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Hong Kong police invokes security law to block website publishing details
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], January 10 (ANI): In another instance of curbing dissent in Hong Kong, police here have invoked the draconian national security law to block a local website dedicated to publishing first-hand accounts of the anti-government protests in 2019 and personal details of official
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Hong Kong warns probe against those who help pro-democracy protestors esca
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 9 (ANI): The Hong Kong Government, under the draconian National Security Law, has warned that the police would investigate anyone who helps an 'offender' to abscond from Hong Kong after reports emerged that the city was looking into prosecuting two Danish politicians who a
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Hong Kong arrests threaten passage of EU-China investment deal: European P
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 9 (ANI): The EU-China investment deal, tentatively reached just last week, faces a new hurdle as a growing number of European Parliament members expressed concern on Wednesday over the mass arrests of over 50 pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong under Beijing's draconian
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Advocates condemn mass arrests in Hong Kong on suspicion of violating secu
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], January 9 (ANI): Advocates for Hong Kong's underprivileged and ethnic minority communities on Friday slammed authorities over the recent mass arrests of 53 former lawmakers and activists, including two of their colleagues and respected rights figures, with one group accusi
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Former Hong Kong lawmaker sent to jail for failing to surrender his Britis
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 8 (ANI): A former Hong Kong opposition lawmaker, who was charged with taking part in a pro-democracy protest last summer in Hong Kong, is back in custody after officers from the police force's national security unit found he had failed to surrender his British passport as
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Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arrested in Hong Kong under national se
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 8 (ANI): Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy protestors continues with impunity. Just a day after police arrested dozens of former lawmakers and opposition activists, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Thursday (local time) over an alleged violat
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China makes representation to UK over meddling in Hong Kong Affairs: Forei
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 7 (ANI): A day after the United Kingdom lambasted Beijing for the arrest of over 50 pro-democracy politicians and activists under the draconian National Security Law, China on Thursday claimed that Hong Kong was a territory of China and any interference in its domestic aff
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Over 50 Hong Kong opposition lawmakers, activists arrested under national
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 6 (ANI): Over 50 opposition lawmakers and activists were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of violating the national security law, for their part in a primary election run-off last July.
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Hong Kong rights group stage protest for release of 'political prisoners'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 2 (ANI): A prominent rights group staged an act of defiance on New Year's Day for the first time in 12 months -- on a much smaller scale -- calling for release of "political prisoners" who were arrested for demonstrations against the draconian National Security Law imposed
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US lambasts China over poor treatment of 'Hong Kong 12', demands immediate
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 1 (ANI): US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, on Thursday, while lambasting the Chinese Communist Party for the treatment to a group of 12 pro-democracy protestors who tried to flee Taiwan in wake of Beijing's imposition of the draconian National Security Law, ca
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Yearender 2020: Clampdown in Hong Kong, treatment of Uyghurs worsen China
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): It was a year that worsened China's global image. While COVID-19, which emerged in its city of Wuhan, was a factor, China's coercive tactics with countries in its neighbourhood and beyond, its clampdown on people in Hong Kong in breach of "one governme
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EU slams China for unfair trial of 10 Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], December 29 (ANI): The European Union on Tuesday slammed Beijing for human rights violations against 10 political activists from Hong Kong who tried to escape to Taiwan, urging authorities to ensure a fair trial and called for an immediate release of the Shenzen 12.
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