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香港自由基金會（The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation）公共事務及倡議經理Alyssa Fong接受本台訪問時形容，今次示威反映港人對祈顯義加入終審法院的失望及憤怒。Alyssa說：「一名受人敬重及具聲望的澳洲代表，現時繼續在香港終審法院出任法官。

That fact puts reports such as one published by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CfHK) into perspective. The report found that Russian oligarchs and other figures were using shell companies in Hong Kong to move dual-use equipment and materials shipped to Hong Kong by Europe and America on to Russia.

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This alarm not only underscores a call to bolster defenses at more localized levels of governance but also resonates with the sentiment shared by Frances Hui, the first Hong Kong activist granted asylum in the U.S. and a policy advocate at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, who reminded committee members that "freedom is not free."

 “That’s the spirit that everyone respects,” said Frances Hui, a Washington-based policy coordinator at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. “He has the courage that a lot of us don’t, and that’s very inspiring.”

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The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, an NGO, has previously accused the Western judges of lending “their prestige to a justice system that has been undermined and co-opted by Beijing.”

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Shannon Van Sant, an advisor to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, exposed how some of these websites use AI-generated images and false journalist profiles. “The manipulation of media is ultimately a manipulation of readers, and this is harmful to democracy and society,” Van Sant said, underscoring the dangers of China’s growing propaganda reach.

“The journalism cases show something much broader: that there is no rule of law for political cases in Hong Kong anymore,” said Mark Clifford, president of the CFHK Foundation and a former director of Next Digital, which published Apple Daily, the pro-democracy newspaper similarly forced to shut down by the government. 

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It means that Hongkongers who have called out the wrongdoing of the CCP and fled abroad are now at risk of arrest, trial and imprisonment if they ever set foot in Hong Kong again. Those threatened by this new legislation include courageous human-rights campaigners like Nathan Law, Finn Lau, Anna Kwok, Frances Hui, Simon Cheng and Joey Siu.

Mark Clifford and Gordon Crovitz, senior officials at Next Digital, filed a complaint against the global accounting firm. They allege BDO enabled rights violations by providing essential services to Hong Kong authorities. 

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Jonathan Stivers, US director for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, welcomed the passage of the bill, saying the trade offices had “clearly been taking their orders from Beijing”. He added: “These offices should no longer be allowed to have separate privileges and immunities from the People’s Republic of China.”

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Mr Clifford and Mr Crovitz claim BDO “enabled” human rights abuses after its managing director allegedly worked on behalf of the Hong Kong government in violation of international guidelines.

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Chaired by James Cunningham, the former US consul general for Hong Kong and ambassador to the United Nations, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation has considerable weight and continues to highlight civil rights abuses in the territory.

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This debate was rekindled by the recent resignations of esteemed British judges Lawrence Collins and Jonathan Sumption after The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong’s report cited growing concerns about the erosion of legal autonomy and a shift towards authoritarian governance under the auspices of Beijing’s tightened national security law.

The verdict and Neuberger’s role in it has come under attack from human rights activists, including the London-based committee for freedom in Hong Kong foundation campaign group (no prizes for guessing why it is based in London rather than Beijing-controlled Hong Kong). Mark Sabah, its director, did not mince his words: ‘In a word, it’s disgraceful that Lord Neuberger is even part of this. His credibility is shot.’

In recent years, dictators in China, Iran, Russia and North Korea have strengthened trade and security ties, formalized cooperation and alliances, and worked together to expand their power from Ukraine to Taiwan. One city plays a central role in this deepening alliance of autocracies: Hong Kong.

A new report by lawyer and Hong Kong advocate Samuel Bickett for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation presents evidence for the extent and nature of Hong Kong’s sanctions evasion.

 A report published this week by the non-profit pro-democracy advocacy group The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation accuses the territory of serving as a conduit for unlawful trade and financial transactions with Russia, Iran and North Korea. 

Hong Kong's government and local businesses undermine sanctions by deliberately facilitating the transfer of restricted and sensitive technology to naughty regimes, according to a report released on Monday by the nonprofit Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

海外港人組織「香港自由委員會基金會」（The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation）周一（22日）發表報告，表示2021年至2022年期間，從香港出口到俄羅斯的半導體零件增加了一倍，達到4億美元，僅次於中國大陸的出口量。半導體零件對支援俄羅斯國防工業開發無人機和巡航飛彈等武器相當重要。

The data, outlined in a new report, opens new tab by The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) and reviewed by Reuters, showed $750 million worth of CHPL items -- ranging from high-end chips by Nvidia and France's Vectrawave, to lower-end chips from Texas Instruments and Intel -- were shipped via Hong Kong between August and December 2023.

Two exiled Hong Kong activists say bounties imposed on them last year are causing fear and anxiety as they conduct their advocacy work from U.S. soil amid concerns for their safety.

City council put a proposed agreement with the port of Kaohsiung on hold after businesses expressed concern about a backlash from Beijing.

The president of the Committee for Freedom of Hong Kong and the author of a forthcoming biography of Jimmy Lai, Mark Clifford, calls the trial of the magnate a “sham” but said the 76-year-old Lai has the “strength to persevere” due to his Catholic faith.

