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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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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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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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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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#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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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 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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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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Even better shot twitter.com/damon_pang/sta…
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JUST IN: #Beijing is suspending primary & secondary schools tomorrow, after more than 100 #coronavirus cases were reported in the past 5 days at the capital
#COVID #COVIDー19
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JUST IN: a teacher who was shot in the eye during #612protests last year, Raymond Yeung, says he’s leaving Diocesan Girls School after it decided not to renew his contract. He said the school plans to cancel Lib.Studies
He’s also been charged for rioting
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League of Social Democrats says it’s district councillor Jimmy Sham’s office in Lek Yuen, Sha Tin has been criminal damaged overnight; the suspect seen spraying the CCTV camera first before continuing to spray. Sham is of course also the convenor of @chrf_hk
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#HongKongPolice say 7 people have been charged with rioting inside Princed Edward #MTR Station during #831attack, with the defendants aged 14-29. They will appear in Kowloon City Court on 17 July
#HongKongProtests #HongKong
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Martin Lee, representing a citizen in a JR case demanding #HongKongPolice show unique ID numbers while on duty, attacked the Govt as behaving in a “rotten” way by “not producing a single legal doc relevant to case & only asking a chief inspector”& not someone higher up to respond
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Yau Tsim Mong district councillor Ben Lam, circled, among more than 50 arrested in Mong Kok just now, after the #HongKongPolice earned people of taking part in unauthorised assembly in the area
The arrests followed online appeals for march against #NationalSecurityLaw #HongKong
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53 people, of which 41 male, arrested for unlawful assembly, says #HongKongPolice twitter.com/damon_pang/sta…
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#HongKong public libraries have suspended the lending of books written by Joshua Wong @joshuawongcf , one by @civicpartyhk Civic Party lawmaker Tanya Chan & several political titles by localist Wan Chin. Reason unclear. This is days after #NationalSecurityLaw came into effect
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Citing the song as part of “political propaganda”, #HongKong education chief Kevin Yeung officially bans #AntiELAB #HongKongProtests song #GlorytoHK Glory to Hong Kong at schools. He was making a written reply to Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen
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BREAKING: #HongKongPolice have entered the office of the Public Opinion Research Institute, PORI, according to source. #RTHK is told that officers have a search warrant & accuses the survey body of dishonest use of computer. Source says police are trying to take away all PCs
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The office is in Wong Chuk Hang. PORI is tasked by the Power for Democracy to help with the pro-democracy camp’s primaries due to begin tomorrow morning
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Co-organiser of pro-democracy camp’s #Legco primaries, Benny Tai (L), says nearly 229,000 people took part in the first of 2 days, “completely exceeding expectations”. He remains hopeful total turnout can exceed 500k, if the hourly rate sustains
(Photo from a few days back)
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ICYMI: This #HongKong retired double decker bus, now being used for the pro-democracy camp’s primary in Jordan, is actually Island district councillor Sheep Yeung’s mobile office.
He wrote on social media he will use it as office after the primaries & he will fit it with air-con
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An organiser of the pro-democracy camp's primary, Au Nok-hin @loktinau, says voting will end at 9pm sharp becuz that's how the computer programme was written, there can't be any discretion. Au said people hv to go vote now if they want to. He said more than 440k voted at 5pm
#HongKong radio journalist. Views here are my own. Retweet ≠ endorsement.