HONG KONG — Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested one other particular person accused of supporting abroad activists who allegedly endangered nationwide safety, in an additional enlargement of a authorities crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents. Police detained the 24-year-old man on the metropolis’s airport a day after 4 different folks had been arrested for allegedly utilizing … Read more
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticized Hong Kong authorities over their pursuit of two pro-democracy activists who stay in Australia FILE – Hong Kong Chief Government John Lee speaks throughout a information convention in Hong Kong, March 21, 2023. Lee mentioned Tuesday, July 4, that eight pro-democracy activists who now stay in the US, … Read more
On this August 2020 {photograph}, pro-democracy lawmakers Ted Hui (Centre L) and Lam Cheuk-ting (C) converse to the press outdoors the West Kowloon Magistrates Courtroom after being granted bail following their arrest the day earlier than in a police operation centered on final yr’s big protests. Anthony Wallace | Afp | Getty Pictures Hong Kong … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment BEIRUT — To get to a park in Karantina, an impoverished neighborhood close to this metropolis’s blast-destroyed port, two youngsters on a current day needed to climb a utility pole and soar over a spiked iron fence as a result of the park, with timber and a jungle health club, is … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment SINGAPORE — Vietnam has arrested a number one environmental activist simply months after it signed a deal to obtain billions of {dollars} of worldwide help to deal with local weather change, partly on the situation that the federal government would contain grass-roots activists within the effort. Hoang Thi Minh Hong, 51, … Read more
Figures launch Thursday by German police present a pointy improve within the variety of violent assaults on local weather protesters in Berlin recorded this 12 months in contrast with 2022 FILE- A police officer pushes a person away from a road throughout a protest march of the local weather activist group Final Technology in Berlin, … Read more