https://www.scmp.com/rss/324984/feed Joshua Wong Chi-fung is a Hong Kong opposition activist. He was one of the leaders of the 2014 Occupy Movement. He was among 45 activists jailed in 2024 following a landmark subversion trial. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Lo Hoi-ying Lo Hoi-ying Beijing has called on the new US consul general to Hong Kong to uphold the principle of non-interference and respect the city’s rule of law, following the announcement that Julie Eadeh has taken up the role after receiving the central government’s approval. Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said on Thursday that the central government hoped that Eadeh would respect China’s sovereignty and “abide by international conventions”. Guo was responding to a media query about... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3323543/beijing-tells-new-us-consul-general-hong-kong-respect-citys-rule-law?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3323543/beijing-tells-new-us-consul-general-hong-kong-respect-citys-rule-law?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:34:26 +0000 Cannix Yau Cannix Yau An American official who met local opposition activists during the 2019 anti-government protests has arrived in Hong Kong after receiving Beijing’s approval for the much-watched appointment as the new US consul general for the city and Macau. Julie Eadeh is taking over from her predecessor, Gregory May, who left Hong Kong last month to assume duties as the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Beijing. A career member of the senior foreign service with the rank of minister counsellor, she... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3323390/new-us-consul-general-julie-eadeh-arrives-hong-kong-after-beijings-approval?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3323390/new-us-consul-general-julie-eadeh-arrives-hong-kong-after-beijings-approval?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:35:48 +0000 Ng Kang-chung Ng Kang-chung Hong Kong authorities are seeking to remove at least five opposition groups from the official societies register, including the now-defunct Scholarism founded by jailed activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung and political party People Power. The groups have three months to submit proof that they are still functioning or else their operations will be banned. According to notices published by the Government Gazette on Friday, 285 community groups and organisations are facing the risk of deregistration. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3322884/hong-kong-remove-least-5-opposition-groups-societies-register?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3322884/hong-kong-remove-least-5-opposition-groups-societies-register?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:17:23 +0000 William Zheng William Zheng An American official who met opposition activists in Hong Kong during the 2019 anti-government protests is understood to be the top candidate to be the next US consul general in the city. Julie Eadeh, a career member of the US Senior Foreign Service and now the US consul general in Istanbul, is expected to take over the position from Gregory May, according to a source familiar with the matter. A second source said Eadeh’s “name” had been “presented to the relevant Chinese authorities”. “Now she... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3317822/us-career-diplomat-julie-eadeh-tipped-be-next-consul-general-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3317822/us-career-diplomat-julie-eadeh-tipped-be-next-consul-general-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:00:13 +0000 Emily Hung Emily Hung China’s foreign ministry arm in Hong Kong on Wednesday voiced its disapproval of the United States’ “blatant support” of jailed activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, while accusing Washington of smearing police enforcement actions. The Hong Kong government also blasted American and certain Western countries, anti-China groups and anti-China politicians for “disregarding the rule of law” in their comments on Wong’s case. Hong Kong national security police levelled a fresh charge against Wong last... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3313997/beijing-slams-washington-supporting-jailed-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3313997/beijing-slams-washington-supporting-jailed-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:38:42 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong Hong Kong national security police have levelled a fresh charge against jailed activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, accusing him of conspiring with fugitive ex-lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung to collude with foreign forces five years ago. Police were seen strengthening security around West Kowloon Court on Friday as they awaited the arrival of 28-year-old Wong, who was brought to court in a prison van. A charge sheet seen by the Post said Wong conspired with Law and others to instigate foreign... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3313344/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-faces-fresh-charge-foreign-collusion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3313344/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-faces-fresh-charge-foreign-collusion?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:50:53 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung took part in a subversive scheme tied to an unofficial legislative “primary” election in 2020, his legal counsel told a court on Friday as he asked for a sentence of no more than 10 years’ imprisonment. Former student leader Wong, 27, appeared in West Kowloon Court alongside five other opposition figures to ask for lighter sentences for their roles in what was ruled in the city’s largest national security trial to be a conspiracy to subvert... