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Today we celebrate women worldwide, and in Hong Kong's #FightForFreedom, our fellow heroines are everywhere you look.
She may be the one who will extinguish the tear gas canister, armed by only her water and lid
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The director of the China Centre, Peter Nolan, cautioned students against discussing China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, saying it might not be ‘helpful in advancing mutual understanding’. ‘We have a lot of mainland students,’ he warned.
spectator.co.uk/article/how-ch…
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For 25 years, the soaring “Pillar of Shame” stood on the HKU campus to honor victims of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre.
#HongKong🇨🇳 removed our monument, and removed a part of our history.
The artist behind the work, @Galschiot, unveiled a replica of “Pillar of Shame” in Norway:
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Women’s Tennis Association has more balls than the entire @NBA twitter.com/JeromeTaylor/s…
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Russia asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine🇺🇦 after Putin began his invasion. They also asked 🇨🇳 for additional economic assistance to help counter sanctions.
Any support from #CCPChina🇨🇳 must be met with sanctions.
nytimes.com/2022/03/13/us/…
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Sharing session with the director Kiwi Chow, at @RoOT_film London premiere. The theatre is completely packed. Lots of emotions and tears.
This documentary faithfully depicted our shared story and our shared passion. This common legacy of Hongkongers is why we will fight on.
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“I think this is the reality that Chinese people do not have a sense of safety that they can speak freely. But I am in this very privileged position that I'm not in China. So I have every responsibility to make my voice to be heard, to become their voices.” @badiucao twitter.com/60Minutes/stat…
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Ever since i-Cable's award-winning China team resigned, they've continued their amazing work at @hkcnews_com
In a recent episode, they investigate CGTN🇨🇳's reporting on #Xinjiang and how children of abducted Uighur familes are forced to conduct interviews with China state media.
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Source:
【6.9兩周年 獅子山再現燈牌】
今日（9 日）是「反送中運動兩周年」，有市民登上獅子山，
在風雨中亮起「FREE HK」及「FAITH」大型燈牌，希望讓同路人看見，讓大家知道仍有一群人，願意堅持下去。
instagram.com/p/CP6fSRyB-hu/
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Historical picture of the Old Bank of China building in Hong Kong next to the old Hilton Hotel, taken in 1968.
A foreshadow of things to come.
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“We have now ‘show trials’ to make the democrats examples of how the party-state fights and struggles with the enemies… The law is viewed by the #CCP🇨🇳 as a mere tool to facilitate their agenda. To implement the law is to implement the will of the party.” theguardian.com/global-develop…
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#HongKong🇨🇳 has plummeted down an international press freedom chart after the enactment of the National Security Law to silence critical news outlets and jail journalists, according to a new report published by Reporters Without Borders.
Graphic: koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
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Hong Kong protest documentary Revolution of Our Times (時代革命) will be screened in NYC next month: twitter.com/hkdc_us/status…
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The 5 speech therapists who had published children's books about how sheep defended their home against invasion of wolves. They were convicted of seditious publication today but said
"I do not regret I stood on the side of the sheep."
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Two professors from Fudan University stood in front of the police to stop them from arresting the students.
#Shanghai
#ChinaProtests
It feels eerily familiar to what happened in #HongKong 2019, or in #Beijing 1989 ... or in #Iran 2022. twitter.com/RealBeiMing/st…
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“Every one of my succesors either had a foreign passport or had family with foreign passports.
The quislings, including members of HK police, who are doing the persecuting, have 🇬🇧 passports, and the ones being persecuted, the ones being locked up, don't.”
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The Denmark🇩🇰 politicians who helped Hong Kong dissident @tedhuichifung flee Hong Kong are facing “real risk to their safety” per Denmark's intelligence agency: twitter.com/aaronMCN/statu…
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“Hungary was the first EU country to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2015, paving the way for Beijing to export its authoritarian model to the world. And in the years since, [Hungary] has served as China’s biggest defender in the EU.” @nathanlawkc
politico.eu/article/letter…
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Grandma Wong is our hero.
She never gives up.
#StandWithHongKong
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According to #CCPChina🇨🇳 state-owned mouthpiece in Hong Kong:
Supporting Ukraine🇺🇦 ＝ Anti-China🇨🇳 twitter.com/ktse852/status…
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Hong Kong’s Exodus Is Real and Painful
“The migration is accelerating and will likely be permanent. Officials and businesses are wrong to downplay the impact on a hub fast losing financial and global appeal.”
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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@appledaily_hk An amazing thread about the strong bond between Apple Daily Newspaper and Hong Kongers: twitter.com/NiaoCollective…
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We are all witnesses to the tragic demise of Hong Kong. twitter.com/Birdyword/stat…
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"Prison on Fire 3" (監獄風雲 3): What are you in for?
- Reporting the truth.
- Raising 5 fingers on one hand and 1 finger on the other.
- Telling others to cast a blank vote.
Latest from HK comic artist vawongsir: instagram.com/p/COCwRudJhHh/
An independent, crowdfunded advocacy group. Founded by a collective of individuals who have come together to fight for freedom for #HongKong.