A year after Hong Kong introduced a draconian security law, 101 East meets the activists who refuse to be silenced.
Hong Kong Protests
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Nine activists sentenced to between six and 10 months in jail while three others were handed suspended sentences.
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Security secretary says officials working on legislation that would define new crimes such as espionage.
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Court sentences seven activists and former legislators to jail over an unauthorised rally in October 2019.
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Police to probe Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China over its membership, finance.
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Arrests are linked to a since-withdrawn student union motion marking the death of a man who stabbed a police officer.
![Thousands of Hong Kong people have left the territory since the National Security Law was imposed in June last year [File: Isaac Lawrence/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/000_1S68YH.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
China has ‘fundamentally altered the bedrock’ of Hong Kong’s democratic institutions and ‘suppressed freedoms’, US says.
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Former waiter Tong Ying-kit, 24, was convicted of terrorism and secession earlier this week in Hong Kong.
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Police begin probe after people at shopping mall were heard booing as the anthem was played after fencer won gold.
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Former waiter Tong Ying-kit, 24, was accused of driving his bike into three riot police while carrying protest flag.
![Since China imposed the national security law to criminalise what it considers subversion, secessionism, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces, most pro-democracy activists and politicians in Hong Kong have found themselves ensnared by it or arrested for other reasons [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-13T121049Z_1216671931_RC2NJO91A0IA_RTRMADP_3_HONGKONG-SECURITY.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Latest move in response to China clampdown seen as symbolic as business community still wants market access.
![United States officials argue Hong Kong's national security law, passed last year, has weakened the boundaries between China and Hong Kong, which has been run as a 'Special Administrative Region” with a separate governing and economic system since the British handover of the colony in 1997 [File: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/373236364.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
In the US’s view, those risks include China’s ability to gain access to data that foreign firms store in Hong Kong.
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Police said the man stabbed himself in the chest and later died of his wounds after injuring officer.
![Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam with newly appointed Chief Secretary John Lee (second left), Secretary for Security Chris Tang (right), and Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu during a news conference to announce the reshuffle on Friday [Kin Cheung/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21176168423642.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Move seen as China tightening grip as rights group says Beijing has ‘systematically dismantled’ Hongkongers’ rights.