After pro-democracy protests rocked Hong Kong in 2019, mainland China tightened its grip by imposing a broad national ...

Officials had cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He ...

"We'd rather die in the fight than slowly suffocate to death after we lose the fight," one protester told Business Insider.

Former media mogul Jimmy Lai, a vocal critic of China's Communist Party, faces a landmark verdict in Hong Kong.

A Hong Kong court on Monday convicted Jimmy Lai, one of the city's most prominent pro-democracy figures and the founder of ...

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking ...

Beijing warned it would use a national security law to crack down on any "anti-China" protest after Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades killed 146 people and left dozens missing.

Senior party members previously alleged they had been told to disband or face severe consequences, including possible arrest.

The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement ...

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, ...

It prompted the creation of Hong Kong’s public-housing programme, which now houses a third of the city’s residents. And in 1996 authorities reacted to a fire that killed 41 people by launching an ...

The pro-democracy activist, 78, had pleaded not guilty to charges of sedition and colluding with foreign forces and faces ...