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Hong Kong Free Press ( HKFP) is a free, non-profit [1] news website based in Hong Kong. It was co-founded in 2015 by Tom Grundy, [2] [3] who believed that the territory's press freedom was in decline, to provide an alternative to the dominant English-language news source, the South China Morning Post, and to cover the pro-democracy movement.
The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government 's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong.
Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, the city’s judiciary said Thursday, deepening worries over the city's rule of law under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Gwong1fuk6 Hoeng1gong2, si4doi6 gaak3ming6. A flag with the slogan at an anti-extradition bill protest. " Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times " ( Chinese: 光復香港，時代革命; also translated variously) is a slogan used by social movements in Hong Kong. The slogan was first used in 2016 by Hong Kong Indigenous spokesman Edward ...
Two British judges on Thursday resigned from Hong Kong's top court, around one week after a landmark verdict in which 14 prominent democratic activists were convicted for subversion amid a ...
Amnesty International withdraws from Hong Kong. In a press release, human rights NGO Amnesty International announced that its Hong Kong membership section would cease its operations, while its regional office would be moved to elsewhere in the region. Board chair Anjhula Mya Singh Bais said in the announcement that the decision had been "driven ...
The period from March to June 2019 in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests is considered the early stage of the movement. Until the first mass demonstrations in June, protests were focused on the withdrawal of the extradition bill. In June, protesters started to lay out five demands. The additional four demands concerned the reactions of the Hong ...
The sophistication, novelty and diversity of tactics and methods used by protests in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests have been noted by many scholars and news outlets around the world. They range from new principles of autonomy and decentralisation, incorporating different methods of demonstration, economic and social protest, and most ...