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A US law which authorises sanctions against mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials for perceived human rights violations could be “highly subjective,” the national security trial of Jimmy Lai has heard. The prosecution on Friday presented reports written by Wang Guiguo, the chair professor of Chinese and comparative law at the City University of Hong Kong. Wang was invited to give his views on US laws relating to Hong Kong that arose in the aftermath of the anti-extradition protests in 2019. During the unrest that year, activists had called on the US to enact legislation that would punish Ho...
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The leader of Hong Kong radical protest group “Dragon Slayers” – allegedly behind a thwarted bomb plot during the 2019 demonstrations – was the only one in his team that was insisting on killing police officers, a court has heard. Prosecution witness Wong Chun-keung continued to testify against his former team members at the High Court, where seven people are standing a jury trial under the city’s anti-terrorism act. Prosecutors accuse the group of planning to carry out a bomb attack to murder police officers during a legal rally in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019, when the city was at the height...
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A Hong Kong appeals court has sided with the government in its attempt to ban protest song Glory to Hong Kong, overturning last year’s decision by a lower court that cited free speech concerns. Three Court of Appeal judges handed down the judgement on Wednesday, writing that the injunction sought by the authorities was “necessary” to persuade online platforms to remove the “problematic videos.” Popularised during the 2019 protests and unrest, Glory to Hong Kong has been confused with China’s anthem March of the Volunteers at international sporting events – mix-ups that have prompted investigat...
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Canada will grant work permits to Hong Kong permanent residency applicants to allow them to stay in the country while they await a decision on their applications. “Due to a high volume of applications, processing times for this pathway have grown, and many applicants are at risk of seeing their temporary status in Canada expire before their permanent residence applications are finalized,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said in a Tuesday statement. The new policy, to be launched on May 27, will grant Hong Kong applicants a new open work permit, allowing them to extend their...
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The verdict for Hong Kong’s largest national security case is expected to be delivered at the end of May, more than three years after the 47 democrats who were charged were brought to court. The democrats were arrested in 2021 for organising the primaries in a bid to win a majority in the 2020 Legislative Council election. They were charged with conspiring to commit subversion, a crime under the Beijing-imposed national security law that could see them jailed for life. The defendants – among them ex-lawmakers and high-profile activists – were accused of planning to indiscriminately veto govern...
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The Court of Appeal will hear an appeal by the Department of Justice (DoJ) in November, as they challenge an earlier decision to clear Democratic Party Lo Kin-hei of an unlawful assembly charge linked to the 2019 protests and unrest. According to the court diary, the case will be heard on November 20, with proceedings expected to last one day. Following his acquittal by the District Court in November 2022, the DoJ launched a bid to appeal on December 5, 2022. Two days later, on December 7, Lo was re-arrested and brought to the High Court. The High Court judge granted bail to Lo with a cash amo...
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A Hong Kong court will hear an appeal from the head of the city’s largest journalist group Ronson Chan in November, more than a year after he was sentenced to five days in prison over obstructing a police officer while reporting. Chan, the chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), is scheduled to challenge his conviction and sentencing at the High Court on November 19, according to the Judiciary’s website. The veteran journalist’s case relates to an incident in September 2022, when Chan was reporting on a homeowners’ committee meeting at MacPherson Stadium in Mong Kok. He was stop...
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A Hong Kong court has upheld a lower judge’s decision that the city’s courts do not have jurisdiction over the national security committee, effectively barring media mogul Jimmy Lai from challenging the government after it forbid him from hiring a British lawyer for his trial. Three Court of Appeal judges sided with the High Court judge’s decision, per a written judgement published on Monday. Lai’s lawyer Philip Dykes had construed the relevant text in the national security law, as well as the interpretation Beijing issued in December 2022, in a “contrived manner,” the judges wrote. The appeal...
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A radical group in Hong Kong spent over HK$100,000 to acquire around 100 petrol bombs per confrontation during the protests and unrest in 2019, a court has heard. Prosecution witness Wong Chun-keung, leader of the group named “Dragon Slayers,” also testified on Monday that his group formed in August 2019 as a team of “elite” violent protesters which targeted the police during confrontations. Wong said they were financed by unidentified professionals such as lawyers, lawmakers, and journalists in the city. Seven people are standing trial at the High Court over an alleged bomb plot to murder pol...
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A prosecution witness testifying at media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial has said he spent 65 hours in meetings with police officers without giving official statements following his arrest under the national security law. Excluding meetings where police took written and videotaped statements, paralegal Chan Tsz-wah spent 65 hours talking to officers about his “physical and emotional state” and life in detention, a panel of three handpicked national security judges heard on Monday. Chan, who stands accused of conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces but has plead...
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