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🇨🇦 Canada Lifeboat Scheme
Jenny Kwan MP calls for dropping the 5-year limit on the graduation requirement for Stream B (Canadian work experience) applicants and include all persons who hold an eligible education credential without the 5-year graduation limitation.
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Today 26 European Parliamentarians from 9 EU Member States led by @EnginEroglu_FW have today written to EU leaders calling for the EU to institute a #Lifeboat scheme for #HongKongers as a matter of urgency. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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⚖️Sanction Eliza Chan Now — Non-official member of the #ExecutiveCouncil #SanctionHKOfficialsNow🏡Chan currently owns 2 properties in 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
⚖️#HKW calls for a full #audit of HK officials' assets overseas as a pathway to #sanctions
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A group of volunteers, @hk_brits, who have lived in the UK for many years have been working on a resource for any Hong Kongers thinking about moving.
It is bilingual, comprehensive & well researched, giving pointers on living costs, education & more. 👇
hkbrits.com
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"The international community cannot stand idle. It must call for the immediate release of all those arrested under the NSL, push for the introduction of Magnitsky sanctions, & ensure that it won't be business as usual with Beijing while it continues to dismantle HK's autonomy.”
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“These elections are a total sham. Earlier this year, the National Security police rounded up the entire pro-democracy camp and placed them under arrest for national security crimes, making meaningful opposition illegal," said @Johnny_HKWatch
aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/1…
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“Hong Kong Watch is working with lawmakers to introduce audit powers, which will allow the government to audit the Canadian assets of #HK officials and their families.” @jooeysiiu
#sanctions
thediplomat.com/2022/04/carrie…
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"Hong Kong has plunged further in a human rights ranking report, bringing it on a par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators, and closer to converging with China as the Communist party government deepens its control on the region."
theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
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In his speech today @SKinnock rightly outlined the lack of strategy from the UK Government on Hong Kong, the need for integration support for BNOs, and raised concerns outlined in our latest report on Red Capital that Hong Kong is the 'canary in the coalmine' for Taiwan.
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Our Patron @DavidAltonHL of Liverpool speaks in the House of Lords about #JimmyLai, #MartinLee and #MargaretNg and the sentences imposed against 9 pro-democracy campaigners in #HongKong last Friday. twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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"Beijing ensured that it could guarantee the increasing involvement of ‘red capital’ and growing mainland investment" as a strategy of control.
HK killed as much by red capital as repressive laws | @SamGoodman22 and @benedictrogers on our new report.
hk.appledaily.com/opinion/202103…
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Police Commissioner Chris Tang warned on Tuesday that publishing "fake news" could amount to a breach of the national security law, saying his officers will be forced to respond if reports "incite hatred and divide society".
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
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Hong Kong has quietly broadened the language it uses to describe national security violations, a shift lawyers said could expand the reach of a government crackdown on dissent in the Asian financial hub.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"Parliamentary pensions should not be invested in Chinese companies complicit in human rights violations", says @amcarmichaelMP
Seems a no brainer, right?
politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
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"Free media in Hong Kong has been almost completely dismantled by the government crackdown, clearing the market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sector, a new report has said"
Our new report - to be released today
#InTheFiringLine
theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…
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Press Release on last night's debate.
We welcome the Government's positive attitude to the
@DavidAltonHL & @DamianGreen BNO amendment.
Now we need @ukhomeoffice to come forward with substantive proposals which address the needs of young Hong Kongers.
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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"There is a clear knowledge gap between financial professionals who know that enormous amounts of the money ... is being invested in China, and the members of the public and policy makers who would have serious ethical reservations," says @Johnny_HKWatch
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
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“Beijing has launched an all-out assault on press freedom in Hong Kong by finally shutting the largest pro-democracy newspaper in the city,” said Benedict Rogers, chief executive of Hong Kong Watch.
aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/23…
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Great to meet with HKW Patron @SenatorHousakos alongside @finnlau_cd @AileenCalverley to discuss reviewing the requirement for HK police certificates under #Canada lifeboat schemes, #Magnitsky sanctions, & ensuring HKers can access their MPF pension schemes abroad.
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More grim news out of #HongKong a man has been arrested at a vigil for Queen Elizabeth II outside 🇬🇧 consulate for “sedition” for playing the harmonica & singing “glory to Hong Kong”. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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.@SenatorMunson is right. We must speak louder.
Thank you for your stand with Hong Kong. twitter.com/SenatorMunson/…
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Hong Kong: how colonial-era laws are being used to shut down independent journalism | @xinwenxiaojie @laiyanhoeric
theconversation.com/hong-kong-how-…
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"It is now beyond repute that the NSL is designed with the aim of dismantling the city’s pro-democracy movement, silencing dissent, & restricting participation in elections to CCP apparatchiks, in direction violation of China’s obligations under the Joint Declaration."
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THREAD: The headlines of our new research out today. It is vital action is taken to help HK young people. MPs should support @DamianGreen's amendment.
1) 93% of the defendants who had faced anti-elab charges were born in or after 1997.
👉 hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Hong Kong Watch research shows that almost 2 million #HongKongers still do not have a viable route out of the city as they are ineligible for the lifeboat visas currently on offer from the UK, Canada and Australia.
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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