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China's Hong Kong crackdown escalates with mass opposition arrests
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
The sweep is the latest salvo in Beijing's battle to stamp out dissent in the semi-autonomous city after millions hit the streets in 2019 with huge and sometime...
Crowds throng Wuhan, where pandemic began, to celebrate New Year
Dec 31, 2020 (AFP)
Police erected fences to try to prevent congestion around the city's Customs House clock tower, but the measure was ineffective due to the large turnout of main...
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai ordered back to jail
Dec 31, 2020 (AFP)
Lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the highest-profile figures charged under a sweeping security law that China imposed on the financial hub in late June in...
Pompeo says jailing of activists shows China 'fragile dictatorship'
Dec 31, 2020 (AFP)
"A regime that prevents its own people from leaving can lay no claim to greatness or global leadership. It is simply a fragile dictatorship, afraid of its own p...
China jails 10 Hong Kong activists for three years; Two teens returned
Dec 30, 2020 (AFP)
The group were arrested by the Chinese coastguard on August 23 en route to the self-ruled island, which has opened its doors to Hongkongers amid a growing crack...
Hong Kong 'speedboat fugitives' to face trial next week in China
Dec 25, 2020 (AFP)
Relatives of the detainees have been told by Chinese government-appointed lawyers that a video hearing will take place Monday afternoon at Yantian District Peop...
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai granted bail
Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)
Jimmy Lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the highest-profile figures charged under a sweeping security law that China imposed on the financial hub over the ...
Elderly 2.0: China looks to tap digital 'silver dollar'
Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)
Undeterred, he's enrolled in a training session -- sort of a "mobile phones 101" -- that is part of China's plans to help its legions of pensioners keep up in a...
Hong Kong student shot by police goes on the run ahead of trial
Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)
Tsang Chi-kin, 19, had been due to appear in court to plead to charges of rioting and assaulting police officers but failed to show up. He was the first person ...
Hong Kong democracy activist seeking asylum in UK
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
The 27-year-old founding member of Demosisto, a pro-democracy party that disbanded on the same day the law was imposed on the semi-autonomous territory, relocat...
Top Hong Kong court upholds emergency protest mask ban
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
The ruling is a blow for democracy supporters who had been hoping the Court of Final Appeal would side with a lower court and overturn the order. It also confir...
US restricts visas for Chinese officials suspected of rights abuses
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
The new restrictions concern "Chinese officials who are believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, policies or actions aimed at repressing religious and s...
Hong Kong reels after the year that free speech died
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
China's authoritarian leaders guaranteed Hong Kong would maintain key freedoms and autonomy after its 1997 handover by Britain in a model dubbed "One Country, T...
EU urges China to free rights lawyers
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
Li was detained in 2017 after working as an attorney for rights lawyers swept up in Beijing's "709 crackdown" -- so named because it began on July 9, 2015. "Cre...
Eight Hong Kong activists charged for security law protest
Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)
Those charged included veteran activist "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung, the former chief of Hong Kong's Democratic Party Wu Chi-wai, ex-legislator Eddie Chu and Fi...
China slams UN expert's 'erroneous' criticism of lawyer crackdown
Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)
"By using misinformation, relevant (UN) mandate holders blatantly smear China," Liu Yuyin, a spokesman at the Chinese mission in Geneva, said in a statement iss...
Flipping the script: China school reforms spark Mongolian writing revival
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
Teacher Batbileg Lkhagvabaatar leads the class, tracing lines of the flowing, dotted characters on a whiteboard and explaining grammar rules to the group of you...
China starts prosecution of Hong Kong 'speedboat fugitives'
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
The group was caught by the coastguard some 70 kilometres (43 miles) southeast of the city on August 23, authorities said previously, before being handed to pol...
ICC rejects Uighur genocide complaint against China
Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)
The Uighurs handed a huge dossier of evidence to the court in July accusing China of locking more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in...
Inspired by Mao, Wuhan river swimmers 'reborn' after virus lockdown
Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)
"I felt so happy, it was like being reborn," the 68-year-old said. Even in winter temperatures of about 15 degrees Celsius (60F), a steady flow of hardy men and...
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