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Asia

March 31, 2019 News Release

Hong Kong: Scrap Proposed Extradition Changes
Asia

November 14, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: Drop Case Against ‘Umbrella 9’
Asia

October 25, 2018 Dispatches

Hong Kong’s Heightened Crackdown on Dissent

Racqueal Legerwood
Associate, Asia Division

News

September 24, 2018 News Release

China: Hong Kong Party Banned
July 10, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: LGBT-Themed Books Restricted in Libraries
June 27, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: Freedoms Rapidly Deteriorating
June 25, 2018 Commentary

Why Canada Should Take in Snowden-Linked Asylum-Seeker

Farida Deif
Canada Director

Published In: Ottawa Citizen
March 19, 2018 Dispatches

Insult China’s National Anthem at Your Peril

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
February 6, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: Student Leaders’ Sentences Overturned
September 27, 2017 Dispatches

Three Years After Umbrella Movement, Hong Kongers Soldier On

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
August 18, 2017 Commentary

Political Prisoners in Hong Kong

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher

Published In: ChinaFile
August 15, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong: Quash Convictions of Student Leaders
July 17, 2017 News Release

Canada: Expedite Snowden-Linked Asylum Cases
June 28, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong: Chief Executive Should Defend Autonomy
June 28, 2017 Letter

Letter from HRW to HK Chief Executive Carrie Lam
May 15, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong Rejects Asylum for Snowden Helpers
April 27, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong: Surge in Political Prosecutions
March 27, 2017 Dispatches

Hong Kong’s Non-Election

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
November 4, 2016 News Release

Hong Kong: China Interferes in Judiciary’s Independence
August 15, 2016 News Release

Hong Kong: Student Protest Leaders Sentenced
May 17, 2016 News Release

Hong Kong: Defend Rights Against China’s Encroachment
March 25, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Hong Kong Booksellers Are Free – Or Are They?

Sophie Richardson
China Director
February 10, 2016 News Release

China/Hong Kong: Free ‘Disappeared’ Booksellers
September 21, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Who Will Show FIFA the Red Card on Hong Kong?

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
June 18, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: An Embrace of Democracy in Hong Kong

Sophie Richardson
China Director

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