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A former DAB community organiser, Kwong Sing-yu, will appear in Kwun Tong Court tmr for allegedly wielding a fruit knife and hurting people on #612protest anniversary. He's charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a count of possessing poison.
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#HongKong security minister John Lee: important for future special #HongKongPolice team on #NationalSecurity to keep their operations secret becuz of the nature of their work, as officers hv to go thru character checks, such as their loyalty to #HK
#NationalSecurityLaw
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CORRECTION: Yeung's calling on schools to punish students who take part in class boycott or "express political stance" through chanting slogans, forming human chains, singing songs & posting slogans, rather than taking part in "so-called referendum" itself
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#HongKong Education minister Kevin Yeung writes to local schools asking them to punish students who insist on organising, taking part or encouraging others 2 join a “so-called referendum” on #NationalSecurityLaw, saying schools shd explain the law won’t affect most ppl’s rights
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Tens of thousands of people in #HongKong defy a police ban to attend #June4 candlelight vigil to mark 31st anniversary of #TiananmenSquareMassacre, as a #NationalSecurityLaw imposed on #HK by #Beijing looms
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Very interesting indeed. It appears Chiang is not the only one saying somebody signed the support petition on his behalf twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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Singer @hoccgoomusic Denise Ho: I don’t personally think there’s much difference for myself with imminent passage of #NationalSecurityLaw, “I’m on some sort of target list anyway....I kind of expected (to go to jail, even to mainland) after coming out to the streets in 2014 & 19”
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.@demosisto says the #US’ likely suspension or abolishment of #HongKong’s zero tariff status & other sanctions are a “tragic but necessary step”, saying it’s #Beijing who “sold out HKers” with the #NationalSecurityLaw. @joshuawongcf calls on BJ to stop implementing the law
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.@HKDemocrats chair Wu Chi-wai just asked acting president Starry Lee to suspend the #Legco meeting on the controversial national anthem bill, asking for lawmakers 2 pause & go out 2 streets & try to see if they can ease tensions, resolve conflicts, with around 300 arrests in #HK
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#HongKong Social work sector lawmaker Shiu Ka-chun read out the lyrics to the #HongKongProtests song #GlorytoHongKong to wrap up his speech on the controverisal national anthem bill in #LegCo
"Build a free, glory, #HK"
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What was the threat the #HongKongPolice officers were subject to that warranted the use of force, firing pepper balls? t.co/eW6tHkynkI
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.@civicpartyhk lawmaker Dennis Kwok (L) @cpdenniskwok says it’s ridiculous if @Reuters report that non-Chinese judges will be barred from trying #NationalSecurity cases in future, saying that would be the end of judicial independence & One Country Two Systems in #HongKong
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#RTHK understands that the national legislature has amended the draft #NationalSecurityLaw for #HongKong, with bans of “behavior” endangering national security extended to “activities”. Mainland lawyers say this means not only individuals, but organizations will also be targetted
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Extra security at #HongKong Govt HQ ahead of vetting of national anthem law, with special metal railings that apparently cannot be unlocked erected. Activists have been unlocking them to use them as makeshift barricades to block roads during months of #HongKongProtests
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#HongKongPolice have barricaded Lung Wui Road, a public road near #HongKong legislature, apparently in anticipation of Wednesday’s #Legco vetting of national anthem law. There’s been online calls for a surrounding of the complex circa #AntiELAB on 12 Jun 19
#HongKongProtests
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.@StandNewsHK says its reporter was bearhugged from behind & pulled away while she’s filming ppl being arrested @ Harbour City mall in Tsim Sha Tsui. News outlet condemns the incident & said it’ll follow up matter. Around a dozen ppl seen taken away by #HongKongPolice #HKProtests
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.@mingpaocom reports that a mainlander from #China took part in the protests against the #NationalSecurityLaw, saying #HongKong shouldn’t be a place without #FreeSpeech. Paper says he held a placard “God destroy #ccp”
內地人首參加示威：不想香港沒言論自由 news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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#HongKongPolice say officers on duty have paid a convenience store in Causeway Bay, AFTER a video clip online showing officers taking away drinks without paying
#HongKongProtests
#HongKong
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New at #HongKongProtests: durian husks thrown on the road in Wan Chai to block roads
#HongKong
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.@demosisto confirms that core member Tobias Leung’s arrested by customs department over providing surgical face masks, for alleged violation of the Trade Descriptions Ordinance. Group had printed “not made in #China” on box as it didn’t want ppl to rush to their source &....
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This clip of the movie Her Fatal Ways (1990) directed by Alfred Cheung, which reflected fears of #HongKong people after #TiananmenMassacre in 1989, is making the rounds on social media -- on the end of #1C2S 1 country, 2 systems & plunge in markets
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No local legislation. No more James Tien saying no at the last minute circa 2003.
#Beijing apparently decides to do it all by themselves twitter.com/krislc/status/…
#HongKong radio journalist. Views here are my own. Retweet ≠ endorsement.