Hong Kong press club pressured by Beijing to cancel talk

Hong Kong press club pressured by Beijing to cancel talk

Hong Kong’s leader joined mainland China Sunday in urging the city’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club to cancel a planned speech by a Hong Kong independence advocate whose party is threatened with a ban.

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Pro-independence Hong Kong party faces possible ban

Pro-independence Hong Kong party faces possible ban

Authorities on Tuesday told a political party that advocates independence for Hong Kong the group might be banned on national security grounds, in one of the most severe steps against separatist voices since the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

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Crowds gather for Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil

Crowds gather for Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil

Semi-autonomous Hong Kong has seen tens of thousands gather at the candlelit vigil in Victoria Park since 1990, while any mention of Beijing’s brutal crackdown on students calling for democracy on June 4, 1989, remains strictly censored in the mainland. 

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