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Important op-ed by Lord Owen, the former UK Foreign Secretary on the need for Britain to take a central role in "a coordinated democratic alliance" against Beijing's encroachment in Hong Kong.
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🇬🇧 U.K. announces new comprehensive welcoming pack for BN(O) arrivals - 12 welcome hubs will be set up across 4 nations, resources for schools on UK-HK connection to be provided and a digital assistance for HK families to navigate.
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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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"The UK must take more substantive steps to signal that there is a diplomatic cost to breaking treaties. The first and easiest way of doing this would be for Dominic Raab to use Magnitsky sanctions," writes Baroness Helena Kennedy
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“We condemn the arrests of these activists whose supposed "crime" was funding legal aid for pro-democracy protestors back in 2019." @benedictrogers hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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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.
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Important call for HSBC to explain barring BNOs from accessing their MPFs.
Our recent briefing on BNO includes interviews with people stopped from taking out funds by international banks and pension providers. Unacceptable.
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#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
A generation of HK's leaders are behind bars. They must not be forgotten.
Free Andrew Wan, @joshuawongcf, Ray Chan, Tiffany Yuen, Fergus Leung.
Follow the campaign: hongkongwatch.org/political-pris…
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“After 35 years, the Observer’s former correspondent is leaving as what was once a haven of liberty and peace is transformed into a police state.”
#HongKong
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Hong Kong’s new national security education curriculum will force teachers to warn primary students as young as six years old against “subversion” and to throw out library books considered dangerous to the Chinese state.
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New Year message to the people of Hong Kong from Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch. Watch full video: hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Good to see Hong Kong debated in the House of Commons today.
Thank you @AaronBell4NUL for raising this important question on BNO.
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RECAP: Choy Yuk-ling should be commended for doing her job, rather than investigated by the police.
@benedictrogers writing on the decline of freedom of the press in Hong Kong.
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🎄Handwritten Christmas Greetings to Hongkongers from Benedict Rogers, Hong Kong Watch CEO
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"China’s actions in HK are a textbook case study of an authoritarian power-grab.
Redefine national security. Exercise emergency powers in the name of national security. Lock up the opposition. Rewrite the constitution," writes @Johnny_HKWatch cityam.com/hong-kong-chin…
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“The U.S. stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the millions of Hongkongers in their struggle for freedom, democracy & fundamental human rights, & against Beijing’s attempt to impose an authoritarian system on HK.”
🇺🇸@HouseForeign Asia Subcommittee Chair @RepBera’s message to Hkers.
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"Hong Kong is in a new era where it cannot be held up as a leading rule of law jurisdiction."
The Supreme Court's endorsement of the Hong Kong’s rule of law "is an utter embarrassment," writes @Johnny_HKWatch for the Spectator.
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"This is a wholly disproportionate sentence. The reference to the flag he was carrying is a blow to freedom of expression."
"It sets a precedent for trials to come. The cases of former legislators. The case of Jimmy Lai. Those are cases to watch very closely after today." twitter.com/benedictrogers…
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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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An excellent piece by our colleague @jooeysiiu
Hong Kong exile Joey Siu on Apple Daily closure: 'Goodbye to the city we once knew' inews.co.uk/news/world/hon…
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Our co-founder and Chief Executive @benedictrogers spoke at the rally in Piccadilly Circus for #PressFreedom in #HongKong today, and called for international action in response to the closure of independent media and arrests of journalists.
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It is concerning to read that a senior Canadian judge who sits and has just renewed her tenure on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal has such a poor understanding of the National Security Law and the powers given to the Chief Executive to appoint judges. twitter.com/antd/status/14…
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EU Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a joint-resolution on #HK #AppleDaily calling for: emergency visas for journalists in #HK, expansion of #Erasmus places for HKers as part of a #Lifeboat scheme, extension of EU funding for HK media, & #sanctions. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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