PRESS & MEDIA COVERAGE
Press Interviews, Invited Talks and Panel Discussions
Latest Press Interview:
Washington Post: With elections following deadly fire, Hong Kong moves to stifle dissent (6 December 2025)
Time: How Hong Kong Is Trying to Stamp Out Sparks of Unrest After Deadly Fire (5 December 2025)
Trouw: Wie komt er nog op voor de door brand getroffen flatbewoners in Hongkong? (5 December 2025)
DW: Has Hong Kong fire triggered 'national security' crackdown? (2 December 2025)
DW News: Hong Kong: Has the National Security Law completely crushed pro-democracy dissent? (1 July 2025)
Associated Press: Hong Kong’s small businesses pressured under security law (1 July 2025)
Time: With a Distracted U.S., Hong Kong Intensifies Its Democratic Crackdown (15 June 2025)
CNN: Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party is shutting down as Beijing leaves no room for dissent (19 April 2025)
The Straits Times: Hong Kong mulls over strengthening year-old security law as critics slam repression of dissent (22 March 2025)
The Guardian: Jimmy Lai trial: key points from media mogul’s testimony on first day (20 November 2024)
Wall Street Journal: Hong Kong Court Sentences Dozens in Case That Crushed Pro-Democracy Camp (19 November 2024)
Financial Times: Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy activists to prison in landmark security trial (19 November 2024)
New York Times: Hong Kong Editors Convicted of Sedition in Blow to Press Freedom (29 August 2024)
Foreign Policy: Hong Kong’s Democratic Diaspora Is Embracing British Elections (1 July 2024)
BBC News: Hong Kong convicts 14 activists of subversion (30 May 2024)
NPR: Hong Kong's government nears passage of a new national security measure (13 March, 2024)
SELECTED PODCAST EPISODES
2025. Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong. New Books in Law, December 16.
2024. Inside Trials of Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activists. Inside Asia by the Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville, December 5.
2024. China Global Podcast: Article 23: Implications for Hong Kong. The German Marshall Fund, April 16.
2024. Barefoot Lawyer Reports: Eric Lai Discusses Religious Freedom in Hong Kong. Catholic University of America Center for Human Rights. April 17.
2024. Barefoot Lawyer Reports: Eric Lai Discusses Hong Kong's National Security Law. Catholic University of America Center for Human Rights. April 11.
2024. 燦爛時光會客室：香港基本法23條通過！還能在夾縫中抵抗？專訪黎恩灝。公民行動，4月7 日。
2024. 23條，要講！：《維護國家安全條例》下，執法機關權力擴張。綠豆，3月29日。
2024. 兩岸ING:香港基本法23條立法 中國馴服法治再出手。Rti 中央廣播電臺，2月2日。
2023. Hong Kong - Is the Shine Coming Off The Pearl Of The Orient? The Why Curve, March 2.
2022. China Podcast: Hong Kong's new Chief Executive, with Eric Lai and Valarie Tan. MERICS, May 13.
SELECTED TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2024. National Security, Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Hong Kong , Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
2023. 招待講演：香港における法と裁判所の権威主義化：その起源、過程、反応について(Autocratization of Law and Courts in Hong Kong: Origin, Process and Response), University of Tokyo,Tokyo.
2023. Legal Resistance under the Shadow of Authoritarianism: The Politics of Rule of Law in Post-Umbrella Hong Kong" Keynote speaker, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
2022. "Hong Kong's Human Rights Melt Down" Discussant, King's College London Transnational Law Institute, London.
2021. “Hong Kong, China and the International Community” Panellist, Cambridge University Hong Kong & China Affairs Society, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
2021. “The Critical Room: Is the Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong Over? Post-screening Panel Discussion of When A City Rises” Panellist, Film fra Sør (Film from the South), Oslo.
2021. “COVID-19, Autocratisation and Geopolitical Instability: Electoral challenges and Democratic Backsliding in East Asia” Panellist, 5th Asian Electoral Stakeholders Forum, Bangkok.