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Riot police are continuing to march down Salisbury Road, firing a hail of tear gas and pushing protesters back toward TST. This couple was caught in their car with only surgical masks as a miasma of tear gas enveloped them.
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Something worth pointing out to casual observers:
It is not just that this exhibition could not take place in HK due to political pressure—à la the June 4th Museum—or pandemic measures.
Under the NSL, displaying any of these materials in HK now could mean up to life in prison. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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The arrestees on the ground are now being stood up and marched with their hands tied behind their backs toward a fleet of coaches that will transport them to a police station or detention centre. For about 4 hours now, all of Hennessy Road has been exclusively occupied by police.
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Huge fire raging outside Causeway Bay MTR Station.
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Tear gas grenade thrown at hecklers calling police “rapists” and “murderers” in Causeway Bay with no warning. People had nothing more than surgical masks on and are coughing and desperately washing their eyes out around the corner.
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Plans for the new, $600m, publicly-funded Police Officers’ Club in Causeway Bay, acquired by @appledaily_hk, make the Royal HK Yacht Club next door look slummy–and come as top brass are being investigated for mansions illegally constructed on public land.
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At one point last night I had to climb on top of a nearby building and film the reflections of detainees off Hysan Place because police blocked off Lee Garden Road. They could say they created the additional space for officers’ comfort and supporters would get behind it. Why lie? twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Add pro-democracy business owners to the growing list of those targeted today.
Along with rice and snacks from Thailand, Aboutthai sold copies of the popular pro-democracy paper @appledaily_hk when other stores in cartel-dominated HK were pressured to take it off the shelves. twitter.com/TMclaughlin3/s…
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This was the first tear gas grenade fired in Causeway Bay. Seriously, what are they thinking? twitter.com/Ellaovo/status…
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China says they decision to delay Hong Kong’s election by one year is “in conformity with mainstream public opinion”—despite the fact that a survey by the Public Opinion Research Institute found that 55% of Hong Kong people oppose the postponement: hk01.com/article/505310…
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All it takes is a missive from state media for Hong Kong to crush a 50-year-old union that represented over 90% of education professionals in the city.
Not a radical protest organisation. Not an opposition political party. Not a pro-democracy pressure group.
A teachers’ union. twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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Police say they arrested over 400 people in Causeway Bay today, including around 70 here on Hennessy Road, lined up against the wall in rows awaiting processing. Few look like hardened frontliners. This rooftop is the closest media can get now to record the scene.
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Beijing's top man on HK, VP Han Zheng, has a new solution for the city's housing crisis: pave over SW Lantau Marine Park—one of only two remaining core
habitats of the Chinese white dolphin—to build public housing at literally the furthest end of HK.
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At first it was just at Shenzhen that Hongkongers had their phones confiscated and checked and were held for hours on end. Then we started hearing about the same happening in Beijing. Now, even Hongkongers entering Macau are being singled out and detained. topick.hket.com/article/243862…
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Hitting a water barricade with a hiking pole: 4 years in prison.
Stabbing people with a meat cleaver: 3 years, 9 months (bbc.com/news/world-asi…). twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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.@JimmyLaiApple and others at Next Media arrested under NSL for foreign collusion (hk.appledaily.com/international/…) while a new “NatSec Division” has been established to review foreign journalists’ visa applications (thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%A…).
Dark days indeed for local and int’l media.
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The more we learn about this from police, the more chilling it becomes.
The alleged “seditious” material includes quotes from interviewees and accounts of the protests that contradict the official police narrative.
This effectively opens every news source to the same treatment. twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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Pepper balls fired down Prince Edward Rd W after a medic is arrested and crowds yell. Before riot police charged north up Tong Choi a projection on the police station spelled out the words: “8.31 beat to death,” the popular slogan decrying the indiscriminate MTR attack last year.
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Protesters returned to the streets of Hong Kong today, the day voters were supposed to choose new city legislators, challenging the decision to postpone the election.
At least 289 people were arrested, including one under the new national security law.
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ICYMI: Hong Kong, already the 5th most heavily policed territory in the world, received funding for more than 2,500 new recruits y'day—as well as $5.1 billion in additional spending and a cash handout of $25.8 billion equivalent to $85,000 per officer.
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According to advocacy group Stand Up HKUer, national security police are on campus to conduct of a search of former student union offices at HKU, including student media Campus TV and The Undergrad magazine.
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On the same night that police went through pains to protect the identities of gang members waving butchers’ knives at protesters, a student journalist was arrested for having a butter knife used to cut mooncakes in his bag. You could not make up this level of selective policing.
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Speech being policed on the streets of Hong Kong as officers tell LegCo hopeful @wongjiyuet not to utter unspecified “sensitive words” and then to keep her voice down—this on the same day “sensitive” books began disappearing from public library shelves (news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…). twitter.com/wongjiyuet/sta…
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