National Security law

China’s state-run Global Times crowed on Thursday that “dozens of former local politicians and extreme separatist activists” in Hong Kong pled guilty to “conspiring to subvert state power.” In other words, pro-democracy activists were pressured into guilty pleas under the grotesque “national security law” Beijing illegally forced on Hong Kong to crush the last vestiges of the island’s autonomy.

Outgoing Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that vigils for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre could violate not only coronavirus safety protocols, but also the draconian “national security law” imposed on the island by Beijing in 2020.

Condemnations poured in from around the world on Wednesday as Hong Kong’s newly “elected” chief executive John Lee invoked China’s authoritarian “national security law” to arrest 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen and two other prominent opposition figures.

Britain said Wednesday that it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong’s top court because keeping them there would “legitimize oppression”.

2021 was the year Communist China smashed the dream of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, with only modest opposition from the civilized world.

British police have launched an investigation after Hong Kong activists were targeted by a £10,000 anonymous bounty for information.

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) deleted an article from its website without explanation on the ongoing scandal surrounding Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Wednesday, who accused a high-ranking Communist Party official of rape.

Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday it will close its office in Hong Kong by the end of the year.

Hong Kong’s largest independent trade union disbanded on Sunday citing “political uncertainty” amid a pro-Beijing crackdown on the city’s civil institutions, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.

Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang on Wednesday commanded the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA) to hand over a list of all its members, where they are employed, and how many of them are students. Tang accused the HKJA of “infiltrating” schools and “recruiting” students for subversive activities.

Hong Kong police arrested four organizers of an annual Tiananmen Square vigil on Wednesday for refusing to cooperate with an investigation related to their alleged violations of the city’s national security law, the Hong Kong Free Press reported.

Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union disbanded on Tuesday after caving to pressure from pro-Beijing forces in Hong Kong’s government, which accused the group of violating the national security law imposed by the Chinese Communist Party last summer.

Hong Kong officials issued increasingly ominous warnings Monday and Tuesday that anyone expressing sympathy for the man who stabbed a police officer on July 1 could themselves be treated as domestic terrorists.

China’s Global Times propaganda newspaper applauded the escalating absence of “any large-scale opposition” to communism in Hong Kong on Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Communist Party of China is preparing for what state media called this Wednesday an “unprecedented” celebration of its ideology, responsible for at least 45 million deaths in China alone, in Hong Kong next week for the 100th anniversary of the Party.

Hong Kong’s government announced Friday it will begin censoring films screened in Hong Kong for content interpreted as violating the city’s national security law, imposed illegitimately on Hong Kong by China’s ruling Communist Party last June and creating four new crimes — secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces.

Primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong are reporting a grand “exodus” of their students this year after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed a national security law on the city last summer that diminished individual liberties, including in the classroom.

Hong Kong’s High Court on Thursday denied a trial by jury for the first person charged under the city’s national security law.

Hong Kong authorities charged 47 pro-democracy activists in the city with “conspiracy to subvert state powers” over the weekend, Radio Television Hong Kong reported Sunday.

Hong Kong’s population declined last year for the first time since 2003, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department said Thursday.

Hong Kong’s education ministry released guidelines on Thursday to teach schoolchildren as young as six years old to abide by the city’s national security law, imposed by China on Hong Kong last summer.

In response to the mass arrests of pro-democracy activists and politicians in Hong Kong, British politicians called on the European Union to abandon the investment pact it struck with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including Brexit leader Nigel Farage who said that “Brussels’ greed is helping the regime to take over the world.”

The U.S. State Department updated its travel advisory for Hong Kong, merging it with its advisory regarding China, on Thursday, warning that visitors may face arbitrary arrest and other human rights violations.

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 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.

The Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong banned four pro-democracy legislators on Wednesday, branding them as threats to national security.

The Hong Kong police established a hotline this week where residents can snitch on their neighbors for violating the “national security law” imposed on the island by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June.

A family planning group in Hong Kong recorded an increase in the number of abortions, and applications for abortions, it processed in the first eight months of this year, local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported on Tuesday.

Hong Kong police mobilized in force on Thursday, the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Communist Chinese regime, as hundreds of citizens defied a ban on unauthorized public gatherings to demonstrate in favor of democracy.

The U.S. suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong on Wednesday, as the Trump administration continues to rescind Hong Kong’s special privileges in response to China’s imposition of a controversial national security law on the traditionally semi-autonomous city.

Dozens of Hong Kong citizens gathered in shopping malls across the city Tuesday to call for press freedom, one day after Hong Kong police raided the local Apple Daily newsroom and arrested its owner, Jimmy Lai, under the city’s new “national security” law.

The popular video app TikTok announced on Monday it will leave the Hong Kong market in the coming days following China’s imposition of a new “national security” law severely limiting the city’s freedoms.

Foreign corporations in Hong Kong are nervously considering their options after the passage of Beijing’s totalitarian “national security law” with several already closing their local offices.

The redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen said this week that he is prepared to suffer arrest and trials under Hong Kong’s draconian new National Security Law.

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong are primed for demonstrations after the Chinese Communist Party approved its “national security” law on Tuesday morning, a day before the 23rd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from the British Empire.