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3269292/hong-kong-47-activist-joshua-wong-asks-no-more-10-years-jail-active-role-plot?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3269292/hong-kong-47-activist-joshua-wong-asks-no-more-10-years-jail-active-role-plot?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:15:47 +0000 Ambrose Li Ambrose Li Hong Kong opposition activist Agnes Chow Ting has pledged to never return home after earlier fleeing a national security investigation for Canada, thrusting the media spotlight back on a young generation of pro-democracy figures, some of whom also fought for self-determination and independence. Following Beijing’s promulgation of the national security law in Hong Kong in 2020, local authorities clamped down on opposition activists involved in anti-government protests the year before. Chow was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3243882/who-were-young-faces-hong-kongs-democracy-movement-and-where-are-they-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3243882/who-were-young-faces-hong-kongs-democracy-movement-and-where-are-they-now?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:28:42 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong A Hong Kong judge has given prosecutors permission for contempt of court proceedings against a jailed political activist and three other men after it was alleged they breached a ban on revealing personal details of police officers. But Mr Justice Russell Coleman on Thursday slammed the “significant and almost wholly unexplained” delay by the justice department over the start of the proceedings against Joshua Wong Chi-Fung and the other men. Wong is alleged to have flouted a court-imposed 2019... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3200901/hong-kong-judge-approves-contempt-court-proceedings-against-joshua-wong-and-three-other-men-involved?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3200901/hong-kong-judge-approves-contempt-court-proceedings-against-joshua-wong-and-three-other-men-involved?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:37:06 +0000 Michael Vidler, a Hong Kong human rights lawyer who has taken cases relating to the 2019 anti-government protests and transgender rights, is shutting down his law firm in two months. The plan to close was first revealed in a Thursday circular by the Law Society of Hong Kong to its members, which said Vidler & Co. Solicitors would cease practice on June 3. Vidler confirmed to the Post he was shutting down the firm, which he started 19 years ago, but refused to comment further on speculation that... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3175045/hong-kong-human-rights-lawyer-who-made-name-protest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3175045/hong-kong-human-rights-lawyer-who-made-name-protest?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:10:28 +0000 Imprisoned Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has won an appeal to reduce his 10-month jail term by one-fifth for his role in a banned Tiananmen Square vigil two years ago. The Court of Appeal on Wednesday also ordered that two months of the sentence should be served concurrently with the 17½ months he had received for two other cases. The rulings by Justices Maggie Poon Man-kay and Anthea Pang Po-kam shortened Wong’s current sentence to 23½ months, for his involvement in three... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3163948/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-wins-appeal-reduce-jail?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3163948/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-wins-appeal-reduce-jail?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:40:11 +0000 Following the 1997 handover, Hong Kong filmmakers censored their work to secure funding and mainland Chinese distribution, but independent films for the local market were still free to broach politically sensitive subjects. Not any more. The national security law and newly revised film censorship guidelines have ended that creative freedom. There will be no more films like Ten Years, the controversial anthology named best movie at the 2016 Hong Kong Film Awards, that told five dystopian stories... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3149683/how-national-security-law-hastening-demise-hong-kong-cinema?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3149683/how-national-security-law-hastening-demise-hong-kong-cinema?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:45:13 +0000 Imprisoned Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung on Thursday was sentenced to 10 months’ jail for taking part in an unauthorised vigil last year commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Three district councillors – Lester Shum, 27, Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai, 27, and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung, 26 – were also sentenced for their roles in the June 4 event in Victoria Park, with Shum receiving six months, and Yuen and Leung getting four months each. The four pleaded guilty last week... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3132427/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-gets-10-months-jail?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3132427/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-gets-10-months-jail?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 May 2021 03:01:03 +0000 Jailed Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorised June 4 vigil last year commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Three district councillors – Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung – have also admitted knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly, an offence under the Public Order Ordinance that could land them five years in prison. All four defendants were remanded in jail ahead of sentencing... