Hong Kong (香港)

Covid-19: Quarantine for 170 guests at Chinese official’s b’day party, inc. 13 senior Hong Kong officials & 19 lawmakers
Hong Kong Free Press, January 7, 2022

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高官赴百人慶生宴須隔離 醫學會蔡堅：不准百姓點燈 (Quarantine of senior officials who attended banquet; Dr. Choi Kin of Hong Kong Medical Association: [Officials could do whatever they want while] ordinary people are restricted in their normal activities)
inmedia.hk, January 7, 2022

One year on, Hong Kong activist priest stages rare silent sit-in urging release of detained democrats
Hong Kong Free Press, January 7, 2022

China crushes Hong Kong’s independent news outlets
The Economist, January 8, 2022

港记泪别《立场新闻》《众新闻》：记者身份不死 (Hong Kong reporters’ tearful goodbye to Stand News, Citizen News: Journalists’ status shall live on)
Deutsche Welle, January 7, 2022

Hong Kong (香港)

《立場》案後至少六家網媒停運或終止新聞工作 (After Stand News, at least six online media outlets have suspended operations or terminated news reporting)
inmedia.hk, January 6, 2022

Work as usual, then tears as Hong Kong’s Citizen News bids farewell
Hong Kong Free Press, January 6, 2022

《明報》觀點版新增編按：絕無意圖煽動憎恨 (Ming Pao adds editor’s note on opinion page: No intention to incite hatred)
inmedia.hk, January 6, 2022

香港學生正蜂擁至加拿大留學 (Hong Kong students are flocking to study in Canada)
inmedia.hk, January 6, 2022

Top Beijing official in Hong Kong lays out 5 expectations for new lawmakers in unprecedented meeting
South China Morning Post, January 5, 2022

Hong Kong (香港)

Online platform Mad Dog Daily shuts down, becoming second Hong Kong media outlet to fold after Stand News arrests
South China Morning Post, January 4, 2022

網站公告 (inmedia.hk, online news outlet, disables public submission function)
inmedia.hk, January 4, 2022

《立場》前董事吳靄儀入稟要求警方歸還部分檢取資料 禁查閱取用 (Former board member of defunct Stand News files for return of, access ban to materials seized by police)
inmedia.hk, January 5, 2022

Incumbent president of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council Andrew Leung re-elected unopposed
South China Morning Post, January 4, 2022

Hong Kong (香港)

Tiananmen vigil: Hong Kong activist jailed for 10 extra months following second incitement conviction over banned June 4 gatherings
South China Morning Post, January 4, 2022

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煽惑六四集結罪成 鄒幸彤：無論法庭如何審判我的文字 都不是停止寫作的理由 (Chow Hang-tung, convicted of inciting June Fourth assembly: How the court judges my words is not a reason to stop writing)
Inmedia.hk, January 4, 2022

Stand News closes, content deleted following arrests and police raid; Chief Sec. slams ‘evil elements’
Hong Kong Free Press, December 29, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong police chief says more Stand News arrests possible
South China Morning Post, January 1, 2022

早報：《立場新聞》鍾沛權和林紹桐申請保釋被拒，何韻詩等四人獲保釋(Stand News senior staffs Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam are denied bail, four former board members are granted bail)
Initium Media, December 31, 2021

《立場》英國分社停運 楊天帥辭任分社主任(Stand News UK branch halts operations; UK officer Yeung Tin Shui resigns)
inmedia.hk, December 30, 2021

《立場新聞》已移除網站及社交專頁內容(Stand News removes all website and social media content)
Radio Television Hong Kong, December 30, 2021

Hong Kong’s Citizen News to close citing fears for staff safety
The Guardian, January 3, 2022

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《眾新聞》宣布後日停運：身在風眼，須確保船上人平安 (Citizen News announces suspension Jan 4: In the eye of the storm, we must ensure safety of people on board)
inmedia.hk, January 2, 2022

How Beijing Has Muted Hong Kong's Independent Media
The New York Times, January 3, 2022

Hong Kong's Lam: Media closures unrelated to press freedom
The Washington Post, January 4, 2022

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and ex-Apple Daily journalists face additional charge over ‘seditious publications’
Hong Kong Free Press, December 28, 2021

Hong Kong protests: 5 convicted of rioting, resisting police during clashes on National Day in 2019
South China Morning Post, December 31, 2021

Lawmakers in Hong Kong new ‘patriots-only’ legislature sworn in by Chief Executive Carrie Lam
Hong Kong Free Press, January 3, 2022

New rule kicks in for Hong Kong schools to hold regular flag-raising ceremonies, some campuses seek training help from police
South China Morning Post, January 3, 2022

