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#NEW major legal opinion on judicial independence in #HongKong released, featuring major judicial figures in 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦
Featuring comment from @chungchingkwong our #HK campaigns coordinator.
theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
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For 25 years, the soaring “Pillar of Shame” stood on the HKU campus to honor victims of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre.
#HongKong🇨🇳 removed our monument, and removed a part of our history.
The artist behind the work, @Galschiot, unveiled a replica of “Pillar of Shame” in Norway:
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#SAVETHEDATE:
On 1 July, to mark the 25th anniversary of the handover of #HongKong, and to launch his diaries, we will be hosting an event in #London with our Patron, the last Governor of #HK, Lord (Chris) Patten of Barnes.
Venue and registration details to be announced soon
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Revolution of Our Times (時代革命) is finally coming to Vimeo On Demand on Jun 1! 🔥
HongKongers can finally watch this film, in #HongKong.
We encourage overseas HongKongers and friends to buy the film and watch it with friends, to tell the story of HK.
vimeo.com/ondemand/revol… twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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@benedictrogers
Govt urged to carry out audit of UK assets of #HongKong and #China officials linked to human rights violations news.sky.com/story/govt-urg…
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1/2 Our Patron, the last Governor of #HongKong, Lord Patten of Barnes, is publishing his diaries from his time in #HK.
This weekend the Telegraph published extracts.
On 1 July we will be hosting an event with Chris Patten to launch his new book
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
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‼️ Together with HongKongers around the world, SWHK calls for Overseas Non-Permanent Judges sitting on the #HongKong Court of Final Appeal to resign. The presence of foreign judges only serves to lend legitimacy to the authoritarian regime.
Open Letter 🔗 bit.ly/3wCj0tT
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#HongKong's new Chief Executive #JohnLee's "sole experience of government was of locking up or beating up protesters, critics and political opponents", writes our CEO @benedictrogers in @Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/3…
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🇬🇧 Unite for Democracy: London, June 4
Those of us outside #HongKong🇨🇳 must carry on the torch. United with our friends 🇺🇦, we must continue to rally the world against totalitarian rule. We ask everyone who can, to come out on Sat to stand together united, and fight for freedom.
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@benedictrogers
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#HongKong tonight.
Regime stooges so scared of the memory of the #Tiananmenmassacre that they’re shutting down an entire public space to prevent people honouring the memory of the fallen. So pathetic you almost pity it.
You’ll never stop the world remembering #June4th twitter.com/LauraWestbrook…
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We will never forget #June4th
Our tribute to #TiananmenMassacre victims & launch of #HongKong Legal Accountability Campaign👇
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This year is the 33rd anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre. It is the third year since the candlelight vigil has been banned in #HongKong. 🕯
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@benedictrogers
I look forward to speaking at the opening of this exhibition of #HongKong protest art, organised by @catherinekyli @finnlau_cd and others, this coming Saturday.
Please join us - details below 👇
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@benedictrogers
This Sunday, 12 June, 3pm, I'll be speaking alongside my friends @nathanlawkc @SimonChengUK @finnlau_cd @lukedepulford in #ParliamentSquare, to mark #HongKong's 2019 protest movement & mourn those who died, were injured or jailed.
#FightForFreedom #StandWithHongKong
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@benedictrogers
A deeply moving article about #HongKongers building new lives in UK.
I often think that while I can no longer go to #HongKong, Hong Kong has come to me.
‘Wherever I Am Is Hong Kong’: Migrants Build a New Life in the U.K. nytimes.com/2022/06/04/wor…
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Dozens of #HongKong democrats may face life in prison as National Security 🇨🇳 case transferred to High Court
hongkongfp.com/2022/06/06/doz…
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It seems like only yesterday.
Three years ago, over a million people took to the streets of #HongKong to protest against a controversial bill that would allow dissidents to be extradited to #CCPChina🇨🇳 twitter.com/HK_rtang/statu…
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@benedictrogers
This Saturday, around 1pm, I'll have the privilege of speaking at the opening of this important exhibition for #HongKong, in commemoration of #612, organised by @catherinekyli @finnlau_cd
Please join us - details below 👇
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Another independent media outlet in #HongKong has shuttered. FactWire, an investigative news agency founded in 2015, announced its termination. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose. It has, at last, come time to end our journey." factwire.org/en/termination…
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#HongKong police have arrested four people in their early twenties for property damage. They allegedly sprayed nearly 200 graffiti about #JuneFourth across the city.
news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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@benedictrogers
THREAD: This weekend, I will be joining #HongKongers in marking #612 and in renewing our resolve to #FightForFreedom #StandWithHongKong
I'm speaking at 4 events
I hope that in these four events we might unite
The first is tomorrow, 1pm, this important exhibition for #HongKong