Three more senior foreign judges have stepped down from Hong Kong’s top court, the Court of Final Appeal, amid concerns over judicial independence from China. One of the three, high-profile British judge Lord Jonathan Sumption, 75, who resigned Thursday, said on Monday that judges are being compromised by an “impossible political environment created by China.”

Today, the Hong Kong government is so concerned about Hui, it placed a $130,000 bounty on her, equivalent to about HK$1 million, for lobbying for the legislation that Trump signed. “(The bounty) is an incentive for people around the world to harass us and send us threats,” Hui said. “Even before the bounty was issued, I received death threats and harassments online.”

A report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation last month, in the British House of Commons, stated that such judges "lend their prestige to a justice system that has been undermined and co-opted by Beijing in its relentless efforts to exert total control over Hong Kong."

Alyssa Fong of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation welcomed the news. She said: “No foreign judges should continue to give any form of credibility to the Hong Kong courts and authoritarian crackdown.”

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation has previously accused the Western judges of lending “their prestige to a justice system that has been undermined and co-opted by Beijing”.

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation, a human-rights charity, has stressed that both the US and UK must take decisive action to support Hong Kong’s ailing democracy movement. The CFHK’s Mark Clifford aptly terms Article 23 a ‘symbolic death blow to Hong Kong’s former freedoms’, enacted by inept politicians who are ‘more concerned with pleasing Beijing than reflecting and channelling Hong Kongers’ legitimate aspirations’.

Two former UK judges resigned from Hong Kong’s top court as the city’s judiciary comes under growing scrutiny over its role in Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in the former British colony.

Alyssa Fong, of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said Scotland is being exploited as a "playground to silence dissent" against the Chinese government

Policy and Advocacy Coordinator for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, Frances Hui, joins to share her reaction to these convictions. Hui tells us about China's National Security Law and how it can be leveraged against those in Hong Kong. Hui explains what she thinks these convictions mean for Jimmy Lai's case.

Speaking at a public round table event organised by the House Select Committee on China, Frances Hui Wing-ting, Joey Siu Nam, and human rights lawyer Jonathan Price also called for the passage of other measures meant to counter alleged human rights violations by the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese governments.

Lai also discussed how Hong Kong’s protests would continue despite the security law in two episodes of “Live Chat with Jimmy Lai” from July and August 2020. In the August episode, Lai was joined by ex-Next Digital director Mark Clifford and ex-director of the American Institute in Taiwan Raymond Burghardt.

"On May 14, a farce played out in the British Parliament. The US-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation released a report claiming that the 10 overseas judges who serve as nonpermanent judges of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKCFA) were lending legitimacy to a crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong. "

The foreign judges who serve on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal should resign to avoid complicity with the territory’s erosion in rule of law in recent years, the non-profit pro-democracy advocacy group The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation argues in a position paper published Tuesday. 

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation told Nikkei Asia that the charges are "only the tip of the iceberg." The advocacy group, which supports the democracy movement in Hong Kong, said the British authorities must show they are taking the issue seriously if the allegations are proven to be true, with "serious sentencing" to deter transnational repression on British soil.

China is using a scholarship scheme bankrolled by Scottish taxpayers to monitor and intimidate critics of the communist, it has been claimed.

The event’s organiser was Alyssa Fong of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. She claimed that she had been targeted by people with ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while studying and working at the University of Edinburgh.

今天（3日）是「世界新聞自由日」，無國界記者（RSF）公布2024年世界新聞自由指數，香港評分為43.06分，較去年再度下跌，不過排名則微升5位，在全球180個國家或地區中排名135。另外，香港自由委員會基金會昨在華盛頓和倫敦多幢建築物，包括香港駐華府經貿辦外投影，呼籲社會關注香港人權狀況，並促請關閉香港駐美經貿辦。

In London and Washington, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation staged large-scale wall projections to highlight the detention in Hong Kong of Jimmy Lai, a British citizen and the founder of the Apple Daily newspaper, which was shut down in 2021.

"On Thursday I met with the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. It was an informative discussion in which we covered the visa scheme which has allowed Hong Kongers to come the UK, the influence of the Chinese state in UK universities and what this means for national security, and the disgraceful incarceration of the pro-democracy campaigner, Jimmy Lai."

The decline of religious freedom at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is explored in detail in a new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation. 

“The children of the [2003] protesters are now going to suffer through what their parents fought against,” says Mark Sabah, director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

Almost 6,000 cameras made by manufacturers connected to the Chinese government are being used by Scottish councils

Three Hong Kong freedom fighters who have made it their life’s work to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party and for basic human rights in Hong Kong join the She Thinks podcast this week.

Two decades ago, the Catholic Church in Hong Kong joined half a million people to overturn the government’s plan to implement a national-security law that would threaten the city’s freedoms.

The Hong Kong legislature has prepared to enact a new national security law to tighten restrictions introduced in 2020 after the suppression of pro-democracy protests.

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation was strongly condemned by the government on Sunday for blatantly requesting the United States impose sanctions on the Chinese and HKSAR officials, in particular those taking part in the Article 23 legislation.

​The decline of religious freedom at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is explored in all its grim detail in a new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation.

