Amid unrest in Hong Kong over suspended extradition rules and the official response to earlier opposition, a pair of recent reports from Reuters has highlighted Beijing’s tight control over the supposedly autonomous territory. On Friday, following several high-profile arrests of pro-democracy...
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is facing calls to step down over her handling of an unpopular extradition bill, huge protests against it, and its suspension last Saturday. (For a recap of...
National security police arrested 11 people in Hong Kong on Thursday, including a prominent pro-democracy lawyer and district councillor, for allegedly aiding the attempt by 12 Hong Kongers to escape the city by sea for Taiwan...
Hong Kong authorities have reportedly used new powers under the National Security Law to block a website that chronicled data about the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The unprecedented move has raised fears that, after decades of...
Fifty-three people have been arrested for “subversion” under the Hong Kong National Security Law, including every single pro-democracy candidate for the delayed 2020 Legislative Council elections. Around 1000 police...
The Hong Kong government disqualified four pro-democracy lawmakers on Wednesday, in a unilateral move that triggered the mass resignation of the entire pro-democracy camp in the Legislative Council, locally known as LegCo. The...
In late September 2020 a Hong Kong primary school teacher was fired and deregistered for life over his role spreading “pro-independence” information through lessons taught to students in March 2019—the first time a...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
Last Sunday saw as many as a million people march against proposed changes to the Hong...
Proposed amendments to Hong Kong extradition laws sparked protests by as many as a million people...
Update (November 9, 2018 at 9:52 am PST): Following reports that a proposed replacement venue...
Hong Kong has banned the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party (HKNP) in an unprecedented move...
A group of 45 civil society organizations has submitted over 100 suggestions to the United Nations...
Conservative UK human rights activist Benedict Rogers, who worked as a journalist for five years...
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs official has clarified a remark made at a press conference on June...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for a landmark three-day visit to mark the 20th...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Hong Kong on Thursday for the first time since...
Several key figures of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, including former protest leader...
On September 4th, Hong Kong elected a new generation of pro-democratic lawmakers to the...
A poster for the upcoming science fiction film Arrival has garnered angry criticism online after...
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