Protests erupted in June 2019 across Hong Kong over a now-axed extradition bill. They escalated into sometimes violent displays of dissent against police behaviour, amid calls for democracy and anger over Beijing’s encroachment.
LATEST NEWS & VIEWS ON THE 2019 PROTEST MOVEMENT
Families of Hongkong fugitives jailed on mainland are finally allowed to visit
Family members of two of the ten Hong Kong pro-democracy activists jailed in mainland China have been allowed to visit them for the first time since the group was arrested at sea last August while trying to escape to Taiwan by speedboat. The families of Li Tsz-yin and Kwok Tsz-lun completed their coronavirus quarantine on Monday […]
Hong Kong police arrest former student union president and 2 others over CUHK campus security protest
Hong Kong police have arrested three students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and searched three dormitories after a campus protest this month in which a security guard was taken to hospital. The arrests were made on Monday evening following the incident earlier this month during which masked individuals pushed down metal fences […]
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
When friends fall out: The messages that fuel mutual mistrust in Hong Kong
Last year, as the height of the Hong Kong protests, I received a message from an old friend in Hong Kong. For 20 years we had played tennis together and our families had always got on well. He forwarded to me a message alleging the Americans were behind the “riots’ and that key people in […]
Covid or covert? How Beijing concocted an election delay to reshape Hong Kong’s legislature
When Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the postponement of Hong Kong’s 2020 Legislative Council election, she cited the health risks posed by Covid-19. She made the announcement in late July, just as campaigning was about to get underway for the scheduled September 6 poll. The council is a local law-making body but since Hong Kong […]