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2/ Just within one month after the national security law was put in place, the city has been blanketed in Orwellian fear. Books were pulling from libraries. People carrying stickers with quotes from Bibles or carrying blank placards were charged for breaching the security law.
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3/ Activists were prosecuted for commemorating the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, for the first time in 31 years after the crackdown. Days ago, even the city's pro-democracy media mogul @JimmyLaiApple was arrested under the new security law.
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5/ It will be more worrying if the Northern Ireland government chooses to turn a blind eye to the potential human rights concerns behind the law and bow down low to Beijing solely in exchange for more economic ties with China in business and education. belfast.chineseconsulate.org/chn/zlghd/t180…
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4/ Also, the law is also posing threats to all ex-pats and travellers both inside or outside Hong Kong, since Beijing has begun arresting non-Chinese nationals overseas. All these brutal crackdowns are trampling on the liberal values that Western democracies rest upon.
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6/ Therefore, we hope the Northern Ireland government can clarify its stance and stand up for the liberal values that the world cherishes. Since Beijing is now stepping up its suppression, we hope the world will keep a close watch on the development here and stand with Hong Kong.
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[Joshua Wong Op-ed in @nytimes: Hong Kong Still Has Many Ways to Resist]
We will respond to repression by demonstrating our solidarity creatively.
nytimes.com/2020/08/12/opi…
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15/ And yet, in the face of this darkest new era of censorship and repression, HK’s spirit of resistance is unflagging. Many HKers lined up in the early hours of Tuesday to buy the day’s edition of Apple Daily.
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16/ Some groups bought up stashes of the paper to distribute for free to passers-by. More than 500,000 copies had to be printed in total, five times the usual. Hong Kongers will keep finding ways, big and small, to resist.
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Agnes Chow on YouTube Live, recalling about Hong Kong Police breaking in her house and arrest her. youtube.com/watch?v=MH8Glo…
@chowtingagnes
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The Hong Kong police now grants access to ground operations only to “trusted media outlets”: On Monday, reporters from Reuters, Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press, among others, reportedly were blocked from the scene of the raid at Apple Daily. cn.nytimes.com/opinion/202008…
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❤️ 俺がガンダムだ
@oichanmusi
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[正直、気分はまだ回復していない。] #FreeAgnes @chowtingagnes
1/ 去年の8月30日、私は初めて家で逮捕され(それ以前は予約逮捕かデモ現場での逮捕だった)、それ以来、玄関のベルを聞く螢幕截圖 2020-08-14 上午11.19.58だけで緊張して、警察じゃないかと怖くなる。
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11/ これから、さらに多くの香港市民が、同じ、或いはもっと怖い目に遭うかもしれない。香港の将来はどうなるのか想像することさえ難しいけれど、暗闇の後には、夜明けがきっと来ると信じるしかない。
私たちは強くならなければいけません。
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