Know Your Rights Hong Kong

29/04/2025

Hong Kong journalists: Do you know what to do if police stop you while reporting? Do you know how to access public records safely? Do you know how to protect your sources?

As Hong Kong's press freedoms diminish, it is crucial to understand your legal rights and responsibilities, and how to conduct yourself responsibly to keep yourself and others safe. Our new guide provides essential tips to help you navigate this challenging environment.

📖 Read it today and share this link with any journalists you know: https://kyrhk.civicsight.org/en/home

香港新聞工作者：採訪期間被警察截停應如何處理？查冊公開此聊應如何保障自身安全？消息來源又應如何保護？

香港新聞自由越見倒退，理解你的法律權責及如何保護自己和它人安全尤其重要。我們最新的指引為你提供重要提示，以應對現今環境下的挑戰。

請於連結閱讀指引，並與你的記者朋友分享: https://kyrhk.civicsight.org/zh/home

Understanding your legal and civil rights and preserving the rule of law in Hong Kong.

25/04/2025

Hong Kong journalists: Stay informed and safe.

This short animation breaks down essential guidance—from handling police encounters to protecting your digital security and understanding your legal rights.

🎥 Watch the video now and share it with journalists you know today.

22/04/2025

香港新聞工作者：緊貼現況並保護自身安全。

本短片解釋重要指引 – 包括處理警察截查、網絡安全，及理解你的法律權利。

請於連結閱觀看短片，並與你的記者朋友分享.

21/11/2024

Hong Kong's Basic Law allowed the democrats to veto the budget to force changes to government policy, according to a former University of Hong Kong law professor. Yet, the 45 pro-democracy figures have been jailed for up to 10 years for doing it.

Democrats’ plan to veto the budget was constitutionally allowed under Hong Kong’s Basic Law, a legal scholar has said, a day after 45 pro-democracy figures were jailed for conspiring to…

16/11/2024

Forced to sleep on employers' floors. Long, 16-hour days. Poor pay and often locked into debt. At risk of trafficking and abuse.

The plight of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong is not new, but more must be done to change it.

Read more in this Faculty of Law, University of Oxford blog.

https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-criminologies-blog/blog-post/2024/11/who-cares-about-carers-how-better-protect-migrant

被迫睡在僱主地板、每天工作16小時、忍受微薄底薪又常因無良中介而身陷債務問題，更身受被販運及虐待的風險。

香港外傭身處的困境已存在多年，必須多加措施以作改善。請瀏覽University of Oxford Border Criminologies博文了解更多

Who Cares about Carers? How to Better Protect Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Author(s) Cynthia Orchard Posted 11 November 2024 Time to read 4 Minutes Guest post by Cynthia Orchard. Cynthia Orchard is a consultant Policy and Advocacy Advisor with the Leitner Center. She has advocated for the ...

14/06/2024

香港記者協會表示，在天安門鎮壓周年期間，香港記者受到「不合理的警告」，其中一名記者被拘留了兩小時。警方已對此報導表示譴責。

人人有權將推出指南，幫助記者在香港合法行事 — 敬請留意！

Hong Kong reporters were given "unreasonable warnings" and one was detained for two hours during the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary, according to Hong Kong Journalist Association. Police have condemned the report.

Know Your Rights Hong Kong will soon launch guidance to help journalists stay on the right side of the law in Hong Kong - watch this space!

Hong Kong police have condemned claims that a press group chief received an “unreasonable warning” from an officer while covering the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. H…

31/05/2024

一名大律師在香港新國家安全法23條下與其他五人一起被捕。這是政府首次以該法進行拘捕，原因似乎是發佈與天安門大屠殺紀念有關的信息。

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-people-under-new-security-law

A barrister is among six people arrested under Article 23, Hong Kong’s new domestic national security law. These are the first detentions under the law, seemingly for posting messages related to the Tiananmen massacre anniversary.

Chow Hang-tung, a prominent barrister, among those held over social media posts before Tiananmen Square anniversary

17/05/2024

針對國家安全罪犯的最低刑期和提前釋放規則的調整，可能會導致這些被判有罪的人比其他應該服同樣刑期的罪犯服刑時間更長。

Hong Kong Free Press的Tim Hamlett解釋了這些調整的不公平之處。

https://hongkongfp.com/2024/05/05/is-hong-kong-wise-to-tinker-with-guilty-plea-and-good-behaviour-sentence-reductions/

Adjustments to minimum sentencing and early release rules for national security offenders could see those found guilty serving much longer than others whose crimes warrant the same sentences.

Hong Kong Free Press's Tim Hamlett explains the unfairness of it all.

It is a commonplace political observation that carelessly passed legislation often has unintended – and maybe ridiculous – effects. Our newly minted local legislators seem to have neglected this im…

08/05/2024

香港官員已被告知要留意可能流入香港的「煽動性」材料，並建議入境人士對自己攜帶的物品要謹慎。惟這些限制模糊不清，基於意圖和未被定義的「軟抵抗」概念。

Hong Kong officials have been told to look out for potentially seditious materials coming into the city, suggesting people should be careful what they fly with. But the restrictions are vague, based on intent and undefined notions of "soft resistance".

Hong Kong’s customs chief has said authorities will step up measures to prevent items threatening national security from entering the city, following the recent enactment of new security legi…

13/04/2024

Hong Kong’s justice minister warns that online criticism, including reposting others' critical statements, could breach the new national security legislation if it is deemed seditious.

香港律政司司長警告，轉發他人批評意見等的在線評論，如果被政府認為具煽動性，可能違反新的國家安全法。

The Article 23 legislation includes penalties for five categories of crime including treason, insurrection, espionage, sabotage and external interference