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3131715/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-three-others-plead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3131715/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-three-others-plead?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Apr 2021 03:48:28 +0000 Jailed Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has been handed another prison sentence, this time for four months, for joining an unauthorised rally and flouting a government-imposed mask ban over a year ago. Eastern Court on Tuesday sentenced the 24-year-old on charges arising from a Hong Kong Island demonstration on October 5, 2019, when hundreds of people marched from Causeway Bay to Central in protest against a government-imposed mask ban, which came into effect that morning. His... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3129345/hong-kong-protests-court-adds-activist-joshua-wongs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3129345/hong-kong-protests-court-adds-activist-joshua-wongs?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Apr 2021 08:15:08 +0000 Eleven of the 47 Hong Kong opposition activists charged in the city’s largest national security law crackdown to date have been denied bail for a second time, while 10 others withdrew their challenges at the last minute. Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak on Friday reviewed the bail applications from 21 of the defendants accused of subversion in relation to an unofficial primary election last summer. Those who failed again at West Kowloon Court to secure temporary release were former lawmakers... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3125152/national-security-law-bail-denied-again-11-47-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3125152/national-security-law-bail-denied-again-11-47-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:33:20 +0000 A top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has reaffirmed the importance of “patriots” governing the city in a speech to pro-establishment figures in Shenzhen, with state media reporting that those in attendance unanimously agreed that the time had come for a comprehensive overhaul of the local political system. Xia Baolong, director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said on Monday that he believed that the majority of the city’s residents were indeed patriotic,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3123632/senior-beijing-official-calls-three-extremely-bad-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3123632/senior-beijing-official-calls-three-extremely-bad-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:11:28 +0000 Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung and four others may face five years in jail, after deciding to plead guilty to taking part in last year’s banned June 4 vigil. Lawyers for 19 other co-defendants, including media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, asked the District Court on Friday for extra time to decide on their respective pleas pending the verdict of a similar case related to an anti-government protest in 2019. The 24 defendants appeared at West Kowloon Court for a mention hearing... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3120765/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-among-group?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3120765/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-among-group?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:07:32 +0000 Jailed Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has pleaded guilty to further charges of taking part in an unauthorised assembly and violating the government’s mask ban during the civil unrest of 2019. The 24-year-old on Friday returned to court alongside veteran activist Koo Sze-yiu, 74, to face charges stemming from a Hong Kong Island rally on October 5, 2019, when hundreds of people marched from Causeway Bay to Central in protest against the mask ban, which came into effect that... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3119824/jailed-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-pleads-guilty-fresh?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3119824/jailed-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-pleads-guilty-fresh?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:25:15 +0000 Sometimes, the best contrarian investment indicators are those that people neglect or use for other purposes. What if a large number of well-known people suddenly decide to sell their homes at about the same time? Shouldn’t that say something about the local real estate market as some people are taking a bearish view of it, or even the city’s future as a whole? But we are ignoring their “signal” because many of them are heavily involved in anti-government protests. Psychologically, in light of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3118741/are-pan-democrats-calling-top-hong-kong-property-market?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3118741/are-pan-democrats-calling-top-hong-kong-property-market?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:31:37 +0000 The UN rights chief on Wednesday voiced deep concern over arrests of activists in Hong Kong, warning that a tough new security law was having a “chilling effect” on basic freedoms. “I am concerned about the rapidly shrinking civic and democratic space, especially since the passage of the national security law,” Michelle Bachelet told reporters in her annual year-end press conference in Geneva. Critics say the draconian national security law, passed on June 30, destroys the freedoms once enjoyed... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3113265/un-rights-chief-warns-hong-kong-national-security-law-having?