The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) was an organisation that focused on the issues of Hong Kong politics and livelihood,affiliated with almost all pan-democratic camps in Hong Kong. It was founded on 13 September 2002 and disbanded on 15 August 2021.
The 2007 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 18 November 2007. Elections were held to all 18 districts of Hong Kong,returned 405 members from directly elected constituencies out of total 534 councils member. A total number of 886 candidates contesting in 364 seats,while 41 seats were uncontested. A total number of 1.4 million voters cast their ballots,consisting 38% of the electorate,significantly lower than the last elections in 2003.
The Central and Western District Council is the district council for the Central and Western District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Central and Western District Council currently consists of 15 members,of which the district is divided into 15 constituencies,electing a total of 15 members. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.
The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 4 September 2016 for the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). A total of 70 members,35 from geographical constituencies (GCs) and 35 from functional constituencies (FCs),were returned. The election came after the rejection of the 2016/2017 constitutional reform proposals which suggested the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council remains unchanged.
Andrew Wan Siu-kin is the former vice-chairman of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Kwai Tsing District Council for Shek Yam constituency. He was elected in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election through New Territories West.
The election for the Hong Kong deputies to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) was held on 19 December 2017. 36 Hong Kong deputies were elected by an electoral college composed of 1,989 members.
Fai Ming Estate,former name "Fanling Area 49 Public Housing Development",is a public housing estate on Fai Ming Road in Fanling,New Territories,Hong Kong,next to Yung Shing Court. It was completed in 2019 and comprises two blocks with a total of 952 flats.
Andrew Chiu Ka-yin is a Hong Kong politician,democracy activist,experienced accredited mediator and arbitrator. He is a member of the Democratic Party,strategy committee member of the Professional Commons,chairperson of Hong Kong Society of Accredited Mediators and convenor of Power for Democracy,as well as an elected member of the Eastern District Council for Tai Koo Shing West since 2008.
Professional Power is a political group based in Sai Kung District,Hong Kong. The group is formed and led by Christine Fong,a former member of the Liberal Party. The group markets itself as nonpartisan and currently has four members in the Sai Kung District Council.
This is the results breakdown of the 2019 District Council elections in Hong Kong. The results are generated from the Hong Kong Registration and Electoral Office website.
Cheng Lai-king is a Hong Kong politician who served as District Councillor for the Castle Road constituency,and as former chairwoman of Central and Western District Council. She is a member of the Democratic Party and a registered social worker.
This is a list of protests in March 2020 that were part of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. Protests activities largely centered around anniversaries of major events of the protests in 2019;there were also gatherings in shopping malls. Due to the growth of cases of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city –which would not be checked until April –,the protests were generally of considerably smaller size than before the pandemic. Police drew the dissatisfaction of demonstrators and pro-democratic politicians for their heavy-handed tactics,and for their perceived overuse of coronavirus restriction policies to dissolve rallies.
Henry Wong Pak-yu is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He is the spokesman of the local community group Tin Shui Wai New Force and also a member of the Information Technology subsector in the Election Committee. In 2019,he won in the District Council election and became a member the Yuen Long District Council for Tin Heng.
Cheng Tat-hung is a Hong Kong politician,formerly affiliated with the Civic Party. He is a former member of the Eastern District Council for Tanner since 2016 to 2021.
Prince Wong Ji-yuet is a Hong Kong activist. A former spokesperson of Scholarism,she was involved in the Umbrella Revolution of 2014 and the anti-extradition bill protests in 2019.
The Sixth District Councils of Hong Kong is the current meeting of the local councils of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The membership of the Council is based on the 2019 election. The term of the session is from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023. The pro-democracy camp in conjunction with the localist groups achieved its biggest landslide victory in the history of Hong Kong,gaining absolute majority in votes and electoral seats in all of the 18 District Councils. The election was widely viewed as a de facto referendum on the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
In Hong Kong,designated national security law judges are incumbent magistrates or judges who are further appointed by the Chief Executive to handle national security offence cases at various levels of the court system. Judges without the designation by the Chief Executive are not allowed to handle these cases.
On 29 December 2021,Stand News,one of the few remaining pro-democracy media outlets in Hong Kong following the passage of the Hong Kong national security law in 2020,was raided by the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force. Media executives and journalists were arrested on the charge of "conspiring to publish seditious publications" on a large scale. As a result of the raid,Stand News ceased operations,the organisation's website and social media became inactive,and all its employees were dismissed. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,along with leaders in Canada,Germany,the United Kingdom and United States,condemned the raid.
