Vancouver Activists of Hong Kong

The father of HKDC's @AnnaKwokFY has been convicted of "attempting to deal w/ financial assets belonging to an absconder" under the 2024 national security law for trying to cancel a life insurance policy for Anna taken out when she was a baby.

Jan 2026 Rally to Support #Iranians in #Vancouver #hongkongers #hongkongersstandwithiranian #freeiran #stopmassacreiniran

Over 80 people took part in the flash action in downtown Vancouver to show support to #JimmyLai: #FreeJimmyLai #AppleDaily #NationalSecurityLaw #JournalismIsNotACrime

This weekend, #HongKongers in #Vancouver protested #PoliticalPrisoner Jimmy Lai's conviction. @vanactivistshk: "Lai's conviction...represents the complete of #PressFreedom...& #RuleOfLaw in #HongKong." #FreeJimmyLai instagram.com/p/DShKkExFLp_/…

For anyone following commentary on Jimmy Lai's verdict, two recurring Chinese disinformation/propaganda claims need correcting. First, the “nuclear weapons” allegation: Lai was plainly using “nuclear weapons” as a metaphor for a decisive argument, referring to the moral force of freedom and democracy, not literal violence. The transcript makes this unambiguous. chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/jimmy-… Second, false equivalence on sedition laws: In the UK and US, sedition requires intent to incite violence or the use of force, reflecting international legal standards. Hong Kong’s sedition offense criminalizes speech itself. These laws share a name, not a meaning. Hong Kong’s sedition law is a relic of colonial-era common law that democratic systems have long since abandoned. Invoking it today is not a defense of rule of law, but of repression. I post this is for the benefit of fair-minded readers, not to debate the user below or others that exist to spread falsehoods.

In full: The 855-page guilty verdict against media tycoon Jimmy Lai. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/in-…

⚡️ Update on #JimmyLai: Hong Kong’s High Court will deliver the verdict in his landmark national security trial next Monday at 10am HKT. The 156-day trial began in Dec 2023 and, like other NSL cases, has been heard by three government-appointed judges with no jury. (1/2)

Dozens gathered in #Vancouver to mourn the victims of the Wang Fuk Court fire in #HongKong & demand accountability. "May the dead rest in peace. May the injured recover. May the truth be revealed. May justice be done." @vanactivistshk instagram.com/p/DSB2frnEaFD/…

‘Don’t say we didn’t warn you’: China’s nat. sec office in Hong Kong summons international media. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/don…

Update: The university has axed the student union. hongkongfp.com/2025/12/05/hon…

BREAKING: Hong Kong ‘all patriots’ legislative polls to go ahead on Dec 7 despite fatal fire. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/12/02/bre…

Hong Kong Legislative Council elections likely to go on despite fatal fire – reports. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/hon…

‘Very basic demands’: Hong Kong student’s calls for accountability over lethal Tai Po fire silenced. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/ver…

The arrest of the student who launched a petition over the deadly Tai Po fire shows how little free speech #HongKong really has. The CCP tolerates mourning, but anyone who dares to seek accountability or hold criticism is treated as a "national security" threat and crushed.

Another national security arrest in the wake of Hong Kong's fire disaster, this time of former district councillor & Rainbow HK founder Ken Cheung. No specific reason for the arrest stated, but Ken has been reposting articles calling for a full investigation into the fire.

Here is the verified information regarding the Hong Kong Fire. Please help share widely: - CUHK student Miles: Arrested by the National Security Department. - Former district councillor Cheung Kam-hung: Arrested by the National Security Department. - Volunteer “Ah Ching”: Only taken by CID to assist in investigating the dispute on the 28th. She was not arrested and the case is not related to the National Security Department.

One person who started a petition calling for accountability for the Wang Fuk Court fire in #HongKong has reportedly been taken away by national security police (unclear whether arrested) & the Instagram account of the petition has been shut down. instagram.com/p/DRo_Ygwk-GZ/…

The fire disaster in Hong Kong is a big test of whether there is any space for public advocacy left in the city. So far, it seems not: a student who organized a mild petition calling for official accountability has been arrested.