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3113265/un-rights-chief-warns-hong-kong-national-security-law-having?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:29:35 +0000 Beijing and Hong Kong officials have hit out at the United States and Britain for backing Joshua Wong Chi-fung and other opposition activists jailed this week, saying the sentences barely atone for their crimes against China. Voicing support also for media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, the US said it was appalled at the political persecution in Hong Kong of what it described as courageous pro-democracy advocates, while British Foreign Minister, Dominic Raab, demanded an end to the stifling of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3112670/beijing-blasts-absurd-tributes-joshua-wong-other?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3112670/beijing-blasts-absurd-tributes-joshua-wong-other?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:13:26 +0000 One of Hong Kong’s most prominent young political activists, Joshua Wong Chi-fung, was jailed for more than 13 months on Wednesday for organising and inciting others to join a 15-hour siege of police headquarters at the start of last year’s anti-government protests. Wong’s high-profile comrade, Agnes Chow Ting, was sentenced to 10 months behind bars for her role in the same illegal protest, while their associate, Ivan Lam Long-yin, received a seven-month term. In passing sentence, West Kowloon... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3112245/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-gets-over-year-jail?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3112245/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-gets-over-year-jail?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Dec 2020 07:43:06 +0000 Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung is in solitary confinement after suspicions were raised when an X-ray reportedly revealed “a shadow” in his stomach. The lights in the room at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre will be on 24 hours a day and he will only be allowed to leave it if he has a visitor. Wong was remanded in custody on Monday after he pleaded guilty to charges of organising and inciting an unauthorised assembly near police headquarters on June 21 last year. The 24-year-old’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3111318/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-put-solitary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3111318/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-put-solitary?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:54:37 +0000 Pro-establishment Hong Kong lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee said the cases of two opposition activists, Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Agnes Chow Ting, would determine whether more laws need to be passed to close loopholes in the national security law that Beijing imposed this year. Wong, 24, and Chow, 23, were remanded in custody at West Kowloon Court on Monday after pleading guilty over their roles in a 15-hour siege of Hong Kong’s police headquarters during the anti-government protests last... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3111230/hong-kong-lawmaker-regina-ip-says-joshua-wong-and-agnes-chow-cases-may?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3111230/hong-kong-lawmaker-regina-ip-says-joshua-wong-and-agnes-chow-cases-may?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:22:23 +0000 Three Hong Kong opposition activists have been remanded in custody, after pleading guilty to charges stemming from their involvement in a 15-hour siege of the city’s police headquarters during the anti-government protest movement last year. Joshua Wong Chi-fung, 24, Ivan Lam Long-yin, 26, and Agnes Chow Ting, 23, appeared at West Kowloon Court on Monday, where Wong and Lam had been expected to stand trial over their roles in the incident on June 21. But both men, who previously entered... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3110933/hong-kong-opposition-pair-joshua-wong-and-ivan-lam?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3110933/hong-kong-opposition-pair-joshua-wong-and-ivan-lam?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:03:18 +0000 Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung on Monday led several other pro-democracy figures to protest outside Thailand’s consulate in the city, calling for global support for the growing anti-government movement in the Southeast Asian kingdom. In the youth-led Thai protests, which began in March at universities around the country, thousands of people are seeking the resignation of the prime minister, a more democratic constitution, and a reformed monarchy. Thailand protests: how Hong Kong... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3106153/hong-kongs-joshua-wong-leads-calls-global-support-thai-pro?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3106153/hong-kongs-joshua-wong-leads-calls-global-support-thai-pro?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:00:38 +0000 Greta Thunberg, the high-profile global environmental activist, has waded into sensitive Chinese politics by demanding the release of 12 Hong Kong fugitives detained in mainland China after being arrested at sea while fleeing to Taiwan.  The Swedish environmentalist shared on Twitter a picture of her holding a whiteboard bearing the message “#SAVE12HKYOUTHS” in response to a direct appeal to back the cause from Joshua Wong Chi-fung, the poster boy of Hong Kong’s protest movement. She also wrote,... https://www.scmp.com/politics/greta-thunberg-declares-support-hong-kong-12-detained-china/article/3106070?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/greta-thunberg-declares-support-hong-kong-12-detained-china/article/3106070?