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#LegCoCoup under way in #HongKong:
#Beijing loyalist Chan Kin-por, who was appointed to chair the House Committee election circumventing house rules, takes his seat in LegCo, with a line of security guards in front of him blocking any dissent.
📸: @StandNewsHK
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10/ The hardline suppression merely future protests inevitable, especially when #Beijing is now paving the way to disqualify more candidates in the forthcoming legislative elections on the upcoming summer. Also, more kids might be jailed under the sugar-coated legal system......
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5/ At the same time, the police watchdog, IPCC, has just released a report which has zero mention of #policemisconduct during the pro-#Beijing mob attack on citizens and pregnant women in 21 July last year.
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1/ Even though causing a spiralling worldwide #CoronavirusPandemic, China has never leant a lesson from its coverups and opaqueness. Even the WHO Representative for China has criticized #Beijing for not being invited to join China’s #coronavirus investigation.
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About half an hour ago, pro-#Beijing unionist Kwok Wai-keung of the #FTU appeared to have dragged Ray Chan @ray_slowbeat of People Power to the ground before the beginning of the #Legco House Comm “officially” began
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1/ Three #hongkongers were slashed by a pro-#Beijing mob with a beef knife, with wounds on her left chest and chin, broken ribs, lungs collapsed with blood, suffering from post-traumatic stress, when handing out leaflets at #lennonwalls last night
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"The international community has a vital role to play in supporting protestors' #democratic aspirations & pressing the #HongKong Gov & #Beijing to negotiate." Thank you for @NDI & @GeorgetownLaw's published joint report "Promise of Democratization in HK." ndi.org/publications/p…
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#Beijing loyalist Erick Tsang was promoted to be the minister on constitutional and mainland affairs. He was a big fan of #Xijinping by deliberately putting his picture in his office during interviews. twitter.com/demosisto/stat…
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5/ When all countries are now busy combating #coronavirus, the authoritarian regime of #China is now clamping down on democracy movements in #HongKong. I call upon the world to keep watch on #Beijing’s tyranny and #standwithhk.
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@civicpartyhk lawmaker Dennis Kwok, who's been presiding over the House Committee's filibuster, says #Beijing's statement on "internal matters of #Legco" is a clear violation of the One Country, Two Systems principle & it's a form of "political invectives" to accuse him of crimes twitter.com/damon_pang/sta…
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1/ It is my honor to share with @MarshaBlackburn the latest update in #HK on the call. #Beijing & #Hkgov prioritize crackdown of dissidence over health of #HKers. Director of #China’s office in #HK even called democracy movement as “political #coronavirus” & urged to suppress.
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4/ Not to mention that PAP was used to suppress uprisings in Xinjiang and Tibet. When it is expected protests will resume ahead of local legislative elections in September, it is doubtless that #Beijing will take a strong-arm policy this time.
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5/ I call upon the US Department of State to include effective implementation of sanction measures in the forthcoming report on Hong Kong’s autonomy, as a way to send a warning signal to #Beijing not to infringe upon autonomy and basic freedoms of Hong Kong any more.
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The pro-#Beijing #DAB’s lawmakers will hold a press conference tomorrow, saying the mom of Chan Yin-lam, who mysteriously died last year amid the #HongKongProtests, opposes a pro-democracy district councillors’ proposal to name a Tseung Kwan O park after Chan. Photo: @StandNewsHK
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3/ Under the surface, we see the powerlessness of power. Burnished by the personality cult, this rigid regime rules the people with fear and distrust. #Beijing's iron-fist control on citizenry also makes it unresponsive to social grievance.
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1/ In the new year, #Beijing and #HKgov choose not to answer #Hongkongers’ demands. Instead, they plan to escalate #policebrutality against HKers by arming #hkpolice with new electroshock weapons like stun guns and net guns. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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3/ Bit by bit, #Beijing tightens its red line on #Hongkong, isolates this international city from the world, and puts #onecountrytwosystems in peril. The case is the best indicator of #Beijing ’s authoritarian expansion and weakening human rights situation in #China.