Pro-democracy movement

Hong Kong police detained at least 24 people on Sunday, the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre.

A top Chinese diplomat in Britain who was involved in a recent violent attack on pro-democracy activists in Manchester has come under fire again after he reportedly made veiled threats against Chinese students critical of Xi Jinping’s draconian ‘Zero-Covid’ agenda.

Hong Kong chief executive John Lee, the hardline pro-Beijing former security chief who took over from the reviled Carrie Lam in July, devoted much of his three-hour maiden policy address on Wednesday to swooning over the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on democracy.

Footage of a pro-Hong Kong protester being dragged into a Chinese consulate by masked men and beaten up has emerged online

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.

The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on Tuesday lectured Canada on its hypocrisy for denouncing China’s ruthless suppression of the Hong Kong democracy movement in 2019, but using similar iron-fisted tactics to smash the Freedom Convoy protest movement in 2022.

Hong Kong police on Monday banned a pro-democracy rally planned for July 1, the anniversary of the island’s handover to China by the United Kingdom, supposedly because pandemic restrictions on gatherings of more than four people are still in effect.

A church in Hong Kong has had its bank account frozen after it provided humanitarian support for protesters during the city’s recent pro-democracy demonstrations, its pastors revealed on Monday.

Ronny Tong Ka-wah, a senior member of Hong Kong’s China-controlled leadership, insisted that the region is “no independent kingdom” in an interview Monday.

An Apple store in Hong Kong reportedly refused to engrave an anti-China, pro-democracy logo on the Apple pencil of one of its customers, the Asian website Coconuts reported Thursday. 

Hong Kong police seek to arrest six pro-democracy activists for allegedly “inciting secession and colluding with foreign powers,” according to Chinese state media.

The University of Hong Kong has fired a pro-democracy law professor who was convicted last year of “public nuisance” charges for his leading role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests.

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.

Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong protested against the city’s Beijing-controlled government on Thursday over its inadequate response to the coronavirus.

Around a dozen independent Lunar New Year fairs have sprung up across Hong Kong over the past week in support of the city’s ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations, with organizers attempting to raise money and morale among supporters. 

Hong Kong’s Chinese-controlled authorities blocked the entry of the executive director of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, on Sunday.

A suspected undercover police officer was pepper-sprayed at a pro-democracy demonstration in Hong Kong on Sunday by fellow officers who did not realize he was on their side. 

Chinese state media declared on Monday that the success of pro-democracy candidates in the Hong Kong District Council elections Sunday should end the city’s mass demonstrations against Beijing’s interference.

China’s foreign ministry called the nomination of the Hong Kong protest movement to the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian lawmaker “foreign interference” and glorification of violence on Friday.