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Another, third attempt was also made —this time called back when riot police began approaching them from the rear. Several times today I’ve witnessed protesters charge headlong into danger after reminding each other this is their last chance to rescue the students at PolyU.
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Meanwhile, just around the corner on Chatham Road South, riot police close in on protesters from both directions and an armoured vehicle storms through the barricades, tear gas and various intermediate weapons fired throughout.
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Following a call-out issued on LIHKG, protesters are gathering at TST East Centenary Garden, collecting food onations for students trapped at PolyU and conducting a silent sit-in opposite police lines. Legislators Claudia Mo, Ted Hui, Ray Chan, and Longhair are all in attendance.
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What a direct hit from the police water canon vehicle looks like. No mercy for protesters or reporters today.
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In Central another spontaneous lunchtime march has kicked off to support the protesters trapped inside the Polytechnic University. They’re chanting, “Save PolyU! There are students [there]!”
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Just heard a news presenter refer to these structures, used to impede police vehicles at protest road blocks (and possibly ritual purposes), as “Stonehenges.”
FYI they are trilithons—and that is the first time I’ve got to use my archaeology education since moving back to HK. 💁♂️
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At my alma mater, HKU, students have reinforced their defences overnight and remain on high alert after a few close shaves. This morning University officials negotiated a truce with police, with protesters agreeing not to engage police as long as they don’t try to enter campus.
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Hong Kong's Bishop Ha has urged the government to set up an independent inquiry into the death of 22-year-old protester Alex Chow Tsz-lok.
"This is something that no civilized society should accept, and anyone with conscience would not accept,” he said.
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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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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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A national campaign is currently underway to “clean up” the books available at primary and middle school libraries across China. Anything that “does not conform to socialist values,” “threatens national unity” or “defames the Party leadership” will be stripped from the shelves.
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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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The turnout for today’s banned #antiELAB march from TST to West Kowloon is remarkable. Two streams moving northward and southward on Nathan Road. #HKprotests #HongKongProstests
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.@Dior became the latest company to prostrate itself before Chinese nationalists this morning, apologising profusely for PPT slide in which a map of China did not include Taiwan.
“Dior celebrates the 70th anniversary of the glorious birth of New China!”
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The crowd at the rally in Central tonight in support of the US Human Rights and Democracy act is so huge is essentially become a march by necessity, as overspill from Chater Garden fan out in all directions. #StandWithHongKong #HKHRDA
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After police leapt at protesters from out of an LCSD van today, they’ve confirmed they’ve been borrowing vehicles from other departments since Aug. That means any LCSD, AFCD, HD or other gov’t car is a potential source of danger—and a potential target. thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%B…
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In Taikoo Shing mall, people are circling around the ice skating rink chanting #antiELAB protest slogans. Similar scenes are currently unfolding in malls in all 18 of Hong Kong’s districts today.
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They took the #HongKongProstests Lady Liberty statue all the way up Lion Rock this morning!
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Opponents of the protests often say claims of police violence and abuse must be fabricated because the alleged victims don’t go public.
This is why.
A day after she spoke out, this brave student has already been doxxed and is being threatened with death and police prosecution. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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While opponents of the #HongKongProtests continue claim—with no evidence—that protesters are paid, they’re not even being discreet about creating massive financial incentives for crippling and very nearly killing protesters. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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This Weibo poll covers every possible opinion you could express (in China).
“What do you have to say about the #NBAChina fiasco?”
🔘”Support banning broadcasts!”
🔘 “I wouldn’t watch this kind of NBA anyway!”
🔘 “Morey must apologise!”
🔘 “Basketball fans have the motherland!”
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What was the justification for shutting down the entire MTR network at 1800 tonight? No protests planned. The gov’t is so nakedly trying to manufacture mass hysteria that they hope will turn the public against protesters it’s hardly worth commenting on. A curfew in all but name.
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China has really overstepped this time. Thanks to their stunning pettiness with the NBA and South Park’s "Band in China" episode, the issue of exported Chinese censorship has been catapulted to the national conversation in the US. We could look back on this as a watershed moment. twitter.com/CNN/status/118…
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@TiffanyAndCo For anyone who hasn’t been following the #HongKongProtests, here’s the story behind the medic who was shot in her right eye at a protest and how she became an icon for the #antiELAB movement: theguardian.com/world/2019/aug…
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@TiffanyAndCo .@TiffanyAndCo just deleted a tweet showing a model with her hand over her right eye because Chinese bots were accusing the company of supporting the “rioters” in Hong Kong.
Incredible how quickly global companies will self-censor now and sell out people fighting for democracy.
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