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"Prosecutors have asked that the subversion case involving 47 democrats be transferred to the High Court, which could impose penalties of up to life imprisonment."
Important explainer on a trial which is the gravest miscarriage of justice in HK to date.
thestandnews.com/english/subver…
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Our Chief Executive @benedictrogers was interviewed on Australia's Ticker News this morning, about the blocking of our website & the dismantling of press freedom and freedom of expression in #HongKong
He said Carrie Lam's office has passed enquiries to the Security Department/
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Pro-democracy digital news outlet Stand News has announced it will remove opinion articles & columns it published before May & stop accepting donations in order to reduce risks under the NSL.
The ripple effects of AD's closure being felt.
hongkongfp.com/2021/06/28/sec…
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On the 25th anniversary of the #HongKong handover, our CEO @benedictrogers calls in this @WSJopinion op-ed for more lifeboat schemes for #HongKongers to get to freedom and for sanctions against those responsible for dismantling the city's freedoms
wsj.com/articles/hong-…
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"This judgment raises questions for international judges on the Court of Final Appeal. With human rights-based objections to the NSL effectively outlawed, are foreign non-permanent judges adding a veneer of legitimacy to a broken system?"
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Hong Kong democrat Lee Cheuk-yan & tycoon Jimmy Lai plead guilty to unauthorized demonstration in 2019
hongkongfp.com/2021/04/07/hon…
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"Beijing’s selection of John Lee, the former Secretary for Security & police officer, as its replacement of Chief Executive, marks a further signal that it intends to double-down on the ongoing oppression & crackdown on human rights in the city." hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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Recommendations? Western policymakers and financial firms should direct foreign capital away from China, where such money could be complicit in human rights abuses, and enact legislation to allow for economic sanctions, recommends the report. 5/
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LegCo backs immigration bill despite exit ban fears.
Deeply troubling development.
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
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We continue to update our political prisoners database regularly, detailing arrests and sentencing of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. You can find the latest cases in June 2021, here: hongkongwatch.org/political-pris…
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HKW threatened under #HK’s NSL
Quick responses from
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss
@trussliz
@MPIainDS
HKW’s Patrons
🇬🇧 Lord Chris Patten
@DavidAltonHL
@SarahChampionMP
@amcarmichaelMP
🇨🇦 @SenatorHousakos
🇺🇸 @SamuelBrownback
bit.ly/3ta9nCd
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Benjamin Kostrzewa, a sanctions expert at Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. adds: “The new private right of action in the Chinese Anti-Foreign Sanction law certainly has a lot of companies nervous.” ft.com/content/70a984…
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Following being targeted by the NSL, our CEO @benedictrogers has written to 11 🇪🇺 countries that continue to have #extradition treaties with 🇭🇰/🇨🇳. This includes 🇧🇪,🇮🇹,🇫🇷,🇪🇸, 🇵🇹,🇬🇷, 🇨🇾,🇨🇿,🇧🇬,🇷🇴, & 🇱🇹. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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With news of arrests dominating headlines, the media has largely missed revisions to Regulations on the CCP's United Front Work Department. These mandate 'patriotism' & will accelerate integration of Hong Kong into the mainland.
Read more 👇 @EvanEvfowler
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Briefing: Human Rights Developments in December 2021 in Hong Kong
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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Hong Kong plans to create a host of new national security crimes, the Chinese-ruled city’s leader said on Wednesday, as she presided over the first session of a new legislature that excludes any political opposition.
aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/12…
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“Under John Lee’s police state, even speech therapists and children’s authors are not exempt from the ongoing human rights crackdown.” @benedictrogers our statement on the conviction of the five speech therapists today. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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4 ex-leaders of defunct Hong Kong activist group Student Politicism plead guilty to conspiring to incite subversion -- 📰Hong Kong Free Press
#FreePoliticalPrisoners #釋放所有政治犯 twitter.com/hkfp/status/15…
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Seems highly improbably that 6 of the 8 would refuse the lawyers appointed by their families.
The mistreatment of the 12 HK youths continues.
#save12hkyouths twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Today a prominent Hong Kong trade unionist, Elizabeth Tang, has been arrested under the National Security Law, with local media reporting that the national security police have accused her of “collusion with foreign forces”. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2023….
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