Eleven NGOs including the Washington-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, recommended that Hong Kong repeal the national security law.

Among Lai’s alleged co-conspirators are Bill Browder, founder of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and Benedict Rogers, founder of Hong Kong Watch, along with James Cunningham, former US consul general in Hong Kong and chairman of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation and Luke de Pulford, executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).

NTD News discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Wanted activist Frances Hui said she wasn't surprised by the bounty on her head, and wouldn't be giving up her advocacy as a result. "I will continue to do what I think is right," Frances told Radio Free Asia.

South China Morning Post discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

The Strait Times discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

The Guardian discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Amnesty International discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

BBC discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation slammed the video as a form of "televised confession" favored by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in mainland China.

Mark Sabah told The Independent: “Why should it be a secret that the Foreign Secretary is fighting for the release of a British citizen?

If you rewound the clock in Hong Kong back five years to 2018, business and life would have been going on as usual in one of the world’s most dynamic cities – glistening skyscrapers, dim sum on the streets, and Victoria Harbour bustling with people. Tim Loughton MP, Jim Shannon MP and Mark L Clifford discussed a changing Hong Kong in The Scotsman.

Mark Sabah spoke to Jane Werrell of NTD News regarding the impact of the alleged Chinese spies in British Parliament in the Hong Kong and Chinese dissident communities.

Mark Clifford spoke at the online World Hong Kong Forum based in Canada about the declining situation in Hong Kong.

The participation of Meng, who represents Queens, and Adams in the event is "shameful", Frances Hui told National Review. "It also shows the scale of the CCP's penetration into American politics."

An interview with Perry Link on the late democracy leader and political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo.

Mark Clifford discussed how Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee placed bounties on the heads of exiled pro-democracy activists, further crushing the rule of law.

Mark Sabah called the questioning of Nathan Law’s family sinister in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Mark Sabah affirmed that Liu Jianchao was allegedly responsible for supervising the forced repatriation of Chinese dissidents.

Mark Sabah joined John Mooney from The Sunday Times to discuss Chinese influence operations in Ireland.

The Independent reported on the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation’s panel discussion for World Press Freedom Day in the British Parliament, where Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, lead international lawyer for Jimmy Lai, called out how the Hong Kong authorities continue to wage “lawfare” against Mr Lai and others.

Mark Clifford authored a piece for American Banker on how the Chinese government has forced banks like HSBC, Manulife, Invesco and Fidelity to deny 90,000 Hong Kong emigrants access to their hard-earned pensions. Mr Clifford wrote, “Banks have been behaving as if their operations in Hong Kong enjoy the same protections they operate under in London or New York. They do not; in fact, they have none.”

Duncan Bartlett, Research Associate at the SOAS China Institute at the University of London, interviewed Mark Clifford regarding British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly’s speech on UK-China relations. Mr Clifford said, “I would hope that the remarks would hint at a tougher attitude towards protecting Hong Kongers who have immigrated to Britain and been the subject of physical and other attacks in the UK.”

Mark Sabah spoke with Dr David Bull on TalkTV about British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly sanctioning Russian officials who jailed British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza. He called on James Cleverly to do the same with Hong Kong officials to hold them to account for the imprisonment of British citizen Jimmy Lai.

Mark Clifford spoke with Marco Giannangeli, highlighting the need for Britain to label China a "threat". Mr Clifford said, "Downing street realises the Golden age of trade with China is over, but there is still a sense that we can somehow have it both ways - that’s why Whitehall continues to apply the term 'strategic competitor' to China, when we are already very clearly in a Cold War."

Mark Sabah spoke with Channels TV about a Parliamentary debate co-organised by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation on 10 years of Xi Jinping and the future of U.K.-China relations. Mr Sabah said, "It was fairly bleak because there were warning signs coming from politicians who care about [the issues that affect Hong Kong]."

According to Daily Business, EU-owned BrewDog has entered a joint venture with Budweiser China. This joint venture is hypocritical especially after BrewDog’s attempts to shame Fifa and Qatar over its record on human rights at the World Cup last year. "If they are going to be calling out human rights abuses in Qatar, they should be doing the same in China," stated Mark Sabah.

Mark Sabah spoke to Channels TV about the Hong Kong 47's ongoing National Security Law trial, which is the largest national security-related trial in Hong Kong's history. 

Olivia Enos wrote in Forbes about how the global community should respond to the trial of the Hong Kong 47. Mrs Enos urged the international community to stand in solidarity with the individuals who are wrongfully imprisoned and to defend those who are unlawfully on trial in Hong Kong.

Mark Clifford spoke with Radio Free Asia about Jimmy Lai's National Security Law trial, saying the shut down of Apple Daily symbolises the Chinese Communist Party's destruction of Hong Kong. 

The National Catholic Register featured the CFHK Foundation's "Postcards for Jimmy" campaign which involves schoolchildren sending Jimmy Lai Christmas cards in prison from around the world. Luke Schwartz, a 10-year old who participated, said, "Mr. Lai is a strong man for standing up for the people of Hong Kong. I'm happy I could do something to make him smile."

