In October 2023, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu announced that the governmentwould table its own local national security...

In the past three years since Beijing imposed a National Security Law (NSL) on Hong Kong, many analysts and observers worried that the...

Last week, Hong Kong’s high court dismissed a government request for an injunction order against the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong.”...

After the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s imposition of the national security law (NSL), the Hong Kong government is anxious...

Weaponizing laws and courts to imprison opposition leaders is a common strategy for authoritarian and hybrid regimes around the world,...

Amid the widespread anti-zero-COVID protests in mainland China, political and judicial persecution in Hong Kong continues in the criminal...

On 26 September 2022, a university professor, two former lawmakers, a Cantopop singer and a Catholic cardinal were charged by the Hong...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee, the official watchdog of the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and...

Twenty-five years ago, foreign investors and the international business community had hopes that Hong Kong’s handover from the British...

July 1 marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from British colonial rule to the People’s Republic of China. The restrictions...

Lord Robert Reed and Lord Patrick Hodge, the UK supreme court president and deputy president, have resigned from their roles on Hong...

Fernando Cheung, a former pro-democracy lawmaker who earned high respect for defending minorities and marginalized groups in the city,...

Hong Kong has never been a democracy, but it was home to a vibrant media scene and enjoyed the free flow of information. No more. The...

Human rights have taken another major step backward in Hong Kong. On Nov. 11, activist Ma Chun-man, 31, was sentenced to 5 years and 9...

While George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” remains one of the best-selling allegories in history, two children’s books that are seen as...

Tong Ying-Kit, a former waiter and pro-democracy protester, stepped into history this week: on Tuesday, he became the first individual ...

Hong Kong’s decades-long reputation for free speech, judicial independence and the rule of law has been dealt a harsh blow with the ...

Dear Friends, My first Chinese book, titled Unravelling Authoritarian Rule of Law in Hong Kong: From Post-Umbrella Resistance to the...

China’s newly implemented National Security Law (NSL) has observers asking one question: Will NSL defendants get a fair trial? With more...

Today, the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, where I am a research fellow there currently, publishes a briefing paper evaluating issues of...