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I am astonished by this wonky comment. The protestors are not carrying a suicide mission and military bloodshed is the last thing that protestors and HK people want to see.
DO NOT justify the intervention and violence from the CHINA side. Victim blaming is not gonna help.
#HK twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/s…
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Previously, activist @joshuawongcf and I handed in our comments to the @UNHumanRights committee regarding the implementation of the right of public assembly and protest in #HK
We urge the #UN to help end the humanitarian crisis in HK with the help of the Free World
#StandwithHK
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Still some pockets of open resistance in #HK - this photo from a friend. Would love to have a drink there together. One day....
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[New clampdown on #HK press freedom]
1. While Beijing claims #nationalsecuritylaw won't affect #PressFreedom in #Hongkong, #HK Immigration Dept just denied w/o reason the work visa for a @HongKongFP reporter, who has been closely following #hkprotests
hongkongfp.com/2020/08/27/vis…
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[New clampdown on #HK press freedom]
1. While Beijing claims #nationalsecuritylaw won't affect #PressFreedom in #Hongkong, #HK Immigration Dept just denied w/o reason the work visa for a @HongKongFP reporter, who has been closely following #hkprotests
hongkongfp.com/2020/08/27/vis…
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[#China blocks MPs from meeting pro-democracy figures]
1. #Beijing exerted pressure on #Canadian MPs, urging them not to meet #HK democracy figures, incl recently arrested media mogul #JimmyLai and me during their tour to HK in 2017, per @globeandmail.
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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Personal reflection on the absurdity of what happened yesterday.
The last time I saw these two was Sept 2019 in #HK
They spent much of the time talking about how they didn’t know *any* of the organisers of the 2019 protests and (thought they’d never have said it publicly) how...
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5 days until the #HK BNO scheme.
I really hope there's an integration plan. Things could go badly wrong. Non-exhaustive:
1. Quarantine
2. Language
3. HK community divisions.
4. Stupid assumption all HKers are rich.
The e-gates will open, but what will be our welcome?
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3. Using its sweeping powers under #NationalSecurityLaw, #China now extends its reach to #HK media by clamping down on critical voices on media, halting flow of information to international audiences and turning the city's media outlets into state-controlled propaganda apparatus.
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When stickers citing Bibles were accused of breaching #NationalSecurityLaw, Deputy director of #China's office on #Hongkong HKMAO just said the new law is not one-off. #Beijing will introduce more China's laws to #HK in the future.
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3. Under #nationalsecuritylaw, it is dubious if our privacy and safety are still under protection when more evidence suggests #HK comes closer to a #secretpolicestate where citizens and foreigners can be maliciously followed by unknown agents.
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A #CUHK student publication CU Radio reports that a #HongKongPolice officer in Tai Po shouted that “I want the #JuneFourth massacre to repeat at #PolyU” #HongKongProtests #HongKong #HK
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3. Worse still, even the city’s head in charge of controlling #covid19 never heard of the plan. As a result, it casts more doubts on whether #China is imposing genetic surveillance in #HK while #hkpolice recently took DNA swabs of #hkprotesters under sweeping #nationalsecuritylaw
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Our new report "Patriots Only" released today, finds that 9 HK officials & 12 "patriotic" lawmakers & their families have property overseas, including in 🇬🇧 +🇺🇸+🇨🇦+🇦🇺+🇫🇷+🇯🇵. It is well past time these countries #audited the assets of #HK officials as a pathway to #sanctions.
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Come and join the FB online🎵Music Rally on this Saturday in solidarity with #HK’s pro democracy freedom fighters who are in prison.
HK activists in exile, @tedhuichifung @Ray_WongHKI @nathanlawkc @finnlau_cd
will be speaking along with 7 Parliamentarians.
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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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2. It is the first time that sacred texts are largely replaced by Chinese nationalistic education in religious textbooks. Under #nationalsecuritylaw, now even the controversial sinicized Christianity in #China started to expand to #HK with HK diocese kowtowing to #Beijing.
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#HongKong ’s gate is breached. Our autonomy guaranteed by the Sino-British Joint Declaration and #1C2S has been bombarded by #Beijing. This might be the finale of #HK but #Hongkongers shall not give in! #StandinWithHongKong #YouCantStopUs
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Today, the Hong Kong national security police arrested Allan Au, a veteran #HK journalist, for allegedly conspiring to publish seditious materials under colonial-era sedition laws.
#FreeAllanAu
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
#FreeHKJournalists
