Members of theHong Kong Alliance for the Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China gathered signatures to show solidarity with the Tiananmen Mothers victims group ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4 in Hong Kong, May 9, 2021. Hong Kong Alliance for the Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China
Residents of Hong Kong have no right to jury trial under a draconian national security law imposed on the city by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the city s department of justice said on Monday.
Prosecutors bringing charges of terrorism and inciting secession against 24-year-old Tong Ying-kit after he flew a protest flag on the day the law took effect said that defendants in Hong Kong do not have a constitutional or fundamental right to trial by jury.
Candle light protests in Hong Kong to commemorate the June 4, 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre like in this 2005 file photo are set to become a thing of the past under draconian security laws imposed on the city by China. AFP
Police in Hong Kong are investigating a group that has organized a string of mass protest marches over more than two decades since the city was handed back to China in 1997, the group s officials and former officials said.
The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), which has organized an annual protest march on July 1 to mark the handover anniversary for more than two decades, including peaceful protests of more than one million people in 2019, is being investigated by police under a law governing the running of civil society groups.