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This is what every UK passport says.
Sadly doesn’t apply to #JimmyLai, 150,000+ BN(O) visa holders, or their children, who will be considered “Chinese” for the purposes of PRC law even if they were born here.
The UK just accepts 🇨🇳’s naked ethno-nationalism. Has to change.
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@benedictrogers
As we prepare to celebrate #Christmas, let's always remember #HongKong #PoliticalPrisoners in jail, including #JimmyLai, #JoshuaWong & so many others
Let's never forget them
Let's keep fighting for their freedom
Join me by lighting a #Candle4HK to #FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
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@benedictrogers
"This is a regime that likes to throw its weight around, but retreats into propaganda lies when the truth is in danger of being exposed"
My new op-ed on #China #CCP #Manchester & #JimmyLai
Once again, cowardly and brutal China has shown its true colours telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/1…
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@benedictrogers
Totally
Free #JimmyLai
Hong Kong: Media Tycoon Trial a Travesty hrw.org/news/2022/12/1…
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@benedictrogers
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An outrageous verdict, a completely false charge and an appalling injustice for #JimmyLai 👇
There must be consequences for #CCP's dismantling of #HongKong's rule of law & judicial independence: remaining foreign judges should now withdraw & it's time for targeted sanctions. twitter.com/holmeschan_/st…
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Today marks 75th birthday of #JimmyLai. Today Jimmy could be sat on a beach enjoying his wealth & freedom overseas. Instead he spends his birthday in jail, facing a political show trial, for daring to advocate for a free press, democracy, & the rights of all #HongKongers.
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@benedictrogers
Today is #JimmyLai's birthday, yet he is spending it in prison, awaiting trial and probably denied the lawyer of his choice.
Pray for Jimmy Lai and his family and stand in solidarity with him.
Let's unite to cry out: #FreeJimmyLai !
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@benedictrogers
#JimmyLai is a hero, a man of immense integrity and courage, and deserves to be honoured not imprisoned or put on trial with ludicrous false charges
@JamesCleverly @FCDOGovUK should be speaking out for this great man, who is a British national
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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Jimmy Lai is a billionaire who chose to go against the Beijing government, in his quest for Freedom and Democracy for #HongKong.
He is now facing trails in Jan!
Call on your representatives to ask them to support #JimmyLai
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"These arrests are nothing short of an all-out assault on the freedom of the press in #HongKong, coming just one day after #JimmyLai and six former #AppleDaily journalists received similar charges," said
@hk_watch CEO @benedictrogers
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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I can’t help wishing #HongKong movement would be more explicitly angry about this.
Thanks @tickerNEWSco for letting me say it again. #JimmyLai
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Hearing from authoritative source that, after #JimmyLai's sentence was handed down, someone in the courtroom said:
“Go shit in your Mao cap and pull it over your ears” twitter.com/lukedepulford/…
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The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to publisher #JimmyLai and the staff of the #AppleDaily newsroom in Hong Kong.
#FightForFreedom #FreeJimmyLai
wan-ifra.org/2021/12/golden…
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Our Patron @DavidAltonHL of Liverpool speaks in the House of Lords about #JimmyLai, #MartinLee and #MargaretNg and the sentences imposed against 9 pro-democracy campaigners in #HongKong last Friday. twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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NEW: CEO of Hong Kong Watch @benedictrogers spoke to the BBC News about #JimmyLai being charged under the National Security Law today, its implications on the #democracy movement in #HongKong and the international involvement. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/Gf7qw99MA1w
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@joshuawongcf
[#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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Hong Kong Code captured the absurdity of #JimmyLai’s arrest in a simple graphic.
Their IG: instagram.com/hongkongcode?i…
