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2/ Nothing can be more ridiculous when US presidents Reagan, Nixon, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa, Elton John, Anna Wintour, Malala, Buzz Aldrin, & Gloria Steinem all had to speak in person, #HKgov just asked me to stay in HK and speak via Skype.
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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/ Although #HKgov warns to impose imprisonment and fines on violators, such punitive measures are only supported by daily phone calls and random checks. Even if quarantined people violate the rules, they will be only warned verbally.
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2/ Even though #HKgov claims that 14days quarantine is mandatory, new arrivers are told that they can “go out” during the quarantine periods so long as they wear masks. It puts into doubt the effectiveness of quarantine policy as it means #coronavirus can spread in communities.
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Many PR firms worldwide have turned down #HKgov's notorious #RelaunchHongKong tender but some still intend to make a deal with the devil. @EdelmanPR @Qorvis @MSL_group are said to be taking part in whitewashing a #HR ABUSER and MURDEROUS regime☠️. Shame. provokemedia.com/latest/article…
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2/ Although the law is highly contentious in #Hongkong, and widespread backlash broke out when #HKgov introduced the law in 2003, Beijing this time deliberately chooses to ram through this unpopular law by completely ignoring the will of #Hongkongers.
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3. Even before this evil law is implemented, #HKgov has already tightened its grip by banning this years’ candlelight vigil for the first time in 30 years. To block #Hongkongers from joining the vigil, the venue was locked down w/ barricades, with thousands of #hkpolice deployed.
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11. 3️⃣ Direct rule in HK through installing mainland institutions: A powerful national security agency will be set up to "supervise" #HKgov and has power of direct intervention. Just like Liaison Office, the new body will not be bound by Basic Law, as per Tam Yiu-chung.
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[#Beijing is paving ways to disqualify pro-democracy candidates]
1. Despite 610,000+ #HKers voting in first-ever #hkprimaries, pro-democracy candidates started receiving letters from #HKgov questioning their political stances, including whether they support #nationalsecuritylaw
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[Kneeling down for meals in an international city]
1. Today is the first day that #HKgov bans all dine-in services at restaurants. #Hongkongers are forced to finish their meals outdoors.
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[#HKgov told right lawyers: #Hkpolice's shooting in #Hkprotesters’ chest is “reasonable”]
1. On Oct 1 last year, an 18yo student was shot in his chest by live bullet fired at point-blank range, 3cm from his heart with bullet fragments scattering around his ribs, lung and chest.
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4. Clearly assailant has been targeting consulate for a long time. Under #China’s #wolfwarrior diplomacy, #nationalsecuritylaw & #HKgov's recent move to indoctrinate more nationalism in schools, it's worrying the attack will have longlasting consequences to the city from now on.
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4. More than just turning lies into truths with disinformation, today’s incident sends a worrying signal to how #HKgov will enforce #nationalsecuritylaw in the city, where even basic facts can be rewritten to suit the official narrative and justify future repression.
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8. Given the unreliability of the test and high potential of DNA abuse for surveillance, #Hongkongers will boycott the proposed universal testing. We urge #HKgov to halt the plan and take other effective measures, such as full border seal, to curb the virus.
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2. Recently #hkpolice just started to rewrite the history of #PoliceBrutality, turning lies into truths. From tomorrow on, #HKgov will impose a citywide DNA collection, which is considered as a prelude to more sophisticated surveillance regime in #Hongkong.
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5. Up to now, #Hkgov & #hkpolice downplay the whole incident. It casts further shadows over #nationalsecuritylaw as #HKgov will offer nearly no help when #Hongkongers and foreigners are extradited to #China and face inhuman and unfair treatment in secret trials and dark prisons.
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4. In contrast, activists like #TamTakChi are charged sedition and denied bail just because they chanted slogans like “#5DemandsNot1Less” and blasted #HKgov and #hkpolicebrutality with critical voices.
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1. #HKgov now demands #US to drop the new label ban and stresses its products are not made in China. One local exporter told @appledaily_hk, slamming HKgov for being hypocritical since it previously arrested now-disbanded Demosisto members for selling “not-made-in-China” masks.
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30 years after #TienanmenSquareMassacre, #Beijing’s state-owned paper now framed annual candlelight vigil's organizer, #HKAlliance, as a “subversive body” that is alleged to peril national security & collude w/ foreign forces, & urged #HKgov to suppress it w/ #nationalsecuritylaw
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Thank you Representative @AndyKimNJ for your amazing thread on #HongKong.
Let us also call your attention to those protestors who had been denied bail for over 10 months and are still detained.
Most of their crimes? "Rioting" [Protesting against the #HKgov] twitter.com/AndyKimNJ/stat…