Pro-Beijing teachers’ group in Hong Kong granted vacant school premises to set up centre for patriotic, national education
South China Morning Post, December 28, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Outcry as Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed
The Guardian, December 23, 2021

Hong Kong must wake up from ‘myth of American-style democracy’, says top Beijing diplomat
South China Morning Post, December 23, 2021

Hong Kong Justice Dep’t denies ‘political prosecutions,’ omits mention of national security in annual report
Hong Kong Free Press, December 23, 2021

通訊局就法庭對一集《頭條新聞》節目所作裁決提出上訴(Communications Authority appeals court ruling on one episode of Headliner)
Radio Television Hong Kong, December 22, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong gov’t condemns criticism of ‘patriots’ election, as China media hails ‘high’ turnout
Hong Kong Free Press, December 22, 2021

支聯會梁錦威認未按國安處要求交資料　加監兩月(Former HK Alliance committee member Leung Kam-wai is sentenced to an additional 2 months in prison for failing to submit information requested by national security department)
Ming Pao, December 22, 2021

鄒幸彤第 11 次被拒保釋　控方要求記下戴帽舉手旁聽　官：可不尊重法官但要尊重法庭(Former HK Alliance vice-chair Chow Hang-tung is denied bail for the 11th time; prosecution requests to mark down name of man wearing cap in courtroom)
Stand News, December 22, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

G7, EU, Five Eyes condemn Hong Kong elections while US sanctions five Chinese officials
South China Morning Post, December 21, 2021

Related:
G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Hong Kong Legislative Council Elections
U.S. Department of State, December 20, 2021

China accuses Australia of ‘violent’ interference in Five Eyes response to Hong Kong election
The Guardian, December 21, 2021

【初選47人案】黃子悅還柙逾9個月 冬至獲批出保釋(Prince Wong, one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged under National Security Law, is granted bail after more than 9 months of detention)
inmedia.hk, December 21, 2021

Related:
【初選 47 人案】黃子悅高院申保釋　男子戴帽旁聽遭官要求離庭(In Prince Wong's bail hearing, man wearing black cap is asked to leave the courtroom)
Stand News, December 21, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong Legco election: city splits into ‘parallel universes’ as some residents vote while others shop or go sightseeing
South China Morning Post, December 19, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong: Why the Legco elections are so controversial
BBC News, December 19, 2021

晚報：中國國務院發表白皮書，稱要探索「具有香港特色的民主發展道路」(Evening News: PRC State Council publishes white paper saying it will explore "a democratic development path with Hong Kong characteristics")
The Intitium, December 20, 2021

《“一国两制”下香港的民主发展》白皮书
Full Text: Hong Kong Democratic Progress Under the Framework of One Country, Two Systems
The State Council Information Office, December 20, 2021

五眼聯盟聯合聲明：嚴重關注香港選舉制度民主成分受侵蝕(Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group issues joint statement concerning erosion of democratic elements under HK's election system)
Stand News, December 20, 2021

Hong Kong police arrest 2 on suspicion of inciting others to attack government officials ahead of Legislative Council election
South China Morning Post, December 17, 2021

廉署通緝羅冠聰、張崑陽等5人涉煽惑他人不投票(ICAC issues warrant to arrest 5 who had left Hong Kong, including Nathan Law and Sunny Cheung, for inciting others to not vote)
Radio Television Hong Kong, December 18, 2021

民主派初選47人案｜吳敏兒高院申保釋被拒　旁聽者戴黃口罩穿黃傘圖案衣被要求離開(Carol Ng, one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged under National Security Law, is denied bail; man wearing yellow mask and woman in clothing with yellow umbrella are asked to leave court room)
Ming Pao, December 20, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong ‘patriots’ election: Chair of largest pro-democracy party under attack by Beijing state media
Hong Kong Free Press, December 17, 2021

Hong Kong after electoral overhaul and post-national security law: how quiet will this year’s Legislative Council poll be?
South China Morning Post, December 17, 2021

警拘兩人涉籲影響選舉　包括網上討論群組管理員(Police arrest two, including online discuss group manager, for urging others to influence election)
Radio Television Hong Kong, December 17, 2021

【蘋果高層案】 還押近 5 個月　前英文版總編盧峯高院申保釋遭拒(Former Apple Daily English chief editor is denied bail after nearly 5 months of detention)
Stand News, December 17, 2021

Chinese emblem replaces Hong Kong insignia in city’s legislature for lawmakers’ oath-taking
Hong Kong Free Press, December 17, 2021

Police watchdog chair Priscilla Wong to lead University of Hong Kong’s governing council
South China Morning Post, December 17, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong elections: anti-graft agency charges 2 with inciting others to cast blank ballots in Legislative Council poll
South China Morning Post, December 16, 2021