Olivia Enos spoke to CBN News about the recent protests in China and the use of technology to monitor those taking part. Ms Enos stated, “I can’t underscore this enough, how much bravery it takes for Chinese people to take to the streets. The Chinese Party is notorious for using technology…one particular application would mark activities as suspicious…those types of suspicions could be grounds for being sent to these political re-education camps.”

Mark Clifford told Japan Forward that Jimmy Lai’s trial “holds little hope for justice” and will become “another marker in the dismantling of the rule of law in Hong Kong.”

Alyssa Fong said it was “shocking” that Keane had chosen to join the bench after the implementation of the national security law, which saw mass arrests of pro-democracy demonstrators, and widespread repression of civil liberties and press freedoms.

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Mark Sabah writes, "The Labour Party is perfectly placed to start from a clean sheet and redraw the lines of the relationship. They could reduce reliance on Chinese money and investment and work with universities to find alternative funding streams, redraw the fee structures to encourage more students from Europe and take in fewer from China..."

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Mark Sabah, the director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK), a group leading the calls for Mr Lai’s release, has accused the Foreign Office of “giving cover to authoritarian states to do whatever they like”.

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Earlier this year, UK NGO, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation released a report claiming “foreign judges are lending legitimacy to Beijing’s crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong” as they called on them all to step down.

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Their resignations came after 14 pro-democracy activists were convicted on conspiracy to commit subversion charges under a draconian national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, and weeks after the release of a report from the CF Foundation that said foreign judges in the former British colony were providing "legitimacy to Beijing's crackdown on political freedoms."

Shannon Van Sant, an adviser to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, tracked a network of dozens of sites that posed as news organizations. 

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Two former Next Digital directors, Mark L. Clifford and L. Gordon Crovitz, have lodged a complaint in the U.K., where BDO is based, with the Organization on Economic Cooperation and Development.

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“Jimmy Lai’s story is Hong Kong’s story, and his fate is Hong Kong’s fate,” says Mark Clifford, a former director of Mr. Lai’s media company Next Digital and author of “The Troublemaker,” his forthcoming biography of Mr. Lai.  

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On Thursday, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) held its annual symposium at the US Capitol Visitor Center to discuss the current state of the Rule of Law in Hong Kong. 

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Critics are urging Australian judges serving on Hong Kong's top court to resign after fellow foreign justices stepped down, some in response to the enactment of national security laws that aim to stifle dissent and democratic freedoms.

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The allegations by Gordon Crovitz, a former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and Mark Clifford, a former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, are in a 32-page complaint reviewed by Reuters.

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"The reality is that the defendants have been convicted for doing no more than carrying out normal journalistic work which had been legal in Hong Kong,” said a joint statement issued by the CPJ, IFJ, Hong Kong Media Overseas, The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong and Index on Censorship.​

A British judge who has faced significant backlash for his role in the conviction of pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has stepped down from a prominent media freedom panel. 

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Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury has been criticised by rights groups for ruling against an appeal by activists including Jimmy Lai and Martin Lee Chu-ming

The article was penned by Olivia Enos, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute covering human rights and national security challenges in Asia. It cited a recent report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation, which the Hong Kong government labelled as an “anti-China” group.

Russia has sought to sidestep Western sanctions since its invasion of Ukraine triggered curbs from Ukrainian allies. The New York Times this week reported Russia obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips, many of which were shipped via shell companies in Hong Kong. A report published Monday by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation also found the city exported restricted goods to Russia, Iran and North Korea.

海外港人組織香港自由委員會基金會（The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation）昨發表報告，指香港對俄羅斯的半導體出口在2022年2月俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭後翻倍增長，2022年更達到4億美元，僅次於中國。尤其特首李家超明言香港不會遵從西方制裁俄羅斯後，為俄羅斯公司出口到伊朗的無人機技術「大開綠燈」。

According to a new report by The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, that includes the transfer of advanced semiconductor products, which can be integral to battlefield technology. Between August and December of last year, $750 million worth of Common High Priority Items — a Western-tracked list of technologies most essential to Russia's war — were traded through Hong Kong, the data showed.

The surge of Hong Kong shipments to Russia following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 underscores the city's extensive role in helping U.S. adversaries avoid international sanctions, a new analysis published Monday by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation shows.

Despite pledging a strong response to China’s new repression in Hong Kong in line with U.S. support for human rights, the State Department response has so far declined to employ several of the legal tools that the U.S. government has at its disposal, even after Hong Kong issued bounties for the arrests of an American citizen, Anna Kwok, and Frances Hui, a U.S. resident. Senior Hong Kong officials even traveled to the U.S. for meetings in May, presumably on visas issued by the State Department.

Freedom of assembly, association, expression and protest no longer exist in Hong Kong; freedom of religion or belief is increasingly threatened, as Hong Kong Watch’s report late last year and the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation’s report earlier this year outline.

A senior British judge heard a protest-related case in Hong Kong involving seven high-profile democrats on Monday, just weeks after two judges resigned citing the “profoundly compromised” rule of law in Hong Kong.

Rights Advocates Urge More Foreign Judges to Cut Ties With Hong Kong

British judges lend the former colony’s increasingly repressive regime a spurious legitimacy.

