Category Archives: Blog

The UK’s most prestigious paper picks up the story the Hong Kong Justice Dept wants the press to ignore. (Paywalled, ironically.)   Chau led the prosecution team at Lai’s trial last year, telling the court that the state did not need … Continue reading →

Further to the leaked memo on leaks to Frances Hui about new DPP Anthony Chau and his junior Crystal Chan… …Deputy Secretary for Justice Horace Cheung confirmed on Wednesday the existence of the internal memo sent by Secretary for Justice … Continue reading →

From the CFHK… Last weekend, #HongKong was rocked by the kind of scandal the city’s once-free tabloid press — namely the now-defunct Apple Daily — would’ve aggressively exposed: the misuse of public funds by one of Hong Kong’s top public … Continue reading →

An LGBTQ radio show previously scrapped by government-run RTHK is cancelled by another station… Hong Kong’s Metro Radio has abruptly halted plans to relaunch radio programme We Are Family, an LGBTQ show axed by government-funded broadcaster RTHK three years ago, … Continue reading →

From the SCMP… Hong Kong’s justice department has rejected online accusations about the newly promoted public prosecutions director [Anthony Chau Tin-hang] and a colleague, labelling the allegations “despicable behaviour” and an attempt to “defame public officers”. In a statement on … Continue reading →

A 55-year-old construction worker throws pieces of paper out of his 12th floor apartment into a public area. A clear case of littering. In fact, he is arrested and charged with… …two counts of “doing with a seditious intention an … Continue reading →

The SCMP reports… Hong Kong’s top court has been asked to abolish an “extraordinary” and “inexplicable” law prohibiting calls to boycott the city’s “patriots-only” elections on the grounds that it violates residents’ rights to express disapproval of the political system … Continue reading →

…Chow Hang-tung in the HK Alliance ‘inciting subversion’ trial. A translation of part of her closing statement is here. From HKFP… A Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activist standing in a national security trial has urged the court to safeguard the … Continue reading →

Most people appearing in court under Hong Kong’s national security laws (incitement, subversion, sedition, collusion, etc) seem to be there for words rather than actions. But defendants or their lawyers rarely ask the judges to step back and view the … Continue reading →

A Michael Korvig piece in Foreign Affairs a week before Trump’s visit to Beijing… Trump should lead [the West] by example, eschew the mistakes of other visiting heads of state, and refuse ephemeral deals that deepen the United States’ dependence … Continue reading →