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The Hong Kong government has for the second time this month condemned the BBC’s reporting on the new security law. It is the latest in a string of press releases and letters lashing out at foreign media over their coverage of Article 23’s enactment last Saturday. A spokesperson on Wednesday night said a BBC report about the remission of sentences for security law convicts was “extremely misleading,” whilst it also condemned “fact-twisting” remarks by what it deemed anti-China organisations quoted within it. Separate to the 2020 Beijing-enacted security law, the homegrown Safeguarding National ...
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A Hong Kong student has been jailed for eight weeks over impersonating a TVB actor and withdrawing him from the city’s organ donation registry last May. Wong Tsz-ching, 20, appeared at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday. Earlier this month, he pleaded guilty to criminal damage linked to a withdrawal application he made on the city’s organ donation registry. The charge relates to Wong filing an application on the Centralised Organ Donation Registry’s website on May 23, 2023, in which he entered the personal information of TVB actor Cho Wing-lim. Cho is known for his support of the pol...
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Sanctions against individuals – or economic sanctions at the country level – were among the “immature ideas” Hong Kong activist Andy Li “floated” to an international parliamentary alliance days before the 2020 national security law came into force, a court has heard at the high-profile trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Li, the co-founder of activist group Fight for Freedom, Stand With Hong Kong (SWHK), which prosecutors allege was ultimately financed by Lai, continued to testify against the 76-year-old tycoon on Wednesday. The founder of the defunct Apple Daily newspaper stands accused of conspi...
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The government has condemned an opinion piece about the city’s “lost freedom” published by the New York Times, the latest letter to media in a campaign to counter critical press coverage of the recently-enacted homegrown security law. In a letter written to the Times’ editor on Wednesday, Secretary for Security Chris Tang claimed the op-ed, titled “Hong Kongers Now Only Whisper About Freedom,” was “extremely misleading.” “We strongly urge The New York Times to ensure that reports concerning Hong Kong arefair and just, and stop making scaremongering remarks,” Tang wrote. Published on Tuesday, t...
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A 15-year-old girl has been arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in seven “guess who I am” style phone scams, which swindled HK$1.75 million out of victims, mostly elderly people living alone. Police said on Tuesday that they arrested the girl in Nga Tau Kok after a bank staffer alerted the force that an 81-year-old man sought to withdraw money, saying that a call told him his family member had been arrested and he was required to pay the bail. The girl was believed to have been recruited by fraudsters via social media platform Instagram and was only told to receive the money, police...
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Hong Kong activist Ma Chun-man has been denied early release after being jailed in 2020 over a national security case. He is the first prisoner to be made ineligible for early release after a new domestic national security law was enacted on Saturday. Citing sources, local media outlets reported on Monday that Ma was expected to be released that day, following a remission of his sentence. However, his detention continued as the Commissioner of the Correctional Services Department (CSD) was unsatisfied that Ma’s early release would not endanger national security. The new, homegrown security law...
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Chow Pak-kwan, who was injured by police live round during the 2019 extradition bill protests, has decided not to challenge his conviction and a six-year jail term for attempting to snatch the officer’s gun. Chow confirmed with Justice of Appeal Derek Pang on Tuesday that he had decided to withdraw his bid to appeal. He was found guilty and jailed in 2022 for obstructing a police officer, attempted robbery and for an attempt to escape from lawful custody on November 11, 2019, when the he was shot by a policeman in Sai Wan Ho. He later filed an appeal together with his co-defendant Woo Tsz-kin,...
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A 38-year-old woman has been charged with a child abuse offence after her four-year-old daughter was found to have a total of 11 bruises and injuries on her body. The girl had lost consciousness in a bathtub home on Saturday and was sent to hospital. The case was mentioned at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Monday. The suspect faces one count of ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of child or young person. She was granted bail pending trial next month. The girl was living with her mother and two senior brothers at a private residential building in Kowloon City, local media reported...
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Hong Kong activist Andy Li did not take part in a pro-democracy crowdfunding campaign in May 2020 owing to risks linked to the enactment of the Beijing-enacted national security law, a court has heard at the landmark trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Monday marked day 52 of Lai’s 80-day trial under the 2020 security law for allegedly conspiring to collude with foreign forces. The founder of the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily also faces charges of conspiring to publish seditious materials under the Crimes Ordinance. Li, one of the defendants in the case, continued to testify for the prosecutio...
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Hongkongers who repeatedly repost, and agree with, overseas criticism of the city’s new, domestic national security law could breach the legislation if they are found to have been inciting hatred against the authorities, justice minister Paul Lam has said. Separate to the 2020 Beijing-enacted security law, the homegrown Safeguarding National Security Ordinance targets treason, insurrection, sabotage, external interference, sedition, theft of state secrets and espionage. It allows for pre-charge detention of to up to 16 days, and suspects’ access to lawyers may be restricted, with penalties inv...
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