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:02:47 +0000 Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined a growing international list of campaigners and politicians demanding the release of 12 Hong Kong fugitives detained in mainland China after being arrested at sea while fleeing to Taiwan. The Swedish environmentalist shared on Twitter a picture of her holding a white board bearing the message “#SAVE12HKYOUTHS” in response to a direct appeal to back the cause from Joshua Wong Chi-fung, the poster boy of Hong Kong’s protest movement. Thunberg, who... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3106018/hong-kong-protests-greta-thunberg-backs-international?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3106018/hong-kong-protests-greta-thunberg-backs-international?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Oct 2020 10:33:04 +0000 Hong Kong’s police chief has dismissed suggestions by opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung that the force conspired to kidnap 12 fugitives being held in mainland China as, “trumped-up and malicious accusations”. In a Facebook post, Wong claimed Hong Kong authorities worked with their counterparts across the border to seize the 12 so they could be held for “for secret trial, torture and detention”. The fugitives, who are wanted in Hong Kong in connection with anti-government protest cases,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3105546/hong-kong-police-chief-slams-joshua-wong-over-trumped?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3105546/hong-kong-police-chief-slams-joshua-wong-over-trumped?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:45:52 +0000 It has been more than 100 days since the imposition of the national security law on Hong Kong on June 30. In the third of a three-part series, the Post looks at how it has led to the emergence of a group of exiled dissidents who have sought refuge abroad and another group who have chosen to stay and fight. See here for parts one and two. For many dissidents who have remained in Hong Kong, it is hard to see in the future anything but a vision of dystopia, shrouded by uncertainty, death threats... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3104908/im-ready-jail-hong-kong-dissidents-who-chose-stay-and-fight?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3104908/im-ready-jail-hong-kong-dissidents-who-chose-stay-and-fight?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:30:15 +0000 It has been more than 100 days since the imposition of the national security law on Hong Kong on June 30. In the third part of a series, the Post looks at how it has led to the emergence of a group of exiled dissidents who have sought refuge abroad and another group who have chosen to stay and fight. See parts one and two here. Nathan Law Kwun-chung has barely stepped out of his flat in London since fleeing his hometown days before Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong on... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3104917/national-security-law-and-hong-kongs-exiled-dissidents-worlds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3104917/national-security-law-and-hong-kongs-exiled-dissidents-worlds?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:30:06 +0000 Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has been granted temporary release by a court after being charged with taking part in an unauthorised assembly and violating the government’s mask ban during last year’s civil unrest. Wong, 23, appeared in Eastern Court on Wednesday afternoon alongside 74-year-old veteran activist Koo Sze-yiu – also released – over their alleged participation in the banned rally in Causeway Bay on October 5, the day the anti-mask law took effect. The pair were... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3103648/hong-kong-court-grants-activist-joshua-wong-temporary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3103648/hong-kong-court-grants-activist-joshua-wong-temporary?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:31:44 +0000 Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung was arrested on Thursday for allegedly taking part in an illegal assembly during the city’s social unrest last year, a move he said was carried out to stoke fear ahead of a planned march next week. Veteran social activist Koo Sze-yiu was also detained in connection with the protest on October 5 last year and taken to Cheung Sha Wan Police Station before being released. Wong said police had also accused him of breaching the anti-mask law, which... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3102855/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-over?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3102855/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-over?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:09:35 +0000 A Hong Kong court has thrown out a legal bid by opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung to overturn a ban on his candidacy for municipal-level polls last year. The High Court on Wednesday dismissed Wong’s application for a judicial review of his disqualification from last year’s district council elections. He was the sole hopeful barred for political reasons after the vetting officer deemed he still advocated the city’s independence. In a 22-page judgment, Mr Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming said... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3102666/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-loses-legal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3102666/hong-kong-opposition-activist-joshua-wong-loses-legal?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Sep 2020 06:59:55 +0000 As they say, all is fair in love and war. When you have been engaged in political warfare in the past few years and actively take sides in the political divide one way or another, you paint yourself a target. So, we are all fair game, even when our critics and attackers are not, we think, being fair. But that doesn’t extend to families and friends. Yes, attack your enemies, but leave their families alone. More specifically, leave innocent families caught up in this in struggle alone. But it... