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The arrested: Hongkongers caught up in Beijing's national security law
Excellent documentation of all the NSL cases so far. @heldavidson
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On the eve of a new law allowing “exit bans” on government critics, an open letter from activists in exile and local HK groups pleads for U.S. action to pass lifeboat legislation and protect Hong Kong’s would-be democrats. politico.com/news/2021/07/2…
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HKW calls on the Hong Kong government to immediately stop the use of arbitrary solitary confinement against those in pre-trial detention and expedite trials where large numbers have been denied bail. #FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners #FreeLamCheukTing
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⚖️Sanction Wong Kam-sing Now — #HongKong’s Secretary for the Environment #SanctionHKOfficialsNow
Wong currently owns a property alongside his wife in 🇨🇦#Vancouver, #Canada.
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Last week our Chief Executive @benedictrogers was on @trtworld to discuss the deteriorating human rights situation in #HongKong and why the international community must #StandWithHongKong and respond. You can watch the full interview 👇👇👇. twitter.com/benedictrogers…
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What we are seeing in Hong Kong is a two-pronged assault on truth. @MrJohnNicolson outlines how Beijing is using the #NationalSecurityLaw to target journalists in #HongKong and China.
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As the human rights situation gets worse by the day in #HongKong, we’ve been focusing on monitoring cases of arrests, campaigning for saving #12HKYouths, calling for a #UN special mechanism and we don’t stop there. Support us: bit.ly/2WzhlU5
#advocacy #campaign
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"Today’s sentencing is a heart-breaking milestone in the campaign to free the 12 Hong Kong youths who have been detained in Shenzhen for 4 months. There is a risk that the 10 activists who have been charged could be tortured or face ill-treatment in jail."hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2020…
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"In Hong Kong, democracy, human rights and basic freedoms have been dismantled over the past two years, press freedom has come under severe assault, and over 50 civil society groups have been forced to close," @benedictrogers on #BoycottBeijing2022
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3 years ago, Ray Chan protested in LegCo in solidarity with our CEO @benedictrogers when he was denied entry to Hong Kong.
Today we stand in solidarity with @ray_slowbeat, Ted Hui and Eddie Chu after their absurd and unjust arrest.
Read our statement: hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2020…
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Patten continued: "...at a time when President Biden will be seeking to put together an international partnership of liberal democracies... If this deal goes ahead it will make a mockery of Europe's ambitions to be taken seriously as a global political and economic player."
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NEW: Just days before the one-year mark since 🇭🇰 implemented a national security law for Hong Kong, a group of 20 Canadian Parliamentarians called the government to audit the financial and personal connections that Hong Kong officials have in Canada.
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UPDATE AFTER MINISTERS' STATEMENT:
Despite briefing @thetimes that they were considering offering young HKers a pathway to citizenship, it is deeply disappointing that the Govt did not take the opportunity that the Green Amendment presented to give under 25s access to BNO. 1/2 twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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Just in: The European Parliament passed a joint resolution 604:20 reiterating our calls for Magnitsky sanctions, an international lifeboat scheme, and suspension of extradition treaties between EU Member States and the PRC in response to deterioration in HK and Xinjiang.
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"Hong Kong Watch has been a resourceful and influential ally for Hong Kongers."
We are hugely grateful to Hong Kong lawmaker in exile Ted Hui for this message of support for our crowdfunding drive.
You can support us here: crowdfunder.co.uk/hongkongwatch
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⚖️Sanction Bernard Chan Now — the Non-official Convenor of the Executive Council #SanctionHKOfficialsNow
Chan owns a residential property in 🇺🇸#SanFrancisco, USA, and a property in 🇹🇭#Bangkok, Thailand.
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Hong Kong Watch's CEO @benedictrogers is speaking on Wednesday at the Festival of Social Science, along with @Ray_WongHKI, @natalieben & Dr. Malte Kaeding.
The event will launch the trailer of “Black Bauhinia”, a documentary on HK protests.
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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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Important resources in the British media about the impact of the National Security Law published today.
In the Guardian, @heldavidson and Andy Ball have profiled the 128 arrested since the law passed a year ago.
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
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HK current and former judges have described the bail proceedings – herding opposition figures into a single courtroom for days, and depriving them of sleep and other basic rights - as a dramatic departure from the common law tradition in the city. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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Hong Kong’s young journalists decry the ‘death of free press’
ft.com/content/5d3884…
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This is what happens when you make peaceful assembly a crime. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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From sham trials to civil society shut downs, August saw further marked deterioration of the human rights situation in Hong Kong.
Briefing: Human rights developments in Hong Kong in August 2021
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Bail denials and electoral reform a 'further blow to Hong Kong', says @benedictrogers.
'Electoral reform proposals ensure there is never hope of democrats winning - doubtless this is Beijing's intention, but it is another breach of international law.'
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Hongkongers who have fled to the UK following China’s security laws crackdown are young, highly skilled and in high-paid jobs, a survey commissioned by the Home Office has found.
thetimes.co.uk/article/bf8fc5…
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