We are deeply angered by these sentences and condemn them in the strongest possible terms. This trial has laid bare that the defendants faced nothing less than a politically engineered prosecution, a ...

Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s longest-serving political prisoners, has pleaded guilty to a fresh charge of "conspiracy to collude with foreign forces." The new prosecution under Beijing’s sweeping n...

“We are publishing a newspaper for Hong Kong people.” That was the mission statement set out by Apple Daily in its inaugural editorial on 20 June 1995. Headlined We Belong to Hong Kong, it established...

A defence lawyer for a Tiananmen vigil activist has urged a HK court not to “pay lip service” to human rights protections, arguing that calls to “end one-party rule” in China should be considered legi...

A Hong Kong political prisoner's message of gratitude and resolve

Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor (HKLRM) welcomes today’s guilty verdict in the London Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) espionage case.

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) has hit out the government of weaponising the tax code to intimidate the city’s embattled media sector. At a press conference held on Tuesday(4 May), union...

A Hong Kong man has been jailed for a year under the city's homegrown national security law after pleading guilty to making seditious remarks on Facebook, including comments supporting Hong Kong and T...

UK urged to tackle transnational repression, as dissidents say Beijing has targeted them with tax bills and other threats

Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming and three of his staff have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of selling seditious titles, including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

A group of independent UN human rights experts have written to the Chinese government expressing deep concern over the arrest, prosecution, and prolonged pre-trial detention of Hong Kong pro-democracy...

A Hong Kong journalist is taking on one of the world’s largest media companies in a private criminal prosecution after authorities refused to act. Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Asso...

The duo are alleged to have carried out surveillance on Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners.

A band of nearby homeowners tests whether ‘the mighty Chinese Communist Party is any match for U.K. planning law.’

Journalists are self-censoring and negotiating shifting ‘red lines’ to avoid falling foul of the territory’s draconian national security law.

In the TV drama The Queen of News 2, a news anchor’s likeness and voice are cloned by AI to continue presenting after she leaves her job, sparking outrage over fictional exploitation. But this scenari...