by Editor | Nov 22, 2018 | Hong Kong
Holmes Chan | Hong Kong Free Press Nine activists and politicians involved in Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement pleaded not guilty to their public nuisance charges on Monday. At the start of what is expected to be a 20-day trial, the prosecution...
by Editor | Nov 18, 2018 | Communist Regime, Hong Kong
Kris Cheng | Hong Kong Free Press Pro-democracy activists will come out stronger if they are not crushed, Occupy co-founder Chan Kin-man said on Wednesday at a talk ahead of his upcoming trial over the 2014 protests. Speaking to a full house of over 600 people, with...
by Editor | Nov 5, 2018 | Censorship, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Free Press Editor’s note: This interview with Chinese cartoonist Badiucao was conducted and written last week before his debut solo exhibition was canceled on Friday amid safety fears. Artist-provocateur Badiucao might have penned some of the most daring...
by Editor | Oct 8, 2018 | Censorship, Hong Kong
Kris Cheng | Hong Kong Free Press The US Consulate General in Hong Kong has said the government’s decision not to renew a work visa for the Financial Times’ Asia News Editor is “deeply troubling,” as activists staged a protest on Saturday. Victor Mallet, a British...
by Editor | Sep 16, 2018 | Censorship, Hong Kong
ANNIE WU | EPOCH TIMES After a five-year legal battle in Hong Kong court, a major victory was won for freedom of speech, assembly, and protest on Aug. 31. Adherents of the Falun Gong spiritual group—which is banned and heavily persecuted in mainland China—filed a...
by Editor | Aug 31, 2018 | Communist Regime, Hong Kong
Lau Siu-fung | Radio Free Asia Two members of a political party formed by the leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong were detained recently by state security police across the internal immigration border in mainland China, it said in a...