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Patrick Lam (journalist)
Patrick Lam () is a Hong Kong journalist. Lam was formerly an editor at the now defunct pro-democracy Stand News. He previously covered the crackdown on the city's civil liberties. Sedition case In August 2024, Lam and fellow former Stand News editor Chung Pui-kuen were under a colonial-era sedition law of "conspiracy to publish and reproduce seditious publications" by Hong Kong District Court Judge Kwok Wai-Kin. The trial was the first against members of the media since the 1997 Hong Kong handover. In September 2024, Lam was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes (; born 12 May 1944), is a British politician who was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992, and the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. He was made a lif ... described the convictions as "a dark day for press freedom" in Hong Kong. The arrests were criticized by Amnesty International's C ...
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Stand News
''Stand News'' ( zh, t=立場新聞) was a free non-profit online news website based in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2021. Founded in December 2014, it was the successor of ''House News''. It primarily focused on social and Politics of Hong Kong, political issues in Hong Kong, and generally took a Pro-democracy camp (Hong Kong), pro-democracy editorial position. ''Stand News'' was ranked highest in credibility among online news media in Hong Kong in two public opinion surveys conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016 and 2019. On 29 December 2021, amid the backdrop of increasing government suppression of news media following the 2020 enactment of the 2020 Hong Kong national security law, Hong Kong national security law, ''Stand News'' was Stand News raids and arrests, raided by the Hong Kong Police Force, who arrested senior staff and froze the company's assets. As a result, similar to ''Apple Daily'' earlier the same year, ''Stand News'' was forced to dismiss its sta ...
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Chung Pui-kuen
Chung Pui-kuen (, born 1969) is a Hong Kong journalist. A former chief editor of Stand News, a defunct Hong Kong online media outlet, Chung was convicted of sedition in 2024, the first since the city was handed over to China in 1997. Career Chung read politics and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was also part of the student union leadership and edited the school newspaper. After graduated in 1991, he joined Confederation of Trade Unions, the newly founded labour group, as an executive. Chung became a journalist in 1995, working in Ming Pao and later Hong Kong Economic Times as a financial reporter. In 2012 Chung entered House News, a pro-democracy online media outlet, as the editor-in-chief until it shut down two years later. When Stand News, successor of House News, was established around half a year later in late 2014, Chung continued as the inaugural chief editor. He was also once a member of the board of directors. Announcing the launch of ...
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Kwok Wai-kin
Kwok Wai-kin (; born 1959) is a Hongkongese judge. He has sparked controversies over his political remarks on his hearings. Biography Kwok was born in Hong Kong in 1959 and obtained Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (P.C.LL.) from the University of Hong Kong in 1981 and 1982 respectively. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1982 and was in private practice from 1983 until 1992 when he joined the judiciary as Permanent Magistrate in 1992. He was appointed as Principal Magistrate in 1999 and District Judge in 2012. Kwok lost his identity card in 2004 and applied for the reissue, but requested the HK$395 replacement payment be waived because he was going to replace the smart identity card according to the government programme. His request was however rejected by the Immigration Department. Controversies floated as the Justice and Immigration Departments did not prosecute Kwok for the matter. Chief Justice Andrew Li defended Kwok, saying that he did not ...
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Governor Of Hong Kong
The governor of Hong Kong was the representative of the United Kingdom, British The Crown, Crown in British Hong Kong, Hong Kong from 1843 to 1997. In this capacity, the governor was president of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, Executive Council and commander-in-chief of the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong. The governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Hong Kong Royal Instructions, Royal Instructions. Upon the end of British rule and the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, most of the civil functions of this office went to the chief executive of Hong Kong, and military functions went to the Hong Kong Garrison#Command, commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison. The governor Authorities and duties of the governor were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Hong Kong Royal Instructions, Royal Instructions in 1843. The governor, appointed by the British monarchy, British monarch (on the advice of the Secretary of Stat ...
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Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes (; born 12 May 1944), is a British politician who was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992, and the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. He was made a life peer in 2005 and served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2024. He is one of two living former governors of Hong Kong, alongside David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, David Wilson. Patten was born in Thornton-Cleveleys in Lancashire and subsequently raised in west London. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, and, after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Patten was List of MPs elected in the 1979 United Kingdom general election, elected Member of Parliament for Bath (UK Parliament constituency), Bath in 1979 United Kingdom general election, 1979. He was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as part of her Third ...
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments". The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. In what he called "The Forgotten Prisoners" and "An Appeal for Amnesty", which appeared on the front page of the British newspaper ''The Observer'', Benenson wrote about two students who toasted to freedom in Portugal and four other people who had been jailed in other nations because of their beliefs ...
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Hong Kong Journalists
Hong may refer to: Places *Høng, a town in Denmark *Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China *Hong, Nigeria *Hong River in China and Vietnam *Lake Hong in China Surnames *Hong (Chinese surname) *Hong (Korean surname) Organizations *Hong (business), general term for a 19th–20th century trading company based in Hong Kong, Macau or Canton *Hongmen (洪門), a Chinese fraternal organization Creatures *Hamsa (bird), a mythical bird also known was hong *Hong (rainbow-dragon) ''Hong'' or ''jiang'' () is a Chinese dragon with two heads on each end in Chinese mythology, comparable with Rainbow Serpent legends in various cultures and mythologies. Chinese "rainbow" names Chinese has three " rainbow" words, regular , lit ..., a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology * ''Hong'' (genus), a genus of ladybird {{disambiguation ...
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Political Prisoners Held By Hong Kong
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social status, status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other ...
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