Human rights lawyer & activist #ChowHangTung has now spent 1,500 days wrongfully detained in #HongKong on sham national security charges. She stands accused of “incitement to subversion” for her role in commemorating the #TiananmenSquareMassacre by lighting candles in memory

🗞️NEWSLETTER: #HongKong Finance Sec. Paul Chan is made to feel unwelcome in the US, #JimmyLai wins IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media's World #PressFreedom Hero Award & we mark 10 years since #HK bookseller #GuiMinhai was disappeared by #PRC agents in Thailand. 👇 thecfhk.org/not-welcome-co…

🔥FLAME OF FREEDOM: Amid the #WestminsterSpy case, Gregory Stafford MP's parliamentary researcher, India Riddoch, recalls how former MP Tim Loughton's deportation from Djibouti underscored #China's global influence & where #HK fits into UK-China relations. thecfhk.org/from-golden-to…

1/ This week, US-China Business Council National Committee on U.S.-China Relations are providing platforms for the #HongKong gov to spread propaganda in the US & whitewash human rights abuses...👇 Seems like these organizations have better access to the Chinese gov than US officials. Might it be time for Stephen Orlins 欧伦斯

Thanks to President Donald J. Trump for putting #FreeJimmyLai on the agenda for talks with Xi Jinping after last week's appeal from a bipartisan group of more than 30 Senators, led by Rick Scott. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

For Project Syndicate, Mark L. Clifford warns #WallStreet bankers heading to #HK for next week's finance summit that their presence whitewashes #China's broken promises to #HongKongers and the ongoing imprisonment of 700+ political prisoners, including #JimmyLai and #HKAlliance leaders

.Bill McGurn says that #China's stern rebuke after President Donald J. Trump put #FreeJimmyLai on his agenda with Xi Jinping "makes clear that Mr. Trump is the only one who can get the 77-year-old Mr. Lai, arguably the world’s best-known political prisoner, out of jail." wsj.com/opinion/the-tr…

Thankful for The Globe and Mail's coverage of our new investigation with Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, which shows how #HK is funeling Canadian tech & weapons parts to #Russia for use in its war against #Ukraine. Report author Sam Bickett: "The Canadian government, whether it’s for Russia or others,

📰PRESS RELEASE: Today The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation & Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights publish a new investigation, "Backdoor to the Battlefield: How Hong Kong Funnels Canadian Technology into Russia’s War Machine." Our report draws on battlefield forensics, Hong Kong public records, and Russian customs data to map

🗞️PRESS RELEASE: #Italy joins international calls to #FreeJimmyLai after Davide Dionisi meets with Sebastien Lai. 🔗Read the full release: thecfhk.org/italys-governm…

🚨NEW REPORT: The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation & Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights publish Samuel Bickett's investigation into #HongKong's funneling of #Canadian electronics & aerospace tech to the #Russian regime. #Putin is using Canadian weapons components & technology in #Iranian & #Russian drones to kill #Ukrainians. 🇺🇦

🔥FLAME OF FREEDOM: Giulio Terzi reflects on hosting #JimmyLai's son, Sebastien Lai, in the #Italian Senate and this week's commitment from Davide Dionisi that #Italy will join the global fight to #FreeJimmyLai 👇 thecfhk.org/why-italy-must…

👏👏Robert Fife for asking questions of Anita Anand about #Canada's sanctions regime and enforcement after publication of our investigation with Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights into how Canadian technology is being funneled via #HongKong into weapons being used by #Russia to kill #Ukranians. We

🚨#WallStreet execs from Morgan Stanley Goldman Sachs J.P. Morgan & Citi are in #HongKong for a Financial Leaders' Summit. Their presence whitewashes the imprisonment of #JimmyLai #ChowHangtung #LeeCheukyan & #AlbertHo & 700+ other political prisoners. #SpeakUpOrStayHome

#HongKong Finance Sec. Paul Chan opened #HK's Financial Leaders' Summit with a lie. He wants you to believe that 'one country, two systems' & HK's rule of law is still intact. But just this week, HK's weaponized courts again decided to crush #FreedomofExpression by rejecting

✊THIS SATURDAY: Join us to show solidarity with the imprisoned leaders of the #HKAlliance - Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan & Albert Ho. 🕯️They are in pre-trial detention for the 'crime' of daring to remember #Tiananmen in #HongKong, but the real crime is their persecution.

TODAY: The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation's Jonathan Stivers will testify in #Ottawa to #Canada's Foreign Affairs Committee on the "Detention of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong". 🗣️ Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Michael Kovrig & Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights's Brandon Silver #FreeJimmyLai #HongKong Watch live from 15:30 ET: ourcommons.ca/committees/en/…

✊The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation joined HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 & #HongKong rights groups at #London's #China embassy to call for the immediate & unconditional release #HKAlliance leaders Chow Hang-tung & Lee Cheuk-yan. Both have now spent 1,500+ days in #HK prison without conviction.

.Mark L. Clifford joins Nicholas Bequelin/New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) to talk #JimmyLai's life, dramatic childhood & rise from sleeping in #HK factories to helming one of Asia's biggest clothing retailers before #Tiananmen inspired pivot to pro-democracy media #FreeJimmyLai newbooksnetwork.com/the-troublemak…

📻With Philip Ingram MBE 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇦 & Times Radio, 2025 #MagnitskyAwards recipient Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 tells of escape from repression in #HongKong, her HK$1 million #HK police bounty, and how the UK's too cosy relationship with #China threatens #NationalSecurity. youtube.com/watch?v=lZINOw…