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Winnie the Pooh horror film pulled in Hong Kong, but gov’t says it’s approved for screenings
Stand News trial: Ex-chief editor reveals he considered moving data, operations away from Hong Kong
Hong Kong police urged to ‘maintain professionalism’ after officer reportedly pushes journalist
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
World won’t look kindly on Hong Kong’s new demonstration of rule of law
The people I feel sorry for, reading this week’s newspapers, are those Law Society worthies who recently returned from a trip abroad in which they reassured overseas colleagues that the rule of law was alive and well in Hong Kong. Scarcely had the poor legal lambs returned than the Hong Kong government produced a new…
Why letting a UK lawyer represent Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong exposes a legal dilemma
The Hong Kong government has done a good job so far of keeping Jimmy Lai, the founder of defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, in prison for one reason or another. No doubt it will continue to discharge this important function. This does, though, require some logical and legal gymnastics. Remember the row about British judges…
FEATURES
Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 31
In January, the former editor-in-chief of shuttered independent outlet Stand News delivered his testimony as the sedition trial against him, another ex-editor and the platform’s parent company continued. Meanwhile, six people were arrested by national security police over an allegedly “seditious” book in the largest national security arrests in months, the high-profile trial involving pro-democracy…
Hong Kong outlet Stand News name cards showed reporters’ political stance, prosecutor argues in sedition trial
A former editor of an independent Hong Kong media outlet on trial for sedition was asked whether all Stand News staff were “yellow” – a colour associated with the city’s pro-democracy camp – as the prosecution sought to depict the outlet as a political platform. Lead prosecutor Laura Ng continued her questioning of Chung Pui-kuen…
Baptist University professor leaves Hong Kong after police allegedly contacted over 2019 protest article
A Hong Kong professor left the city after hearing that his university allegedly contacted the police over an article he had written about the 2019 protests, joining a growing number of artists and academics emigrating amid concerns about the city’s declining freedoms. The university, however, has denied making any such report. Justin Wong, who worked…