreseeable space” for (...)
Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, founded in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, riled Beijing by advocating an end to one-party rule.
The group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil has decided to disband after 32 years following a vote (...)
In June, authorities announced all films would now be scrutinised for « national security » breaches. Filmmaker Mok Kwan-ling was the first known to have fallen foul of these rules.
Once renowned for world-class cinema, Hong Kong’s film industry was already struggling before the latest hurdle — (...)
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