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Canada calls for transparency in trial of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy prote
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ottowa [Canada], December 29 (ANI): Ottawa has voiced its concern over the judicial procedures performed by Beijing on 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists - also known as the Shenzen 12 -- who were detained in Shenzhen in August while attempting to flee to Taiwan as the Chinese Communist Pa
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Hong Kong police launches search for 30 pro-democracy activists living ove
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 27 (ANI): Hong Kong police have launched a search for 30 pro-democracy activists, including former lawmakers Ted Hui Chi-fung and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang, living abroad over violation of the city's draconian National Security Law.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai granted bail
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 24 (ANI): Media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner -- who was charged under the draconian National Security Law -- has been granted bail and allowed to return to his home.
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US issues additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials over rights ab
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 22 (ANI): The United States has issued additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses, US State Secretary Michael Pompeo announced on Monday adding that China's authoritarian rulers impose draconian restrictions on the Chinese
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CCP turning Hong Kong into East Berlin of yesteryear: Pompeo
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI): The United States has called for the release of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who were detained in China for fleeing to Taiwan in order to escape Beijing's exercise of the draconian National Security Law, the US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo sai
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UK top choice for Hongkongers fleeing amid Beijing's draconian security la
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 18 (ANI): As the Chinese Communist Party continues to impose the draconian National Security Law (NSL), the UK comes across as an easy path to citizenship, according to Midland Immigration Consultancy.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai denied bail after being charged with nati
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 13 (ANI): Jimmy Lai, the 73-year-old Hong Kong media tycoon and advocate for democracy, was denied bail on Saturday, after being charged with the draconian national security law.
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Pompeo slams China for charging Jimmy Lai under National Security Law
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 12 (ANI): US Defence Secretary Michael Pompeo slammed China for charging Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai under the draconian National Security Law and demanded that charges be dropped.
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Biden's aide 'deeply concerned' over China's assault on Hong Kong
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden's proposed National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that he was 'deeply concerned' about the imprisonment of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong in wake of the draconian National Security Law imposed by the Chinese Comm
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Mamata Banerjee expresses solidarity with farmers protesting against 'drac
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 4 (ANI): Recalling her 26-day long hunger strike against the forceful acquisition of agricultural land in 2006, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday expressed her solidarity with the protesting farmers against the three farm laws pas
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Google, Facebook, Twitter threaten to leave Pakistan over new social media
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): With Pakistan government announcing new "draconian" rules for social media, which aims at giving blanket power to authorities to censor digital content, Information and Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter have threatened to leave the c
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Indemnity Act - The most draconian law in the history of Bangladesh
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], November 15 (ANI): Following the assassination of Bangladesh President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, known as the 'Father of the Nation', on August 15, 1975, the Indemnity Act was implemented in the country, which marked the darkest law passed in the history of Bangladesh and on
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