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100306/its-toxicity-and-indecency-killing-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100306/its-toxicity-and-indecency-killing-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Sep 2020 02:55:42 +0000 In Japan, politicians and the public have shown their staunch support for Hong Kong opposition activist Agnes Chow, with #FreeAgnes trending on social media and a cross-party group of Diet members condemning her arrest under the city’s national security law. After an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the arrests of Chow and Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, the founder of local newspaper Apple Daily, the Japan Parliamentary Alliance on China issued a statement condemning Beijing and the city’s... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3097132/freeagnes-trends-japan-why-hong-kong-activist-agnes-chow-so?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3097132/freeagnes-trends-japan-why-hong-kong-activist-agnes-chow-so?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:44:17 +0000 I woke up yesterday to the news that Hong Kong had disqualified 12 opposition lawmakers from running for the Legislative Council, with potentially more to come. The international community quickly condemned the decision while Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s government defended it, suggesting it had nothing to do with political suppression and in no way infringed on freedom of speech. Putting aside how absurd the administration’s comments are, it was expected that people like Joshua... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3095462/hong-kong-election-banning-opposition-only-hurts-beijings-long-term?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3095462/hong-kong-election-banning-opposition-only-hurts-beijings-long-term?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:35:10 +0000 The banning of 12 democrat election hopefuls on the eve of a controversial move to delay the Legislative Council polls has again sent shock waves across the city and beyond. Coming after the national security law bombshell and a series of controversies in recent weeks, it bespeaks momentous paradigm shifts in the political order. Beijing is certainly determined to get rid of elements that it sees as jeopardising the state and the city. But the political divide is bound to deepen further, which... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3095624/banning-candidates-and-poll-delay-are-paradigm-shifts-hong-kongs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3095624/banning-candidates-and-poll-delay-are-paradigm-shifts-hong-kongs?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:08:20 +0000 Opposition activists were out in force in Hong Kong on Friday morning collecting nominations for unnamed candidates, a day after the government banned 12 of their members from running in the Legislative Council elections. On Thursday, an unprecedented number of rising localist activists, young district councillors and incumbent lawmakers were disqualified from September’s vote, just a month after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong. Sources said the government was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3095468/hong-kong-elections-opposition-scrambles-support-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3095468/hong-kong-elections-opposition-scrambles-support-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Jul 2020 05:06:35 +0000 Hong Kong’s opposition camp has suffered a stunning blow, with at least 12 members, including veteran and moderate politicians, barred from running in the Legislative Council elections, while the government has warned that more may be disqualified. Citing the city’s new national security law and the pan-democrats’ previous calls for foreign governments to sanction Beijing and Hong Kong as key reasons, election officials on Thursday invalidated the candidacies of four incumbent lawmakers – the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3095327/hong-kong-elections-12-opposition-candidates-disqualified?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3095327/hong-kong-elections-12-opposition-candidates-disqualified?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:20:35 +0000 In the Bible, Joshua, the leader of the Israelites, fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down. This is probably how Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung perceives himself – as a champion for freedom. My perception of him is somewhat different. In my eyes, he is rather the infamous Trojan horse, aiming to destroy the city, in this case Hong Kong, from the inside. By declaring his refusal to sign the declaration of loyalty (“Joshua Wong, other Legco hopefuls refuse to sign... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3095114/joshua-wong-running-legislative-council-bad-faith?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3095114/joshua-wong-running-legislative-council-bad-faith?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:30:12 +0000 Hong Kong opposition activist Agnes Chow Ting has pleaded guilty to offences relating to an anti-government protest outside police headquarters in June last year, an event that Joshua Wong Chi-fung has also been charged over. Chow, 22, admitted in court on Monday incitement and taking part in an unauthorised assembly, before telling the media outside she was mentally prepared for serving time in jail. But Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai did not sentence Chow at Eastern Court, as Wong, 22, had... