Officers patrol Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 2013. / Alexandre Kuma via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
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Opinion: How countries deal with China is a litmus test of their commitment to human rights
The extent to which we protect and defend human rights tells us who we are as a society, writes Anthony Moore SC. By Anthony Moore Saturday 22 May 2021, 6:30 PM 2 hours ago 2,229 Views 27 Comments Anthony Moore
ON 1 JULY 1997, Britain returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in one final display of imperial pomp.
At the time, I was a student, attending a lecture at a German university. At the end of the class, the professor surveyed the students and, paraphrasing the words of Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the Great War, solemnly intoned, “Tonight, my friends, the lights have gone out in Hong Kong”.
Jimmy Lai gets 14 months in jail, hard-won results ‘re-education of HK society’
Chen Shasha Published: Apr 16, 2021 09:18 PM
Jimmy Lai Photo:VCGHong Kong s pro-secessionist media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was sentenced to 12 months and eight months in prison, respectively, for attending and organizing two illegal assemblies in August 2019, a local court announced on Friday, one day after the city s first celebration of National Security Education Day on Thursday, also amid the collapse of the city s major pan-democratic group.
Experts said that the sentence of riot leader may serve as reference for future cases, and boost confidence in Hong Kong s political system.
Jimmy Lai Chee Ying arrving at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court, Hong Kong, Oct. 15, 2020. / Yung Chi Wai Derek/Shutterstock
CNA Staff, Feb 9, 2021 / 11:34 am (CNA).- Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday denied bail to Catholic media tycoon Jimmy Lai, whom police arrested last summer for apparent violations of a new China-imposed national security law.
Lai, an entrepreneur and billionaire, is perhaps the most high-profile detainee under the new law, which Beijing imposed directly on the island territory on July 1, 2020.
A band of nearly 200 police officers arrested Lai on Aug. 10, 2020, along with at least nine others connected to Apple Daily, the newspaper Lai founded in 1995, as part of an apparent crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong.
By Luke Hunt
Martin Lee Chu-ming, known to many as the father of Hong Kong democracy, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize after China’s crackdown on the enclave effectively dashed promises of universal suffrage made before the 1997 handover.
Two Norwegian parliamentarians nominated the veteran pro-democracy leader, saying he was “a source of inspiration for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and advocates for freedom around the world.”
He is currently on bail awaiting trial following his arrest last year with 14 others for unauthorized assembly in the wake of massive pro-democracy marches in August and October 2019.
Lee, a London-trained Catholic barrister, championed democracy for many years as Britain negotiated the handover of its then colony to Beijing and worked closely with its last governor, Chris Patten.