When “Ending One-Party Rule” Became a Crime: Hong Kong Lost Far More Than a Candlelight Vigil
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and its former chairpersons and vice-chairpersons hav…
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2026
August
By Criminalizing Calls for Peace, Where Is Hong Kong’s Rule of Law Headed?
The Hong Kong High Court found the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow H…
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Preventing foreign interference cannot come at the cost of sacrificing the rule of law.
Xu Chunying’s seven-year sentence handed down by the New Taipei District Court at first instance was not fundamentally because she…
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Lawyers must handle cases in accordance with the Chinese Communist Party’s governing agenda; otherwise, they may be committing a crime!
What is most alarming about this report is not merely that several civil and commercial lawyers have faced criminal prosecution, b…
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The commemoration of Jiang Zemin reaffirms not history, but the logic of power.
At the commemorative assembly held on August 17 to mark the centenary of Jiang Zemin’s birth, the point most worthy of attention w…
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