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Another one bites the dust. Starting to think Blinken, Truss etc will continue issuing action-free statements about how “China needs to respect media freedom” until there are no real journalists left in #HongKong twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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Cracking work here. 👇👏 twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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Imagine a Hong Kong where the people could elect someone of this courage, integrity and humility? twitter.com/lauinhk/status…
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“I believe that British judges can continue to play a positive role in supporting this judicial independence” @trussliz argues with a straight face.
Really? Today leading barrister Margaret Ng was arrested on ludicrous politically motivated charges. And on the same day 👇
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Thank you, Irwin. Please ask @JustinTrudeau to take up her case urgently. twitter.com/IrwinCotler/st…
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A timely reminder that the U.K. recently announced a “Media Freedom Coalition” while doing precisely nothing to hold China to account for obliterating press freedom in Hong Kong. Particularly embarrassing given the U.K. is bound by treaty specifically to uphold it. #icallbullshit
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Journalist followers please amplify this. Stand News is a small, independent, media outlet in Hong Kong. twitter.com/krislc/status/…
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Here’s what Tutu (who campaigned to boycott Beijing 2008) ACTUALLY thought:
“If we did not have…economic and sports boycotts we would still have an apartheid government sitting firmly in Pretoria” twitter.com/iocmedia/statu…
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This man @badiucao is a legend and deserves all our support. 👏 twitter.com/60Minutes/stat…
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19年嘅時候，我地充滿希望，但而家我地望住香港淪喪，嗰種失落難以用文字形容。不過，黎明前嘅黑暗一定係最L黑暗，之後一定會變好。個世界會改變，係因為我同你都冇放棄，因為我同你都一齊堅持落去。祝各位聖誕平安。🎄 twitter.com/lukedepulford/…
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🚨🚨#GoddessofDemocracy removed from CUHK one night after the #PillarOfShame was dismantled. twitter.com/carmenkamanlau…
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Hard to describe how MASSIVE this is.
🇺🇸Gov now presumes *all* imports from Xinjiang are made with #Uyghur slavery unless proven otherwise.
Meanwhile 🇬🇧Gov seeks “increased bilateral trade” with PRC and can’t even be bothered to do the promised review of exports @trussliz twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/…
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At night they came
an entourage of undertakers
white screened, red handed
to abduct the memory of their shame
#PillarofShame #Tiananmen twitter.com/mithilagg/stat…
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Worth pointing out that artist @Galschiot told me in Rome he had repeatedly requested to come and take the statue to Denmark. It was on *loan* to HKU. They are destroying someone else’s property, and someone else’s work.
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🚨New pictures showing the #PillarofShame veiled from view at #HKU
Not content with banning Tiananmen vigils. Not content with tearing down monuments. They can’t even bear to let you look.
Let’s honour the memory of those they would like you to forget ➡️ June 4th 2022. 🕯
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Any survivor of abuse will see through this awful video.
But for media struggling to get a read, I recommend the “Scripted and Staged” section in @SafeguardDefend piece on forced confessions safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/new-re… h/t @Peterinexile
#FreePengShuai
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Wow: this is, in effect, a protest by millions of people.
Lowest. Turnout. Ever.
#HongKong has shown support for democracy in the only way it could: by staying away.
🇭🇰 Gov funnelled money into bolstering turnout and even made spoiling ballots a crime. The response? 👇 twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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香港朋友們: 我希望你地聽日可以投票畀「愛香港」嘅候選人，但係所有真正愛香港嘅人呢刻大多都身陷囹圄。
聽日如果投票率好低，將會向全世界展示香港人都知道呢一場「選舉」只係不公義下產生嘅膺品，選出嚟人根本唔可以代表香港，毫無合法性可言。
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Fixed it for you, Xinhua twitter.com/XHNews/status/…
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🇬🇧 Minister: “don’t do genocide or crush Hong Kong” ✅
Also 🇬🇧 Minister (in same meeting 🤯): “let’s do more business” ❌
Repeat after me:
These👏messages👏contradict👏each other 👏 twitter.com/amandamilling/…
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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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The UK has failed to uphold its treaty promises to #HongKong to such a dramatic extent that many have nobody they can vote for in the upcoming (sham) LegCo elections.
Please help amplify @Ray_WongHKI campaign: post a pic of yourself with the hashtag #ReleaseMyCandidate twitter.com/benedictrogers…
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Important report on PRC ventriloquism 👇 twitter.com/fryan/status/1…
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Listen to this. Really shocking stuff even by @iocmedia 👎🏻 standards.
Dick “doesn’t know” about existence #Uyghur camps that nearly every major government says exist.
The IOC needs urgent reform.
Superb journalism from Rieger. H/T @adrianzenz
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