Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg sent a letter revealed on Tuesday to anti-communist Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, a political prisoner under the Chinese regime, in which she expressed “love, support, and strength.”
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, commonly known as LegCo, on Wednesday passed a bill that empowers local officials to ban movies “deemed contrary to the interests of national security.”
In an exclusive interview, Hong Kong activist Nathan Law said the crackdowns in Hong Kong represent an “annihilation” of the city’s freedoms.
Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, already serving over a year in prison for his role in organizing anti-communist protests in 2019, received another four-month sentence Tuesday for wearing a mask in public.
Family members of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong have sold their Hong Kong home and moved to Australia, the local newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported on Tuesday.
A court sentenced Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy leader, Joshua Wong, on Tuesday to 13.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of organizing “unauthorized assembly” during last year’s demonstrations against illegal Chinese interference in the region’s affairs.
Officials in Hong Kong accused imprisoned pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong on Tuesday of smuggling drugs in his stomach after finding an alleged “foreign object” through an X-ray.
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong is in solitary confinement with lights on 24 hours a day, friends denounced.
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong and two other prominent activists pleaded guilty Monday morning to inciting and organizing “unauthorized assembly” at the height of last year’s demonstrations, a charge that could leave them facing up to five years in prison.
China’s government media arms launched an attack on Swedish climate celebrity Greta Thunberg this week after the nation’s Foreign Ministry scolded her not to opine on Chinese issues, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Tuesday — Thunberg recently expressed support for 12 Hongkongers imprisoned after attempting to escape to Taiwan.
Swedish climate change celebrity Greta Thunberg sent “solidarity and gratitude” to activists around the world, including in world’s top polluter China, who were arrested for attempting to join her environmentalist movement, “Fridays for Future,” the South China Morning Post reported this week.
Authorities in Hong Kong arrested the pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong on charges of “unauthorized assembly” during last year’s anti-China protest movement, those close to him announced on Thursday.
Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, including Joshua Wong, are calling on moviegoers to boycott Disney’s live-action Mulan over actress Liu Yifei’s past comment in which she supported Communist China’s crackdown on demonstrators. They are also calling out the Walt Disney Co. for its repeated deference to China’s Communist dictatorship.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Friday that next month’s scheduled legislative elections will be postponed for a year due to the surge in coronavirus cases.
Hong Kong banned a dozen pro-democracy candidates on Thursday from running in the 2020 legislative election, currently scheduled for September 9, pending a possible coronavirus safety delay.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam is reportedly considering a delay for the Legislative Council (LegCo) elections in September, on the grounds that a resurgence of the Chinese coronavirus makes it too dangerous for voters to gather at the polls.
British universities have been revealed to be posting advertisements for the Hong Kong Police Force, which critics claim has effectively become a tool forthe Chinese Communist Party to crush pro-democracy dissent in the former British colony.
Hong Kong youth activist Joshua Wong said on Monday he has been subjected to “intensified” surveillance since he filed his candidacy for a seat in the Legislative Council.
Chinese state media on Sunday blamed the massive turnout for pro-democracy candidates last week, and protests held on July 1 against the tyrannical national security law imposed by Beijing, for the current surge in coronavirus cases in the city.
Over 600,000 votes were cast in Hong Kong primary elections for pro-democracy candidates over the weekend, a turnout over three times as large as expected, given the climate of repression on the island after Beijing imposed a “national security” law that effectively criminalized political opposition. Organizers of the opposition primary hailed the turnout as a “miracle” of defiance.
On Sunday, NBA star LeBron James Tweeted “Free Woj” in response to ESPN’s suspension of NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, who replied “F*ck You,” to a critical email from Republican Senator Josh Hawley about the NBA’s relationship with Communist China.
The Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday that streaming giant Netflix has decided not to “proactively” censor a documentary about Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, despite concerns it might be ruled “subversive” under the totalitarian security law Beijing has imposed on the island.
Prominent Hong Kong freedom activist Joshua Wong on Friday branded “a really big slap in the face” an email from ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), that read simply, “Fuck you.”
The much-feared purge of dissident material from Hong Kong’s libraries and schools is underway only a week after Beijing imposed a sweeping “national security law” on the island, bypassing its legislature and legal system.
The top membership of the pro-democracy Hong Kong group Demosisto resigned from their positions on Tuesday, triggering the disbanding of the group entirely. A staple in anti-China advocacy in the city for four years, Demosisto’s members expressed reservations at the passing of Beijing’s “national security” law.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “taken the world to the brink of a new Cold War” with Hong Kong serving as the new frontline in the fight between “freedom and autocracy”, the founder and chairman of Hong Kong Watch told Breitbart London.
Canada’s former top diplomat to Hong Kong called on his country to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 in response to China’s imposition of a law that allows it to imprison dissidents deemed a threat to “national security.”
A senior Chinese official dismissed the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, which has attracted millions of protesters in the past year, as supporters of “terrorism” who had “gone too far” in remarks on Monday.
Several prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists said on Monday they have been followed and filmed by mysterious stalkers they believe are Chinese security agents.
The Hong Kong Customs Department arrested a member of the local pro-democracy group Demosisto on Monday for allegedly violating a Trade Descriptions Ordinance by selling masks labeled “Not made in China,” local public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported on Monday.
What began as a disarmingly calm day in Hong Kong after online chatter urging pro-democracy protests on Friday turned chaotic at Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza, where police attacked protesters with pepper spray and forced them out of the facility despite merely singing and chanting anti-government slogans.
The Chinese Communist Party bans and censors video games to keep Chinese players from discussing forbidden topics with foreigners.
China wants to ban the popular online video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, due to it becoming a hub for dissidents to criticize Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and authorities in Hong Kong.
A group of approximately 100 pro-China activists protested against two guest speakers that visited Johns Hopkins University this week. The Chinese protesters were speaking out against the guest lecturers due to their calls for Hong Kong democracy and freedom from China.
Local media reported that 150,000 people in Hong Kong attended a protest Sunday demanding the world impose sanctions on the Communist Party of China that ended abruptly with police brutality and the arrest of its organizer despite the group receiving a legal permit for assembly.
As the sun sets on another year, those who left their mark on 2019 prepare for a new decade – one that will likely face unprecedented political, economic, and moral challenges to the free world. With 2019 came a growing
The secretary-general of the Hong Kong democracy movement Demosisto, Joshua Wong, accused the Hong Kong police on Thursday of hacking into his mobile phone and illegally obtaining evidence against him in his upcoming trial.
Time magazine disappointed many who follow current events, and baffled millions of people with normal lives, on Wednesday announcing that teen climate extremist Greta Thunberg had more influence on the world than any other human being.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, and the government’s CCTV broadcaster published images this week depicting Chinese people ransacking an inaccurate rendition of the White House, a call to violence in response to Washington supporting pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters.
The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement fueled record voter turnout and a crushing defeat for pro-China parties in Sunday’s District Council election, leaving the establishment with only 60 of the nearly 500 seats on the council.
