Tony Chung, a 20-year-old student activist, is the youngest to be sent to prison under the harsh and expansive new security law passed in 2020.
Tag: Hong Kong Protests (2019)
With New Conviction, Hong Kong Uses Security Law to Clamp Down on Speech
An activist, Ma Chun-man, was convicted of inciting secession after, he said, he chanted slogans to test the limits of the law.
How Hong Kong Censors Films in the Name of National Security
The Asian film capital has cracked down on documentaries and independent productions that it fears could glamorize the pro-democracy movement.
Hong Kong Forces Tiananmen Square Group to Delete Facebook Page
The deletions were the most high-profile instance of internet censorship under the national security law.
Latest Threat to Hong Kong’s National Security: Chocolates in Prison
Officials have suggested that imprisoned pro-democracy activists are using sweets and other items to “solicit followers” behind bars.
In Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai’s Next Digital Says It Has Been Forced to Close
Next Digital, which has published criticism of China for decades, said a crackdown had left it with no way to operate. Its main newspaper, Apple Daily, closed in June.
How Beijing Has Buried Hong Kong’s Last Vestige of Democracy
The landslide victory of pro-democracy politicians in local elections in 2019 was a stunning rebuke of Beijing. Now, fear of retaliation has driven them to quit.
Mirror, a Hong Kong Boy Band, Cheers the Gloomy Chinese City
The popularity of the group, called Mirror, has offered the city a rare burst of unity and pleasure after years of political upheaval.
Hong Kong Arrests Anthony Wong Yiu-ming for Singing at Election Rally
Anticorruption officials arrested Anthony Wong Yiu-ming, a Cantopop singer, who has publicly supported the Chinese territory’s pro-democracy opposition.
Hong Kong Targets Student Unions to Tame Universities
The authorities are clamping down on universities, which they consider hotbeds for unrest. The groups say they are fighting for survival.