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@benedictrogers
The #CCP and its quislings in #HongKong are so ludicrously insecure, they’re terrified even of a harmonica 👇 twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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More grim news out of #HongKong a man has been arrested at a vigil for Queen Elizabeth II outside 🇬🇧 consulate for “sedition” for playing the harmonica & singing “glory to Hong Kong”. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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@benedictrogers
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@benedictrogers
Wow - my friend @tedhuichifung sentenced to 3.5 years in jail in #HongKong in absentia. Yet another outrageous injustice. I am just glad Ted is safely outside #HK.
hongkongfp.com/2022/09/29/sel…
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@benedictrogers
As the #CCP begins its #ChinaNationalDay celebrations, I have handwritten this personal message for the peoples of #China, #Tibet, #HongKong, #EastTurkistan, #Uyghurs and #Taiwan, and for everyone suffering under #XiJinping's regime
With 💕and 🙏and solidarity
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Safer, better #HongKong
Upper pic: Rioters and violence in the streets of Hong Kong before the national security legislation.
Lower pic: National & regional flags flying on calm, safe streets of Hong Kong celebrating the 25th anniversary of its return to China.
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Fresh off the press from @CECCgov on how Hong Kong went from "an open city to a city of fear"
Figure: all of the civil societies shown below (with their logos) are eliminated by #Draconian measures by #Beijing and #HongKong gov in 2021-2022
Read more: cecc.gov/sites/chinacom…
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A photo in an exhibit in Arles, France. #HongKong
Do you know what this shows?
The #FightForFreedom may continue in many ways, in different medium.
#StandWithHongKong
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@benedictrogers
Wonderful to enjoy typical - delicious - #HongKong cart noodles in a #HongKonger-run restaurant in Birmingham with @nathanlawkc, ahead of our
@hk_watch event at #CPC2022
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@benedictrogers
As #CCP holds 20th Party Congress in just over a week, it is vital for the world to know what #XiJinping is doing to #Uyghurs, #Tibet, #HongKong, his threats to #Taiwan, complicity with #Myanmar & #NorthKorea, crackdown on dissent in #China itself & threats to our freedoms too /
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@benedictrogers
Sentencing teenagers - minors - to jail for expressing an opinion is just outrageous.
This shows how far wrong #HongKong has gone and how serious is the loss of its freedoms & autonomy. It's a totally #CCP-controlled cruel police state.
reuters.com/world/china/fi…
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#HongKong teenagers - minors - sentenced to jail for the first time under the draconian #NationalSecurityLaw: an outrageous injustice.
reuters.com/world/china/fi…
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Meanwhile in #HongKong today:
A secondary school suspended 14 students for 3 days as a punishment for “not respecting the flag raising ceremony” as they didn't immediately return to their classroom or the playground for the ceremony.
news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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@benedictrogers
I am thinking about @joshuawongcf today, as he spends yet another birthday in prison.
Let us never ever forget #JoshuaWong, and all political prisoners in #HongKong, and let us continue to #FightForFreedom and work to #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners in #HK. twitter.com/hkdc_us/status…
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@zlj517
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Xi seized #HongKong. Got away with it. Now boasting about it.
Perpetrated #Uyghur genocide. Got away with it.
We’ve learned no lessons. When he comes for #Taiwan, we will have ourselves to blame. reuters.com/world/china/ch…
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These are the #CCP diplomats who dragged a #HongKong protester inside the #chineseconsulate in #Manchester and beaten him: from left to right Consul General #ZhengXiyuan, Consul #GaoLianjia, Counsellor #ChenWei, Deputy Consul General #FanYingjie. twitter.com/jenniferzeng97…
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Today, the UK government updated its Immigration Rules to expand the BNO visa to young people from #HongKong.
Those born after the 1997 handover, with at least one BNO-status parent, will soon be able to apply for the BNO visa independently
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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@benedictrogers
It's almost 3 days from the day he presided over a barbaric assault on #HongKong protesters, and yet the #CCP representative in #Manchester, #ZhengXiyuan, is - as far as we know - still in post
He should go.
He should be escorted to the airport in handcuffs.
Zai jian Zheng!
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@benedictrogers
5 years ago I was denied entry to #HongKong on #Beijing's orders- although I've always been peaceful
3 days ago, peaceful #HongKongers were beaten up by #CCP thugs in #Manchester
Time to stand up to #XiJinping's goons
Why should I be banned while Zheng Xiyuan roams free?
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@benedictrogers
Tomorrow, across the UK, #HongKongers and friends of #HongKong will protest and march against the outrageous violence by #China's #CCP Consul-General and his thuggish diplomats in #Manchester last Sunday.
I'll be speaking at the protest outside @10DowningStreet
Join us.
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Heart is breaking tonight for friends unjustly imprisoned in #HongKong
Something about being in Taiwan that is painfully reminiscent. So close, and yet so far.
People forget the human cost. They did nothing to deserve this.