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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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School inspections are a funny business. They sit on an obstinate paradox which makes it difficult to have confidence in the results. An experienced observer can glean quite a lot about a school from walking the corridors: are the students cheerful and well-behaved; what is on the walls? Our observer can gather more from looking at documents: are the teachers planning and conferring, do they attend development courses, are they well qualified for what they are doing? But really if you want to evaluate what is going on you need to visit the place where education actually happens: the classroom....
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Activist Joshua Wong frequently helped others in the community, his lawyer has said as he attempted to convince judges that his client should be given a lesser sentence in the city’s largest national security case. Wong, 27, was among six defendants who appeared at West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Friday for a mitigation hearing. The defendants, who included ex-lawmakers and district councillors, face up to life imprisonment for taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion linked to an unofficial primary in July 2020. Wearing a blue shirt and a grey cardigan, Wong nodded to people in th...
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A Hong Kong court has refused to allow jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai to ask the city’s top court to overturn a ruling that effectively barred him from hiring a British lawyer for his ongoing national security trial. The Court of Appeal on Friday rejected Lai’s application for leave to appeal to the final appellate court. The 76-year-old Apple Daily founder wanted to challenge the appeal court’s ruling in April, when it sided with a decision from the Committee for Safeguarding National Security. The committee – chaired by Chief Executive John Lee – said last January that the proposed represent...
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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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Hong Kong police have arrested two women over allegedly abducting a three-year-old boy from a shopping mall for a ransom of more than HK$5 million in cryptocurrency. The boy was rescued by the police from a housing estate in Tseung Kwan O at 5.25 am on Thursday after being kidnapped from the nearby TKO Plaza shopping mall on Wednesday afternoon, according to local media reports. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Chief Superintendent Kwan King-pan of the police force’s Organised Crime and Triad Bureau said two 38-year-old women had been arrested, who told police they were unemployed. They were...
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A doctor whose clinic caught fire from a stray tear gas canister during protests in 2019 has lodged an appeal against a court’s decision to deny a request for the city’s police chief to take the stand and answer for the incident. Kenneth Leung, appearing before judge Queeny Au-Yeung at the High Court on Thursday, demanded that police commissioner Raymond Siu take the stand to explain the findings of a police investigation into a misfired tear gas canister that landed in Leung’s Tsim Sha Tsui clinic and started a fire. Leung filed a writ in 2021 to claim HK$6.72 million as compensation for dama...
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A student earlier found not guilty of rioting during the 2019 protests will stand trial again after the government won an appeal against his acquittal. Lee Chun-ho, a student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University at the time of the alleged offence, appeared at the High Court on Wednesday before a panel of three judges. The judges sided with the government’s Department of Justice (DoJ) in ruling that District Court judge Clement Lee, who presided over his case in 2021, had delivered a verdict that was contradictory. The case will be returned to the District Court, with a mention scheduled for...
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Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature has passed a bill that gives government appointees a majority in the city’s social workers’ licensing body, a move that a top official said would help “protect the public’s interests and safeguard national security.” Lawmakers in the “patriots-only” Legislative Council echoed their support for the bill in a meeting on Wednesday. They said the amendments to the Social Workers Registration Board, which is tasked with issuing qualifications for social workers, would help the body “get back onto the right track.” Tik Chi-yuen, who represents the social welfa...
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Hong Kong’s defunct newspaper Apple Daily, founded byjailed media mogul Jimmy Lai, may be able to pay HK$49 million to more than 500 former staff, a court has heard in a winding-up petition hearing. The High Court on Wednesday heard an application from two former employees of Apple Daily Limited, who urged the court to wind up the company that ceased operations in June 2021 after its senior executives were arrested and later charged under the national security law. Local media reported that the liquidation request was filed on April 12 by Chan Hon-wing and Yeung Yu-ching, who claimed that more...
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