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At the starting line for today’s march. According to the organisers, the Civil Human Rights Front, the lawn at Victoria Park is almost completely full now, meaning we could be out of the gates earlier than the expected 1500 start.
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Details of the law that promises to “restore stability” to Hong Kong must not be disclosed because it would destabilise Hong Kong. t.co/R3RwYdj4hX
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Hong Kong police: Our force is being pushed to its operational limits. We’re in a desperate situation. Frontline officers suffer from stress and abuse and may soon have to kill someone.
(bbc.com/news/world-asi…; edition.cnn.com/2019/09/20/asi…)
Also Hong Kong police: twitter.com/LamYikFei/stat…
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Important @StandNewsHK report shows poster advertising 721 Yuen Long demo first appeared on Weibo and only on LIHKG/TG days later, with protesters warning not to fall for this trap.
More proof that police narrative of "clash" between two groups is false.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ds4Ann…
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Two residents in Tuen Mun were hospitalised this afternoon after what is believed to be tear gas wafted through Leung King Estate from the direction of direction of the police’s Tai Hing Operational Base 疑似催淚煙散播 屯門良景邨多人不適 至少兩人送院 hk01.com/article/391431
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HK police were allocated tens of billions to recruit 1,000s more officers in the govt’s new budget this week.
Yet they still have time to destroy the memorial to a student protester who tragically died.
There’s so much wrong with HK it’s sometimes hard to know where to begin. twitter.com/aaronMCN/statu…
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What’s happened in the past five hours?
Rick Hui, Sha Tin District Councillor: arrested
Althea Suen, former HKUSU president: arrested
Cheng Chung-tai, New Territories West Legislative Councillor: arrested
When will it end? twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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I thought this campaign sounded horrifying and dystopian enough when I wrote about it in October. I underestimated the dark, self-destructive path Xi's China is walking.
Turns out they're not just taking the books off the shelves: they're burning them.
thestandnews.com/politics/%E7%9… twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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The Hong Kong-mainland border crossings (marked 封) that will be closed from tomorrow to contain #nCoV2019 versus the far busier ones that will stay open. The entry points that will be closed account for only about 8% of arrivals from the mainland. Low-hanging fruit, to be sure.
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Following last night’s arrest of teenagers for a Facebook post, this well be remembered as the week that all pretensions of autonomy, freedom of speech, and democracy in Hong Kong went out the window.
It’s been said before, but never has it been clearer for all to see.
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Nicole and her crew skipping quarantine to film Expats is “necessary” for the economy, according to the HK gov't, which at the same time is throttling the local film industry with a new “national security” censorship regime banning films and screenings.
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.@StandNewsHK reports that an internal memo circulated at @rthk_enews today applying Chinese state media rules for writing about Taiwan:
❌ President
❌ Government
❌ Executive Yuan
❌ “National”
❌ ROC
✅ Regional leader
✅ Taiwan authorities
✅ Regional administrative organs
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Hong Kong’s first #2019nCoV fatality has just occurred.
The 39-year-old victim, a Whampoa resident, suffered from heart failure this morning. He was diagnosed 31 January, the city’s 13th case.
【武漢肺炎．最新】首宗死亡個案 39歲住黃埔男病人心臟停頓 hk01.com/article/429654
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Yesterday's protests in numbers:
269 arrests (178 males; 91 females; aged 12-71)
1,400 tear gas canisters fired
900 rubber bullets fired
230 foam rounds fired
6 live rounds fired in 4 separate instances
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Hundreds of people, many in black, wearing masks, and carrying white flowers of mourning, are streaming through the Tseung Kwan O car park where Chow Tsz-lok suffered a fatal fall last Sunday. It’s deathly quiet.
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In which Carrie Lam finally admits she does not want to see a peaceful resolution to the political crisis she started. She just expects police to make it disappear with evermore tear gas, baton charges, pepper-balls, foam grenades, rubber bullets, water cannons, and arrests. twitter.com/phila_siu/stat…
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Taiwan just reported its first #COVID2019 death: a diabetic man in his mid-60s with hepatitis B who has no history of travel abroad and contracted the virus locally.
Hospitalised since 3 February, he died last night from pneumonia and septicaemia.
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The water canon vehicle is running a course through Causeway Bay, unleashing bursts of pepper spray-infused water where crowds stood (before the canon advanced) on Hennessy and Jardine. As usual, journalists and medics appear to be the only ones hit.
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Like on the 6 September Election Day protest, people have coalesced in the sidewalks and are walking through the shopping district, avoiding the police and chanting slogans.
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'I thought I was about to die’: Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by Hong Kong police latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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In Hong Kong’s first speech crime trial under the National Security Law, protester Ma Chun-man has been sentenced to 5 years, 9 months in prison for chanting slogans.
第二代美國隊長呼「光時」港獨口號囚5年9月 news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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HKU Council, mostly appointed by the Chief Executive and not representative of the University, have decided to fire Occupy organiser and law prof Benny Tai. Yet another sad day for HKU and academic freedom in Hong Kong.
消息：港大校委會決定即時解僱戴耀廷 news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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Today the people of 24 countries join HKers in 65 Global Anti-Totalitarianism rallies. In this letter, protesters guarding “the unprotected line of defense
which HK forms for the free world" ask freedom-loving people to stop the CCP "before it becomes too powerful to fight off."
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SSP Li insisted they didn’t make the 4 arrests based on organisation（組織）but actions（行動）yet this is somewhat misleading since he also said whether or not anyone was actually incited is immaterial.
The takeaway is that it's not just actions but speech that is now criminal.
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Police out in force today to prevent citizens from mourning the death of a man who attacked an officer with a knife last night, before turning it on himself and ending his own life.
This scene says so much about the dark place Hong Kong society has been driven to at this point. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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