Hong Kong Watch
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Hong Kong Watch defends human rights, freedoms and the rule of law in Hong Kong.
🗞️ Our July human rights briefing details: 1️⃣ Hong Kong’s third bookstore raid in four months 2️⃣ Joshua Wong pleading guilty again from behind bars 3️⃣ A #HongKong activist with a bounty blocked from reaching 🇨🇦 Read in full👇 www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
🚨 Today, Hong Kong Watch submitted evidence to the UN Human Rights Office’s Committee on the Rights of the Child on how national security laws in #HongKong are harming children, ahead of its review of 🇨🇳
Today our 🇬🇧 Patrons wrote to Shabana Mahmood to raise urgent alarm over visa refusals and deportation threat to #HongKong political prisoners, including Wu Chi-wai, who faces deportation from the UK this Wednesday.
🚨 Wu Chi-wai faces deportation from 🇬🇧 this Wednesday. If the Home Office sends him back to #HongKong, they will send a political prisoner back into the hands of the officials that jailed him for supporting democracy. Shabana Mahmood must immediately reverse course and extend Wu’s stay in the UK.
We welcome the European Parliament’s Security and Defence Committee adopting a report that takes hybrid warfare seriously, including 🇨🇳 ownership of critical infrastructure. Read the full report and watch MEP Rasa Juknevičienė’s remarks on it below👇 www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
As @andyburnham.bsky.social is on course to become 🇬🇧 Prime Minister, Hong Kong Watch led a cohort of Manchester-based #HongKong civil society groups to urge him to champion Hong Kongers’ integration into the UK labour market and to protect the #BNO route from new settlement requirements.
🚨 Watch: Hong Kong Watch Patron @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social speaks in the House of Lords on the need for an anti-TNR amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, to stop 🇨🇳 accessing private data of #HongKong activists and others. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
🚨 54 human rights and diaspora organisations warn 🇨🇳 Ethnic Unity Law threatens freedoms worldwide The coalition urges international governments and institutions to publicly condemn the EUPL, stand against transnational repression, and protect diasporas affected by the legislation around the world.
Hong Kong Watch welcomes the passage of 🇬🇧 State Threats Bill to combat transnational repression, including by 🇨🇳 and its proxies. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
Today, our Head of Advocacy and Research, Thomas Benson, had a productive meeting with @alexsobel.co.uk to discuss our research on #BNOs’ experience of transnational repression, and next steps to combat national security threats against 🇬🇧
The 🇨🇳 Ethnic Unity and Progress Law poses a severe risk to the people of #HongKong and overseas diasporas. We strongly condemn the new law and urge lawmakers worldwide to take urgent action in support of all those threatened by its introduction. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
Yesterday, our Head of Advocacy and Research, Thomas Benson, met with @bobbywdean.bsky.social to discuss our research findings on #BNOs’ experience of transnational repression, including the withholding of MPF savings, and further collaborations on #HongKong community engagements.
🚨 Tomorrow marks 29 years since the #HongKong handover, and today, 6 years since 🇨🇳 imposed the draconian National Security Law. Read our full statement 👇 www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
For World Refugee Day, we joined 18 #HongKong and human rights groups and 6 community signatories in urging the Home Office to maintain safe humanitarian pathways for Hong Kongers facing political persecution and seeking refuge in 🇬🇧
🍎 Five years ago the #HongKong authorities forcibly shut down Apple Daily, the largest pro-democracy newspaper in the city, owned by 🇬🇧 citizen Jimmy Lai.
🚨 Today’s sentencing of Bill Yuen and Peter Wai in London, following their convictions under 🇬🇧 National Security Act for assisting a foreign intelligence service, signal that Britain will not tolerate 🇨🇳 espionage. We welcome these sentences. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
We welcome the European Parliament adopting a resolution on countering 🇨🇳 transnational repression. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
🚨 Yesterday, 🇬🇧 Parliament voted on the anti-TNR amendment to the Cyber Security Bill, rejecting it by 245 NOES to 162 AYES. All opposition parties voted in favour, with only Labour MPs voting against. So what happens next? Read below👇 www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
Thank you @bengoldsborough.bsky.social for raising #freeJimmyLai and transnational repression against #HongKongers in 🇬🇧 during oral questions to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
NO INFORMATION SHARING WITH AUTHORITARIANS. Iain Duncan Smith MP has tabled an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to stop 🇨🇳 and other authoritarian regimes from abusing information sharing agreements.
Happy birthday to our co-founder and Chair Benedict Rogers 🎉 Thank you for your endless dedication and enthusiasm for the cause of #HongKong and wider human rights issues. We hope you have a wonderful day surrounded by loved ones.
🚨 Hong Kong Watch strongly condemns the enactment of the Safeguarding National Security (Procedural Matters) Regulation, which grants #HongKong Chief Executive John Lee the power to certify any criminal case as a national security matter. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
May 2026 brought landmark spy convictions in 🇬🇧, further crackdowns on press freedom, and transnational repression ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Read our latest monthly #HongKong human rights briefing👇 www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
This week, our Policy Director Megan Khoo launched our latest briefing on 🇪🇺 exposure to 🇨🇳 rare earth dominance in Brussels. You can read the briefing here: www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
Seven years on from the 2019 protests in #HongKong, our Chair Benedict Rogers has written this message of solidarity for Hong Kongers, encouraging us to always remember 612 and take care of one another as the fight for freedom goes on 👇
Seven years ago, the people of #HongKong showed the world their courage and resilience during the anti-extradition law protests. Today, as we mark the anniversary of the ‘612 incident’, we pay tribute to them and stand in solidarity with Hong Kongers worldwide in their ongoing fight for freedom.
Thank you to @markjsewards.bsky.social and @alexsobel.co.uk for pressing the Home Office for information on the use and misuse of INTERPOL’s Red Notice system, ahead of INTERPOL's 94th General Assembly in #HongKong this November. International policing must remain free of political persecution.
On the eve of the 37th anniversary of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre, Hong Kong Watch stands in solidarity with pro-democracy activists in #HongKong and around the world in commemorating #JuneFourth. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
🇬🇧 Hong Kong Watch ILR & MPF Status Tracker We are collecting cases of MPF withdrawal attempts from Hong Kongers who have secured ILR in the UK. If you have tried to retrieve your MPF savings after being granted settled status in the UK, please share your experience here: forms.gle/cXYJwwJwWScB....