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We condemn Chinese sanctions against US and Canadian citizens including @MichaelChongMP, @USCIRF and the Canadian Sub-Committee on Human Rights.
While 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 is sanctioning human rights violators, 🇨🇳 sanctions human rights defenders. Unacceptable.
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.@benedictrogers writes: "Three years ago, I was locked out of Hong Kong. But now, if I mark the anniversary of my experience in any way, it is by focusing my thoughts on the 12 who are locked up in China." #save12hkyouths
Read more: hk.appledaily.com/opinion/202010…
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⚖️Sanction Arthur Li Now — Former Chairman of the Council of the University of Hong Kong #SanctionHKOfficialsNow
Li currently owns two properties in 🇬🇧west London, UK.
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"The arrest of Grandma Wong is the latest assault on democracy and free expression in Hong Kong. It appears it is now a crime for pensioners to hold a protest sign at a pedestrian crossing."@benedictrogers hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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After a week of attacks on HK's judiciary & despite a judge concluding Jimmy Lai is not a flight risk, today the HK Court of Final Appeal has given into pressure & revoked his bail until Feb 2021. The highest court in HK has now bowed to the draconian National Security Law. twitter.com/jooeysiiu/stat…
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We stand with @SarahChampionMP @MPIainDS @uffeelbaek & other parliamentarians in calling for @FCDOGovUK @DominicRaab to ensure that UK consulate officials, the families, the media, & their lawyers are allowed to monitor the trial & have access to the 12 HK youths. #12hkyouths twitter.com/SarahChampionM…
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'Four years after my denial of entry into Hong Kong, my heart is more broken than ever about the city I love — and yet it’s more determined than ever to support the fight to free that great city where I started out in life.' @benedictrogers for @UCANews ucanews.com/news/hong-kong…
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"If you're in a generous frame of mind, give us a bit of support so we can do a bigger & better job in the future. HK Watch needs you, & I think HK needs @hk_watch."
We are so honoured to have Lord Patten's support as a patron.
Support us:👉crowdfunder.co.uk/hongkongwatch
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"Everyone of my successors as Chief Executive of Hong Kong had a British passport ... and the ones who are being locked up don't"
Lord Patten makes the case for extending #BNO rights to young #HongKongers
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NEW: Let's buy only Australian wine this month - opinion by @benedictrogers in Apple Daily. In solidarity with Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam who were arrested this week for their fights for HK democracy. bit.ly/2JyjI6I
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10 who fled by boat to Taiwan charged with illegal crossing
Group has not been put on trial yet but China’s court system has a conviction rate of about 99%
#save12hkyouths
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Two Years on From Hong Kong’s Prince Edward ‘831’ Attack: From Police Violence to Police State
@benedictrogers
theepochtimes.com/two-years-on-f…
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Op-ed by our CEO @benedictrogers:- "We begin 2021 with yet more sadness. Not the crack of a police baton, nor the bang of rubber bullets, nor the suffocating smell of tear gas, perhaps, but instead the sound of prison doors clanging." Full Article: bit.ly/3n9pNnY
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Only days after Beijing were vindicated in their view that hostage diplomacy works with the case of the two Michaels, it is alarming and disturbing that @FCDOGovUK cannot give greater reassurances to international activists working to speak up for Hong Kong and for the Uyghurs.
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Thread for Human Rights Day, and the third anniversary of our launch. 👇 twitter.com/benedictrogers…
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Baroness Morrissey has called on investors to sell stakes in Chinese companies because of human rights abuses.
“How can fundamental principles — our human rights — be cast aside ... because they might get in the way of short-term financial gain?”
thetimes.co.uk/article/helena…
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Crowdfunding update: We have broken through our initial £100,000 target!
Thank you so much to every generous person who chipped in to help us continue standing up for HK! 🙏🙏🙏
crowdfunder.co.uk/hongkongwatch
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This morning @MPIainDS tabled a second Urgent Question in two days on the attack by Chinese Consulate officials in Manchester on #HongKongers, and urged @FCDOGovUK to declare the Consul-General and any Consulate officials involved "persona non grata" and expel them "forthwith".
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612 Global Campaign for #HongKong in 49 Cities
London Rally
#hkbewater2021
@benedictrogers speaking to thousands of Hongkongers @ Trafalgar Square
#612SecondAnniversary
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"Chinese diplomats must not be allowed to impose their barbaric, repressive rule on our streets, nor hide behind the cloak of diplomatic immunity when they commit crimes," writes our CEO @benedictrogers in response to #CCP attack in Manchester
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New Hong Kong arrivals in the UK already extending a warm welcome to others... 👏👏👏 twitter.com/kayaburgess/st…
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As a long champion of the Hong Kong Safe Harbor Act, Hong Kong Watch welcomes its reintroduction. We hope the USA will soon join the UK, Canada and Australia in offering a lifeboat for Hong Kongers in need of a lifeline out of the city. #Lifeboat #HongKongSafeHarborAct twitter.com/SenRubioPress/…
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This is genuinely ridiculous. A sign of the sheer speed of Hong Kong's decline that journalists from the Economist are now being denied a visa. twitter.com/suelinwong/sta…
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Our patron Lord Alton raising important questions today. The Hong Kong Police decision to call for people to inform on their neighbours is alarming, and a further threat to rights and freedoms. twitter.com/DavidAltonHL/s…
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Huge crowd outside No. 10 Downing Street for #BNO rally in support of the cross-party #GreenAmendment to the Nationality & Borders Bill. @pritipatel Thread.
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