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⚖️Hong Kong Watch calls for the release of all Hong Kong journalists
#FreeCheungKimHung #FreeHKJournalists #FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
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Great to see the Canadian Government this evening launch the application portal for its 'Young Talents' visa scheme for Hong Kongers: canada.ca/en/immigration…
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Hong Kong Watch Chair of Trustees @GraySergeant is hosting this discussion on Press Freedom in HK next week, featuring high level experts on the media environment in Hong Kong. twitter.com/GraySergeant/s…
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New #HongKongWatch Report claims press freedom in #HongKong is "being dismantled" and calls for international action to protect journalists
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
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🎉Hong Kong Watch Annual Crowdfunding 2022🎉
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Your generous support will enable us to continue speaking up for #HK and driving forward policy changes across the world, to make a difference in the lives of #HKers and their fight for freedom.
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"Earlier this month, the nonprofit Hong Kong Watch released an extensive report on another, less-noticed aspect of Beijing’s repression: the ways in which a gradual influx of “red capital” helped to bring the city’s democrats to their knees."
nationalreview.com/2021/03/how-ch…
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Commenting on the sentencing of pro-democracy leaders, @SenatorRomney said “The Chinese Communist Party continues to impose its authoritarian grip on Hong Kong, and the imprisonment of pro-democracy leaders is just the latest in a long history of their repression and censorship.”
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"China does not want to see instability on its borders and it preferred quasi democracy under Aung San Suu Kyi," said @benedictrogers in an interview with @TRTWorldNow
Watch full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=Kp5Izq…
#china #myanmar #coup
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A welcome and rare turn of event by the Justice Department. Anthony Wong and former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin should never have been arrested in the first place. twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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🇬🇧 The UK government's latest data on #BNO visa applications has been released this morning
There were 18,100 applications for the BNO route in Q2 of 2022. There have been a total of 140,500 applications since its introduction on 31st January 2021 up to the end of June 2022.
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"Why does this matter? The Communist party knows that if its historical narrative is challenged, it will find its legitimacy under threat. The shamelessness of this drive to erase the past should be a warning for the West," writes @Johnny_HKWatch
spectator.co.uk/article/the-pi…
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Our co-founder and Chief Executive @benedictrogers's Chinese characters have been turned into a postcard for #HongKong by a very courageous #HongKonger 👇
#FightForFreedom #StandWithHongKong twitter.com/benedictrogers…
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In her speech HKW patron Fiona Bruce MP, outlined the impact the National Security Law is having on freedom of religion or belief through the targeting of churches and the threat national security education poses to freedom of expression in Hong Kong's schools.
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⚖️Sanction Edward Yau Now — Hong Kong’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
#SanctionHKOfficialsNow
Yau currently owns three residential properties with his family in 🇬🇧the UK.
⚖️#HKW calls for a full #audit of HK officials' assets overseas as a pathway to #sanctions
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With the Tiananmen Vigil banned in Hong Kong, we must all make sure that the memory of Tiananmen never fades
Britain should go further and make the treatment of HK political prisoners a central plank in its diplomacy with China, says @Johnny_HKWatch
spectator.co.uk/article/hong-k…
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HKG leaving no stone unturned in the bid to eradicate all dissent in Hong Kong. These new charges are totally unnecessary and, if enacted, would be a further breach of international law, but they reflect the Communist Party's ambition to comprehensively crush opposition. twitter.com/JeromeTaylor/s…
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"We urge the UK Government to reflect on the declining state of the rule of law in Hong Kong and review the ongoing participation of British judges within its judicial system which increasingly offers this police state a veneer of legitimacy.” @benedictrogers
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"According to two population polls, 36.4 and 45.6 per cent of the city's population of around seven million had participated in the movement by August 2019 and May 2020, respectively."
Insightful analysis of Hong Kong's protest movement.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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NEW EPISODE - In Conversation with @benedictrogers.
It was our honour to have Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP on our CEO's interview series.
Watch in full: hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
#China #HongKong #democracy
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"If I were extradited to face charges, would I be tried by one of the British judges who continue to sit in Hong Kong's courts?"
@benedictrogers writing today for the Telegraph on facing charges under the National Security Law.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/1…
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There is no excuse for UK inaction on Hong Kong sanctions.
"When it comes to sanctioning Carrie Lam and Hong Kong officials, the UK has the tools and evidence at its disposal," writes @SamGoodman22
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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Yesterday, HKW Associate @jooeysiiu & HKW's Senior Policy Advisor @SamGoodman22 gave evidence to the Canadian Parliament's Subcommittee on International Human Rights on the #humanrights crisis in #HongKong #SDIR. You can read their written evidence here. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
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NEW: @DominicRaab says NSL "has been used to drastically curtail the space for the expression of alternative political views and deter freedom of expression and legitimate political debate," in latest 6 monthly report.
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gov.uk/government/pub…
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NEW EPISODE: On his first day as Chief Executive, @benedictrogers spoke to @SKinnock, who is the UK Shadow Minister for Asia. Stephen shared the Labour strategy on resetting UK-China relations and what more the UK should do for HK. youtu.be/YxiuW3v2lvA
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Hong Kong Watch: 'Today’s arrests represent further evidence of the unrelenting crackdown pro-democracy activists have faced in the last few weeks and months'.
Our analysis the arrest of Eddie Chu, Long Hair and others.
hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2020…
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