Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai appeared in court Wednesday, taking the stand for the first time ...

Western governments and rights groups condemned the jailing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong yesterday (Nov 19) ...

Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, is set ...

The activists were arrested over a single day in 2021 and charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” for taking part in ...

Chiu received a seven-year prison term, and Chung was sentenced to six years and one month. Of the 45 convicted, the court ...

Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a prominent activist, was sentenced to 56 months in prison. Other defendants face at least 50 months’ imprisonment. The high-profile case drew long queues of residents and media ...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to a decade behind bars after it ruled in a landmark legal ...

The convictions of the 45 activists under the Beijing-imposed law are widely seen as part of a crackdown by China that ...

Benny Tai, a former legal scholar identified in the judgement as a “mastermind” of the activists' plans, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, the longest sentence so far under the 2020 national security ...

Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong's biggest national ...

By the time the primary took place, though, the environment in Hong Kong had changed dramatically. In the interim, covid-19 ...