Judge partially upholds legal challenge for widening acceptance of transgender people in sex-specific facilities.

Transgender people are entitled to use public toilets according to their affirmed genders, a Hong Kong court has ruled in a ...

Government earlier proposed legislation related to same-sex couples in response to 2023 court ruling, but faces strong Legco opposition.

A Hong Kong judge has annulled regulations preventing transgender individuals from using bathrooms of their identified gender. Although this decision recognizes LGBTQ+ rights in the city, the ...

By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Twelve Hong Kong pro-democracy activists appealed their subversion ...

Sixteen Hong Kong pro-democracy figures face trial on Monday, more than two years after their arrest, in what some observers say is a landmark case for the city's judicial independence under a ...

John Burns, emeritus professor at the University of Hong Kong, said the trial of the democrats is a “test of will” of Beijing’s capacity to completely wipe out organized opposition in Hong Kong.

Supporters of same-sex marriage have criticized the legislation as too limited, while opponents have said it undermines ...

Hong Kong was ranked 135 out of 180 territories in Reporters Without Borders’ latest World Press Freedom Index, down from 80 in 2021. Self-censorship has also become more prominent during the ...

HONG KONG, June 29 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats said on Sunday that it would disband amid "immense political pressure" from a five year-long national security crackdown, leaving ...

HONG KONG—Sixteen pro-democracy figures went on trial Monday in a landmark case in Hong Kong’s crackdown on political dissent, drawing global scrutiny as the city’s government launches a ...