Media May 17, 2018 Hong Kong Journalist Is Roughed Up and Detained by Police in Beijing HONG KONG — A cameraman from a Hong Kong news station was roughed up and detained by the police in Beijing while trying to cover a human rights lawyer’s disciplinary…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 HONG KONG: Benny Tai’s Topsy-turvy Taiwan Journey He’s back! Benny Tai is making waves again. No sooner had the Occupy protest effect finally faded than Professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷) sparked another important political controversy. This time…
Press Release Feb 13, 2018 Umbrella Movement Leaders Freed — For Now NEW YORK (February 13, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the decision of Hong Kong’s highest court to overturn the prison sentences of student protesters Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, and Nathan Law, who led the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
Media Feb 6, 2018 Hong Kong Court Throws Out Protest Leaders’ Prison Sentences HONG KONG — Three leaders of protests that filled Hong Kong streets for weeks had their prison sentences thrown out by Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday, in a case…
Media Feb 1, 2018 Nobel peace prize: US lawmakers nominate Hong Kong protesters (The Guardian) – US lawmakers including the Republican senator Marco Rubio have nominated Joshua Wong and Hong Kong’s umbrella protest movement for the 2018 Nobel peace prize in recognition of…
Media Jan 17, 2018 Joshua Wong Sentenced in Hong Kong for Role in Umbrella Movement (The New York Times) – The democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to three months in prison on Wednesday for his role in a protest in 2014 demanding freer elections…
News Jan 16, 2018 Human rights undermined in Hong Kong, says Ashdown Freedoms in Hong Kong have been increasingly eroded and human rights have been undermined, according to a report by Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader in the UK, that…
News Jan 2, 2018 Thousands in Hong Kong protest Beijing’s interference (Reuters) – Thousands of protestors marched to the mainland Chinese government’s liaison office in Hong Kong on Sunday, demanding universal suffrage and protesting against Beijing’s perceived interference in the territory’s recent chief executive election.
News Nov 7, 2017 Their Sons Sought a More Democratic Hong Kong, and Got Prison (The New York Times) – In August, a court in Hong Kong sentenced three young pro-democracy activists to six to eight months in prison, making them what some have called the first political prisoners in the former British colony since its return to Chinese rule two decades ago.
News Oct 24, 2017 Hong Kong Protest Leaders Are Freed on Bail to Pursue Appeal HONG KONG — The Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law were released from prison Tuesday after the city’s highest court granted them bail to appeal sentences for what their supporters called political prosecution by the government.
