He and Carol Ng, the group’s former chairwoman, have also been charged with subversion in separate cases under the security law. The confederation’s general secretary, Lee Cheuk-yan, is serving time in prison for illegal assembly over the 2019 protests. “There is basically no reward, but they persisted anyway.”
Wang, citing the city’s weak labor protections. “Union activity is very unglamorous in Hong Kong,” said Ms. Its political activities, including protests and a general strike during the 2019 unrest that roiled the city, probably made it a target of the authorities. The confederation helped organize a dockworkers’ strike in 2013 and a street cleaners’ strike in 2018. 3 to disband in the face of growing pressure from the government. The biggest local group to fall has been the Confederation of Trade Unions, an umbrella organization made up of more than 70 affiliate unions. “Our China team continues to function and to track Hong Kong developments closely,” said Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch.Īmnesty International said on Monday that it was closing its local and regional offices in Hong Kong because the security law had made it impossible for human rights groups to operate in the city. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York, left Hong Kong after it was penalized by China in retaliation for American legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters in 2019. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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