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Repressive Laws Are Increasingly Being Used to Silence Activists Across Asia
By Josef Benedict and Rajavelu Karunanithi
From Hong Kong to India, governments are passing and weaponizing new laws to pursue and jail whoever speaks up for human rights.

Hong Kong’s Latest National Security Taboos: 4th of July and a Video Game
By Megan Khoo
Hong Kong's increasingly brittle government responds to children’s books, mobile games, and foreign holidays with legal threats and censorship.

A Blank ‘Democracy Wall’ Sums up What Hong Kong Has Lost
By Lam Tran
Life goes on in Hong Kong – but to where?

Hong Kong Sanctions a Bright Spot in Trump’s Foreign Policy
By Benedict Rogers
Beijing has torn up Hong Kong’s freedoms and now threatens the security of Hong Kongers and their supporters around the world. It must not be allowed to get away with this with impunity.

Beijing Targets UK-based Hong Kong Activists as Families Face Pressure at Home
By Freddie Attenborough
Hong Kong authorities seek to silence exiled dissidents by pursuing arrest abroad and intimidating their families at home.

Mark Clifford on Jimmy Lai, the ‘Troublemaker’
By Shannon Tiezzi
“Jimmy Lai’s life story is the story of Hong Kong.”

As 45 Activists Face Life Sentences in Hong Kong, the World Must Respond
By Megan Khoo
International governments must seriously consider how to adequately respond to both the sentencing of Hong Kong democrats and the trial of Jimmy Lai.

Hong Kong Slams US Congress for Passing a Bill That Could Close Its Representative Offices
By Kanis Leung and Elsie Chen
China promised “resolute countermeasures” if the full Congress passes a bill that would shutter Hong Kong’s representative offices over the city’s reduced autonomy.

How Should the World Perceive Today’s Hong Kong?
By Michael Mo
Hollowed out by Beijing, the city, once the world’s freest society, should be viewed as an example of the state of post-authoritarianization.

Hong Kong and Tiananmen: Erasing Memory in the Name of National Security
By Eric Wear and Anouk Wear
Hong Kong's vague and ambiguous concept of “national security,” imported from the mainland, is applied to arts and culture.

A Changed Hong Kong Is Stamping out Memories of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
By Yaqiu Wang
As the anniversary approached, authorities heaped new charges on a jailed vigil organizer.

14 Pro-Democracy Activists Convicted, 2 Acquitted in Hong Kong’s Biggest National Security Case
By Kanis Leung and Zen Soo
Prosecutors had accused them of attempting to paralyze Hong Kong’s government by securing the legislative majority necessary to veto budgets.
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