Hong Kong pro-democracy

International governments must seriously consider how to adequately respond to both the sentencing of Hong Kong democrats and the trial of Jimmy Lai.

As the anniversary approached, authorities heaped new charges on a jailed vigil organizer. 

Prosecutors had accused them of attempting to paralyze Hong Kong’s government by securing the legislative majority necessary to veto budgets.

In 2021, 47 pro-democracy activists were charged under the Beijing-imposed national security law for their involvement in an unofficial primary election. The first verdicts are due this week.

Critics worry authorities will use a local national security law as another tool to crack down on dissidents, building on the law imposed by Beijing in 2020.

Outright calls for a boycott risk legal trouble, but Hong Kongers are not enthused about Sunday's District Council elections.

Insights from Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin

Hong Kong’s legal prosecution of opposition figures puts it in the company of authoritarian regimes worldwide.

Sunday’s Legislative Council polls are a test of the resistance of pro-democracy Hong Kongers.

Changes to Hong Kong’s election system, as well as the overarching national security law, have all but killed any formal political opposition.

Denise Ho’s sold-out concerts were canceled, feeding concerns that Hong Kong’s cultural scene is the latest target of China’s tightening control.

For many, the arrest and conviction of Hong Kong's “father of democracy” signal a cataclysmic shift in the city’s political climate.

A quick look at the diverse factions involved in the 2020 primary elections belies Beijing's claim that there was a unified conspiracy toward subversion.

From Nathan Law to Ted Hui, a growing number of pro-democracy figures are choosing life overseas amid a widening crackdown at home.

Under the newly revamped electoral system, only 20 of the Legislative Council’s 90 seats will be directly elected.

The tankie phenomenon pits Western self-identified communists against those struggling against China's human rights abuses.

The events of the last week spell the end of any formal political opposition in Hong Kong.

Nearly all of the city's prominent pro-democracy voices have been arrested or forced into exile.

The charges stem from a plan to win a majority in Hong Kong's legislature and use that power to veto the government's budget.

The NSL has altered many long-standing allegiances and feuds within the different political identities in Hong Kong.

The crackdown on Apple Daily and Jimmy Lai is the culmination of a decades-long saga that encapsulates the broader struggle for press freedom in Hong Kong.

The jailing of the activists belonging to the now-defunct Demosisto political group continues to highlight Beijing's iron grip on the autonomous territory.

"We need to reconsider the way to fight in the future," says Democratic Party leader Wu Chi-wai.