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Hong Kong’s Sham Elections
All candidates for the Legislative Council are ultimately controlled by the #CCP🇨🇳. The candidates who Hong Kongers have voted for to represent them have all been arrested or have fled into exile.
#ReleaseMyCandidate twitter.com/hk_watch/statu…
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As part of the online influence campaign to promote the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the #CCP🇨🇳 hired Vippi Media, a US🇺🇸-based company, to recruit influencers who are “to be activated to drive viewership, mass awareness and premium content” for China.
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Don’t let Beijing 2022 become Berlin 1936.
#BoycottBeijingOlympics #NoBeijing2022 twitter.com/MehmetTohti/st…
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On #HumanRightsDay, Hong Kongers in Japan took part in “Respect for Human Rights in Asia” rally, alongside Uyghurs, Burmese, Tibetans and Mongolians to speak out on #HumanRights issues in Asia, and urge Japan to #BoycottBeijing2022🇨🇳
#アジアの人権を尊重してください #国際人権デー twitter.com/uryuhirano/sta…
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Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? China.
If anything, the #CCP🇨🇳’s threats and attacks against @nathanlawkc and Taiwan’s @audreyt serve as the best kind of advertisement for #SummitForDemocracy.
The more hostile #CCPChina🇨🇳 is, the more the people will listen.
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On #HumanRightsDay we remind the world that #CCP🇨🇳 continues to detain human rights activists in China and HK.
Zhang Zhan is a journalist who was tortured and jailed for her reporting on China's mishandling of the pandemic. She was last seen in critical condition. #FreeZhangZhan
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Nathan Law's speech at #SummitForDemocracy:
Maybe some of you are afraid of upsetting Xi Jinping.
Maybe some of you don't want to lose the Chinese market.
Maybe some of you don't recognize the threat to our democratic values.
That is why we failed, and that's why we must change. twitter.com/nathanlawkc/st…
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Hong Kong protest documentary “Revolution of Our Times” (時代革命) will be premiered in the U.S. from tomorrow. Check out this thread for ticketing details: twitter.com/hkdc_us/status…
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I won’t watch Beijing 2022 Olympics.
我唔睇2022北京奧運。
#NoBeijing2022
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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.
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It is time for the rest of the world to send #CCPChina🇨🇳 a clear message, and #BoycottBeijingOlympics
𝗡𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲.
As yourself: “If not now, when? If not us, who?”
#BoycottBeijing2022
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BREAKING
White House announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
US will not send diplomatic representation to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics given ongoing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang & other human rights abuses
#BoycottBeijingOlympics
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The Hong Kong Govt 🇨🇳 issued a threat to the @WSJ regarding their editorial about the upcoming sham election. They were ‘shocked’ at the statement that “boycotts and blank ballots are one of the last ways for Hong Kongers to express their political views.”
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China’s in a Catch-22 over the WTA’s #PengShuai challenge
“We've got so accustomed to international businesses cowering to the #CCP🇨🇳 for market access, we lost sense of what it should be like, so an act of integrity [by @WTA] is viewed as extraordinary.”
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Hong Kong's Security Chief PK Tang claims that Stand News' reporting on the 2 year anniversary of the CUHK seige is ‘fake news,’ and that the police had never entered the university’s campus.
@StandNewsHK shows clips from that day of police entering campus and arresting students
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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
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The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to publisher #JimmyLai and the staff of the #AppleDaily newsroom in Hong Kong.
#FightForFreedom #FreeJimmyLai
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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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SWHK and other civic groups in the UK are issuing a joint statement to address the safety and security concerns of Hongkongers in the UK, following the attack happened in Chinatown, London on 27 Nov.
📄 Full statement:
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Women Tennis Association suspends tournaments in China including Hong Kong
@WTA cannot “ask athletes to compete [in China] when #PengShuai isn't allowed to communicate freely and has seemingly been pressured to contradict her allegation of sexual assault.”wtatennis.com/news/2384758/s…
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Imagine if such state textbooks and a state-controlled Internet are the only things that children get the most exposure to during their prime development period. twitter.com/Byron_Wan/stat…
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Hong Kong Says Vote—or Else: China fears a boycott of the sham vote it will hold next month.
“Authorities issued arrest warrants for pro-democracy exiles who used social media to recommend that Hong Kongers boycott sham legislative elections in December.”
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Security officials in one of China's largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”
Suspicious people: activists, rights lawyers, citizens.reuters.com/technology/exc…
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The UK government must ensure Hongkongers will not be attacked and intimated by pro CCP organisations and gangs in the UK.
Racism is an issue we must all work together to tackle, but at the same time we mustn’t let this issue to be manipulated by people with ill intentions. twitter.com/nathanlawkc/st…
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Revolution of Our Times wins best documentary in Golden Horse Awards
Director Kiwi Chow hopes that “this documentary belongs to every Hong Konger who has a conscience, a sense of justice, who had shed tears for Hong Kong.”
thestandnews.page.link/EZfNdGW8CgCLuV… twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
An independent, crowdfunded advocacy group. Founded by a collective of individuals who have come together to fight for freedom for #HongKong.