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Last year, hundreds showed up at the Victoria Park, defying a ban to commemorate the #TiananmenSquareMassacre. This year, police sealed off the park, blocked cross harbour tunnels and reportedly deploy up to 7,000 officers across the city, to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.
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#JuneFourth: an elderly man was surrounded by over two dozen police officers outside Victoria Park just for holding banners that said conscience.
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Candlelight. From illustrator vawongsir, who was let go from a secondary school after receiving a complaint over his artworks.
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#HongKong International Film Festival called off the screenings of Philip Yung's commercial crime film Where the Wind Blows, citing technical reasons and request from film's owner. The film tells the story of four corrupted cops who rose to power in 1960s.
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A RTHK talk show that discusses current affairs from a philosophical point of view is reportedly suspended as management reviews the programme. Political satire, investigative journalism, candid interviews are disappearing from Hong Kong's public broadcaster one by one. twitter.com/StandNewsHK/st…
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A 24 yro graduate from HKU is sentenced to 5 years and a half in jail for wounding with intent and assaulting an officer, etc. He bit the finger of a cop during a conflict that broke out in New Town Plaza in Sha Tin. Judge rejected his self-defence claim. hk.appledaily.com/local/20210224…
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Last defendant former lawmaker Claudia Mo’s application was also rejected. All defendants failed to overturn earlier decision to deny their bail. All remanded in custody.
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"Oh oh! I remember you! Aren't you Hong Kong who used to be under me? Haven't seen you for a while. How are you?"
From political cartoonist Zunzi's column in Mingpao.
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“I will live well. I will love this home and its people. I don’t see darkness for the light is in my heart. Your honour, you see, I am a free man.”
Justin Wong’s latest illustration in his series That City in Mingpao.
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Roberto Bolaño's 2666, The Classic of Poetry, a Chinese dictionary are among books a 19 yro has prepared for his jail term. Tens of thousands were arrested by #HongKong police since protests erupted in 2019, this is a story on what happens afterwards. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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One of Carrie Lam’s ambush operations occurring now. Police setting up cordons on Tung On Street in Yau Ma Tei to place the neighbourhood under lockdown without any prior notification.
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Livestream from CUHK Campus Radio, which shows police officers at a dorm in the university. The raid is reportedly related to an incident earlier this month where a few ppl pushed down metal fences in protest of campus security.
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Months after the protests, workers in Hong Kong are still asked to glue bricks to the ground to prevent them from being dug up. “It doesn’t really work. We are just following the orders we were given,” he said.
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His banners often got ripped and damaged, so Kisslan Chan, a district councilor in Yuen Long got creative. Together, black wooden boards set against the iron fence form the Chinese characters for freedom - 自由.
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Feng feng, a professor from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts is accused of plagiarism - ppl noted how much the works at his solo exhibition resemble Dick Bruna’s Miffy. But he has denied it, saying all public symbols, esp commercial ones, are artists’ creative “vocabulary”.
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You know the digital migration is real when your 78-yro grandma asks you to download Signal on phone. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Revisited some of the shops and restaurants, which were converted into polling booths during the primary election. "It's a tactic to wear us down. But as long as our hearts still hurt, I think Hong Kong can still be salvaged," said owner of a boba shop.
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53 arrested for subversion. 6 are arrested for organising the act, 47 for participating, said Steve Li from #HongKong police's national security department. Police also froze HK$1.6 million in funds.
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Speaking to the press, John Lee, Secretary for Security cited Benny Tai's analysis, 攬炒十部曲 as evidence that the primary election is a premeditated plan to throw Hong Kong into an abyss, with significant consequences on economy and daily lives.
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#HongKong people spoke loud and clear about their determination for democracy when 600,000 participated in the primary elections last year.
Today, Chung is among dozens of candidates arrested for subverting national security. twitter.com/rachel_cheung1…
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In the charge sheet against @JimmyLaiApple for collusion with foreign forces, police listed excerpts of his interviews with media as well as commentaries he wrote, including this op-ed on New York Times, where he asked:
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#Hongkong artist Justin Wong’s recent work in Mingpao, titled “wait till I return”. Who knew dotted lines could carry so much emotions
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#HongKong authorities now raiding the Good Neighbour North District Church, after a bank was instructed to freeze their account.
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People rushed to film a prison vehicle, which paused at a traffic light on its way out of West Kowloon Magistrates’ court, banging on the glass and shouting add oil and the names of the three activists - but it turns out to be empty.
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"Staff questioned why the heads of desks were not consulted beforehand and how news operations can continue after an abrupt dismissal on such a large scale. They also pressed the management for an explanation on shedding the most outstanding staff..."
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Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
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