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Chinese social media is awash with claims Kim Jong-Un has died; with Reuters reporting China has sent a specialist medical team to NK. Below, Qin Feng (秦楓), niece of former 🇨🇳 Foreign Minister & journo at HKSTV (HK Satellite TV) claimed in a deleted Weibo post that he has died. twitter.com/shijianxingzou…
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Police clad in full riot gear have entered Taikoo’s Cityplaza as crowds gathered for one of the first pro-democracy singing meets in months. People have been told to disperse & bystanders led away by riot police, with reports of intimidating behaviour on Telegram (Pics: 立場新聞)
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Update: At least one pro-democracy demonstrator (guy in a brown shirt; visible on streams) has been arrested; while reporters, protestors & bystanders have been threatened with pepper spray. This is what happens in HK today when you try to get together to sing. (Pics: Stand News) twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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Bad week for Hong Kong's premier white boy cop Rupert Dover. 壹週刊/Next Mag's revealed he runs a business on the side, built an illegal structure on govt land he shouldn't even be living on, *AND* rented it out on Airbnb. He took refuge from reporters in a public toilet. Thread:
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Short summary: NM reporters were scoping out Dover's property (on govt land) & found an illegal structure; the cops were called & they were arrested for 'loitering'. It later transpired he'd also (illegally) rented it out. But I've done some digging & there's a lot more to it:
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Also for some background, I did some homework on Dover & the other remaining expat cops in the HKPF (all now high-ranking) last year - see the thread below; a piece I did for @ForeignPolicy & @philipsherwell's ST piece (all ⬇️) for more. Anyway...
twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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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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The last 24 hours in Hong Kong in review: pro-democracy lawmaker assaulted by pro-Beijing legislator *inside the Legislative Council* - ends up in an ambulance & the Emergency Room. Meanwhile procedure trashed as pro-Beijing committee chair allowed to continue to sit unlawfully.
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Riot police have fired pepper-balls at shoppers, bystanders & journalists during a dispersal operation in MOKO mall in Mong Kok. HK-wide there have been hundreds of stop & searches & fines issued tonight. This is how Mother's Day is celebrated in Hong Kong. Vid: STMHK/Telegram.
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Horrendous photos emerging of pro-democracy legislator Roy Kwong (鄺俊宇) being brutally wrestled to the ground & arrested by riot police in Mong Kok. Just one of a spate of horrific incidents of police brutality to take place tonight on the streets of Hong Kong. Pics: HKgolden
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There are currently throngs of protestors & journalists being detained on the streets of Mong Kok by riot police *all being shown on the HK Police’s own livestream*. Hi-vis jackets & helmets emblazoned with ‘Press’ clearly seen. HKPF animals targeting anyone & anything tonight.
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Thoroughly unsurprising to see one of the senior British officers in the Hong Kong Police at the centre of horrific acts of police brutality today as Superintendent John Carroll was seen commanding police raptors & liaison officers in Kowloon. These men must be held to account. twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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Horrendous report of an Apple Daily photojournalist being strangled by police for 20 seconds. Video also shows pepper spray being used liberally against reporters
//本報女攝記者拍攝期間，被警員強行箍頸約20秒，一度出現休克，需要召救護車，用頸箍送院治理//
hk.appledaily.com/breaking/20200…
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Another bad week for Hong Kong's goons in blue. Here's a full account of the HK Police's meth dealing, legislator & homeless guy beating, 13 year old arresting, illegal gambling, & top British cops' public shaming week. A person in detention also died from their neglect. Thread:
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Today HK's police chief took the opportunity to address Yuen Long District Council by publicly shaming a rape complainant & confirming the police are pursuing her arrest for 'lying', & claimed the police 'did nothing wrong' when a suspect died of negligence in custody. Sickening.
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Undercover police at New Town Plaza in Sha Tin have just made a brutal arrest at the #SingWithYou protest to coincide with Chief Executive Carrie Lam's birthday. Holding suspects down with extreme & unwarranted force has become one of the hallmarks of the HK Police. Vid: Telegram
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In addition to acquiescing to brutal arrests by undercover police & the pepper spraying of journalists, New Town Plaza’s management has handed out notices to peaceful protestors threatening legal action for “posting of posters or stickers”. H/t: @DCheng36387164, 📸: Stand News. twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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Stand News: British Superintendents of HK Police Justin Shave & Vasco Williams *PROMOTED*. Shave is infamous for ordering a tear gas canister to be fired directly at unarmed legislator Wu Chi-Wai (胡志偉); Williams for his racist 'yellow object' comments. thestandnews.com/politics/%E7%A…
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Powerful statement & discussion on LIHKG by a Mother who’s 12 year-old daughter was arrested by the HK police for no reason in Mong Kok. She used to see the police as protectors but now sees them indiscriminately arresting kids & supports the 5 demands
-> lih.kg/2014353
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Apple Daily reporting how Hong Kong Police officers in Sha Tin made a blind lawyer suffer the indignity of removing her artificial eyes to 'prove she was blind' when she was attending to a client (an arrested pro-democracy protestor) in custody. Sickening.
hk.news.appledaily.com/local/20200514…
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Civic Party District Councillor Andy Yu (余德寶) reports Student Depth Media (深學媒體), to whom the 13 year-old student journalist ludicrously arrested by the HK Police belongs, has been sent a letter by the Labour Dept accusing them of ‘child labour’. He’s assisting both. Mad.
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Today in HK: First protestor convicted of 'rioting' sentenced; govt claims an exam question "hurt the feelings of the 🇨🇳 people" & the 'independent' IPCC report into police brutality largely refuses to make any criticism. Beijing's creeping authoritarianism in HK on full display.
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Summary of the blatantly politicised 'independent' IPCC report into the HK Police: Little criticism; just 'room for improvement' & 'no evidence' of police-triad collusion (!!). Total whitewash concluding pro-democracy protestors are 'dragging HK into an era of terrorism'. Thread:
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In her press conference Carrie Lam decried pro-democracy activists for 'spreading lies' & 'stoking hatred through propaganda posters'
...while in front of a huge propaganda poster proclaiming 'The Truth About Hong Kong', without a hint of irony.
Orwellian doesn't do it justice.
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In Pacific Place, two undercover police officers just aimed pepper spray at journalists & bystanders & threatened them when their identity was discovered, & continued as they left swiftly. Shows how the press & the public are treated with contempt by the HK Police. Vid: 凝政媒體
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