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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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2/ However, over past 8 months, #Beijing and #HKGov have intensified its strong-arm policies on #HKers. Extra 2.5 billion dollars have been spent on expanding police forces, with its budget on purchasing teargas & rubber bullets tripled.
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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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When #Beijing expelled 3 major US media outlets @nytimes, @WSJ & @washingtonpost to stop foreign media coverage on #HK & #China, Reuters reports at least 4000 top internal security forces, the PAP, have been joining #hkpolice on the frontlines, according to diplomat sources.
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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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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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#JUSTIN #Beijing's #HongKong & Macau Affairs Office blasts the pro-democracy camp's filibuster at #HK #Legco's House Committee, saying it "strongly condemns" the disruption to the normal operations of the council & law-making process on livelihood matters hmo.gov.cn/xwzx/xwfb/xwfb…
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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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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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#HongKong pro-democracy camp convenor Tanya Chan on the Liasion Office claiming itself & #Beijing’s HKMAO are not bound by Article 22 of the Basic Law: it’s no longer “Western ruling #HK”, it’s Beijing directly. It’s just that office chief Luo Huining hasn’t sat in CE Office yet
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A slightly emotional @cpdenniskwok on 3 fresh #HKMAO statements on #HK: #Beijing now exercising its "full jurisdiction over #HongKong", as stated in White Paper in 2014. The writing's on the wall to DQ me, it's my life-long honor to fight for democracy, RoL & freedom for HKers
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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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"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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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
In the Taikoo Cityplaza shopping mall, #HKPolice confronted & insulted District Councilor Andrew Chiu: "You don't have an ear to hear". Chiu had his ear bitten off by a pro-#Beijing thug in the very same Cityplaza in 2019/11.
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4/ The district councillor Andrew Chiu, whose ear was bitten off by a pro-#Beijing mob, was stopped and teased by #hkpolice when he tried to mediate the situation. His assistant fainted away after being pushed by #hkpolice with his head smashed on the ground.
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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 #HongKong #HongKongProtests
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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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JUST IN: #HongKong #Legco President Andrew Leung orders pro-#Beijing lawmaker Chan Kin-por to replace Dennis Kwok to preside chair election of House Comm on Mon, thru invoking the council’s special powers to break the impasse, saying this is a very special situation
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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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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......
#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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Before #Beijing is getting ready to impose the most controversial national security law upon #HongKong tonight. I unusually failed to post anything on my Facebook Page. #Article23 #nationalsecuritylaw #Hongkong
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No local legislation. No more James Tien saying no at the last minute circa 2003. #Beijing apparently decides to do it all by themselves twitter.com/krislc/status/…
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3/ This disputable legislation is promulgated without any legislative scrutiny, just by the direct promulgation by #Beijing authority. This new mechanism allows #Beijing to impose more China’s draconian laws without any legislature scrutiny.