By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail, the most severe punishment under the city's national security law which Beijing imposed after sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019.

A prominent activist who organized Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has defended their demand for ending "one-party rule” in court.

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai was being heralded by supporters as the city’s “conscience” yesterday after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on national security charges.

Three leaders of the months-long pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong turned themselves into police on Wednesday for their role in the "Occupy Central" movement, but were allowed to leave without facing any charges. Before being released, professors Benny ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONG KONG (AP) — YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong, days after ...

The Associated Press / Hong Kong students living in Taiwan and Taiwanese supporters with their eyes covered with red-eyepatches, symbolizing a woman reported to have had an eye ruptured by a beanbag round fired by police during clashes, hold slogans during ...

Welcome to HKFP Monitor. This week, in the wake of the bus seat belt law controversy, we walk down memory lane to revisit the government’s policy flip-flops. We also look into local media angles on the Epstein document dump,