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Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 13 months in prison by a Hong Kong Court for his role in banned Tiananmen Square vigils last year. He is already serving a prison sentence of 20 months for his participation in unauthorized assemblies during the anti-extradition movement of 2019 and this sentence will not extend [...]

Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court denied the bail request of a pro-democracy group’s vice-chairwoman on Friday, after her arrest early last week. Chow Hang Tung, the vice-chairwoman of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (Alliance), had been instrumental in the organization of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil, commemorating [...]

Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday charged pro-democracy activist Au Nok-hin and 59-year-old singer Wong Yiu-ming  with “corrupt conduct” for allegedly breaching election laws by having Wong perform two songs at a 2018 election rally to induce people to vote for Au in a legislative by-election. Wong Yiu-ming, aka Anthony Wong, and [...]

Court packing, an idea that seemed forever discredited for 80 years after President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious plan went down in flames in 1937, is back on the table. President Biden has appointed a commission to study the possibility of increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, a response to calls from various Democrats to [...]

I am a Democrat and a strong admirer and supporter of President Biden. I think his administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress have achieved some striking successes so far. But my deeper loyalty, as a citizen and scholar, is to the constitutional system that has made America a great national experiment for almost 250 [...]

TikTok is up and running again in Pakistan, just days after the Pakistan Telecoms Authority (PTA) suspended public access to the popular social media app over complaints from citizens about alleged immoral and obscene content. On Friday, the Sindh High Court revoked the suspension but ordered the PTA to expedite hearings over complaints about the [...]

The European Commission and the UK imposed sanctions Monday on members of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and companies connected to the Myanmar military over the coup d’état that has devastated the country since early February. The EU sanctioned eight individuals, three economic entities and the War Veterans Organization. The individuals include the Attorney General, [...]

The government of Japan pulled a bill Tuesday meant to amend the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. The decision follows criticism stemming from the death of a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman at an immigration detention center in Nagoya in March. The woman had been held at the detention center since August 2020 after her visa had [...]

In almost the whole world, distrust of political institutions delegitimizes their representation, leaving us without a shelter that protects us in the name of common interest. The rupture in the relationship between the rulers and the ruled makes this conflict even more profound, with devastating consequences that arise from the inability to deal with the [...]

Indonesian police have arrested Victor Yeimo, a pro-independence activist, according to a statement from Iqbal Alqudusy, the Nemangkawi Task Force’s Head Senior Commissioner on Monday. Yeimo is known as the former spokesperson and current chairperson of the National Committee for West Papua, a group of peaceful protesters advocating for a self-determination referendum. He has been [...]