The two judges’ resignation came after the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation on May 14 released a report with the title “Lending prestige to persecution: how foreign judges are undermining Hong Kong’s Freedoms and why they should quit.” Alistair Carmichael, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong, hosted the report launch.

The resignations also came three weeks after NGO, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, released a report claiming “foreign judges are lending legitimacy to Beijing’s crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong,” as they called on them to step down.

The resignations of Lord Sumption and Lord Collins followed the conviction of 14 pro-democracy legislators and activists of ‘conspiracy to commit subversion.’

Two of the British judges who had controversially continued to sit on Hong Kong’s highest court have resigned amid mounting concerns over China’s crackdown on free speech in the territory.

​Alyssa Fong, the public affairs advocacy manager for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said the news was “extremely welcome”.

This development comes in the wake of a report released by The Committee for the Freedom of Hong Kong titled “Lending Prestige to Persecution: How Foreign Judges are Undermining Hong Kong’s Freedoms and Why They Should Quit.”

​On 4 June, 35 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Circle 19 for the Right to Information in China, an independent group supported by RSF, has released its Statement of Principles, a document reaffirming support for the effective exercise of the right to information in the People's Republic of China, a right that was at the heart of the demands of the Tiananmen movement that was bloodily suppressed in June 1989 by the Chinese regime.

In an episode of Live Chat with Jimmy Lai on November 26, 2020, Lai had former Next Digital non-executive director Mark Clifford and Dan Blumenthal, the former senior country director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia at the US Department of Defense, as guests.

The offices keep track of Hong Kongers who have fled a crackdown at home and must be “shut down, unless autonomy is restored to Hong Kong,” said Frances Hui, the policy and advocacy coordinator for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, at the event.

Beverley McLachlin’s continued tenure on Hong Kong’s court is an ongoing disgrace

Mark Sabah, director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, a Washington- and London-based nongovernmental organization, also called for closure of the HKETOs, saying that they act as "a proxy for Beijing."

该活动由英国国会议员阿利斯泰尔·卡迈克尔(Alistair Carmichael)和报告作者、香港自由基金委员会（简称CFHK）的公共事务经理方雅雯(Alyssa Fong)主持，期间香港末代总督彭定(Chris Patten)也参与了发言。

The report, issued by the Committee for the Freedom of Hong Kong presents a damning indictment on how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has weaponised the presence of overseas non-permanent judges in the Hong Kong judicial system to further their crackdown on civil liberties.

Alyssa Fong, UK public affairs and advocacy manager for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said some students were sent to UK universities in order to “surveil dissenting voices such as Hong Kongers, Chinese people, as well as spread their own propaganda”.

香港自由基金會委員會（CFHK）在周四（5月2日）晚上，在倫敦及華府兩地進行投射行動。

In China, journalist and women’s rights activist Huang Xueqin has spent more than two years in prison and could face 15 more after sentencing, according to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK). 

"As more governments from around the world wake up to the risk of having Hikvision and other Chinese-produced cameras and surveillance equipment inside government and public bodies, it's outrageous that Scottish local authorities are continuing to use products made by CCP-controlled organizations," said Mark Sabah.

A former employee of the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rigthts (OHCHR) has submitted evideence alleging that China is attempting to reshape the international order by influencing multilateral institutions like the UN.

"The latest response by the Biden administration has honestly concerned me about the administration’s commitment to stand up against Beijing’s aggression," said Frances Hui. "A more robust response from the U.S. is needed to facilitate future behavioral changes among (Chinese) and Hong Kong officials. A visa ban is something but not enough."

SD METRO Associate Editor Douglas Page interviewed Mark Clifford, president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

“The latest response by the Biden administration has honestly concerned me about the administration’s commitment to stand up against Beijing’s aggression,” said Frances Hui, policy and advocacy coordinator for the Washington-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. “A more robust response from the U.S. is needed to facilitate future behavioral changes among (Chinese) and Hong Kong officials. A visa ban is something but not enough.”

Ms Hui, who is now Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said she is also concerned the law could also be used to target HongKongers overseas, or their families and friends back home. 

As meetings were underway in the Legislative Council, the government on Sunday issued a statement condemning the Washington-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) for “intimidating” Chinese and city officials.

In a response to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, which requested the US to "sanctions" on the officials of the Central Government and the HKSAR, the HKSAR government issued a statement on Sunday strongly condemning it.

Several human rights groups are throwing support behind legislation that would force China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok or otherwise face a ban on the app in the U.S., as a high-stakes battle over the bill heats up in Washington.

There are several Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiatives that indicate the party wants to take away Hong Kongers’ freedom of religion, according to the report, which was published by the Washington, D.C.-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. 

Clifford, who is currently the president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, issued a statement acknowledging that he helped find writers for Apple Daily.

Elaborating on the situation on X, Frances Hui said that during those meetings, Chung was “coerced to provide details of every interpersonal interaction that he made – who he met [names and contact info], where they met [and] what they discussed. ..."

Frances Hui joined Fox & Friends to discuss the bounty placed on her by Hong Kong amid a crackdown on pro-democracy activists. "It's like a death certificate."

