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    Hong Kong democracy activists’ court hearing enters 4th day

    04 Mar 2021

    If the defendants are denied bail, it would mean that most of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy figures would be in jail or in self-exile abroad amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.

    Hearing for Hong Kong democracy activists resumes after marathon session

    02 Mar 2021

    The activists are accused of organising and participating in an unofficial primary poll last July aimed at selecting the strongest candidates for a legislative council election that the government later postponed, citing the coronavirus.

    21 Hong Kong activists remain in custody after court rejects bail appeals

    12 Mar 2021

    The charges against a total of 47 opposition figures represent the most sweeping use yet of Hong Kong’s new security law, which punishes what it broadly defines as secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison.

    Funerals to be held for slain Myanmar activists as violence escalates

    16 Mar 2021

    Security forces shot dead at least 20 people on Monday in addition to the 74 killed a day earlier, including many in a suburb of Yangon where Chinese-financed factories were torched, according to advocacy group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).

    7 convicted in Hong Kong over 2019 pro-democracy protests

    01 Apr 2021

    The group of activists were convicted for their involvement in a protest held on Aug.18, 2019. Organizers of the protest say that 1.7 million people marched that day in protest of a proposed bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial.

    Hong Kong activists appear in court over banned Tiananmen vigil

    05 Feb 2021

    Hong Kong traditionally holds the largest vigil in the world every year, although it was banned in 2020, with authorities giving the risk of spreading the coronavirus as the reason. The vigils have always been banned in mainland China.

    Two plead guilty as leading Hong Kong activists go on trial

    16 Feb 2021

    The two were among nine prominent activists whose trial got under way in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. The nine were arrested with several others in April last year in what was seen as a move to crack down on dissent.

    Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai, others to be sentenced for illegal assembly

    16 Apr 2021

    It would be the first time that Lai, one of Hong Kong's most prominent democratic activists, who has been in jail since December after being denied bail in a separate national security trial, will receive a sentence.

    Myanmar activists vow week of protests during new year holidays

    13 Apr 2021

    Activists urged people this year to stage symbolic protests from the start of the holiday on Tuesday, including by painting a three-finger salute used by demonstrators on traditional Thingyan pots filled with flowers, which are typically displayed at this time.

    Mark Field steps down, but fight is far from over

    20 Oct 2019

    On Thursday, in front of the grand steps of the Grosvenor Hotel in London, scores of women wearing red dresses cable-tied themselves by the wrists to form a human chain.

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