Posts Tagged "freedom of expression"

April 24, 2016 (South China Morning Post) — Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen says the government is looking into whether advocates of Hong Kong independence broke any laws by setting up a party, after a mainland newspaper called for legal action. An article in the overseas edition of People’s Daily yesterday cited “legal personnel” as saying that formation of the party constituted incitement to sedition. “The Secretary of...

April 23, 2016 (South China Morning Post) — Mainland authorities have told the city’s breakaway advocates they’re outside the law. Are they? For a party which claims to have 30 to 50 members – and has paraded only two – the Hong Kong National Party has grabbed the kind of attention other parties can only dream about. One part of the reason for this is its audacious claim to advocate independence at whatever cost and its...

December 1, 2015 (Hong Kong Free Press) — The High Court has made further rulings on the injunction in force to prevent more leaks of the discussions at a crucial University of Hong Kong (HKU) Council meeting. The court allowed the injunction to continue until the trial, and rejected the applications by Apple Daily and Undergrad editor-in-chief Marcus Lau Yee-ching to join the court proceedings as interested parties. Only the...

July 12, 2015  — Hong Kong Journalists Association releases its 2015 annual report, “Journalists Caught Between Two Fires,” documenting how journalists have become caught between two different fires: external pressures from the Hong Kong government and big business and internal pressure in the form of escalating self-censorship. “It has also been a year in which media workers faced the most serious risks as...