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A number of pro-democracy politicians, activists & groups in HK are suddenly unable to post from their FB pages amid reports Beijing is about to propose national security laws that could criminalise 'sedition'. We can only wait for the presser in Beijing. Pics: @studioincendo twitter.com/wongjiyuet/sta…
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Big tobacco lackeys @EdelmanPR have again bid to do the HK government’s global PR.
A previous multi-million dollar ad immediately became a meme (‘on9’ is Cantonese slang for ‘fucking stupid’), & this vid looks like it was made on Windows Moviemaker 2005:
provokemedia.com/latest/article… twitter.com/Brand_HK/statu…
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Struggling to find words for this.
Overnight, most of HK’s most prominent pro-democracy politicians are now in jail under the National Security Law, along with an 🇺🇸 human rights lawyer, pollsters, @HongKongCTU chair & over 40 others.
This is why so many fled while they could.
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Update: Apple Daily has accused other white expat Hong Kong police chief superintendents including raptors director David Jordan & Vasco Williams of illegal construction on government land & theft. Rupert Dover's also been embroiled in further controversy on social media. Thread: twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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Wrote this for @ForeignPolicy on Beijing’s fusion of inherited colonial institutions in the Hong Kong police with the Leninist hardware of the mainland to resurrect (in bastardised form) the colonial administration’s elite police unit, Special Branch. foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/11/hon…
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Breaking: @JimmyLaiApple has been acquitted of intimidating a reporter from pro-Beijing Oriental Daily.
A truly ridiculous allegation made by an employee of a paper that is following Lai around the clock; Judge stated defendant was not a credible witness
hk.appledaily.com/local/20200903…
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Today’s @AppleDaily_HK reports the NPC Standing Commitee will meet in Beijing to pass the HK National Security Law before the anniversary of the handover on July 1st (7.1).
Hong Kong’s reckoning awaits as we wait to see how far Beijing will go once the law is put into effect.
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Apple Daily reporting that the website of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, the party of Taiwanese President @iingwen, has now been censored in HK. Clear the authorities are plotting an extension of a version of China’s Great Firewall to include HK.
hk.appledaily.com/local/20210425…
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Breaking: Professor Benny Tai (戴耀廷), one of the leaders of the umbrella movement & organiser of the pro-democracy camp’s primaries, has been fired from his job by HKU’s Council by 18 votes to 2. HK CE Carrie Lam appoints the chair so hardly a surprise.
thestandnews.com/politics/%E6%B…
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At her press conf. today, Carrie Lam had the brass neck to quote freedom fighter Nelson Mandela to mask her view on the exam q. row.
Mandela fought for the freedom of his people.
Lam is Beijing’s implement & puppet as they launch an unprecedented crackdown on free speech in HK.
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Latest for @AppleDaily_HK detailing the flight tracking data & leaked post-flight logs that reveal how the Hong Kong Police & Government Flying Service lured the 12 youths detained in mainland China to their fate. So many questions, so few answers. hk.appledaily.com/opinion/202010…
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HK government: Chanting or displaying the slogan ‘光復香港，時代革命’ (liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’) is now in contravention of the national security law as it “connotes Hong Kong independence”, which is illegal under prohibition on secession. Orwell is that you?
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The HK Police now routinely take it upon themselves to decide who is and isn’t a journalist.
Small outlet journos are fined under the gathering ban now, soon they’ll be being arrested for participating in an illegal assembly.
Press also subject to the National Security law too. twitter.com/laurelchor/sta…
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All major print newspapers in HK today feature a wrap-around ad of Carrie Lam's letter to HKers, which smears pro-democracy protestors as terrorists, or other pro-🇨🇳 content. All except @AppleDaily_HK (蘋果日報), who don't take their money. Support them: hk.appledaily.com/local/20200423…
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Let that headline sink in.
Five *speech therapists* arrested for sedition over a children’s book about sheep.
Every day HK descends further & further into an Orwellian nightmare.
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Failed Taiwan presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu of the KMT - often accused as being weak & too willing to concede to China - has been impeached following the successful recall vote in Kaohsiung City. Unprecedented for such a powerful mayor of a large city.
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The Hong Kong government is literally instituting a secret police to enforce draconian new national security laws once they have railroaded them through LegCo.
Orwellian doesn’t cut it. One country two systems going up in smoke as Hong Kong looks into the abyss. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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Excruciating photos of a brutal arrest of what appears to be a bystander outside a Bank of China branch on Hennessy Rd. He's clearly injured & in distress, yet is still wrestled to the ground, despite constituting no threat to the riot police arresting him. Pics: HKBUSU; Kathy L.
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Leaflets showing HK police officers’ names, personal details & social media were captured by @StandNewsHK
Telegram channels, the usual medium for this doxxing, are under increased scrutiny post-Nat Sec Law. Activists have discovered print-outs are seemingly a more secure method.
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BREAKING: Citizen News (@hkcnews_com) reports former Apple Daily lead editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was arrested under the National Security Law for ‘colluding with foreign forces’ while at HK airport waiting for a flight. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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The pro-🇨🇳 camp has yet again resorted to copycat tactics by copying pro-democracy Lennon Walls that sprung up all over HK last year. Stupid to expect any kind of creativity from supporters of an authoritarian dictatorship I guess.
Compare the 2 for yourself. Vid: @limlouisa
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Breaking: SCMP reports 4 activists have entered the US consulate in HK to request asylum, hours after Tony Chung was arrested within metres of the building. SCMP captured video of them “talking to security guards before being allowed into the building.”
scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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Pro-🇨🇳 supporters have again copied pro-democracy activists by flyposting political stickers on buses. They feature pro-dem politicians incl. Alvin Yeung & the slogan 'if you burn, you burn with them'
Don't expect original thought from supporters of an authoritarian dictatorship
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“I was relieved to see that Peng Shuai was doing fine, which was our main concern” — Emma Terho, Chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission.
The International Olympic Committee is actively aiding the Chinese government’s attempt to whitewash the case of Peng Shuai. A total disgrace. twitter.com/Athlete365/sta…
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Firstly, the headline stats: a fat 62.3% of respondents (selected to be representative of the public) say they support the protests, with just 18% opposed. *Reminder that these are the survey results of a report that claims protestors are 'dragging HK into an era of terrorism'*.
前蘋果日報專欄作家. Words/investigations @TheSundayTimes @Telegraph @TheEconomist @ForeignPolicy @Australian etc, docs @PopularFront_