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More than three years after they were arrested, 16 democrats who pleaded not guilty in a landmark national security case finally heard their verdicts from Hong Kong’s High Court. They are among 47 defendants in the case, of whom 31 pleaded guilty. Most of the 47 have been held in custody since February 28, 2021. The court separately announced that another national security case concerning the disbanded Tiananmen vigil group would not begin this year. Meanwhile, Chow Hang-tung, a defendant in the case, become one of seven people arrested under the city’s new security law. Hong Kong 47: 14 convi...
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Eight people have been convicted of rioting in Yau Ma Tei in 2019, a verdict that marks the last one for riot trials linked to protests sparked by a university campus siege. A total of 11 defendants appeared at District Court on Friday after their trial in October. They had pleaded not guilty to rioting in the vicinity of Nathan Road and Gascoigne Road in Yau Ma Tei on November 18, 2019, as clashes broke out at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in nearby Hung Hom. Wong Chun-yuen, Cheung Kin-sum and Ovin Cheung were found not guilty by judge Peony Wong, InMedia reported. The remaining eight ...
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By Xinqi SU Hong Kong (AFP) - La plupart sont en exil ou en prison. Mais une poignée de militants pro-démocratie, comme Chan Po-ying, tentent encore de faire entendre une petite "voix" discordante à Hong Kong malgré le renforcement continu de la répression. Jeudi, en marge d'une audience qui a déclaré 14 militants coupables de "subversion" pour leur rôle dans la contestation de 2019 qui a ébranlé le territoire rétrocédé par Londres à la Chine en 1997, elle et une poignée de manifestants ont osé se rassembler devant le tribunal. "Hong Kong devrait rester un endroit où l'on a la liberté de parol...
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The verdict in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date – which saw 14 pro-democracy figures convicted of conspiring to commit subversion and two acquitted – demonstrated that the city’s common law system was intact and effective, a government advisor has said. Ronny Tong, a member of the city’s top advisory body the Executive Council, said on Friday the court had “set an unprecedentedly high threshold” for the conviction of subversion under the Beijing-imposed national security law. The acquittals were proof of the rigorous legal processes in Hong Kong, he added. The 16 who stood tr...
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The Hong Kong government has rebutted international criticism of the city’s first arrests under a new, homegrown security law and the trial of Hong Kong’s 47 democrats, after a US government body said Thursday’s verdict showed “the Chinese Communist Party is pulling the strings” in Hong Kong. In a statement issued on Thursday night, the government condemned the Western countries’ accusation as “simply do not stand up to the facts.” Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), an agency of the US government, criticised verdicts of the landmark case concerning 47 democrats on Thursday, ur...
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Hong Kong’s labour and welfare chief will act as “gatekeeper” in some matters concerning social workers in Hong Kong, including enforcing the sector’s code of practice and the formation of its disciplinary committee, the city’s current labour and welfare minister has said. The move follows earlier complaints by Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun that the board overseeing the sector was failing to protect national security. Sun told the legislature on Thursday that a proposed amendment to the city’s social worker registration ordinance would clarify the role of the chief in overseeing t...
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Hong Kong’s Department of Justice has announced it intends to appeal the acquittal of two pro-democracy figures, who were found not guilty of conspiring to commit conspiracy over their roles in an unofficial primary election in July 2020. Lawrence Lau and Lee Yue-shun were acquitted by a panel of three High Court judges on Thursday morning – becoming the first two people tried under the Beijing-imposed security law to be cleared of their charges. Director of Public Prosecutions Maggie Yang on Thursday afternoon said that she had received instruction from Secretary for Justice Paul Lam that the...
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Four members of pro-democracy party the League of Social Democrats were arrested on Thursday after attempting to stage a protest outside the courthouse where 14 democrats were convicted of subversion under the national security law. Figo Chan, a member of the LSD, said on Facebook that Chan Po-ying, Dickson Chau, Yu Wai-pan, and Raphael Wong had been arrested for disorderly conduct outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building. Also present was activist “the Bull” Tsang Kin-shing. Chan Po-ying is the chair of the LSD and wife of jailed pro-democracy activist and former chair Leung Kwok-hung, wh...
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A Hong Kong court is set to rule on 16 pro-democracy figures’ involvement in the city’s largest national security case to date. It has been more than three years since they were arrested and charged along with 31 others in connection with an unofficial legislative primary election. On Thursday, three hand-picked national security judges are set to deliver their verdicts for 16 former lawmakers, ex-district councillors and activists, all of whom pleaded not guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion in August 2022, as the lengthy judicial process finally nears its end. If convic...
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Sixteen Hong Kong democrats who pleaded not guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion await their fate, as a panel of three judges prepare to hand down their verdict in the city’s largest – and to date, longest lasting – national security trial. Two days have been set aside for the verdict hearing, which comes almost three and a half years after they were among 47 arrested under the Beijing-imposed security law in January 2021 over their roles in unofficial primaries held in July 2020 in an attempt to gain a controlling majority in the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) elec...
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