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The top US diplomat in Hong Kong has called for the release of media mogul Jimmy Lai and other detained activists, sparking a complaint from Beijing’s foreign ministry of interference in China’s internal affairs. US Consul General Gregory May made “unfounded comments” on Hong Kong’s judicial cases in an online seminar hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said in a statement on Thursday. The office said it “strongly opposed and condemned” May’s remarks, which it described as openly supporting and embolde...
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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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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai had wanted to bring together legislators, overseas groups, the power of the community, and other sectors to achieve “China implosion,” a court has heard during a landmark trial under the Beijing-imposed national security law. Paralegal Chan Tsz-wah, who stands accused of conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces, told the court on Friday that the Apple Daily founder mentioned the idea of bringing China to economic collapse and the fall of its political regime in January 2020. Lai faces two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces a...
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Jimmy Lai had mentioned in late November 2019 the idea of conducting a primary poll to “continue the momentum” of the pro-democracy camp in a legislative race originally scheduled for 2020, an activist has told the media tycoon’s landmark national security trial. The Apple Daily founder said organising a primary election could unite the votes of pro-democracy electors and secure the legislative seats of the democrats, paralegal Chan Tsz-wah testified in court on Wednesday. Chan has pleaded guilty to with conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces. According to Chan, Lai made...
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Five Hongkongers who were charged with loitering at a chain store linked to the city’s largest national security case have been acquitted after the judge issued good behaviour orders. Ip Ka-kin, Ip Tsz-kin, Tsang Wai-shing and two defendants who were unnamed as they were minors appeared at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday forthe fourth day of their trial after pleading not guilty to “loitering causing concern.” The case relates to incidents last February, when the defendants were accused of shouting and harassing customers at the Mong Kok branch of AbouThai, a retail chain store owne...
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A Hong Kong student charged with loitering at a chain store linked to the city’s largest national security case has said he was “just playing around.” The student, who was 14 when he was arrested last year, is among five people standing trial after pleading not guilty to a charge of “loitering causing concern.” The trial began on Tuesday and is expected to take four days. The case relates to incidents last February, when the defendants were accused of shouting and harassing customers at the Mong Kok branch of AbouThai, a retail chain store owned by Mike Lam. The incidents took place days after...
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In the 45th month since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, the city saw the passage of its own legislation with new offences and tougher punishments, a broader definition of sedition, new restrictions on detainees and tighter rules on early release from prison. While officials celebrated the “historic” passage of the law, calling it a constitutional duty dating back to the 1997 Handover, foreign governments and groups voiced a range of concerns. Landmark national security trials continued. By the end of March, the pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai had been on trial for ove...
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Detained Hong Kong activist Owen Chow and his lawyer have pleaded not guilty to removing an “unauthorised article” – a complaint form about corrections officers – from prison. Chow and Phyllis Woo appeared at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning, five months after being arrested over allegedly taking a document meant for the government watchdog. They pleaded not guilty to “carrying unauthorised article out of prison,” The Witness reported. Senior public prosecutor Vincent Lee said the prosecution would summon eight witnesses to testify about conversations between corrections staff...
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Three years after their prosecution in a landmark national security case, a group of 47 leading Hong Kong democrats – most of them behind bars – are still waiting to learn their fate. Emilia Wong, the girlfriend of Ventus Lau, has visited him in prison every day since then. But the group is receiving “less and less public attention,” she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday marking the February 28 anniversary of the group being prosecuted. “As media outlets were forced to close and time flies, I felt first-hand that those political prisoners are indeed gradually approaching social death, and t...
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