The municipal election results in Hong Kong at the weekend, in which the pro democracy anti-Communist candidates took 90% victory of the seats, have been widely acclaimed as a victory for pro-democracy demonstrators seeking to resist further encroachments on their freedoms from Beijing. Many western governments and political leaders have voiced their support and Donald […]
Local elections in Hong Kong, the first since the wave of protests began six months ago, have seen massive gains by pro-democracy candidates. Hong Kong media reports suggest that 17 of the 18 local councils now have a majority of pro-democracy councillors. Nearly three million people votes – doubling the turnout in the last election […]
The US Senate has passed legislation supporting “human rights and democracy” in Hong Kong – and also threatening to revoke the territory’s special economic status, in a clear message to Chinese authorities about its brutal crackdown on protests in the region. The bill – theHong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act – will update the original […]
I would not be a huge admirer of former Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins but I will give credit where it is due. When I was working in Leinster House he was the only TD to object to the fawning reception given to a delegation from the Peoples Republic of China. He pointed out that […]
Students at at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have been told by police that live bullets will be used against pro-democracy protesters who have been under siege for a week at the college. This morning, police broke through the makeshift barricades erected by students, who had held out against against tear gas, water cannon and police trucks for the […]
A group of human Rights and Social Justice Advocates are travelling to Hong Kong this week to report first hand from the democracy and freedom protests there. Chaos has erupted across the territory as police, under the direction of authorities who are widely held to be puppets of the Chinese Communist party, crack down on […]
On Monday, Gript News posted a video of a Hong Kong police officer shooting a young, unarmed protester at point-blank range. The protester remains in critcal condition in hospital. The video was authenicated by Reuters. However, Facebook is covering up the video on its sharing platform. As violence escalates in Hong Kong, many […]
This week, police in Hong Kong increased their brutal and often violent treatment of pro-democracy protesters. Yet this is what Sky News reported. And CNBC And Al Jazeera Carrie Lam is the chief executive of Hong Kong and a tool of the repressive Chinese government, who have abused the human rights […]
WATCH: “Minister Harris has brought in exclusion zones for unborn children, with 10,000 to be killed, so it’s not surprising he would bring them in for us” – Charles Byrne talks about the Garda Commissioner’s advice that no exclusion zones are necessary for protests outside abortion centres. #gript
For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing laser pointers at the police to […]
Most CEOs have demanding jobs but few are asked to stand up to the might of the Chinese government when they are furiously trying to crack down on protesters in Hong Kong. Yesterday, Newsweek picked up on a story published by Taiwan News which claimed that Cathay Pacific CEO Rupert Hogg resigned from the company […]