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Stand News reports that Man-chung Lam, former executive chief editor at #AppleDaily🍎, has been arrested by Hong Kong's National Security Police 🇨🇳 and charged with “colluding with foreign forces”.
警國安處拘前《蘋果日報》執總林文宗 指控串謀勾結境外勢力
thestandnews.com/politics/%E6%B…
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Beijing Needs Hong Kong's Financial Status, Not Its Freedoms
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/12/hon…
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An excellent profile of Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen (@iingwen), a truly remarkable person.
“With their lives, blood and tears, the young people in Hong Kong have demonstrated for us that one country, two systems is not feasible.”
— Tsai, January 2020
reuters.com/investigates/s…
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🇯🇵 HongKongers in Shibuya Crossing on 2022.7.2
#StandWithHongKong twitter.com/StandwithHK_JP…
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Because these are the sort of things that we expect to happen in an international global financial centre hub ...
The full 6-min animation on YouTube (will probably get taken down soon): youtu.be/LEVgISJFQGY
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How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
“A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China's government, according to a new study.” @BBCWorld
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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🇬🇧MP Alistair Carmichael’s letter on British judges in Hong Kong (@thetimes)
“If British judges want to be on the right side of history they should play no further part in legitimising the gross miscarriages of justice against Hongkongers fighting for their rights and freedoms.”
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#CCPChina🇨🇳 state media tells us that “there is nothing wrong coming from state media”.
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Might be angry at first, but after some thought, feel genuinely sorry for these students. twitter.com/DrewPavlou/sta…
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Today, Hong Kong. Tomorrow, Taiwan.
#TaiwanNationalDay #DoubleTenDay
Artist: mOnkmOnki
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Tsai Ing-Wen and Agnes Chow are featured in The @FT’s 25 most influential women of 2021
Both women share stories of resilience: their commitment to democracy in the face of a mounting challenge to its existence.
ft.com/womenof2021
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Calling John Lee the “Chief Executive-elect” of #HongKong🇨🇳 makes it sound like he was actually elected.
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“Inside the Red Brick Wall,” an award-winning documentary about Hong Kong’s massive pro-democracy protests, was pulled hours before its first commercial screening, after criticism from Wen Wei Po, a pro-Beijing🇨🇳 mouthpiece newspaper in Hong Kong.
theonlinecitizen.com/2021/03/15/hon…
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The 2nd guy:
“Mr. Putin is no ordinary man. He’s a genius. Putin can do judo. He can carry a thousand pounds.”
#CCPChina🇨🇳 twitter.com/Byron_Wan/stat…
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Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s Imprisoned Media Tycoon
The #AppleDaily founder has spent more than 300 days in jail this year, making him the highest-profile victim of China’s relentless campaign to bring #HongKong to heel.
#Bloomberg50
#StandWithHongKong
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The Italian🇮🇹 city Brescia is going ahead with plans to host an art exhibition by Chinese dissident artist @badiucao, despite a request from China🇨🇳's embassy to cancel it, the mayor Emilio Del Bono (@DelBono2018) said in comments published on Friday.
thelocal.it/20211022/italy…
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New "Liberal Studies" textbooks from #CCPChina🇨🇳 for Hong Kong schools. I've long suspected that Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Ronald McDonald and Grimace were all part of an evil imperialist ploy… twitter.com/ThomasHHChan/s…
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RTHK has finally decided to delete all previous tweets on @rthk_enews
Even under the current climate, RTHK's Twitter person has consistently provided a voice that reflects Hong Kongers, plus some comic relief, in the space of 280 characters.
Thank you.
hongkongfp.com/2021/08/04/emb…
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A former Chinese policeman said Uyghur Muslims were hanged from cell ceilings, tortured with electric batons and ordered to be raped by fellow prisoners, in what appears to be the first interview with an official whistleblower. @erinhale
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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For the Love of Hong Kong: The day a family of pro-democracy activists realized they couldn’t go home.
“To love Hong Kong is to love something fickle, at constant risk of being stolen away.” @HanaMeihanDavis @Slate
slate.com/news-and-polit…
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The Hong Kong government🇨🇳celebrated #WorldPressFreedomDay by bulk censoring videos on public broadcaster RTHK's YouTube channel, and firing Nabela Qoser, one of their most respected journalists. twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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Worth reading for HK families
“Cantonese no longer feels natural, and sometimes even feels ridiculous, for me to speak. My parents and I have no heart-to-heart conversations, no mutual understanding, on top of cultural & generational gaps to reckon with.”
newyorker.com/culture/person…
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European nations 🇪🇺 need to answer an honest question - Are you prepared to take real action to hold China accountable?
Because China certainly thinks Europeans are incapable hence they are not afraid. twitter.com/ExtSpoxEU/stat…
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George Washington University Chinese Students and Scholars Association is going after students who put up #BoycottBeijing2022 posters. They demand that the students make a public apology and be punished.
This is ridiculous. We must not tolerate such witch-hunts at GW (@GWtweets) twitter.com/badiucao/statu…
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‘My city is being shelled, but my mum in Russia won’t believe me’
Ukraine’s version of the “Blue Ribbon” mom.
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
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