He’d come from Hong Kong, where Chinese authorities were rapidly consolidating control. An extensive protest movement had ...

Just one year after its passage, Hong Kong’s Article 23 law has further squeezed people’s freedoms and enabled authorities to ...

This summer’s heat in the city has been unbearable. Its usual subtropical warmth has been further inflamed by tear gas and Molotov cocktails, igniting the Hong Kong air into an inferno that many ...

A HK man who emigrated to Japan after his arrest during the 2019 unrest has been sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison ...

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The 2019 protest movement was the most concerted challenge to the Hong Kong government since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

A Hong Kong court has convicted a social worker on charges of rioting over her attendance at 2019 antigovernment protests. The verdict, announced on Tuesday, found Jackie Chen guilty despite a ...

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong social worker was found guilty of rioting during the city's 2019 democracy protests, with the court on Tuesday (Mar 11) rejecting her claim of being a mediator and ruling ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Finn Lau thought he had escaped China’s reach when he got to London. He’d come from ...