hong kong

A wave of youth-led protests across Asia is defying escalating repression and a continent-wide crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International says inits annual report.

The UN Human Rights Office has reviewed credible evidence of law enforcement officials in Hong Kong employing less-lethal weapons in ways that are prohibited by international norms and standards.

Campaign Against Arms Trade says the Government should revoke all current export licences for such equipment as a first practical step to showing solidarity with the people of Hong Kong.

Amnesty says the Hong Kong government is increasingly using prosecutions as a political tool to target peaceful activists.