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“This is an illegitimate government. It’s not elected by the people and does not represent the people. I wrote this in both English and Chinese so people can see and know the injustice that’s taking place in #HongKong.”
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Police prepared to kettle protesters and pedestrians from both ends of Shan Tung Street. But it seems officers have trouble coordinating and directing their own squad.
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One officer taking out his baton and warning surrounding press members to stay back. Pepper balls were fired a few moments earlier.
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Police have cordoned off many stretches of the streets in Mong Kok, large groups of people are detained and searched.
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One man got mad at officers because he literally couldn’t get anywhere. Stranded pedestrians complain they’re being forced into a public assembly because police are blocking the roads. Officers have used similar tactics in the past to divide crowds and conduct mass arrests.
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In Hong Kong, even WiFi name is a venue for protest.
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“I am here to exercise our right to protest, which is enshrined under the Basic Law. We do not need the authorities’ permission to hold peaceful public assemblies,” said a protester. twitter.com/krislc/status/…
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The front page ad in @appledaily_hk today is posted by HKUST student union in remembrance of 22 yro Chow Tsz-lok, who fell to his death in unexplained circumstances during a protest in Nov 2019. "It's been ten months since he left. Wrong remains unrighted."
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People purchased stocks of Next Digital in support of the pro-democratic newspaper Apple Daily after police raided their newsroom in August. And their stocks skyrocketed. Now police are going after people who "manipulated the price of the media group."
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There’s a colourful term in Cantonese for police perjury: 砌生豬肉, which translates literally to building raw pork. Here’s a work of #HongKongProtestArt illustrating the term.
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VA Wong Sir, a visual art teacher in #HongKong best known for some of his protest artworks published anonymously online, lost his job after someone filed a complaint to the Education Bureau. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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Families of two #HongKong activists detained in mainland China spoke to @StandNewsHK. One father fled to HK during Cultural Revolution so he tried to dissuade his son from protesting “but he didn’t listen.” thestandnews.com/politics/12%E6…
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Activist @SunnyCheungky confirmed on Facebook page that he has left #HongKong. “Homesickness is the most unbelievable pain...for the first time in my life, I understood the feeling of being a foreigner and being cut off from your roots.”
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The story of moon cake is that Ming rebels slipped paper inside the cake to plan an uprising against Yuan dynasty rulers. Now we have mooncakes with police-friendly slogans on the outside and #HongKong protest slogan on the inside. As a comment says, 身在曹營心在漢
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After reviewing the documentary on HK protests, OFNAA returned the DVD in pieces, claiming staff members accidentally broke it during the process of review. Ying E Chi cinema noted it's the first time this has happened in 20 years. twitter.com/elson_tong/sta…
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"The young woman keeps two timers on her phone: one counting down until her anniversary with her boyfriend, the other tracking how many days it has been since he vanished at sea." She seems far more mature than her age implies, supporting his family...
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam has refused to set up an independent commission of inquiry to look into police brutality and abuse of power. Instead, she’s now honouring nearly 100 cops, many for their role in #HongKong protests. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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On Chinese National Day, heavy police presence in the district of Causeway Bay, where a protest march is due to begin at two pm. Police have banned the protest citing Covid_19 and threat of violence.
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While riot police officers shooed people from the streets, warning them not to gather, a woman in yellow refused to leave the pedestrian zone. “Your rules have no legal basis. We have the rights to stand on our own land.”
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Police raised the blue flag outside the high end shopping mall Fashion Walk warning people of unlawful assembly and violating social distancing rules.
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#HongKong Police have a new tool: a video camera at the end of a long extension pole, which the officer, labelled video production, uses to film the crowd from afar.
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To the ire of passengers, MTR staff are closing certain exits after police set up an unmanned cordon line.
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Police made mad dashes to different corners of the district. “Grab those in dark clothes and carrying big backpacks,” one commander shouted. People waiting for their buses along Hennessy Road were stopped and searched.
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Police unfurled the purple flag warning against violations of the national security law at the intersection of Great George Street and Paterson Street.
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Chants of the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” put riot police officers incredibly on edge. They unfurled the purple flag and are now setting up cordon lines.
Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
Contact: rachel_cheung1@protonmail.com