In response to the Hong Kong government’s National Security Education Day For All, many discerning Hongkongers from cities all over the world acted in solidarity with the arrested 47 democratic figures charged under the National Security Law. The 47 defendants were accused of conspiring to subvert the state power by taking part in the Hong…

The Hong Kong 47 Case trial began on Feb. 6, 2023. The 47 defendants, charged under National Security Law in suspicion of conspiring to subvert state power, were political figures supporting democracy and universal suffrage. Of the 47 defendants, four had turned their back on democracy and became prosecution witnesses. One of them is businessman…

Owen Chow may be unfamiliar to the western world, but to Hongkongers, he was part of their battle for freedom. Chow is also one of the 47 democrats contacted by the National Security police and informed to report to the police station on Feb. 28, 2021. He was detained until June 22, 2021, when he…

The U.S. Department of the State published the 2022 Country Report on Human Right Practices, including a  section on China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet, on March 20. The report pinpointed that in 2022, the Chinese Communist Party continued to violate the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Hong Kong, dismantling political freedoms…

Political Prisoner Concern Groups launched rallies in Toronto and London on March 17,  to urge the Hong Kong government to release all political prisoners unconditionally. Protesters who joined the rally in Toronto urged the Hong Kong government to release all political prisoners and encouraged the international community to keep observing the ongoing political trials in…

On March 8, the eve of International Women’s Day, a prominent art projection on the exterior of a tall building in Manhattan, New York, displayed a number of female political prisoners in Hong Kong. The message was to urge the Hong Kong government for their release immediately. A Hongkongers’ organization, The Committee for Freedom in…

It has been two years since the Hong Kong Government prosecuted 47 candidates at the pro-democracy primaries. Fifty-Four bipartisan members of the House of Commons and the British human rights group Hong Kong Watch urged the Foreign Office to step in and push for the release of the defendants. Bipartisan members, including former Hong Kong…

The “Democrats Primary Election Case” (Hong Kong 47 case) has been on trial for about 20 days, and most defendants have been on remand for more than two years. The U.S. House of Representatives “Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and Chinese Communist Party” held a hearing on Feb. 28 to…

U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and other members of the Select Committee host an event at 3:00 p.m. ET on Feb. 28 to mark the anniversary of the Hong Kong 47 incident. In February 2021, 54 activists, former legislators, social workers, and academics were…

A group of 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested in January 2021 and charged with”conspiracy to subvert state power” for their alleged involvement in organizing and participating in an unofficial primary election are on trial. The third day of the trial resumed for 16 defendants who pleaded not guilty at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court…