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If Martin Lee, the 82-year-old ‘father of democracy’ can face years in jail, no one is safe in Hong Kong
“His sin? Lee was convicted this week of ‘unlawful assembly’ in a territory where freedom of assembly is no more.” (@TorontoStar)
thestar.com/politics/polit…
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Hong Kongers have uploaded episodes from RTHK's Hong Kong Connection【鏗鏘集】(2016-2020) to the Internet Archive
The removal of RTHK's videos by HKGov🇨🇳 will cause unrepairable damage to HK's collective memory, but we must do what we can to preserve it.
archive.org/details/hk-con… twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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The Biden administration is set to add more than ten #CCPChina🇨🇳 companies to its economic blacklist over human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang.
reuters.com/world/china/ex…
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Chinese TV stations have been blurring out Western brand logos in their programmes, in a show of support for China's Xinjiang cotton campaign.
The move has delayed some broadcasts, as post-production editors censor everything from T-shirts to shoes. @BBC
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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“Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” can mean different things to different people.
But in the context of Tong Ying-kit's NSL court case, HKU prof. Eliza Lee testified that the ‘Liberate Hong Kong’ slogan was about uniting freedom-loving people.
thestandnews.com/english/libera…
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Here is the ‘evidence’ the Hong Kong police displayed for arresting and charging the student group for subversion: peanuts, crackers, dried squid, hand towels, tooth brushes, pork jerky, hand lotion, and M&M’s.
(Source: @StandNewsHK)
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Hong Kong digital news outlet @StandNewsHK has been nominated for the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s 2021 Press Freedom Prize for Independence. It comes just as its editor-in-chief announced his resignation over the weekend due to “family reasons.”
hongkongfp.com/2021/11/09/hon…
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In Osaka, there will be 2 screenings of #HongKongProtests -themed documentaries
'Stand With HK' gives voices to interviewees
tdff-neoneo.com/osaka/lineup/h…
'Defense of #CUHK' recounts the infamous campus siege in 2019
tdff-neoneo.com/osaka/lineup/h…
@StandwithHK_JPN
#StandWithHongKong
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Hong Kong Filmmakers ‘Very Worried’ by Censorship Law
The law allows government officials retrospective power to change previously-issued exhibition approvals and provides for 3-year jail terms in case of breach. @VivienneChow
variety.com/2021/film/asia…
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We couldn't have tweeted this news of Carrie Lam hosting her own show on RTHK better than the RTHK Twitter person: twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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Families and campaigners joined a 1,200-metre human chain through Kingston upon Thames in a protest against political oppression in Hong Kong. Organisers said more than 1000 people attended the protest through the town centre.
Local coverage of the event:
uk.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-prot…
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“By the end of 2022, Shenzhen's economy will be more than 25% bigger than Hong Kong's. Carrie Lam will go down in history as the leader who took an ax to the city's freedoms. She'll also be the figure who oversaw its relegation to 2nd-tier economic status.”asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Hong-K…
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A key strategy for totalitarian regimes is to indoctrinate the young. #CCPChina🇨🇳 has refined this strategy, and in Russia, children are raised to become good patriots. Starting at kindergarten age, they march to songs whose meaning they can hardly grasp:
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China Wants a Chip Machine From the Dutch. The US Said No.
The Biden administration, continuing a Trump policy, seeks to stop @ASMLcompany from selling China machines crucial to advanced microprocessors.
wsj.com/articles/china…
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The Hong Kong government has announced plans to outlaw the desecration of the Chinese national flag and national emblem on the Internet.
"Publishing an image of a defiled national flag on Facebook" would be a crime.
🔥🔥🔥🇨🇳💩
hongkongfp.com/2021/08/12/hon…
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China has named a top internal security forces officer who helped lead Beijing’s crackdown in Xinjiang as the new chief of its army garrison in Hong Kong
wsj.com/articles/china…
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“It speaks to every believer in freedom and to every journalist and media organisation that this is what the Chinese Communist Party is like. It's a threat to our values, and we should recognise it as that.”
— Chris Patten on Apple Daily's closure. twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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UK’s Mi5 issued a warning, accusing a lawyer, Christine Lee, of working as an agent for the Chinese state. She was funneling money to politicians, claiming it came from within the UK when it came from China, all in order to secure influence for the #CCP🇨🇳
youtu.be/adZeVFPwxPE
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"The 'Pillar of Shame' is a sculptural outcry from an artist with the right to say what he likes, to people who risk their lives for making use of the same right," Jens Galschiøt said.
This sculpture is a popular site for visitors. It engraves:
“The old cannot kill the young.”
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At the end of the day, many Hong Kongers are leaving simply because we want to live a life with dignity: twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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With over 50 Hong Kong civil groups disbanded so far in 2021, the departure of @amnesty is a red flag for all international NGOs in HK.
We call for our friends to condemn HK officials for silencing civil groups in the name of HK's National Security Law.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square museum shuts down as the #CCP🇨🇳 tries to stamp out the last traces of public discussion of the event. pri.org/stories/2021-0…
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‘My career is finished, my friends are in prison and I’m an alien in my city’: life after #HongKong’s Apple Daily newspaper 🍎
theguardian.com/global-develop…
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Why Britain is so attractive to thousands fleeing Hong Kong?
A year after the Government's visa scheme gave them a route to the UK, thousands are arriving every week, ready to become model citizens.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/3…
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“Almost 80% of Tibetan children in China have been placed in a vast system of government-run boarding schools, where they're cut off from their families, languages and traditional culture.”
To truly destroy a culture, they will always target our children.
theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
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