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The UK Government warns Hong Kong critics to avoid traveling to countries that have extradition treaties with Hong Kong.
The unusual move underscores concern that China might reach beyond its borders to prosecute people for “national security” offenses.
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Hong Kong’s National Security Promises Were All Hollow
The Beijing-backed law is now used to crush dissent across the board. @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/23/hon…
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Alice Wong, 19-year-old student leader, denied bail over national security charge
She's accused of “inciting other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in overthrowing or undermining the basic system of PRC established by PRC's Constitution”.
hongkongfp.com/2021/09/23/hon…
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Hong Kong Is Holding Elections. It Wants Them to Look Real.
#CCPChina🇨🇳 has already determined the outcome, but the government is pressuring opposition parties to participate to lend the vote legitimacy. @vwang3
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Img: @StandNewsHK
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支聯會、職工盟、教協、民陣、蘋果日報……2021 年香港，在新聞報道出現得最頻繁的其中一個詞語，可能是 — 「解散」。
組織被迫解散，通常連網站、社交媒體專頁也一併闗閉、刪除，彷彿從歷史中消失，《立場》在此留下一點記錄。
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@StandNewsHK Under the national security law, at least 49 community organizations have ceased operations or disbanded so far in 2021.
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The #CCP🇨🇳 will ban or cancel anything that they believe will pose a threat to their power. twitter.com/Blockworks_/st…
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Cantonese: How professors, students and activists are preserving the language.
hashtaglegend.com/magazine/canto…
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Look for LED trucks featuring Keep Taiwan Free Bear in Manhattan starting today. They'll be circling near Times Square and United Nations.
The future we want, the @UN we need, must include Taiwan!
#KeepTaiwanFree
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Beijing 2022 Olympics Posters by Artist @badiucao
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Burning “Ghost Money” on #ChinaNationalDay🇨🇳
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This happened in Hong Kong on #ChinaNationalDay🇨🇳 two years ago:
HK protesters “mourn” China’s National Day in Causeway Bay with a banner showing solidarity with Uyghurs and Tibetans & by sprinkling ghost money — a Chinese funeral rite.
(Source: @yuenok)
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On #ChinaNationalDay, there's nothing worthy to celebrate. To mark this day, SWHK alongside 6 NGOs, @Billbrowder & 12 MEPs sent a letter to @vonderleyen & @JosepBorrellF, call on @EU_Commission for a renewed, robust and unified effort by the EU to tackle China authoritarianism.
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Hong Kongers will not be silenced by the #CCP🇨🇳 twitter.com/_laujessie/sta…
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Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians in Tokyo protest against #CCP🇨🇳's human rights violations and call for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Olympics.
#BoycottBeijingOlympics #BoycottBeijing2022
Photos: AFP
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‘Red Roulette’ Uncovers Covert Hands in Hong Kong: China has long accused foreign elements of meddling in the city’s affairs, yet a new book sheds light on its own role behind the scenes. @mbrookerhk
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New Hong Kong security law – Article 23 – will only affect ‘a small group of people,’ says top official.
The city’s security chief Chris “PK” Tang said last week that it was the “best time” since Hong Kong’s handover to legislate Article 23.
hongkongfp.com/2021/10/04/new…
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A reminder that two years ago, Carrie Lam used her powers to enact a controversial anti-mask law in Hong Kong. Even the High Court ruled the anti-mask law unconstitutional. Refusing to give up, during the height of the global coronavirus pandemic in 2020, she appealed the ruling.
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Around that time in 2019, students hung a banner inside the Chinese University of Hong Kong that read: “This autumn day, they banned us from wearing face masks. Tomorrow, they would no longer let us speak.”
They were right.
(Source: redd.it/q1oqb5)
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The Danish artist behind an artwork which pays tribute to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre has urged the University of Hong Kong to let it remain on campus, amid rumours it will be removed.
Photo: Reuters
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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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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
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Chinese whistleblower exposes torture of Uyghur prisoners
In a CNN interview conducted in Europe where he's now in exile, Jiang revealed details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs China's detention camp system
youtu.be/-PjkwylN7q0
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