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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arrested
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 24 (ANI): Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested for participating in an "unauthorised" assembly in October last year.
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Chinese authorities arrest 12 people, including pro-democracy activist, se
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Aug 29 (ANI): Chinese authorities have arrested 12 people, including a pro-democracy activist, who were secretly heading to Taiwan by sea.
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Hong Kong Opposition fear voting option in mainland China to open fraud lo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, August 4 (Sputnik/ANI): Democracy activists in Hong Kong are alarmed with the government's proposal to expand the parliamentary elections' geography to mainland China, fearing potential loopholes for electoral fraud and considering the initiative "politically driven," according to
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Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hongkongers and Taiwanese raise voice against China's o
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, August 4 (ANI): Political activists and leaders from China and its occupied territories have raised a voice against the oppression and colonial expansionism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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US House Committee on Foreign Affairs expresses 'deep concern' over arrest
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Aug 1 (ANI): Expressing 'deep concern' over arrest warrants under Hong Kong's draconian national security law for several democracy activists, US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Friday (local time) said this action further undermines China's credibility as a rule-
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World must stand in solidarity with the Hong Kongers: Joshua Wong
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 6 (ANI): The world must stand in solidarity with the Hong Kongers, said pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong on Monday outside a court where he along with several other campaigners were being prosecuted for their involvement in demonstrations last year.
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Hong Kong libraries pull out books by pro-democracy activists for review
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 5 (ANI): Hong Kong libraries have taken at least nine titles written by localist or democracy advocates out of circulation for conducting a review of whether the books run afoul of the new national security law, South China Morning Post reported on Sunday.
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Hong Kong's pro-democracy books suspended from lending
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 5 (ANI): The pro-China Carrie Lam government has started implementing the national security law to quash dissent as after banning the annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, the government in its latest move has started suspending the lending of several books written by p
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law leaves homeland after China pa
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 3 (ANI): With China imposing the national security law in Hong Kong, several pro-democracy activists are fleeing their homeland.
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Security law puts Hong Kong pastors at risk of being extradited to China:
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 24 (ANI): With China pushing ahead with the implementation of the national security law on Hong Kong, pastors including pro-democracy activists and religious leaders face a risk of being extradited to mainland China for trial, according to a US-based Christian watchdog.
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Hong Kongers confronting 'largest, retiring regime' in the world: Activist
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 9 (ANI): Signalling the "comeback" of "labour strike and mass mobilisation" in Hong Kong against mainland China over the draconian national security law, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong said the people of the financial hub of Asia are standing against the "largest and reti
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Chaos returns to Hong Kong as police detains hundreds of protestors in sho
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): Riot police chased protesters through Hong Kong's shopping malls and streets on Sunday as democracy activists launched Mother's Day flash mob rallies calling for independence and demanding resignation for the city's China-backed unpopular leader.
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