The 2014 Umbrella Movement was a 79-day long pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign originally conceived as “Occupy Central.” Thousands occupied roads around the legislature and in two other key districts following a student sit-in. Leading figures of the largely peaceful movement were jailed in the years following the police clearance.
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Media mogul Jimmy Lai’s activism grew after Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong court hears as 2nd ex-publisher testifies
Chan Pui-man, a former publisher at the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, began testifying against her ex-boss Jimmy Lai on Friday. She was charged under the national security alongside Lai and has already pleaded guilty.
Hong Kong Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai was not a boss you could say no to, ex-publisher tells national security trial
Cheung Kim-hung, the ex-publisher of Apple Daily, told the court that the newspaper’s value of freedom of expression did not include “saying no to the boss.”
A ‘rich-people melodrama,’ shot in a ‘burning house’: Critics weigh in on Amazon’s ‘Expats’ series
“It’s like showing up at a billionaire’s house and taking 100 pictures of the koi pond from every angle, while the house is burning down behind you,” says NPR pop culture correspondent Linda Holmes.
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The Hong Kong Bar Association’s endangered reputation, and the seven-year itch
“The question which… arises is how long and how far the effort by the government and its fans to dig up legal brickbats they can throw at retired democratic politicians will go,” writes Tim Hamlett after the Bar censured democrat Tanya Chan.
Winning hearts and minds: mission impossible for Hong Kong’s new leader and his national security agenda?
No one wants to risk making critical potentially seditious remarks about the new Chief Executive – sedition being a new area of interest for Hong Kong’s national security police, writes Suzanne Pepper.
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Artist or rights activist? Luke Ching would rather be called a cleaner
Most people fight for workers’ rights through unions, but Luke Ching does it in a particularly creative way. The artist, who is also an activist and a cleaner, wants to show that small changes can still be achieved in the city – even in the current political climate.
Artist Vaevae Chan spent years building a cave in a Hong Kong high rise. Now she is ready to share it with others
Located on the 17th floor of a San Po Kong industrial building, Vaevae Chan’s walk-through installation “She Told Me to Head to the Sea” was born from trauma – hers and the city’s. Opening it to the public is the “next chapter” of her healing process, she says.
The Hong Kong returnees who want to leave again
“I always say ‘home is wherever I feel safe.’ Of course it is hard to let go. It is a bitter feeling… We have put so much time to help build Hong Kong, but now we are being uprooted – my career, my family, my friends,” said Pauline Choy, a Hongkonger who has gained Australian citizenship.
