Joshua Wong, the former teenage activist who became a key leader of Hong Kong's democracy movement, faces the prospect of many more years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the latest national security case brought by prosecutors. https://t.co/qxMWhVJX5E
Joshua Wong, the former teenage activist who became a key leader of Hong Kong's democracy movement, faces the prospect of many more years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the latest national security case brought by prosecutors. https://t.co/5jVQ2AgDBb
Tomorrow, Joshua Wong @joshuawongcf returns to court for a sentencing hearing on yet another unjust national security charge. In 2019, he warned the world before @CECCgov that the PRC was fast eroding #HongKong’s freedoms and autonomy. His warning proved tragically prescient. #FreeJoshuaWong
#Flashback: Watch his testimony📽️
7 yrs ago today, during the 2019 mass protests, riot police rampaged through Prince Edward MTR station, indiscriminately beating & pepper-spraying citizens. 65 in all were arrested. It was the last straw in fraying police-citizen relations. #HongKong's since become a #PoliceState
Hong Kong Free Press reported on the convictions of three activists connected to the Tiananmen vigil, noting that two named defendants had already spent nearly five years on remand since arrests in September 2021;
The Sanhe City People’s Court sentenced Chinese artist and U.S. permanent resident Gao Zhen to three years in prison on 25 August over works authorities said infringed the reputation and honour of “heroes and martyrs”;
HRW, Decade after Beijing's crackdown on Uyghurs escalated, mass detention, surveillance and forced labor persist without accountability, and urged governments to enact forced-labor import bans and sanctions ahead of the Aug. 31 anniversary of the 2022 UN Xinjiang report.
One of Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activists, Joshua Wong, is expected to plead guilty to concocted charges as his only way to avoid a life prison sentence. Beijing is clearly terrified of independent pro-democracy voices like his. https://t.co/rnJtEKYOn9