China – General
China – Hong Kong
32 YouTube Videos Cited as Court Is Asked to Ban ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ Protest Anthem
Court order is sought to block online dissemination of pro-democracy anthem, first major test for U.S. tech platforms over politically ...
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HKFP: Huge police deployment thwarts Tiananmen crackdown commemorations as Hongkongers detained over candles, clothes, slogans
Hong Kong police have deployed en masse at key sites on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, apprehending several ...
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HKFP: Explainer: Is it legal for people in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown?
On the anniversary of the crackdown, with police set to deploy in large numbers, HKFP rounds-up official responses as to ...
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Ex-student leader and detained activist among 7 who plead guilty to rioting inside Hong Kong legislature in 2019
A former student leader and a detained activist were among seven people to have pleaded guilty to rioting in relation ...
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HKFP: HSBC terminates bank accounts of Hong Kong opposition party League of Social Democrats without giving reason
Hong Kong’s HSBC bank has closed three bank accounts used by the League of Social Democrats (LSD) – one of the ...
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Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Civic Party votes to dissolve
Too sad to even contemplate but we all knew it would happen eventually... Established in 2006, the party grew to ...
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China – Lawyers
IAPL: Number of people prosecuted in China’s courts up 12% in five years, report shows
It doesn't get any better, it just gets worse, as everybody turns a blind eye IAPL report Experts point to ...
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China hands eight-year jail term to activist at trial barred to diplomats
China sentenced lawyer and prominent rights activist Guo Feixiong to a prison term of eight years on Thursday, with diplomats ...
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IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers: How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state
peopleslawyers Apr 17 17/04/23 Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” ...
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‘Rights lawyer, wife detained on way to EU embassy in Beijing’
Beijing, Apr 14 (EFE).- A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer and his wife have been arrested while traveling to the ...
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Comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on sentencing of human rights defenders in China
LOCATION Geneva “I am very concerned that two prominent human rights defenders in China – Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong ...
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China jails prominent legal activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi
The BBC Two prominent Chinese activists have been jailed for subversion after more than three years in detention. The wife ...
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