Friends and activists rally behind Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong after guilty plea: ‘Outrageous’ The 2014 Umbrella Movement icon was ‘left with few alternatives’, friend says The Independent UK · Sep 2
Exiled activist Anna Kwok vows to keep fighting after Hong Kong jails her father A prominent Hong Kong activist in exile in the U.S. says a court ruling back in Hong Kong to imprison her father for eight months has only made her more determined to fight for the territory and its people The Independent UK · Feb 27
Father of exiled Hong Kong activist sentenced to 8 months in jail in insurance case Daughter calls Kwok Yin Sang’s conviction ‘transnational repression’ The Independent UK · Feb 26
Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction overturned by Hong Kong court in rare legal win for activist Appellate court quashes convictions linked to lease violations but Lai may still spend rest of his life in prison The Guardian - AU · Feb 26
Father of exiled Hong Kong activist convicted in unprecedented insurance case under national security law Family of US-based Hong Kong dissident held guilty in first such case The Independent UK · Feb 12
Father of activist Anna Kwok convicted under Hong Kong national security law Kwok Yin-sang arrested after he tried to end pro-democracy daughter’s insurance policy and withdraw funds The Guardian - UK · Feb 11
Rights groups condemn arrest of Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok’s father and brother Arrests are the first case of the city’s national security law being used to target the relatives of pro-democracy campaigners The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025
Father of US-based pro-democracy activist reportedly arrested by Hong Kong police This is the first time the city’s national security law has been used to prosecute a family member of an ‘absconder’ The Independent UK · May 3, 2025
Pro-democracy activist Tony Chung flees Hong Kong to seek asylum in UK Chung says supervison order put him under ‘enormous amount of stress’ The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2023
Congressional group demands probe into Beijing's role in violence against protesters on US soil A congressional commission is asking the Justice Department to investigate the role of Beijing after protesters claimed they were beaten and harassed by Chinese government agents in November in San Francisco during an official visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2023
‘Gangster tactic’: the true aim behind Hong Kong’s pursuit of overseas dissidents Police targeting pro-democracy activists abroad have questioned their family and put out bounties, but there is a broader, more chilling, objective behind the operation The Guardian - AU · Aug 17, 2023
Hong Kong targets exiles’ loved ones as crackdown turns to old CCP playbook Hong Kong authorities are targeting the relatives of activists overseas in latest sign of alignment with mainland China. Al Jazeera · Aug 4, 2023
Daughter of Hong Kong exiled activist detained by national security police Mimi Mi Wahng Yuen, daughter of wanted pro-democracy activist Elmer Yuen, taken for questioning, according to local media The Guardian - AU · Jul 24, 2023
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who fled abroad will be 'pursued for life' Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday that eight pro-democracy activists who now live in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia will be pursued for life for alleged national security offenses, dismissing criticism that the move to have them arrested was a dangerous precedent. France 24 · Jul 4, 2023
WEKU · Jul 3, 2023 Hong Kong police issue arrest warrants for 8 political activists living in exile Hong Kong accuses them of violating China's national security law, and is offering a bounty for their capture. The eight, including activist Nathan Law, are wanted for "collusion with foreign forces."
The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2023 Hong Kong police offer rewards for arrests of 8 overseas pro-democracy activists Hong Kong police have accused eight self-exiled pro-democracy activists of violating the territory’s harsh National Security Law and offered rewards of $127,600 each for information leading to their arrests
Reason · Feb 26, 2023 Hongkonger Anna Kwok on Human Rights Right now, Hongkongers have lost their avenues to speak because of the national security law imposed by the new government.
WEKU · Jul 1, 2022 The Hong Kong handover turns 25. So does an entire generation. Two teenagers bonded over high school Model United Nations. A decade later, one is in self-exile. The other waits for her and their other friends to return to the Hong Kong they once knew.
Al Jazeera · Apr 13, 2022 John Lee’s bid for Hong Kong leader signals Beijing’s ‘hard line’ Ex-security chief who spent decades in the police has indicated he will put security above all else as chief executive.