Apr 25, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
The trial is finally over for the Occupy Nine. As expected, guilty verdicts were declared all around, and prison sentences handed down. The authorities took years to prepare their case and 20 days to argue it in court late last year. Verdicts were announced on April...
Apr 4, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
It seemed like old times: last Sunday’s afternoon protest march, organized on short notice by the Civil Human Rights Front in its role as coordinator for every major protest since 2003. Only this time the rally was for an obscure cause that had lain dormant since...
Mar 21, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
For all the years since 1997, Hong Kong has lived by the governing principles spelled out in its post-colonial Basic Law constitution. This was drafted under Beijing’s supervision in the late 1980s, promulgated by Beijing in 1990, and went into effect as of...
Mar 4, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
These cases seem like they’ve been going on forever and there may be one more round to go. But the oath-taking saga is nearing its end with the appeal court ruling on February 15, against Leung Kwok-hung 【 梁國雄】, otherwise known simply as “Long Hair.” This is in...
Feb 18, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
It was exactly six years ago that Benny Tai added an unexpected political spark to the Lunar New Year holiday by introducing a new plan to break the political deadlock. He and his contemporaries had been agitating for democratic political reform since their college...
Jan 22, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
Hong Kong is learning what it means to live with mainland definitions of free speech and all its derivatives. Introducing the proposed new national anthem law, Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Patrick Nip told critical questioners they could still exercise their...
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