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Kurogi, a salaryman in Japan, told Reuters he called the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 embassy after seeing its plea for volunteers on Twitter.
“When I saw images of elderly men and women in Ukraine holding guns and going to the front, I felt I should go in their place.”
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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Three years on, many questions remain unanswered. Only a handful of thugs were arrested.
New Documentary: 721元朗襲擊事件三周年，我們一班獨立記者製作了專題記錄《721未完的案》，總結過去幾年間由民間社會搜集的線索，跟進幾個一直鍥而不捨希望追尋真相的當事人。
youtu.be/smIWjWLYqq8
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Global Hong Kong Studies (at University of California) is launched!
This is a new initiative to promote research and understanding of HK especially its connections and relevance to the world. The following online events are free and accessible worldwide.
globalhks-uc.org
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Wikipedia has suffered an “infiltration” that sought to advance the aims of China
@Wikimedia told @BBCNews that the infiltration had threatened the “very foundations of Wikipedia”. The foundation has since banned 7 editors linked to a mainland China group.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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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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Amid the large police presence in #HongKong during Xi Jinping’s apparent ‘visit’ on 7.1, a sign was found in busy Causeway Bay. It reads:
“We have the right to mourn. I’ll keep mourning you til someone mourns me.”
「悼念是每個人的權利，所以直至有人悼念我之前，我都會繼續悼念你」
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The spirit of resistance must live on.
#AppleDaily🍎 twitter.com/surrealhk_/sta…
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This account has 15 million followers in #CCPChina🇨🇳 twitter.com/Yaqiu/status/1…
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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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Top English private schools put Chinese communists on boards
The board of Harrow International School Hong Kong (@Harrow_HK), whose expensive campus was built with an interest-free £22.5m loan from the HK government, includes four senior #CCP🇨🇳 members.
thetimes.co.uk/article/top-en…
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Happy Valentine’s Day 💘
#Throwback to 2019: How many of you found your “other half” during the protests?
(Graffiti → #今生只嫁前線巴💛)
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Propaganda art in #CCPChina🇨🇳 trying to make the ‘West’ look bad. Actually they make NATO, and even Joe Biden, look so badass. 🔥
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BREAKING: SWHK applauds US congressional sanction appeal letter to urge the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the #HongKong Special Administrative Region, HK National Security Law 🇨🇳 designated judges, and prosecutors.
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An incredible story of a lone Taiwanese girl helping Hong Kong refugee protestors establish new lives in Taiwan. But the question that many like her are asking themselves: Is Taiwan next?
nytimes.com/2021/08/04/mag…
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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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Lithuania: Throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
Xiaomi phones sold in Europe have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms like "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement", said Lithuania's cybersecurity body.reuters.com/business/media…
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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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The evidence they collected includes a box full of M&M chocolates, which according to the current security chief Chris PK Tang 🇨🇳, is a gross breach of national security.
See:
hongkongfp.com/2021/09/08/chi…
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Mark this judge!
Judge Kwok said "Even If the defendant didn't say anything, didn't wear a mask, didn't wear black, and didn't do anything, that does not mean that the court cannot postulate that the defendant participated in a riot"
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Today is the Day of Solidarity with Belarus Political Prisoners.
We, Hong Kongers, stand with 888 Belarusian political prisoners and many more who are courageous and stand up to dictatorship.
#StandWithBelarus #ЖывеБеларусь @Tsihanouskaya twitter.com/Tsihanouskaya/…
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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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Russian police have already arrested over 3000 people who attended peaceful 🇺🇦 anti-war protests in #Russia🇷🇺. Just like in #CCPChina🇨🇳 and Hong Kong, totalitarian governments are highly efficient at suppressing any voice critical of the regime, in order to ensure their survival. twitter.com/OvdInfo/status…
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‘Be careful you don’t die in an accident’: Hong Kong protester living in Canada receives daily threats.
Read the story about Alison Lai, a Hong Konger who has fled to Calgary, Canada as a refugee, to build a new life:
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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“The real crime of those convicted this week is that they took seriously China’s promise of autonomy for Hong Kong in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. They are being punished today simply for trying to make #CCPChina🇨🇳 honor that promise.” @WSJ Ed.
wsj.com/articles/convi…
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