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![Hong Kong’s new security law comes into force amid human rights concerns](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AFP__20240323__34M74YU__v1__HighRes__TaiwanHongKongChinaPoliticsProtest-1711209138.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
A new national security law has come into force in Hong Kong, despite growing international…
![Lionel Messi hopes to play in Tokyo after Hong Kong PR disaster](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-06T033341Z_1217590278_RC2QW5AC8NFK_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-FRIENDLY-VIS-MIA-NEWSER-1707218420.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Lionel Messi says he hopes to play the final game of Inter Miami’s Asian pre-season…
![Filipinos in Hong Kong were promised a new life in Poland. It never came](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Main-illustration-Centralv2-1705909263.jpg?resize=1200,630)
This is the second article in a two-part series on the alleged exploitation of Filipino…
![In Hong Kong, decades of wealth gains evaporate on China’s watch](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2020-05-22T000000Z_1501502522_RC2KTG9WRAT5_RTRMADP_3_HONGKONG-MARKETS-1-1706236578.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Taipei, Taiwan – Like many Hong Kongers, accountant Edelweiss Lam spent last week watching the…
![‘Filled with fear’: Former Hong Kong student leader seeks UK asylum](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/34936ZG-highres-1703823176.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Tony Chung was released in June after serving a prison sentence under the security law,…
![Jimmy Lai’s security trial opens in Hong Kong, UK urges immediate release](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-18T011724Z_959401865_RC2CZ4AB1J2P_RTRMADP_3_HONGKONG-SECURITY-JIMMYLAI-1702864395.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
The now 76-year-old media tycoon and democracy advocate has been in prison for three years…
![US’s Blinken condemns Hong Kong authorities over bounties for activists](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-11-08T092045Z_881705836_RC2X84ALRX7G_RTRMADP_3_G7-JAPAN-FM-BLINKEN-1699439761.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Top US diplomat calls on international community to resist ‘cross-border repression’. US Secretary of State…
![Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai faces trial under ‘unfair’ national security law](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-01T030932Z_304694129_RC2DJL9HF7PQ_RTRMADP_3_HONGKONG-SECURITY-JIMMY-LAI.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
The national security trial of jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is set to…
![Hong Kong holds ‘patriot only’ election after shutting out opposition](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-09T054156Z_1690218589_RC2WQ4ABJ1BX_RTRMADP_3_HONGKONG-SECURITY-1702178278.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
The vote limits residents’ choice between Beijing loyalists after the pro-democracy camp won a landslide…
![Hong Kong Sentences Woman to 2 Months in Prison for Posts Uploaded in Tokyo](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-ce1f-08dba97c86d8_w1200_r1.jpg)
In what appears to the first case involving a Hong Kong defendant’s social media posts…