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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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3. It's the first time that consulate staffs fall victim to physical attack in this international city where personal safety is claimed to be protected by the law.
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2. The attack took place near the main entrance of the consulate today. The assailant approached the victim from behind & punched twice in his head, right at the moment when the victim left the consulate. The consulate is located in an area regularly patrolled by #hkpolice.
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[US consulate staff in #HK was assaulted by a Chinese national]
#BREAKING: When #US and #China made some progress on trade, an American working for the US consulate general #Hongkong @USAinHKMacau was assaulted by a Chinese national from behind.
scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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6. The agreement now plans to seek extension upon its expiry at the end of this year. As it has grave implications on overseas dissidents and jeopardizes the reputation of Switzerland, Swiss gov should disclose more information about the secret deal.
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5. Not to mention that dissidents in exile, #Hongkongers or even #Taiwanese overseas might be covered by the secret deal & extradited to #China’s courts. In fact, #hkpolice has already used the new law to arrest dissidents in exile and also a US citizen.
edition.cnn.com/2020/08/01/chi…
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3. Even though the treaty claims only covering smugglers and illegal immigrants, it is doubtful whether this extraterritorial enforcement power can be abused under the newly enacted #nationalsecuritylaw that covers foreigners.
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4. Although the treaty claims excluding #Tibetans & #Uyghurs, it is dubious if this exemption can really hold since #Beijing in the past treated China-born foreign nationals as Chinese, such as Swedish citizen #GuiMinhai that was sentenced to 10yo prison. wsj.com/articles/china…
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2. Five years after the secret deal was signed, no Swiss MP had ever heard of the deal. In contrast to similar agreements between #Switzerland and other countries, the one with #China is harsher as #Chinese cops can come and investigate without prior discussion with Swiss govt.
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[Secret deal: China's security cops can investigate in #Switzerland]
1. @NZZaS: #China & #Swiss signed a secret deal in 2015 allowing #Beijing's security officers to investigate Chinese nationals WITHIN #Switzerland for 2 weeks, even w/o official status.
nzzas.nzz.ch/schweiz/geheim…
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Joshua told how he constantly feared arrest following the imposition of a new security law, in a virtual appearance at British book festival. He said his very participation might put him at risk, but that it was his duty to keep speaking out about China’s tightening grip on HK.
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“Every day I sleep, I also worry will the government come to arrest me immediately, or the day after, storm into my house at 5:00 am just like experienced by @JimmyLaiApple ,” Joshua Wong said.
hongkongfp.com/2020/08/23/hon…
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'You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.'
This is from Maya Angelou's 'Still I Rise' which is a great poem of resistance: poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/st…
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2. Clearly, this is another game censorship after the recent ban on Animal Crossing, which #Hongkongers take our activism into video games. And also #Blizzard saga last year, where a Hearthstone player was banned for supporting #Hongkong.
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[#China new game crackdown on #CallofDuty]
1. After #CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar released its teaser, original teaser was swiftly under heavy criticism by Chinese trolls and banned in #China for having a one-second documentary shot of #TiananmenSquareMassacre (1:05) in the teaser.
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1/ 誰が向かうの？
この険しい世界
でも 僕だけじゃ
ただ見るだけ
何ができるの
わからない
けど君が 胸を張って
「共に 守りましょう」
言ってくれた
それぞれの魔法
施してみよう
協力モードで戦おう
たまに恐怖心が
湧き上がるけど
一緒ならば 乗り越える
youtube.com/watch?v=WgP0uX…
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Update: the car tailing me was registered by a person living in Shun Lee DSQ (Disciplined Services Quarters), which are the staff quarters for #hkpolice. Clearly, the harassers are not ordinary citizens nor reporters that they previously claimed. twitter.com/joshuawongcf/s…
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6. When pro-democracy figures like @tedhuichifung and @JeremyTamMH face similar furious stalking, there's a growing concern that #HK is now turning from #policestate to #secretpolicestate where people's freedoms and safety are under unprecedented assault.
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5. The incident also shows how state-sponsored stalking invades ppl's personal life, not only dissidents but also their friends & families. It's dubious how they will use these data, or if it will be sent to newly established national security agency under #nationalsecuritylaw.
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4. Most horrifying thing is, while this time it's an unknown woman waiting for us, next time would that be #secretpolice? In the past, we DID have cases that businessmen were kidnapped by #China's agents right in the heart of #HK, such as Xiao Jianhua and bookseller Lee Bo.
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3. Six of them surrounded my friends and me and continuously provoked me with verbal abuse. That is the common tactic that they use to arouse targets' anger, smear them with everything filmed and cherrypicked, and justify their arrests.
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2. Clearly, that is not a coincidence, since a middle-aged woman had already been there before we reached the park, holding her phone videotaping us. It implies that those people were not only following us, but also conducting a wide-area surveillance operation on dissidents.
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//しかし、黃之鋒さん、今回の「チー牛」騒動を楽しんでくれたようで、日本人としては更に親近感が増してしまった。香港の未来や、彼らの安否も含めて、これからますます香港民主化運動に目が離せないのは間違いない。//
news.goo.ne.jp/article/mag2/w…
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