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October 7, 2024 Commentary

Beijing has tried to quash Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Its spirit will not die

Protesters open their umbrellas, symbols of pro-democracy movement, as they mark exactly one month since they took the streets in Hong Kong's financial central district October 28, 2014.
September 24, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: Academic Freedom Declines Under Security Law

Students, Academics Face Censorship, Harassment, Growing Restrictions on Rights

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August 29, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: Two Journalists Convicted on Baseless ‘Sedition’ Charge

Quash Guilty Verdicts; End Crackdown on Media Freedom

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now-shuttered Stand News, is released on bail after being found guilty in a politically motivated sedition trial, in Hong Kong, August 29, 2024.
June 10, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: No Accountability 5 Years after Mass Protests

Beijing Arrested Over 10,000 Protesters, Throttled City’s Freedoms

A protestor shows five demands gesture as Hong Kong people participate in their annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, January 1, 2020.
May 31, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: Quash Baseless Convictions of Activists

Mass Trial Shows Beijing’s Aggressive Assault on Democracy Movement

On January 6, 2021, Hong Kong police arrested 53 pro-democracy politicians for “subversion” because they had organized or participated in a unofficial? public opinion poll in July 2020 to coordinate pro-democracy candidates for the then-upcoming LegCo elections. 
March 26, 2024 Commentary

Hong Kongers Are Purging the Evidence of Their Lost Freedom

Hong Kong's cityscape through barbed wire.
March 19, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights

Beijing Doubles Down on Suppressing Basic Freedoms

A screen displays the results of a vote.
February 19, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: Governments Should Oppose Security Bill

86 Groups Urge Rebukes, Sanctions Against Beijing’s Latest Assault on Rights

Hong Kong riot police detain a protester during a demonstration against Beijing's national security legislation, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, May 24, 2020.
December 15, 2023 News Release

Hong Kong: Free Pro-Democracy Publisher Jimmy Lai

Newspaper Founder’s National Security Trial a Travesty of Justice

In this December. 12, 2020, file photo, Jimmy Lai,  center, who founded the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, is escorted by Correctional Services officers to get on a prison van before appearing in a court.
September 13, 2023 Dispatches

Hong Kong Unleashes Courts against Children’s Sheep Fiction

Resident Prosecuted for Getting Pro-Democracy Books from Abroad

Children’s books about a village of sheep that has come under the scrutiny of Hong Kong’s national security law, July 22, 2021.
July 6, 2023 Dispatches

Japan Should Push Back on Hong Kong’s Rights Violations

Politically Motivated Visa Denials Highlight Growing Range of Abuses

Pro-democracy demonstrators take to the streets in Shinjuku, Japan to mark the second anniversary of the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, June 12, 2021.
July 4, 2023 News Release

Hong Kong: Warrants Aim at Activists Abroad

Concerned Governments Should Impose Sanctions, Protections for Diaspora

The Hong Kong activist Nathan Law takes part in a demonstration outside the Foreign Office in Berlin, September 1, 2020.
June 20, 2023 News Release

Hong Kong: Tech Firms Should Oppose Protest Song Ban

Government Seeks Court Order for Global Online Censorship

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April 26, 2023 Dispatches

Hong Kong Arrest Encroaches on Free Expression in Japan

Japanese Government Should Resist Beijing’s Transnational Repression

Japanese Foreign Ministry's senior official Shigeo Yamada, second right, speaks to Chinese counterpart Sun Weidong, second left, during the Japan-China security dialogue at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.
January 12, 2023 News Release

China: Unprecedented Nationwide Protests Against Abuses

Xi Consolidates Power Amid Covid-19, Economic Challenges

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