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During the peaceful #ShopWithYou protest in New Town Plaza, Sha Tin, some fifty police officers charged to the fifth floor, setting up a cordon line & began stop & searches, causing panic. The blue flag has also been raised in East Point City, TKO. Very ominous. (Vid: Telegram).
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Stand News reporting an undercover HK Police officer threatened bystanders, journalists & protestors with a telescopic baton & pepper spray upon his identity being discovered at the peaceful #ShopWithYou protest in TKO. A uniformed officer escorted him away. Blue flag now raised.
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HK social media users & bloggers are getting increasingly adept at spotting undercover police; pictures swirl all over FB within minutes afterwards. These are from TKO. You can kind of just tell from their vacant expressions & how they look out of place. Pics: 丘品新聞/Cupid News twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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So the HK Police now have their own fake reporters to film their propaganda FB live-stream.
But real journalists are the 'fake reporters' according to the police.
Remember this when they scream "假記者!" at the press.
Ironically this guy is the only safe 'reporter' in HK.
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Footage of the crowd discovering the identity of undercover HK Police officers in TKO has emerged. In a signature move, the officers threatened passersby, journalists & protestors with pepper spray. The contempt the police have for everyone on-scene is vile. Vid: HSUSU/編委恒大
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I risked brain rot to read the bluewashed 'independent' IPCC report into the HK Police (concludes the protestors, not the police, are to blame!) in full & can say the only illuminating part are the survey stats, which totally undermines the pro-🇨🇳 camp's own arguments. Thread:
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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'*.
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Footage from TKO shows a PSHK reporter was violently thrown to the ground by HK Police officers at what had been an entirely peaceful protest in a mall. Rough-handed treatment like this achieves nothing & is just another case of galling unprofessionalism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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