Two Hong Kong independence activists who were stripped of their status as lawmakers last year pleaded not guilty Friday to charges over chaos at the city’s parliament. Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching were arrested last month and charged with unlawful assembly and attempted forcible entry into the legislative chamber. They belong to a new movement … Read more
Nine democracy activists were arrested in Hong Kong Thursday over an anti-Beijing protest, according to campaign groups, in the latest swoop by police as protesters say they are being persecuted. Concerns are growing that the semi-autonomous city’s freedoms are under threat from Beijing, fuelling calls from some activists for greater autonomy or even a complete … Read more
Two Hong Kong independence activists who were barred from taking up their seats as lawmakers last year were arrested Wednesday and charged over chaos at the city’s parliament, their office said. Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching were arrested at their apartments Wednesday morning and are to be charged with “illegal assembly”, according to the Facebook … Read more
Beijing has made an unprecedented intervention in Hong Kong politics to block two lawmakers from taking office. Pro-independence elected lawmakers Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching have refused to pledge allegiance to Beijing when being sworn in. Beijing has now interpreted a section of Hong Kong law to mean any official who does not swear the … Read more
Police fired pepper spray in running battles with thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday as they tried to encircle China’s representative office in protest against Beijing’s attempts to stop independence activism. Streets filled with mostly young people, many dressed in black, brought to mind weeks of pro-democracy marches in 2014. … Read more