Hong Kong Protests
Recent Highlights
All Stories for Hong Kong Protests
Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 14 months over pro-democracy protests
•Lai, who is already behind bars for taking part in the protests, pleaded guilty to organising an unlawful assembly on 1 October, 2019. He will serve a total of 20 months in jail
Award-winning docu on Hong Kong protests pulled hours before first screening after criticism from pro-Beijing media
•Inside the Red Brick Wall, which documents a violent standoff between police and protesters on a university campus in 2019, was due to debut in a newly opened commercial cinema in Hong Kong on Monday evening.
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law
•The Apple Daily tabloid founder was charged on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, two Apple Daily executives charged with fraud
•The charges come a day after three prominent young democracy campaigners — including Joshua Wong — were jailed for taking part in pro-democracy protests
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow jailed for 2019 anti-govt rally
•All three were found guilty of organising and taking part in an unauthorised assembly near the police's headquarters at the start of the pro-democracy protests in June last year
Wu Chi-wai, chairman of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party says democracy fight needs rethink
•Since the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, pro-democracy activists have demanded greater democracy and accused China of going back on its promise to allow the people to vote freely for their leader
Canada vows to speak up for human rights in China as spat between ambassadors over asylum to Hong Kong protestors heats up
•Ties between the countries are at their lowest, largely due to China’s outrage over Canada’s detention of a Huawei executive and Beijing's arrest of two Canadian 'spies'
Chinese envoy warns Canada against granting asylum to pro-democracy protestors from Hong Kong
•Ambassador Cong Peiwu said that if Ottawa cares about the 3,00,000 Canadians in Hong Kong, it should support the government’s ‘efforts to fight violent crimes’
Calls to boycott Mulan over concerns about China are growing: Here's why
•The Chinese Communist Party has rejected international criticism of the internment camps in Xinjiang and has described them as job-training centres that are necessary to fight Islamic extremism
China announces sanctions against 11 US politicians for interfering in ‘Hong Kong affairs’
•The number of Americans named by Beijing exactly equals the number of Hong Kong and Chinese officials placed on a sanctions list by the US last week