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Hongkongers have deleted their social media accounts and scrubbed online traces of political content as Beijing passed sweeping national security legislation for the city on Tuesday 30.
The unprecedented law, which targets secession, subversion, foreign interference and terrorism, came into (...)
On 15 June 2020, Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), and fourteen other pro-democracy leaders and activists appeared in court, charged with participating and organising illegal assemblies demanding the withdrawal of the extradition bill and (...)
On June 30, China’s top legislature enacted Hong Kong’s national security law. Its text was revealed to the public late at night – only in Chinese. First announced in May, the unprecedented criminal legislation was drafted in Beijing, rapidly tabled behind closed doors, and bypassed any local (...)
Officers told at late-night police briefing they can immediately arrest anyone calling for city’s split from China in public. Even carrying an item advocating change could lead to arrest if found during a stop and search.
Hong Kong police have been told they can immediately arrest anyone (...)
In an act of retribution to the Hong Kong movement beginning last year, which has seen prolonged street clashes between the police and protestors, China has decided to unilaterally impose new national security laws to Hong Kong.
These laws severely circumvent the city’s existing autonomy, (...)
Demosisto folds as co-founder Joshua Wong announces decision to leave party along with several associates Hong Kong National Front and Studentlocalism take fight abroad as they end operations in city.
The fate of Hong Kong’s localist political groups was left hanging in the balance on Tuesday (...)
Organisers needed 60,000 votes to call for a citywide work strike, but only 8,943 ballots were cast. Government condemns civil service union and others behind the vote.
Opposition activists failed to garner enough support for a citywide strike over the proposed national security law for Hong (...)
China’s top legislature has announced it will speed up the formulation of national security legislation for Hong Kong as its 19th session opens in Beijing on Thursday. Members of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) will meet in China’s capital from Thursday 17 to (...)
to Li Zhanshu Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC)
Copy: Chairman of the NPCSC Legislative Affairs Commission (全国人大常委法制工作委員會) Members of the HKSAR Basic Law Committee (香港特別行政區基本法委員會)
Dear Chairman Li,
We are writing to express our grave concerns regarding the (...)
For years, the city’s labour movement has been dominated by pro-Beijing voices deeply supportive of the government. But the demonstrations lay the groundwork for employees in dozens of industries to organise, some for the first time.
Michael Ngan Mo-chau
Michael Ngan Mo-chau was a student (...)
The law should be treated just like any other local one, given it fills a gap in domestic legislation, the body argues. If mainland agents are stationed in Hong Kong, they should not have any law enforcement powers, it says.
Hong Kong courts should have full jurisdiction over interpreting and (...)
Pledge comes as secretary for civil service says government employees taking part would violate code of conduct. The three volunteers were detained in Causeway Bay, where crowds had gathered to mark protest anniversary on Friday night.
Hong Kong activists organising an unofficial referendum on (...)
Vow to go after teachers joining boycotts
by Sophie Hui (The Standard) https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/11/219892/Vow-to-go-after-teachers-joining-boycotts
Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung
Action will be taken against teachers taking part in class boycotts, (...)
Can workers turn opposition to Beijing’s ‘National Security Law’ into action in Hong Kong? Colin Sparks writes on the latest developments in the pro-democracy movement, responses to Black Lives Matter, and the duty of internationalists in the UK to demand full citizenship for all the residents of (...)
A new sledgehammer blow
On 21 May, the Beijing authorities suddenly announced that a draft law on “national security” would be presented a week later to the National Assembly of the People’s Republic of China. Its aim is to suppress most of the democratic freedoms that currently exist in Hong (...)
On 28 May Beijing made a decision to impose its national security law on Hong Kong, which implies the end of Hong Kong autonomy.
June 4 candle vigil assembly
In a few days the Hong Kong government banned the coming June 4 candle vigil assembly, which had been going on for the last thirty (...)
Strikes and boycotts over national security legislation for Hong Kong would be futile, the government says as at least 23 unions are set to vote on such action. The unions will hold a referendum on Sunday 14 regarding whether strikes and class boycotts should be organized against Beijing’s (...)
China’s Hawaii designated nation’s ‘freest free port,’ with no duty for the country’s big spenders.
China’s tropical resort island of Hainan, still an economic backwater under the radar of investors and shoppers, has been catapulted to the very fore of China’s continued reform and opening-up after (...)
Seeking a strong mandate, organisers are hoping 70,000 people will turn out for a vote on the proposed action. Move comes as councillors from 17 districts [out of 18]say law will ‘destroy’ the ‘one country, two systems’ principle.
Workers and students are threatening to strike as a “warning shot” (...)
At the end of May, the Chinese state passed a new national security law that allows it to directly intervene in Hong Kong against the pro-democracy movement that has swept the city for the last year. Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews Au Loong Yu about China’s crackdown and what it means for the (...)
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