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Hong Kong activist Chu Kai-poon pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of sedition at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts. Chu was previously arrested on November 27 by national security police at the Hong Kong International Airport for wearing a shirt with “seditious wording.” He was then charged on November 29 with two counts [...]

The Hong Kong High Court sentenced two offenders on Thursday to six years for conspiracy to cause explosion and conspiracy to commit terrorist activities respectively, local media the Witness reported. The court jailed another defendant, who was serving her sentence for another conviction of subversion, for 30 months. The prosecution dropped the charge against the [...]

India’s Home Ministry on Monday extended a ban against seven Meitei extremist groups that advocate the secession of Manipur, a small state in northeastern India. The ministry, through a notification, listed the seven organizations: the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) and its political wing, the Revolutionary Peoples’ Front (RPF); the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and [...]

A US federal judge reinstated a gag order Sunday against former President Donald Trump amidst his ongoing federal election interference criminal case. Judge Tanya Chutkan originally imposed a gag order on October 16, prohibiting Trump from making any disparaging statements about potential witnesses, the court or prosecutors ahead of the trial date. However, the gag [...]

Three years have passed since Beijing enacted the National Security Law of Hong Kong (NSL). And throughout this period, the city’s authorities have been using the law in parallel with established laws, such as one prohibiting “seditious intent,” to target dissidents. As of July 2023, 71 arrests had been made based on the sedition law, [...]

The Somali Ministry of Communications and Technology (MOCT) announced on Sunday that Somalia decided to ban the short-form video hosting platform TikTok, the instant messaging platform Telegram, and the online gambling platform 1XBet, for their undue influence on Somali youths, which the ministry says had “caused some of them to lose their lives.” The decision [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi.   On Thursday, July 20th, Kenya entered its second day of demonstrations, in a series of nationwide opposition protests planned from Wednesday to Friday this week. Since Wednesday, most businesses have been closed, either in support of the protests or due [...]

Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang told state-owned newspaper Wen Wei Po on Monday that the Hong Kong government is addressing “soft resistance” and online behavior that might threaten national security in its efforts to implement Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law. The term “soft resistance” refers to subtle methods of sowing distrust [...]

A coalition of over 60 human rights organizations, bar associations, scholars and Chinese human rights defenders Monday issued a global call for action against China’s treatment of human rights lawyers to mark “China Human Rights Lawyers Day.” Their statement commemorates the eighth anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s mass arrest of over 300 human rights [...]

The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) reportedly raided the family home of fugitive pro-democracy activist Nathan Law on Tuesday. Law is accused of violating the National Security Law, which was passed on June 30, 2020. Having fled Hong Kong for the United Kingdom (UK), Law is alleged to have committed offenses [...]