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14/ Fear reigns, but our fight for democracy will not stop. patreon.com/joshuawong
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12/ Beyond any doubt, the new security law is retrospective. From opposition leaders to critical media, Beijing is now staging its outrageous political purge on the city’s dissidents. Despite Beijing’s looming authoritarian shadow, resistance is our only way out.
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13/ Even when China attempts to rule the city with Orwellian thoughtcrimes, Hongkongers will not surrender. From now on, it is not just a fight for democracy and liberty, but also a battle between truth and lies.
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11/ My former colleague @chowtingagnes has just been arrested for violating the national security law, even though she quit the democracy group Demosisto, stopped her lobbying work and took down her Twitter account before the law went into effect.
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10/ ...and cancelling elections, Beijing has put critical voices in the media in its crosshairs & imperilled the free flow of information to global audiences. Beijing is decoupling HK from the world and turning media outlets in HK into a state-controlled propaganda apparatus.
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9/ Jimmy Lai’s arrest has presaged a new dark era of media censorship. With its sweeping powers under national security law, Beijing now extends its reach to the city’s media outlets. After pulling books from libraries, sacking prominent law professor Benny Tai...
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8/ Press freedom is the key cornerstones of HK, in contrast to stringent media restrictions in mainland China. It serves as an important litmus test to determine whether global financial hub will remain open, free & tolerant to critical views under Beijing’s authoritarian rule.
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6/ As well as controlling the international media, Beijing has also toughened up on local newsrooms. News directors of two credible TV providers in HK, iCable and NowTV, were replaced with more pro-government heads within a week.
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5/ ...including those from foreign correspondents. For journalists who had covered the Hong Kong movements last year, their visa applications or renewals were delayed for weeks or even rejected, mirroring the control of the media in mainland China.
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3/ ...with reporters’ desks rifled through, computers and files seized and all staff and reporters checked. Given Apply Daily is one of the remaining critical voices in the city, Beijing is now launching the largest-ever assault on the island’s press freedom.
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4/ It's the first time members of the press have been arrested under the law. In recent weeks, Beijing has been speeding up its media crackdown. Right before the enactment, HK’s immigration department set up a new national security unit to vet visa applications...
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2/ One month after the national security law was put in place, Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai was arrested for “colluding with foreign forces and uttering seditious words”. His Apply Daily‘s offices were raided by hundreds of police officers...
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[My Oped in @Independent] My former colleague @chowtingagnes has been arrested and so has @JimmyLaiApple.
Beijing is stepping up its attack on press freedom. It is the first time members of the press have been arrested under national security law.
independent.co.uk/voices/hong-ko…
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1/ Soon after Beijing disqualified pro-democracy political candidates, cancelled the city’s legislative election and planned to impose a rubber-stamp legislature, media newsrooms have become its new target.
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6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
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Psalm 23: A psalm of David.
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
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4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
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10/ However, even though the darkest night has fallen upon us, with news coverage becoming the new Orwellian thoughtcrime, Hongkongers will not surrender. Now it is not just a fight for democracy and liberty, but also a battle between truth and lies.
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7/ From now on, reporters can only cover the news with the police permission, which is clearly a deadly blow to press freedom. For a long time, HK has remained as the last bastion of press freedom on China’s soil, but today’s arrest preludes a new dark era of media censorship.
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9/ Worse still, it seems that the chance of bail is slim under the national security law, not to mention the high possibility of being extradited to China’s secret courts and black prisons. Today is a painful day for every freedom-loving Hongkonger in the city.
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8/ Once the city’s free flow of information faces unprecedented political pressure, it is worrying that this international financial hub can no longer be open and free.
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4/ While Apply Daily is one of the remaining critical voices in the city, Beijing’s move attempts to send a chilling warning to the city’s critical reporters. The arrest is just one of Beijing’s attack on our press freedom.
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