Protest graffiti students acquitted by Hong Kong court over ‘unreliable’ police testimony
Hong Kong Free Press, December 16, 2021

Hong Kong gov’t and judiciary clam up after falsely claiming activist Nathan Law jumped bail
Hong Kong Free Press, December 16, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Stringent national security bail threshold applicable to other offences, Hong Kong’s top court rules
Hong Kong Free Press, December 15, 2021

立法會選舉｜廉署再拘4人涉煽惑投白票及不投票　消息稱包括前中大學生會會長蘇浚鋒 (Independent Commission Against Corruption arrests another 4, including former CUHK student union chair Jacky So, for inciting others to cast blank vote or not vote)
Ming Pao, December 15, 2021

Hong Kong court orders winding up of Jimmy Lai’s Next Digital media group, parent company of Apple Daily
South China Morning Post, December 15, 2021

88,000 Hong Kongers apply for new British resettlement visa
Hong Kong Free Press, December 15, 2021

Is Hong Kong’s judicial independence hanging in the balance? British foreign minister suggests it is, drawing swift rebuke from Beijing
South China Morning Post, December 14, 2021

Related:
Six-monthly report on Hong Kong: January to June 2021
UK government, December 14, 2021

無國界記者籲港府釋放黎智英、何桂藍 指中共再展噤聲的決心(Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Jimmy Lai and Gwyneth Ho, slams CPC’s “determination to silence”)
inmedia.hk, December 14, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong: Two detained press freedom defenders, including Jimmy Lai, given new prison sentences
Reporters Without Borders, December 14, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog makes first ever arrest over doxxing
Hong Kong Free Press, December 14, 2021

Hong Kong election staff told to avoid wearing yellow masks, voters advised to cover slogans on clothing
Hong Kong Free Press, December 14, 2021

譚得志涉發表煽動文字案　明年2月22日裁決　控方稱不承認中共地位即違法(In Tam Tak-chi’s sedition case, prosecution says non-recognition of CPC’s status breaches the law; case adjourned until February 22 next year)
Ming Pao, December 14, 2021

【羊村繪本案】終院：國安嚴格保釋標準適用非國安法罪行(In case of speech therapists union members charged with sedition, Court of Final Appeal rules national security bail standard is applicable to non-national security offences)
inmedia.hk, December 14, 2021

鄒幸彤涉煽動顛覆國家政權罪　第10次申保釋被拒(HK Alliance former vice-chair Chow Hang-tung charged with inciting subversion is denied bail for the 10th time)
Ming Pao, December 14, 2021

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defends government’s history teaching policy amid Nanking massacre video controversy
South China Morning Post, December 14, 2021

英国就香港问题斥责中国(UK rebukes China over Hong Kong issues)
Zao Bao, December 14, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 7 others get jail sentences ranging from 4½ to 14 months over banned Tiananmen Square vigil
South China Morning Post, December 13, 2021

Related:
‘Systemic erasure of history’: Hong Kong activists convicted over banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil deliver defiant mitigation pleas
Hong Kong Free Press, December 13, 2021

Hong Kong elections: covert ‘foreign agents’ in city could undermine Legislative Council poll, No 2 official John Lee warns
South China Morning Post, December 11, 2021

【立法會爭位】中大民調：33% 受訪市民表明不投票 較答「一定會」多(CUHK survey shows 33% of respondents say they will not vote, more than those who say they "will definitely vote")
Stand News, December 13, 2021

港駐倫敦經貿辦去信《星期日泰晤士報》　斥社論失實　籲杯葛選舉違法(Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London sends letter to Sunday Times accusing its editorial urging people not to vote of lacking factual basis and breaching the law)
Stand News, December 11, 2021

Related:
China shows its true colours — and they’re not pretty
The Sunday Times, December 5, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Jimmy Lai among three Hong Kong democracy activists convicted over Tiananmen vigil
Agence France-Presse, December 9, 2021

TG群組涉煽惑「三罷」反對安心出行及投白票 4人被捕(4 arrested over inciting "three strikes": opposing Leave Home Safe app, casting blank ballots, rejecting vaccines)
inmedia.hk, December 9, 2021

廉署再拘3人涉互聯網轉載籲立法會選舉投白票(Independent Commission Against Corruption arrests 3 over reposting on Internet urging voters to cast blank ballots)
Ming Pao, December 9, 2021

It ‘does not mean anything’: Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam says low election turnout may mean gov’t is credible and doing well
Hong Kong Free Press, December 9, 2021