Hong Kong Free Press discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Daily Mail discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Voice of America discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui

South China Morning Post discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

The Standard discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Barron's discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Frances Hui wrote in the National Review, "they are everywhere, beating people up who do not wave their flag, and the local police are not enforcing the law at all. All of this feels so at home, as if we are back in China.”

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation held a seminar in U.S. Congress, focusing on the issue of political prisoners in Hong Kong. 

Voice of America Cantonese highlighted the efforts of the CFHK Foundation and other human rights organisations to urge British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to help secure the release of Jimmy Lai.  

Mark Sabah said to The Telegraph that he feared that pro-democracy activists who shared personal information with British MPs could be at risk if any information had leaked to Beijing.

“This strategy makes the cost of engaging in activism higher so other members of the Hong Kong diaspora community wouldn’t dare to do the same things,” Frances Hui, told VOA in an interview.

Mark Sabah warned, "Whether it is Russia, China or any hostile actor who hacked into the Electoral Commission, the cyberattack poses a grave risk for Hongkongers and other dissidents who call Britain home."

Frances Hui gives insights on the recent HK$1 million bounties on eight Hong Kong activists.

Mark Sabah called the recent actions of the Hong Kong government sinister.

Mark Sabah told Reuters, "It is sinister that the Hong Kong authorities questioned the family members of Nathan Law."

Mark Sabah informed Business Post that the Irish government has allegedly sold property to Chinese millionaires for an "incredibly cheap" price.

​The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation issued a statement welcoming the European Parliament speaking out against the Hong Kong government's treatment of British citizen Jimmy Lai.

Central News Agency Taiwan covered the World Press Freedom Day event hosted by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, which featured Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC underscoring how the Hong Kong authorities continue to use the National Security Law to target journalists and human rights defenders worldwide.

Mark Sabah told BBC Northern Ireland that the British authorities “have done nothing” to shut down the Chinese Communist Party’s illegal, secret police stations throughout Britain.

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation told Sky News, “It is pretty disgraceful that the architect of Hong Kong’s demise [was] invited to the coronation of King Charles III. Who calls the shots in Britain, is it Beijing or our Prime Minister?”

Mark Sabah spoke to NTD News about the imprisonment of Vladimir Kara-Murza and other political prisoners worldwide.

Mark Sabah spoke to NTD News to highlight the first-ever U.K.-Hong Kong Summit in London. Mr Sabah emphasised the need to protect Hong Kongers who seek refuge in Britain, saying, "You're telling Hong Kongers 'you've come here to be safe', but they're not. [The Bob Chan attack] had a very negative effect on the mentality of Hong Kongers who suddenly realised they're on their own even though they're here."

Megan Khoo spoke to ABC News, highlighting the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kon Foundation's projections across New York City's skyline for International Women's Day. Mrs Khoo explained why Hong Kong has the largest percentage of women political prisoners in the world.

Mark Clifford spoke to Maria Bartiromo about the China threat. Mr Clifford discussed the recent surveillance balloons, the potential meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi in Munich, and the disappearance of the CEO of China Renaissance, Bao Fan. 

Mark Sabah wrote in CapX about how the Online Safety Bill could allow the U.K. government to set up a surveillance state. Mr Sabah believes the Bill would put Hongkongers seeking refuge in Britain at risk.

Mark Clifford spoke with The Points Media about keeping the spirit of Hong Kong's journalism alive. Mr Clifford also highlighted the Chinese Communist Party's current pitfalls including a population demographic crisis, economic turmoil and an illegitimate government.

Mark Clifford told The Scotsman, "Scottish universities’ Confucius Institutes are promoting trade and investment while students in Hong Kong are being imprisoned for peaceful protest and speaking the truth" after Glasgow University's Confucius Institute sponsored yet another China-Britain Business Council annual awards ceremony.

CFHK Foundation's Mark Clifford discussed how Apple Daily's Founder Jimmy Lai became the Chinese Communist Party's adversary with Matt Lewis on The Daily Beast. He called for an end to Beijing's campaign against Hong Kong's freedom.

Tara Joseph told The Financial Times that the appeal from Beijing to block Timothy Owen from defending Jimmy Lai “goes exactly against the grain of what the Hong Kong government preaches about the city’s unique qualities. Hong Kong has always said it was open to international barristers and judges. This just flies in the face of that ideal it espoused.” 

Following a Hong Kong court charging Cardinal Zen for helping pro-democracy protesters, Frances Hui told the Hong Kong Free Press how she recalled him as a very gentle and caring figure. “He taught us at a young age, ‘Fret not, for God has his plans.’ That built up my confidence in life. Some of my acquaintances who aren’t religious are moved by his dedication. He could have stepped back, but he stayed true to his words even at such an old age,” she said. 

As the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation puts it, Mr Lammy has ‘the opportunity to be a statesman not a salesman’, but no one is betting that he will take it. In every respect, Mr Lai has been let down by the British culture of freedom and the rule of law to which he is devoted.

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Mark Sabah, from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said that Lammy should be standing up for British interests, national security and for detained British citizens. He said that he should openly demand Lai’s immediate release.

