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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stand News (立場) reporting that a man in white threw a beer can on the road in the direction of riot police, who chased him. A SN reporter filming the incident was then threatened by police & told to move, & was peppersprayed a few seconds later with other reporters. Pic: SN.
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Horrifying photo shows a journalist being targeted by a HKPF water cannon in CWB. There are no protestors in their immediate vicinity, showing the HK Police's total contempt for the press. Pic: PolyUSU ('金魚').
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A nasty picture showing an unarmed member of the public being pepper sprayed by riot police.
This is why e.g. the IPCC report is so discredited when it claims the HK Police's conduct has been broadly proportionate and acceptable. The guy poses no threat whatsoever. Pic: 學媒新聞
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As tear gas is fired on the streets of HK, PM Boris Johnson is reportedly preparing to allow hundreds of thousands of HKers to emigrate to the UK in a Ugandan-style 'lifeboat' immigration scheme. Unclear whether just BNO holders but report is v. welcome. Pic via @lukedepulford
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On Lockhart Road, a mother & son were leaving a restaurant when her child suffered a direct hit from a pepper ball round fired by riot police.
Firing at civilians, firing at kids. This is the HK Police.
Pics: Joshua Kwan (of 社媒)
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If you're wondering just how far the popular view of the HK Police has degenerated, watch this:
Passer-by throws a plastic bottle. Police retreat, to sarcastic applause & jeers from bystanders. IPCC report of 72.6% 'dissatisfied' with HKPF likely an underestimate. Vid: HSUHKSU
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Hordes of riot police just mounted a charge down Hennessy Road for apparently no reason. You can see an arrest being made at the very end of the video but that can't be the reason. On a basic level it's just another case of extremely poor decision making by the HKPF. Vid: HSUHKSU
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Absolutely obsessed with this HK protestor. Supremely cool style.
Pics: @StandNewsHK
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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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Another completely aimless charge by riot police down Hennessy Road when there weren't even any protestors in the vicinity. Terrible tactics, even worse policing. HongKongers tax money is spent on these goons. Vid: HSUHKSU
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The case of a HK Police officer in riot gear taking some drinks without paying has been followed up by @appledaily_hk - legal experts have said that even though the PR wing of the HKPF left payment a few hours later, he still committed a criminal offence.
hk.appledaily.com/local/20200524… twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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Stand News (立場) has released video footage showing one of their journalists being attacked by riot police inside Harbour City, TST. Stand condemned the police's actions & said that they will investigate, claim she was conducting an interview before being threatened & attacked.
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This photo by a @StandNewsHK (立場) reporter is being extremely widely circulated - it shows the aftermath of a person being hit with a pepperball by riot police. SN report states the wound was so deep that bone was visible & police only allowed a single medic to give first aid.
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Earlier, one of the senior British officers in the HK Police was photographed in CWB. Baptist University student journos have reported it as being Rupert Dover, but the shoulder insignia doesn't match his rank & he looks too fat to be Dover. Anyone know who it is? Pic: HKBUSU
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The Hong Kong Police have confirmed there have been over 180 arrests as of 21:30 HKT, saying 'a large group of rioters' have 'wreaked havoc in Causeway Bay and Wan Chai under the pretext of protest'.
No mention of the police brutalising bystanders, journalists & protestors then.
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The PSHK captured more 📸 of senior expat officers in the HK Police today. On the left appears to be Paul Renouf, a French national. On the right is Brit John Carroll, his massive girth is unmistakable.
Their home countries should be disgusted with their role in the crackdown. twitter.com/JackHHazlewood…
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Following the march against Beijing's proposals to railroad through draconian national security laws in HK, here's a round up of HK's newspapers' front pages: Pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily (蘋果日報) notably leads with a photo with a protestor holding a pro-independence flag.
前蘋果日報專欄作家. Words/investigations @TheSundayTimes @Telegraph @TheEconomist @ForeignPolicy @Australian etc, docs @PopularFront_