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3091989/hong-kong-protests-pro-democracy-activist-agnes-chow?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3091989/hong-kong-protests-pro-democracy-activist-agnes-chow?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:53:23 +0000 Hong Kong libraries have taken at least nine titles written by localist or democracy advocates out of circulation pending a review of whether the books run afoul of the new national security law. Bar Association chairman Philip Dykes called the move alarming and said authorities needed to justify restricting the public’s right to seek information. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department, which manages the city’s public libraries, confirmed it was scrutinising some books for compliance with... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3091842/national-security-law-hong-libraries-pull-books-some?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3091842/national-security-law-hong-libraries-pull-books-some?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:33:58 +0000 Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law Kwun-chung has fled the city to an undisclosed location, he revealed late on Thursday, hours after testifying online at a US congressional hearing and criticising the new national security law. “Hi this is Nathan. I have already left Hong Kong and continue the advocacy work on the international level. Based on risk assessment, I shall not reveal too much about my personal whereabouts and situation now,” he told the press in a WhatsApp group at 10.40pm. Law... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3091619/national-security-law-hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-reveals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3091619/national-security-law-hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-reveals?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Jul 2020 16:51:02 +0000 The fate of Hong Kong’s localist political groups was left hanging in the balance on Tuesday, as at least three shut their local branches soon after the national security law was passed by China’s top legislative body. Opposition party Demosisto disbanded hours after Joshua Wong Chi-fung and several key members tendered their resignations, vowing to continue their political advocacy “in a personal capacity” on the day the legislation was due to take effect in the city. The Hong Kong National... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3091183/hong-kong-national-security-law-future-citys-localist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3091183/hong-kong-national-security-law-future-citys-localist?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:31:01 +0000 Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong says he expects to be a “prime target” of the national security legislation in Hong Kong. The proposed law will target separatism, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, but it is unclear what activities would constitute such crimes and what the punishments would be. https://www.scmp.com/politics/activist-joshua-wong-expects-be-prime-target-national-security-law-hong-kong/article/3090951?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/activist-joshua-wong-expects-be-prime-target-national-security-law-hong-kong/article/3090951?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:23:50 +0000 Former Occupy student leaders Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Nathan Law Kwun-chung have thrown their hats into the ring for the opposition camp’s primaries in the lead-up to Hong Kong’s Legislative Council elections, despite facing disqualification under the impending national security law. Announcing his bid to seek the camp’s endorsement for a Kowloon East seat on Friday, Wong warned he could be slapped with harsher penalties over his political stance, should the legislation being tailor-made by... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3089858/former-occupy-student-leaders-joshua-wong-nathan-law-bid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3089858/former-occupy-student-leaders-joshua-wong-nathan-law-bid?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:00:07 +0000 But what about? These are among the worst words on the internet, often coming before a charge of hypocrisy while not dealing with the matter at hand. LeBron James has heard them a lot of late. The Los Angeles Lakers star was called out as hypocritical for being so outspoken on Black Lives Matter while not speaking out about Hong Kong’s anti-government protests. “Defending democracy is vital, but @KingJames [LeBron James] only talks loud in the US. On China, not only is he silent, he actively... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3089505/lebron-james-and-jeremy-lins-black-lives-matter-support-does-not?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3089505/lebron-james-and-jeremy-lins-black-lives-matter-support-does-not?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jun 2020 01:52:44 +0000 Beijing’s two offices overseeing Hong Kong affairs joined the local government on Friday to ramp up pressure on activists planning an unofficial referendum to build support for general strikes and class boycotts against the national security law being tailor-made for the city. The State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) accused youth activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung and others of exploiting secondary school pupils in a campaign to derail the legislation, which aims to prevent,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3088793/national-security-law-beijing-targets-joshua-wong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3088793/national-security-law-beijing-targets-joshua-wong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:12:49 +0000