Hong Kong police, think tank separately publish teaching guides on Chinese culture, history to boost students’ sense of national identity
South China Morning Post, December 8, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Barring legal aid recipients from choosing own lawyer could breach Hong Kong’s Basic Law and Bill of Rights, barristers say
Hong Kong Free Press, December 8, 2021

男子穿「HongKonger」黃傘衛衣被拒入庭　稱為查證是否有人「揸住雞毛當令箭」　涉撞傷女保安被捕(Man wearing jacket with "HongKonger" logo and yellow umbrella graphic is denied entry to court)
Ming Pao, December 8, 2021

Hong Kong press freedom is in ‘free fall’ as China’s journalism crackdown goes global, says Reporters Without Borders
Hong Kong Free Press, December 8, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Biggest pro-democracy party stiffens stance on Hong Kong’s ‘patriots-only’ election
Hong Kong Free Press, December 7, 2021

The young and the restless: first-time Legco candidates put Hong Kong’s ageing functional constituency lawmakers in crosshairs
South China Morning Post, December 7, 2021

【立法會爭位】香港民研：36% 受訪者傾向不投票　投票意欲創歷年民調新低(Survey shows 36% of respondents are inclined not to vote in LegCo election, a record low)
Stand News, December 7, 2021

Related:
HKPOP releases the results of a new round of LC Election Survey, popularities of CE and Secretaries of Departments as well as Five Core Social Indicators along with GGPI
香港民研發放新一輪立法會選舉調查結果、特首及司長民望數字、五項核心社會指標以及限聚指數
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, December 7, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

晚報：《華爾街日報》社評提出港人杯葛選舉，港府揚言保留採取行動權利(HKSAR gov't says it reserves the right to take action against Wall Street Journal for opinion piece urging Hong Kong people to boycott election)
Initium Media, December 6, 2021

Related:
Hong Kong Issues a Threat to the WSJ
Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2021

Hong Kong protests: Telegram group operator jailed for nearly 5 years over incitement offences tied to 2019 clashes
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2021

【支聯會案】鄒幸彤第 9 次被拒保釋(HK Alliance vice-chair Chow Hang-tung is denied bail for the ninth time)
Stand News, December 6, 2021

70 secondary schools include national education plans in annual pitches to parents in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2021

鄒幸彤獲頒「中國傑出民主人士獎」：香港發生的一切是對世界的警號(Chow Hang-tung, honored with Chinese Democratic Education Foundation's Award for Distinguished Democracy Activists, says: All that happened in Hong Kong is a warning sign to the world)
Stand News, December 6, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Centrist candidates say cross-border campaigning ahead of Hong Kong Legco poll nearly impossible and new voting scheme only benefits rivals
South China Morning Post, December 2, 2021

3 student union leaders charged with advocating terrorism given bail as they do not pose further national security threat, Hong Kong judge says
South China Morning Post, December 3, 2021

Brain drain fears as Hong Kong secondary schools lose 4,500 pupils and 1,000 teachers in one academic year – survey
Hong Kong Free Press, December 3, 2021

立法會選舉｜民研調查：50%受訪者反對邊境票站安排(Survey shows 50% of respondents oppose to voting at the border)
Ming Pao, December 3, 2021

Related:
“We Hongkongers Survey” press conference cum mini-policy forum on the theme “People’s interest in Legislative Council election, inclination to vote and voting outside Hong Kong / at the border” along with the latest GGPI
香港民研舉行「我們香港人計劃」之「立法會選舉關注程度、初步投票意向及境外／邊境投票」調查新聞發佈會暨小型政策論壇及公佈最新限聚指數
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, December 3, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong court is urged not to engage in ‘trial of speech’
Hong Kong Free Press, December 2, 2021

Hong Kong protests: judge urges social media users to ‘reflect’ on online speech as he jails man for 7 months over anti-police Facebook comment
South China Morning Post, December 2, 2021

Hong Kong public broadcaster to ‘pause’ social media pages of 12 shows
Hong Kong Free Press, December 2, 2021

Shuttered Hong Kong pro-democracy paper Apple Daily and founder Jimmy Lai win press freedom award
Agence France-Presse, December 1, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Exclusive | Hong Kong Bar chief Paul Harris ‘removed’ from national security trial by legal aid officials against activist client’s wish
South China Morning Post, November 30, 2021

Schools to add empathy, law-abidingness, diligence and ‘loving China and Hong Kong’ to moral education
Hong Kong Free Press, December 1, 2021

Hong Kong ex-civil servant lodges legal bid against government for ordering his retirement after he questioned need for oath
South China Morning Post, November 30, 2021

Hong Kong ranks last for political stability, housing affordability in expat survey on world’s best cities to live
South China Morning Post, December 1, 2021