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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
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Also #HongKongPolice chief Chris Tang: the duty of police is to maintain law and order and protect the safety of the public - even those taking part in illegal assembly and criminals - where possible.
This below is one of the unlawful assembly arrests in Mong Kok on 6 Sep
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Are only “approved press” allowed to cover events from now on in #HongKong?
Reports from the scene of the list of organizations barred from reporting:
Associated Press @AP
AFP @AFP
Reuters @Reuters
Getty Images @GettyImages
Stand News @StandNewsHK
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#HongKong leader #CarrieLam announces unprecedented #LegcoElection2020 postponement, through the use of Emergency laws, becuz of #coronavirus epidemic. She calls it the hardest choice in past 7 months. Cites allies’ doubts on safety of electioneering amid virus
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Protesters at busy IFC mall in Central are staging a protest in support of medical workers on strike. “Close the border to stop the virus is the only way out”, they chant #HongKong #nCov2019 #WuhanCoronavirus #WuhanVirus
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#HongKongPolice chief Chris Tang says officers did not attack any university campuses in #HongKong, saying it’s rioters who attacked #CUHK & #PolyU, & all the officers wanted to do at Chinese University was to defend a bridge leading to campus & stop ppl from throwing things down
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Insulting spray paints against #HongKong ex-magistrate Stanley Ho, labeled a “pro-democracy yellow judge” by pro-#Beijing media, appear on 2 buildings in Kowloon Tong. Part of it is now covered up. #HongKongPolice list case as criminal damage, no one’s arrested so far
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.@icablenews reports, per sources, that the #HongKong Govt will lift the ban to dine in in restaurants tomorrow, for breakfast and lunch. This came after outpouring opposition, even from the pro-#Beijing DAB, that the all-day ban had ignored its effects on #HK workers
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Social worker Jackie Chen has had her rioting charge withdrawn after District Court judge Sham Siu-man ruled that she has no case to answer. Chen was arrested in Causeway Bay on 31 August last year during the #antiELAB protests in #HongKong
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The 12 are now confirmed to be in Yantian, Shenzhen, under criminal detention, & “their legal rights protected by the authorities”, says Shenzhen police twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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In submitting his bid to run in #HongKong #Legco2020 Kowloon East, @joshuawongcf says the decision to #DQ him or not is one that involves foreign diplomacy & the geo-political environment. “It’s up to the Chinese Communist Party officials” to consider these factors
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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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#RTHK’s @RTHK_HK response: after reviewing the whole episode of the @thepulse_rthk, we do not think it violated “One Country, Two Systems”, nor the station’s charter #HongKong twitter.com/damon_pang/sta…
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#PolyU student head Derek Liu (L) says about 100 protesters newly trapped at campus, after they went near the University to try & “rescue” around 5-600 inside #HongKongProtests #HongKong
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A pharmacy in #MongKok that's one of the few shops that remained open despite the clashes, presumably as it sells materials to first-aiders, has apparently been hit by tear gas #HongKongProtests
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Govt press release just now, explaining reasons for #DQ'ing @joshuawongcf. It says self determination that allows independence as an option is inconsistent with the Basic Law. #HongKong #DCpoll2019 #DistrictCouncil2019
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#HongKong Security minister John Lee says the #HongKongPolice mass arrests target “active elements” who are suspected of subversion, but not against voters who took part in “so-called primary elections” last July
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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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#BREAKING 12 #HongKong youths accused of illegal border crossing will go on trial in Yantian on Monday, according to the #12HKyouths concern group. They were allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan on boat when intercepted by Guangdong coastguard in August
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Polytechnic University #PolyU social sciences scholar Chung Kim-wah (R) told #RTHK he's heading back to campus to try and bring out some 20 students from his department. He says he believes they're not violent protesters but are only doing "resources-sorting" #HongKongProtests
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7 people charged with rioting on 8.31 last year in Wan Chai all acquitted, District Court says prosecution cannot proof then guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Judge had earlier ruled that social worker Jackie Chen, who faced the same charge, had no case to answer
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As #CarrieLam is poised to announce postponing the #LegcoElection2020 for a year, as sources indicate through the use of emergency laws, it will be interesting to see how Article 69 of the Basic Law will have to change. It states a #Legco term in #HongKong is 4 years.
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In the first hour of #HKDCElection, unprecedented queues sprung up all across #HongKong with people eager to vote amid #HongKongProtests. 47% turnout rate 4 years ago was a record, by this rate that can easily be smashed. Ppl vote early perhaps in fears of trouble that’d....
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