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A 20-year-old man has been charged with unlawful assembly over his suspected involvement in a protest that took place in a Hong Kong shopping mall four years ago. Issac Lee, a student, appeared at Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday morning. He was remanded in custody until next Tuesday, when his case will next be mentioned in court. Lee is suspected of taking part in an unlawful assembly in Kwun Tong’s apm shopping mall on June 30, 2020, along with Arthur Chiang, Truvian Wong, Cheung Chung-lun and others. Around 100 people gathered in the mall that day for a “sing with you” demonstration...
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The remaining mitigation hearings for a landmark national security case involving 47 Hong Kong democrats have been delayed by almost a month because of “unforeseen circumstances,” according to a document seen by HKFP. Mitigation for defendants Eddie Chu, Sam Cheung, Wong Ji-yuet, Ng Kin-wai, Andrew Wan, Kwok Ka-ki, Carol Ng, and Roy Tam was originally scheduled for July 30 to August 1. The Judiciary’s website shows that their hearings have been adjourned to August 27 to 29. Meanwhile, mitigation hearings scheduled for August 5 to 8 will be adjourned to September 2 to 5. Those hearings involve ...
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Hong Kong should prepare a “civil force” to rebut criticism from the West over the city’s human rights record, which has been repeatedly called out since Beijing imposed a security law in 2020, multiple lawmakers have said. The city’s opposition-free legislature on Monday convened a panel on constitutional affairs, in which Chief Secretary Eric Chan presented a government report on a routine review by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Hong Kong, as part of China, is subject to a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) every four or five years over its rights record – a requirement for all 193 U...
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Hong Kong had “no plans” to require social workers to swear allegiance to the government, the city’s labour and welfare minister has said after members of the industry’s licensing body took an oath under a new law. Hong Kong had an “imminent” need to set up a mechanism to handle the registration of social workers convicted of national security offences and other serious crimes, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said in an interview with Ming Pao published on Friday. The official’s remarks came two weeks after the city’s opposition-free legislature passed a bill that gave government ap...
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The former chairperson of a pro-democracy medics’ union who was convicted of subversion under the Beijing-imposed national security law has maintained that there was “nothing wrong” in seeking to use her vote in the legislature to bring about change. Winnie Yu, 37, was the chair of the Hospital Authority Employee Alliance, which was formed during the 2019 protests and disbanded in June 2022. She is among 45 pro-democracy figures convicted of conspiring to commit subversion over an unofficial primary election held in July 2020, which aimed to help the opposition camp win a majority in the city’...
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Hong Kong establishment figures have penned mitigation letters for prominent democrats pleading for lighter sentences in a landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy figures. Former legislator Claudia Mo entered the dock on Wednesday morning smiling at the public gallery and making a “heart” gesture with her arms. Mo is one of 45 pro-democracy figures convicted of conspiring to commit subversion over an unofficial primary poll held in July 2020, which aimed to help the opposition camp win a majority in the city’s legislature. The defendants were said to have intended to abuse t...
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi has advanced his appeal bid against his 40-month sentence and conviction for charges including “uttering seditious words.” A panel of three judges at the High Court’s Court of Appeal granted a certificate on Wednesday to Tam, with which he can apply to take his legal challenge to the Court of Final Appeal. The decision moves the vice-chair of the since-disbanded political party People Power one step along the legal system’s convoluted appeals procedure. It came a year after the activist – better known by his radio presenter nickname “Fast Beat” – fi...
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Hong Kong’s justice department is seeking to overturn a former lawmaker’s acquittal over disclosing an antigraft probe into a police officer who was under investigation for his role in a mob attack during the 2019 protests and unrest. Lam Cheuk-ting, of the opposition Democratic Party, was in February cleared of three counts of disclosing the identity of people under investigation. Lam was sentenced to four months’ jail in January 2022 over disclosing an inquiry by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) into allegations of misconduct against police Superintendent Yau Nai-keung, w...
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The head of the national security department of the Hong Kong Police Force has warned of security threats going “underground” into arts and extremism despite the enactment of two security laws in the city. Andrew Kan, the deputy police commissioner for national security, said on Sunday that security threats had “transformed” after Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance was enacted in March. “I think the threats have only transformed, they are still here,” Kan said in a Cantonese interview with TVB news. “We must remain vigilant and not ...
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A Hong Kong court has denied a former Tiananmen vigil activist’s application to replace a judge presiding over a national security trial. The court ruled on Friday that Madam Justice Anna Lai, who has been handpicked to preside over national security cases, would remain on the bench in the upcoming subversion trial of detained rights activist Chow Hang-tung. Chow had earlier applied for Lai’s recusal on the grounds that Lai’s access to materials kept from Chow’s defence team in a separate case meant Chow would not receive a fair trial. Lai is on the panel of designated judges overseeing the tr...
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