Beijing’s national security laws aimed to wipe out dissent in the democratic enclave of Hong Kong. Now they have neutered Nicole Kidman in the Amazon series Expats.
Prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement under the sweeping national security law.
Hong Kong placed bounties on the heads of five activists,following on from the eight announced in July.
Ted Hui,a Hongkonger who fled to Australia via London in 2021,says he is now waiting for the Chinese Communist Party to fall.
The move comes one week after Hong Kong police placed bounties on the heads of Law and seven other activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown.
Hong Kong police are offering more than $190,000 for information about eight activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown including two who now live in Australia.
The group of 57 was charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” over their roles to help select candidates for the city’s legislature.
The pro-democracy media tycoon has been jailed for five years and nine months over two fraud charges linked to lease violations,the latest of a series of cases against prominent activists.
Protests against extradition laws in 2019 gave Beijing an excuse to crush Hong Kong’s media freedoms. Now a group of exiles hopes to keep a channel open.
Pro-democracy leaders have accused the former Australian Rugby player and TV star of endorsing the Hong Kong government’s attempt to remake the image of the city.
The speech therapists were jailed under a colonial-era sedition law in a case denounced by rights campaigners as a “brazen act of repression”.