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Wong told @HongKongFP that sharing his experiences of civil disobedience was not equal to advocating such methods: “I am totally disappointed with the judgement, because having a Skype conference within an indoor panel discussion should not be recognised as any public assembly.”
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[Detainee faces indefinite detention & tortures in #HK] 1. A detainee from #India on hunger strike was brutally beaten by officers at Castle Peak Bay Immigration Center (CIC, aka "black prison"), before unwillingly sending to hospital for forced injection, per @appledaily_hk.
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2. The victim, Vikramjeet Singh, was severely assaulted in a place not covered by CCTV cameras, with multiple bruises on wrists, arms and legs, as well as broken bones in chest and back. Impatient with Singh’s hunger strike, officers even scolded him, “go to die!”
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3. Although #hkpolice claimed they would investigate the case, Singh has not given any copy of statement for more than 4 days since August 18, nor any case number. Worse still, #police prohibited Singh’s friends from taking pictures of his wounds for no reason.
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4. Singh criticized that CIC is worse than prisons, where detainees are tortured and treated like “animals”. CIC concern group blasted that detainees face indefinite detention, while some of them have already been detained for two years, without trials and access to bail.
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5. According to a survey by concern groups, 75% of existing or former detainees think that the treatment at CIC is inhumane, with more than 35% faced verbal or physical violence. 11% of them were even detained for more than one year without trial.
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6. In fact, throughout #hkprotests last year, #HKers were reportedly subject to brutal tortures in detention centres. As #nationalsecuritylaw allows indefinite detention w/o trials and bail, it is worrying that this kind of Chinese-style black prison will become prevalent in #HK.
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Exercise is good for health. Canoeing. patreon.com/posts/40735056
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Round pushpin Les derniers jours de #Hongkong Arrestations et filatures d'opposants se multiplient, fondées sur des accustations de « collusion avec des forces étrangères ». Notre dossier de la semaine Rightwards arrow bit.ly/319ZuX7 @LePoint
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« Le monde va-t-il défendre Hongkong ? » ENTRETIEN. Après une vague d'arrestations sans précédent, l'icône du mouvement démocratique fait le vœu de se « battre jusqu'à la dernière minute ». Propos recueillis par notre correspondant à Jérémy André. lepoint.fr/monde/joshua-w…
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[#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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4. Such #Beijing interference intensified before #nationalsecuritylaw. As @amnesty report says, #Beijing & its loyalists increasingly use “threats, bullying and harassment” to stamp out voices criticizing #China’s human rights violations in HK & #Uyghurs. amnesty.ca/news/human-rig…
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5. This diplomatic intimidation solely aims at stigmatizing pro-democracy forces & silencing voices supporting HK. But when Beijing loyalists also met foreign MPs/officials in the past, it is clear these exchanges are normal & crucial to guarantee int'l confidence over the city.
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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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[I was tailed by an unknown car with China-HK license even on Sunday] 1. Today when my friends and I visited Victoria Peak Garden in #HK, I was tailed by an unknown 7 seater car with a #China-HK license plate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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[#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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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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3. But this time it's even more ridiculous. #Beijing attempts to ban a Cold War game just because the game mentions a Cold War event that the regime wants to remove from its history book. Under #China's tightening ideological grip, game censorship will only intensify.