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Vid from HSUHKSU shows riot police arresting a pro-democracy demonstrator and threatening journalists with pepper pray & batons on Gloucester Road.
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Video from the march clearly shows a HK Police offficer in full riot gear going into a shop & grabbing a cold drink without paying, & shouting at customers. He’s been labelled ‘警賊’, or ‘police thief’. Another falling display of unprofessionalism from the HKPF. Vid: Telegram
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Video from when riot police fired tear gas in CWB, a major shopping district. Captures for the first time in months a hallmark of policing in HK - tear gas being fired, creating chaos & achieving nothing. It doesn't make crowds disperse, it just drives them back. Vid: Telegram
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Today’s @appledaily_hk front page carries a letter appealing to U.S. President Donald Trump to intervene & save Hong Kong.
Gives a sense of the desperation of the situation when a plea for help from the 🇺🇸 President appears on the front of the best selling newspaper in the city.
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Can’t believe @SkyNews let pro-Beijing stooge Alex Lo of the SCMP speak on the proposed national security laws in HK & “the violent protest movement”.
0:37 - “I think if you have lived through HK in the past 6 months...”
Mate you write your bile from the safety of Canada. STFU.
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Great @WSJ report by @JillianKayM charting Beijing's efforts to imprison & bankrupt prominent pro-democracy activist & owner of the iconic Apple Daily @JimmyLaiApple.
Per @HKMarkSimon, AD's been cut out of 65% of HK's ad market due to political pressure.
wsj.com/articles/the-p…
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As coronavirus cases subside in HK, you know the protests are restarting in earnest when you see 香港人日程表/HongKongers’ Schedule pics flying round Telegram
This is despite a ban on gatherings of more than 8 people that renders any mass protests de facto illegal under the law.
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Encouraging (& unusual) joint statement issued by the British, Canadian & Australian foreign ministers on Beijing’s plans to railroad through national security laws in HK:
States 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺 ‘deeply concerned’; laws would ‘clearly undermine the principle of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ twitter.com/DominicRaab/st…
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BREAKING: Chinese government authorities have confirmed in a press conference in Beijing they will discuss railroading through Article 23-like proposals for national security legislation in HK, confirming many pro-democracy activists' worst fears. Here's what it'll mean. Thread:
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So the presser to announce the national security legislation in HK at 19:45 Beijing time didn't materialise. Either Ming Pao (明報) got the time wrong or something is up. But 2 hours late, it's starting in 10 mins. Hope your mandarin is up to scratch... hk01.com/%E6%94%BF%E6%8…
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Regarding the reports of the NPC in Beijing proposing national security legislation in Hong Kong today, Ming Pao (明報) is reporting the announcement will be made at a press conference at 19:45 Beijing time. Until then we don’t know for certain what it is. news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%81%…
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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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BREAKING: HK01 reports the NPC in Beijing will tonight propose a ‘Hong Kong version of the national security law’. Stresses this is *not* Article 23, but it may well be A23 in all but name. HK waiting on tenterhooks as the final nail in the coffin beckons.
bit.ly/2LJi5AI
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At last @UKLabour is waking up & smelling the coffee on China.
@SKinnock: David Cameron’s golden era of engagement with China ‘an abject failure’; UK was ‘naive about China’s intentions’.
The global left’s blind spot on China, HK & Xinjiang is ending.
theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
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Grandma Wong, the HK protestor famous for waving her Union Jack, who's been detained (& uncontactable) in mainland 🇨🇳 for 9 months, has said:
'I've been barred from leaving SZ for 9 months... I miss HK so much. Add oil!'
Both heartwarming & heartbreaking
thestandnews.com/politics/%E8%A…
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Lee Cheuk-Yan (李卓人), former chair of the group that organises HK's annual Tiananmen vigil, has called on HKers to light candles across HK on the night of 6.4 after the HK government announced a de facto ban on the event. Could be a brilliant upstaging. news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
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Beijing & the HK govt are weaponising a pandemic to smother HK’s burgeoning democratic movement & railroad through Article 23 (nat sec law).
Any responsible authority would look to accommodate the historic Tiananmen vigil with social distancing measures.
theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
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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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Extremely worrying: Maggie Chan (陳曼琪); HK delegate to the NPC in Beijing, will present proposals to the NPC this week to implement Article 23 (national security law) without consulting LegCo. This would be the end of one country two systems, no question thestandnews.com/politics/%E6%B…
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Pro-🇨🇳 lawmaker Junius Ho (何君堯) & pro-democracy legislator Lam Cheuk-Ting's (林卓廷) hotly-anticipated face off did not disappoint. Lam confronted him with photos showing Ho with triads during the triad attack on 7.21; Ho could only obfuscate & quote the IPCC report. Vid: RTHK
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After being assaulted by security & pro-🇨🇳 lawmakers inside LegCo, pro-democracy legislator Ted Hui (許智峯) has confirmed on FB that he’s been hospitalised with a ‘chest wall injury’.
On what legal authority do LegCo security act on? This is assault.
m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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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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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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So the 'bomb' at WTS temple was a student's measuring device. Not the first time the HK Police have mistaken simple electronics for a bomb
As @bewaterhkg says, I wonder what their report will say...
'M̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶g̶ ̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶h̶o̶m̶e̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ the police detonated my homework'
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PolyU Students' Union says university management has covered PolyU's democracy wall with black paper & notices stating they "won't allow materials supporting HK independence". Worrying times for freedom of expression on campus, but good to see the SU taking a stand. Pics: HKPUSU
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