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🇬🇧Lord Patten, a Patron of HKW and the last governor of #HK, commented on the letter to Hong Kong Watch issued by the national security department of HK
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HKW threatened under #HK’s NSL
Quick responses from
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss
@trussliz
@MPIainDS
HKW’s Patrons
🇬🇧 Lord Chris Patten
@DavidAltonHL
@SarahChampionMP
@amcarmichaelMP
🇨🇦 @SenatorHousakos
🇺🇸 @SamuelBrownback
bit.ly/3ta9nCd
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We are excited to co-sponsor this panel discussion & #HK film screening of #BlackBauhinia in #Brussels with @PDE_EDP on 14:00-16:00 22 March. Chaired by the fantastic @EnginEroglu_FW, with speakers including HK pro-democracy activists @Ray_WongHKI @finnlau_cd & @chungchingkwong.
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At least the people of #HK will be able to punish these horrific failures at the ballot box….oh twitter.com/AFP/status/149…
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It is a tragic sign of the deteriorating human rights situation in #HK that nearly 10,000 #HongKongers applied for Canada's Young Talent's Work Visa & a further 5,000 applied to study in Canada last year. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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Was asked by a journalist the other day if I’ve had any cyber intimidation since being vocal on #Uyghurs #HK etc.
Actually quite surprising to see it all written down. And this is *nothing* compared to what people like @xu_xiuzhong and diaspora groups endure.
It won’t work.
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As of January 6th 2022, #HK has 721 political prisoners, including 555 given custodial sentences and 166 detained pending trial. #FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
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Citizen News, another prominent pro-democracy online media in HK, has announced their closure just days after #HK police raided Stand News, arrested 7 and charged 2 of them with publishing seditious contents. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Breaking: Pro-Democracy singer and former director of #HK media standnews Denise Ho @hoccgoomusic released from police custody
#StandWithStandNews
#StandWithHongKong
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Breaking:#ICAC has just obtained arrest warrants for me, @nathanlawkc and others for calling #HK people to boycott the “election”
#HKers will not accept the latest electoral reform. No democrats can run for the office without kowtowing to Beijing.
We MUST boycott the election.
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Photo exhibition "China Album" in #HK.
A nation must know who it is, where it comes from and where it is heading.
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405 days in custody.
His only crime? Peaceful defence of the promises 🇬🇧 and 🇨🇳 made to #HK
你常存我們心中，東山再起、指日可待。
#FreeAndyLi #NeverForget
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Alright, alright. Yes. Me, @Billbrowder and others named in #AndyLi case were called in for meetings with @GOVUK about #HK
Can’t comment on the meeting, but can say what’s reported (Cantonese) here by @krislc and the🧵 👇
voacantonese.com/a/Cantonese-kc…
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Anything to say @UKinHongKong @ukinchina @FCDOGovUK?
While #HK burns the best you can produce is some supine, staggeringly naive nonsense about how China is some kind of climate change saviour?
Your silence is a national humiliation. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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“Largely independently” tells you all you need to know. This has little to do with the rule of law, and a lot to do with massive pressure applied by UK lawyers practising in lucrative #HK who want the status quo. Breathtakingly short-sighted. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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Great to hear that #Australia will soon join the UK, Canada, the EU, and the USA in having a #Magnitsky style sanctions regime. Hopefully once in place they will consider using this sanctions regime with key allies against #HK officials guilty of human rights violations. twitter.com/SenPaterson/st…
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Concerning to see veteran journalists leaving #HK for #UK citing a “white terror sweeping” the city that is seeing a growing number of journalists targeted under the National Security Law. ft.com/content/d9ca86…
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A complete outrage which shames 🇬🇧
We promised to maintain HK’s high degree of autonomy and way of life.
What did #HK get?
9 years in jail for waving a flag Beijing doesn’t like.
@DominicRaab we must move to accountability. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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We welcome the adoption by @EP_ForeignAff of a new EU-China Strategy which includes making ratification of #CAI dependent on China recommitting to #HK's autonomy under the Sino-British Joint Declaration. This is something we will continue to campaign for. europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
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United Kingdom:
❌No sanctions on 🇭🇰 or 🇨🇳 officials over #HK
❌Anti-dem people abusing the lifeboat scheme that younger #HK dem campaigners can’t access.
Embarrassing and shameful.
Meanwhile in the 🇺🇸: home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/…
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United Kingdom:
❌No sanctions on 🇭🇰 or 🇨🇳 officials over #HK
❌Anti-dem people abusing the lifeboat scheme that younger #HK dem campaigners can’t access.
Embarrassing and shameful.
Meanwhile in the 🇺🇸: home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/…
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EU Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a joint-resolution on #HK #AppleDaily calling for: emergency visas for journalists in #HK, expansion of #Erasmus places for HKers as part of a #Lifeboat scheme, extension of EU funding for HK media, & #sanctions. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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EU Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a joint-resolution on #HK #AppleDaily calling for: emergency visas for journalists in #HK, expansion of #Erasmus places for HKers as part of a #Lifeboat scheme, extension of EU funding for HK media, & #sanctions. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…