As of February 15, 2022, at least 10,499 protesters have been arrested and 2,944 prosecuted. — This article is a continuation of a previous article tracking arrests and prosecutions that was regularly updated from November 3, 2019 to January 18, 2022. This article has been streamlined for easier reading and consultation. For background on some of the matters mentioned, it is recommended that the previous article…

A common project for the diaspora The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born…. — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1930 This is the second in a series of occasional essays on issues facing the Hong Kong diaspora. …

A Hong Kong story — In May 2020, I published a book called Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle. It was about the massive protests of 2019. When I wrote the story below in late summer 2021, I thought of it as the new conclusion to that book. Then again, the fate of…

Using the fate of exile to lay foundations for the future On December 13, Tibet and Hong Kong activists held a discussion called, “Could Tibet be the model for Hong Kong?” The idea behind it was that Tibetans have been in exile for more than seventy years and during that…

…. I reject [the characterization of me as] unfortunate…. It is actually a great fortune to be able to fight for one’s own ideas. How many people in the world have such an opportunity? Against the biggest Communist dictatorship in the world, no less. What a challenge. So don’t feel…

How does that compare to repressive countries in the rest of the world? UPDATE: When this article was originally published on November 5, 2021, there were 657 political prisoners in Hong Kong. As of January 18, 2022, that number has increased to 762. This includes all who have been remanded…

as of October 25, 2021 Since mass protests began in Hong Kong on June 9, 2019, at least 807 Hong Kongers have fled Hong Kong due to political persecution, with the most applying for asylum in Australia (305), the United Kingdom (166) and Canada (49), and over 200 reported to…

As of January 4, 2022, sixty-four civil society organizations have closed due to state repression since the start of 2021 The year 2021 has witnessed the decimation of civil society in Hong Kong due to repression by the Chinese Communist Party. Such a phenomenon in today’s world is quite uncommon…

A translation of Die Welt’s interview with the Hong Kong freedom fighter currently in solitary confinement — On November 23, Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam plead guilty to charges of organising and inciting “unlawful assembly” related to the surrounding of Hong Kong police headquarters by protesters on June 21, 2019. In the same trial, Agnes Chow had earlier plead guilty. All three were immediately remanded in custody…