
Samuel Bickett
@samuelbickett
Lawyer, researcher, human rights advocate | Bickett Law & Policy PLLC | Hong Kong Law & Policy Substack | Proud former Hong Kong political prisoner
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Sage advice for Americans from my movement colleague and friend Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋. “More and more Americans are now, perhaps for the first time in their lives, facing threats from their own government for simply doing their job, speaking their mind or protesting. As someone with experience

Update on my 2024 work with International Republican Institute testing access to information under Hong Kong’s FOIA-style regulations: the absurdity has escalated. Today, the Correctional Services Department refused to provide a prisoner information booklet, claiming it’s confidential. This is the same





Hong Kong’s tax department hard at work…checking Tom Grundy’s dog’s paperwork, amid a slew of probes into media outlets and journalists (And I can independently vouch for the hot sauce!) nytimes.com/2025/05/21/wor…


Thank you, Rep. Ritchie Torres, for your steadfast support for Hongkongers’ fight for #democracy and #freedom. We look forward to our continuing work together to hold the #Chinese and #HongKong authorities accountable for their human rights abuses—both in Hong Kong and beyond.



At Washington National Airport on my way to Human Rights Foundation (HRF)’s Oslo Freedom Forum to speak alongside Carmen Lau 劉珈汶, Chloe Cheung 張晞晴, and Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 on Hong Kong's fight for human rights and learn from so many others from all over the world fighting for their freedoms. Look forward to

At DC's airport on my way to Human Rights Foundation (HRF)'s Oslo Freedom Forum to speak alongside Carmen Lau 劉珈汶, Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 & Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 on Hong Kong's fight for human rights & learn from so many others across the world fighting for their freedoms. Look forward to seeing some of you there.


Heartbreaking art drawn by young children amidst the civil war in Myanmar and displayed today at Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF)


Hong Kong is using its outdated reputation as a financial center to advance authoritarianism across the world. Today at Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF), I will speak on this with Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯, Carmen Lau 劉珈汶 & Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 at 16:30 Oslo/15:30 UK/10:30 New York. Watch online: oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-fre…

It was a successful, well attended panel today on Hong Kong at Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) with brilliant friends and colleagues Chloe Cheung 張晞晴, Carmen Lau 劉珈汶 & Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯. Hong Kong’s financial and trade infrastructure have been repurposed to advance authoritarianism at home and abroad.



Such an impressive line-up #OsloFreedomForum for this vitally important discussion: Samuel Bickett Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 & Carmen Lau 劉珈汶, moderated expertly as ever by my dear friend Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯. Thank you Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) Human Rights Foundation (HRF) Thor Halvorssen for highlighting what #HongKong has become, &
