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#UK Government commits to expanding #BNO scheme for #Hkers born after 1997
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⚖️Hong Kong Watch calls for the release of all Hong Kong journalists
#FreeJimmyLai #FreeHKJournalists #FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
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Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong is casting doubt over the future of the business hub’s open internet.
aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2…
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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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The website of U.K.-based human rights group Hong Kong Watch could not be accessed through some networks in the Chinese-ruled city, stoking concerns of internet censorship in the global financial hub, the organisation said.
reuters.com/world/china/ho…
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🇬🇧HKW Patron and the last UK Governor of HK, Lord Patten commenting on @hk_watch press freedom campaign :
“Dictatorships, from soft authoritarianism to hardline totalitarianism, hate a free press; or to be more precise they are terrified of a free press."
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Reports are emerging that @hk_watch website can no longer be accessed through certain networks in Hong Kong.
We are hearing that the website cannot be accessed via PCCW, CMHK, HKBN and Navigator networks among others.
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“If this is not just a technical malfunction, and Hong Kongers will no longer be able to access our website because of the National Security Law, then this is a serious blow to internet freedom," says @benedictrogers
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Ministers ‘looking seriously’ at changing rules that exclude young Hong Kongers from BNO scheme
Government says it is ‘carefully considering’ concerns about policy that leaves Hong Kong nationals who have fled persecution ‘languishing’ in UK asylum system
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Foreign Judges Are Enabling Hong Kong’s Legal Crackdown
A Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker is in jail because of a court ruling endorsed by a U.K. judge.
thediplomat.com/2022/02/foreig…
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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.
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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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🚨🚨In the House of Lords this evening, the government for the first time showed willingness to amend the BNO scheme for those born after 97.
"However, we have heard concerns raised, and are very sympathetic to the circs of children born on or after 1997 with BNO parents." 1/2
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Our Patron @DavidAltonHL introduces amendment to extend #BNO rights to young #HongKongers born after 1997, together with our Patron, last Governor of #HongKong Lord Patten of Barnes & with support from former Lord Chancellor @LordCFalconer, @BishopStAlbans and across all parties
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A powerful intervention by our Patron and the last Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten of Barnes, in support of an amendment to provide a lifeline to #HongKong veterans who served in or alongside the British armed forces.
Watch his moving remarks:
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Current & former 🇨🇦 parliamentarians have written to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance @cafreeland raising concerns about Canadian pension funds investing in China-based firms complicit in human rights abuses in Xinjiang citing HKW's research. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
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This is Ivan's story. One of the young people who would have been facing political imprisonment and be directly benefited by the BNO scheme being extended to 18-25s
Important report on the upcoming debate in the House of Lords this morning in @GBNEWS. 1/2
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Today is the final day of the Committee Stage of the Nationality and Borders Bill. Members of the House of Lords will be debating the BNO amendment which would allow Hong Kongers born after 1997 to access the BNO visa.
We expect speeches from @DavidAltonHL and Lord Patten.
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Hong Kong’s young journalists decry the ‘death of free press’
ft.com/content/5d3884…
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"There are many young people who want to leave Hong Kong even though their parents want to stay, and they should be welcome here."
Lord Hague, former British Foreign Secretary calls for extension of BNO to 18-25s and for British judges to pull out of HK.
thetimes.co.uk/article/we-sho…
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It is a tragic sign of the deteriorating human rights situation in #HK that nearly 10,000 #HongKongers applied for Canada's Young Talent's Work Visa & a further 5,000 applied to study in Canada last year. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
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#NoBeijing2022 rally in Ottawa 🇨🇦
HKW’s Patron @GarnettGenuis attended the rally outside #China embassy
“The #Beijing2022 cannot sports wash away the #CCP brutal elimination of basic freedoms of the people of #HongKong,” said @AileenCalverley Co-founder & Trustee of HKW
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A regime that dismantles #HongKong's freedoms, in total breach of an international treaty, does not deserve to host Olympics.
That's why we will not watch #GenocideGames #Beijing2022 #Beijing2022WinterOlympics
Thank you @badiucao for your courageous art
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