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Shannon Van Sant, an advisor to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, tracked dozens of sites that posed as news organizations. One site mimicked The New York Times, using a similar font and design in what she called an attempt at legitimacy. The site carried strong pro-Chinese messages.

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First Supreme Court president declines a new term in former colony’s final court of appeal ‘for personal reasons’ but is criticised by pro-democracy campaigners.

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The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation called for the remaining foreign judges to resign. “There should be no overseas judges giving any sort of veneer of legitimacy to a legal system which is now quite clearly under the control of the Chinese Communist party, no longer independent, and no longer trustworthy,” said Alyssa Fong,  

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香港自由委員會基金會（CFHK）主席祈福德（Mark Clifford）表示，香港的新聞自由繼續以驚人的速度倒退，促特區政府立即釋放所有被監禁的記者及政治犯。

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Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced the bipartisan Transnational Repression Reporting Act of 2024 which would require the Attorney General, in coordination with other relevant federal agencies, to submit a report of cases of transnational repression against U.S. citizens or people in the United States. 

Mark Clifford and Gordon Crovitz, both ex-directors of Next Digital, filed a complaint with the British government last December, alleging that “BDO has enabled [human rights] abuses by providing essential relevant services to the Hong Kong government.”

 Gordon Crovitz (a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Mark Clifford, like Mr. Crovitz a former director of the Hong Kong media company Next Digital (Apple Daily’s parent), gave an example. The two made public a complaint they filed in December with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

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前壹傳媒董事會成員Mark Clifford及Gordon Crovitz向英國政府投訴，指立信德豪會計師行（BDO）協助香港政府將壹傳媒清盤、停運，違反經濟合作暨發展組織（OECD）的規定：跨國企業必需防止或減輕違反人權的活動，而母公司需為它們在海外的子公司負責。 

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Alyssa Fong is the public affairs advocacy manager for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. "What is it for these judges that they feel the need to stay, ... and I know that Australian judges have before said to imply that its for the money, which is $78,000 Australian dollars per sitting that they get, would be insulting".  

“He is choosing the court of Hong Kong over media freedom and integrity. We do not applaud Lord Neuberger’s resignation,” Mark Sabah of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation said.

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Mark Sabah, director at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation said: “It is the height of hypocrisy that Lord Neuberger continues to keep that position. It is shocking. He should resign his position with Prisoners Abroad.”

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Mark Sabah, the director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said it was “shameful and disgraceful” that Neuberger still sat in the court.

Authorities issued the statement early on Thursday, hours after Forbes published the commentary titled “Hong Kong’s Economy Is Now Risky Business” and written by human rights and national security researcher Olivia Enos. It highlighted findings of a report by the US Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

According to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, the latest delay was announced on Lai's 1,301st day in prison, much of which has been spent in solitary confinement. Foundation President Mark Clifford said Lai's alleged crime was "nothing more than committed journalism and standing up for the people of Hong Kong."

這份由“香港自由委員會基金會”（The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation）出版，作者是曾經在香港工作的美籍律師貝祺森（Samuel Bickett），他在報告發表會上指，即使他早已清楚香港的角色，但他找到的證據之多仍然令他震驚。

From August to December 2023, $750 million worth of banned goods were shipped through Hong Kong, ranging from high-tech chips from Nvidia and France's Vectrawave to cheap chips from Texas Instruments and Intel, according to data outlined in a forthcoming report by the Committee for Hong Kong Freedom (CFHK) Foundation and analyzed by Reuters.

A report published on Monday by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, a campaign group, found that between 2021 and 2022, exports of semiconductors from Hong Kong to Russia roughly doubled to $400m (£310m), second only to shipments from mainland China. 

前北约秘书长、英国政府的战略防御评估负责人乔治·罗伯逊勋爵(Lord George Robertson)警告说，中国是对英国构成“致命”威胁的国家之一。

Edinburgh halts deal with Taiwanese city over fears of China backlash.

In part one of this Barefoot Lawyer Reports on China interview, activist Frances Hui explains the impacts Hong Kong’s infamous national security law had on freedoms on the city.

Mark Sabah, the director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said Lord Neuberger’s presence on the Hong Kong bench was “astonishing”. “If he had any shred of credibility left … he would immediately resign,” said Sabah, who also called for the resignations of Hoffmann and Phillips.

The resignations also came weeks after NGO, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, released a report claiming “foreign judges are lending legitimacy to Beijing’s crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong,” as they called on them to step down.

 A new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, urging the foreign judges to resign, ruefully quotes McLachlin in a 2019 interview with National Post: “The presence of judges from England, Australia, or Canada on the court, signing on to the decisions, enhances public confidence in their justice system and in those decision.”

 "According to the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, China and the United States do not have an extradition treaty with one another."

These arrests and convictions provide powerful evidence for a new report published by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. The title says it all: “Lending Prestige to Persecution: How foreign judges are undermining Hong Kong’s freedoms and why they should quit.”

The resignations also come three weeks after NGO, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, released a report claiming “foreign judges are lending legitimacy to Beijing’s crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong,” as they called on them to step down.

Two former Supreme Court judges have quit Hong Kong’s highest court amid concerns over China’s crackdown on human rights.

