Hong Kong Watch Briefing on Human Rights Developments: August 2024

This briefing describes developments in Hong Kong in August 2024 focusing on the rapid deterioration of human rights in the city following the imposition of the National Security Law and the passage of Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

POLITICAL PRISONERS: ARRESTS, CHARGES & TRIALS

  • Stand News editors found guilty of alleged sedition

  • Hong Kong Court rejects final appeal of Jimmy Lai and six other democrats

  • Chow Hang-tung and other Tiananmen activists take appeal to top Hong Kong court

  • Hong Kong 47 democrats mitigation pleas continue

  • Detained activist Owen Chow sentenced to three days’ imprisonment for ‘carrying an unauthorised article out of prison’

  • Activist Tam Tak-chi to challenge sedition conviction next January

  • Elderly busker jailed again for performing pro-democracy anthem ‘Glory to Hong Kong’

  • Hong Kong student sentenced to 8 weeks in prison over peaceful shopping mall protest four years ago

  • Hong Kong man charged under Article 23 legislation for wearing “seditious” shirt and mask on 12 June

  • Two arrested for alleged sedition under Article 23 legislation over reportedly fake suicide note

  • Hong Kong man taken away for holding flowers at Prince Edward MTR on the five-year anniversary of the ‘831’ incident

THE STATE OF THE RULE OF LAW AND POLICING

  • Forty-five civil society organisations urge Lord Neuberger to resign from Hong Kong Court

  • Hong Kong denies Bloomberg journalist Haze Fan work visa after her detention in Mainland China

STATE SECURITY AND ECONOMY

  • Hong Kong’s property market continues to crash 

  • Top tier law firms closing across Hong Kong

Briefing, NewsMegan KhooHR