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Lord Patten of Barnes, the last UK Governor of HK & HKW patron speaking at the House of Lords Committee on International Relations & Defence's inquiry into China, notes that there has never been an issue between the UK & modern China as big as our obligation to Hong Kong.
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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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#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
Lam Cheuk-ting, Eddie Chu, Winnie Yu, Ventus Lau, Alvin Yeung.
Legally elected lawmakers or candidates for election, now behind bars.
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Today was the last day of the trial of 10 prominent pro-democracy activists who face prison for attending an unauthorised assembly in 2019, under a law that has been widely criticised by the UN. The group of activists will be sentenced on Friday. #StandWithHK #PoliticalPrisoners twitter.com/hkfp/status/13…
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In response to a letter from 100 Parliamentarians, signed by Lord Patten, @lisanandy, @MPlainDS, @LaylaMoran, @SKinnock calling for sanctions on Hong Kong officials following the sanctioning of UK MPs by China, @BorisJohnson gives no answer to the question on HK sanctions 🙈
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#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
This week we will be profiling some of the political prisoners in Hong Kong:
Gwyneth Ho, Owen Chow, Prince Wong, Henry Wong, and Sam Cheung are young people facing NSL charges solely for standing in an election.
More 👉hongkongwatch.org/political-pris…
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The Hong Kong Safe Harbor provisions will be added to the Senate China legislation. We are enormously grateful to @SenatorMenendez @SenRubioPress @SenJeffMerkley @ChrisCoons for making this happen.
foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/re…
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We strongly welcome this resolution, but now call for CAI to be dropped in its entirety. It is a bad deal which is geopolitically ill-timed, promises more economically than it can deliver, & sends a message that the EU is willing to sell-out human rights.
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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In today's judgment, High Court said that rights-based constitutional challenges cannot be applied to NSL.
The right to a jury trial no longer stands, NSL trials will be held behind closed doors by hand-picked judges.
The Rule of law is on the brink.
legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/…
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BREAKING: Over 50 activists in exile call for immediate suspension of all Extradition Treaties between European Member States and mainland China.
They say the treaties "play a key role in the CCP’s effort to export its regime of political terror overseas.”
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Freezing Jimmy Lai's assets "is the biggest blow to date for press freedoms. While arrests naturally garner headlines, it is decisions like this one which are most likely to catalyse capital flight," writes @Johnny_HKWatch
cityam.com/beijing-has-do…
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"But if the authorities can strip Mr. Lai of his assets based on a non-judicial order, then no private contract is safe. The asset seizure seems wholly arbitrary. Any shareholder in any company who offends Beijing on political grounds is vulnerable."
wsj.com/articles/hong-…
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***Free Giggs***
No political prisoner should be forgotten. Wan Yiu-sing (Giggs) is behind bars purely for 'speech crimes' as a journalist.
For more political prisoner profiles see: hongkongwatch.org/political-pris…
#FreeGiggs
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The steady inflation of sentencing guidelines is one of the insidious trends which is contributing to the chill on civil society and is a central plank of the Hong Kong Government's lawfare strategy. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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"An appropriate response from the international community would be to use targeted Magnitsky sanctions to freeze the assets of officials responsible for the dismantling of Hong Kong’s autonomy, like Mr Lee," said @benedictrogers
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Great to see that Leave Outside the Rules has been extended until 21 June 2021, helping to ensure a smooth transition for BNOs who need it.
gov.uk/guidance/briti…
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Happy Birthday to our patron, the last Governor of Hong Kong Lord Patten!
生日快樂，彭定康勳爵！🎂
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MEP @MiriamMLex summed it up perfectly: ‘Attempts to push CAI through will no doubt continue. But it doesn’t change the reality that the agreement is geopolitically ill-timed, economically weak and morally wrong.’
Is CAI dead in the water? Our latest 👇
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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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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Good to see @HeikoMaas and the German Government naming and shaming Hungary. It cannot be right that a single EU Member State is able to block EU measures to respond to the human rights crisis in Hong Kong, including an EU lifeboat scheme. #Lifeboat #HK twitter.com/StuartKLau/sta…
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Webinar: The Fight For Freedom in Burma/Myanmar and Hong Kong: Shared Synergies, Strategies, Alliances and Ways Forward.
We are delighted to co-host this webinar with @burmacampaignuk on 12 May (Wed) at 14.00 UK time. To find out more and join us👇🏻
bit.ly/3hjACEH
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Webinar: The Fight For Freedom in Burma/Myanmar and Hong Kong: Shared Synergies, Strategies, Alliances and Ways Forward.
We are delighted to co-host this webinar with @burmacampaignuk on 12 May (Wed) at 14.00 UK time. To find out more and join us👇🏻
bit.ly/3hjACEH
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"Can you imagine the BBC inviting the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to present four shows a day, every day? Yet that is what #RTHK has done with “Chat Show Carrie".
New op-ed by our CEO @benedictrogers in @appledailyhk
bit.ly/3f0TeGL
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"This week has been a bad one for media freedom in HK. It began with RTHK removing its archives of programmes more than a year old, and then firing one of its most incisive reporters, Nabela Qoser – on World Press Freedom Day," writes @benedictrogers
hk.appledaily.com/opinion/202105…
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More arrests, charges, & trials of pro-democracy activists, moves to censor the free press, National Security education for secondary schools, an Immigration Bill, the firing of civil servants, HKW's latest briefing details HK developments in April 2021. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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