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHKF) a pro-democracy social organization from Hong Kong expressed solidarity for victims of the Tiananmen Square Tragedy of 1989, a statement by the CFHKF stated.

“It’s definitely absurd to see the CCP’s [Chinese Community Party’s] scale — how extensive they will go to suppress people’s freedom and rights,” Hui continued. “These 47 people, they are all criminalized just because they are participating and organizing democratic primaries to elect their candidates.” 

Francis Hui, policy and advocacy coordinator at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, argued, "Since Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, the Chinese Communist Party should not have two diplomatic representations in the United States.

眾議院中共問題特設委員會星期四（5月23日）召開圓桌會議，邀請多個香港倡議和活動人士出席討論，包括美國港人組織“香港自由基金委員會”（Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, CFHK）政策主任許穎婷、香港民主活動人士邵嵐，以及香港媒體大亨黎智英代理律師團成員喬納森·普萊斯（Jonathan Price）。

Hong Kong democracy campaigners in Britain are targeted by Chinese agents posing as fake journalists and direct threats against family and colleagues

香港自由基金委員會（CFHK）日前（14日）於英國國會發表一份名為《為迫害增添聲望：海外法官如何破壞香港的自由以及他們為何應該辭職》的報告，指香港當局利用海外非常任法官的聲望，來合理化其侵犯人權和削弱香港法治的行為。前港督彭定康在發佈會上指出，《國安法》通過後，任何與民主運動有關的案件，特別是有海外非常任法官參與的，都在扼殺民主運動。

Activists urge Beverley McLachlin to resign from Hong Kong’s top court as her term nears end

he Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation organized a panel discussion in the Scottish Parliament, expressing concerns over the influence of Chinese government-sponsored scholarship programs in Scottish universities.

What has become an annual parade in mid-town Manhattan for Asian Americans was set up with the blessing of Mayor Eric Adams by the CEO of a company that is a registered foreign agent of China, according to documents obtained exclusively by Newsweek.

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation organized flash mobs in both London and Washington DC on the eve of World Press Freedom Day. 

每年5月3日是聯合國「世界新聞自由日」，無國界記者（RSF）公布今年的世界新聞自由指數，香港在180個國家和地區排第135位。海外港人組織「香港自由委員會基金會」（The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation）於英國倫敦及美國華盛頓舉行「快閃」活動，於多個地點投射影像，呼籲外界關注黎智英和一班被囚禁在世界各地的新聞工作者。

“The Hong Kong government has been using its HKETOs located all around the world to paint a glorified picture of the city over its brutal crackdown on Hong Kongers,” Frances Hui, a Hong Konger democracy advocate and policy and advocacy coordinator at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation said. 

The Foreign Affairs Committee publishes written evidence received as part of its inquiry into international relations in the multilateral system. 

The visit to the U.S. this week of Hong Kong’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Chris Hui, has drawn fire from U.S.-based Hong Kong pro-democracy activists. 

A report by CFHK emphasizes that China proactively pressures groups to engage with mainland oversight bodies, steering them toward fidelity to the CCP and away from the international religious community.

The UK government's sanctions on two individuals and one company are "just a tiny, micro, baby step forward" in countering China's influence in the UK, says Mark Sabah, the UK and EU director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

Rogers was assisted in organising the letter by Frances Hui, an exiled Hong Kong activist who is the Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, and the author of a recent report titled “Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communities”.

Two significant reports on the state of freedom of religion or belief in Hong Kong have been published in recent months, first by Hong Kong Watch, titled “Sell Out My Soul”: The Impending Threats to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Hong Kong, and then by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, titled Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communities.

The SAR government on Sunday said it strongly condemned the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) for urging the United States to impose so-called sanctions on Hong Kong and Beijing officials, particularly those involved in Basic Law Article 23 national security legislation.

Hui, who serves as the policy and advocacy coordinator at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said during the panel that the legislation would “target foreign organizations [and] their activities in Hong Kong,” which could be used against foreign Christian missionaries and Hong Kong Catholic Church communications with the Vatican.

Religious freedom is being lost in Hong Kong due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

To learn more, JURIST spoke with Mark Sabah, the UK and EU Director at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) about the case. 

Hong Kong Free Press discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced the Hong Kong government for publishing what he called a “bounty list” of pro-democracy activists living overseas, including a U.S. citizen.

Hong Kong police announced hefty rewards for help catching Frances Hui and fellow activists accused of national security crimes.

The Telegraph discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

rthk.hk discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

​Reuters discussed the HK$1m bounties on five overseas activists by the Hong Kong Government, including Frances Hui.

Mark Clifford discussed Jimmy Lai's upcoming trial in Nikkei Asia. "The CCP and its minions in Hong Kong still fail to appreciate the bravery and resolve of the man they are dealing with."

Mark Sabah spoke to NTD News regarding the low turnout of Hong Kong’s election.

Frances Hui told Forbes, "“Since the imposition of the National Security Law, our movement has moved from the streets into courtrooms as the government put dissidents on trial for standing against the communist China regime. The judges and prosecutors who sit in these court cases have deliberately enabled the government to weaponize the legal system and send pro-democracy activists to jail with their own hands. "