【Tai Po Fire, Bid-Rigging, and Bamboo Scaffolding in NSL-Era Hong Kong】 The Tai Po fire was not just a tragic accident; it was the predictable outcome of a broken system. A system where estate management, renovation contracts, and public safety have long been undermined by collusion, bid-rigging, and zero accountability. And since the NSL, Hong Kong has no civil society or independent media strong enough to hold these networks to account. Even when residents and expert and activists like Jason Poon, took their own samples of the netting and tried to expose the risks, they were ignored. Wang Fuk Court was in the middle of a HK$330M “mega-repair.” Residents had protested the sky-high cost, accusing the owners’ corporation of force-pushing the plan through despite objections. Transparency was minimal. Oversight was weak. This is exactly how bid-rigging works in HK housing estates: pre-selected contractors, inflated prices, limited competition, opaque decisions, and incentives to cut corners on materials and safety, because no one is genuinely checking, nor can the civil society did what it used to do-- to hold different people to account and raise awareness of these issues. During the renovation, the contractor wrapped the buildings with mesh, and foam boards that allegedly failed to meet fire-resistant standards. Some residents took a sample of the netting material to test on their own; videos showed it burned and dripped-- hardly in compliance with the regulations [1]. Here, cheaper, flammable materials meant higher profit margins and higher risk. The Wang Fuk Court contractor ignored safety again and again, with a long trail of corruption and violations. In 9 years, they racked up at least 17 regulatory breaches and fines. When the fire started, the netting as shown in many videos, burned quickly. A slow fire became an inferno in minutes. Police arrested multiple directors and engineers from the construction company. ICAC launched an investigation into the renovation contract itself — including how a controversial HK$330M plan was approved and whether corruption was involved. This is the cost of collusion: Bid-rigging doesn’t just overcharge residents. It kills oversight, kills competition, and, in this case, helped create conditions that killed people. Hong Kong’s building maintenance system has tolerated collusion and corruption for years. The Tai Po fire is the clearest possible warning: corruption in estate management is not just a financial issue. It tells us a lot about HK-China relationship. Beijing could and had rewritten Hong Kong’s political system overnight and crushed organised dissent, but it has never been able to cleanly uproot the entrenched construction and maintenance networks that profit from this model of “business as usual.” And this is where the politics of bamboo scaffolding enters the picture. There is a long-understood agenda from Beijing to undermine Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding industry, not because it is unsafe, but precisely because it is a local craft, part of the Hong Kong identity, practised safely for decades, and one of the last corners of construction work where Chinese state-owned developers and their preferred contractors have never managed to gain a foothold. Bamboo scaffolding is not standard in the PRC; metal scaffolding is. And right now, mainland China faces a record glut of metal scaffolding materials, made worse by recent scandals over fake steel being used in their production , scandals that have no counterpart in Hong Kong’s bamboo trade. So when the Hong Kong Government suddenly pushes a mandatory shift to metal scaffolding “for safety,” it is hard to ignore the timing. Yahoo Finance reports that Hong Kong experts defending the safety of bamboo scaffolding are being aggressively dismissed by PRC netizens, while the Government doubles down on the same narrative. In other words, this is not really about fire safety. It is a political and economic project to replace a resilient local craft with PRC-standard practices, conveniently absorbing a mainland oversupply while sidelining an industry Beijing has never been able to capture. Thus, the tragedy is being used to accelerate “integration,” dressed up as technical modernisation. On paper, it’s about protecting the public; in practice, it sidesteps politically connected local players without ever reckoning with the actual causes of the fire: opaque estate governance, weak enforcement, collusion, and the hollowing out of watchdogs under the NSL. We, Hongkongers, outside or inside the city do not trust the government or any of its proxies. Five years of national security crackdowns, media censorship, and relentless state messaging have not repaired the rupture exposed in 2019. That distrust is alive, deep, and justified. HKSAR Gov and co are clearly not acting in good faith. Now, as you are reading, volunteers who organised themselves to help were reported to the police for unlawful assembly, a move that looks less like public order and more like spite. It is yet another sign that the Government now treats ordinary civic-minded Hongkongers as adversaries. And I fear reporting them is not the end of it, as Hongkongers came up with 4 very reasonable demands asking for investigation and accountability. For us, the fact that John Lee decided to thank Xi Jinping first, rather than giving the credit to the brave firefighters, showed us that they are replicating the Mainland disaster-stagecraft: PR-first, people-last; party-state-first, people-last. Taken together, the political economy of scaffolding, the erasure of civil oversight, and the Government’s behaviour during the crisis reinforce the same truth: the problem is not bamboo. The problem is a system where power, profit, and propaganda take precedence over safety, accountability, and the lives of Hong Kong people. [1] facebook.com/JasonPoonHongK…

Here’s petition initiator Miles Kwan, who was detained by police, when he was brought back to his home by officers to gather evidence @inmediahk