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“Citizens cover their faces: Carrie Lam covers her heart.”
Hongkongers are hitting the street again, this time braving both rain and a draconian emergency law outlawing masks at demonstrations.
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Today HK protesters have been circulating a colour-coded guide on how to treat local businesses:
💛 Pro-democracy stores = support
💙 Pro-Gov’t stores = boycott
❤️ Vocally pro-Gov’t chains = “redecorate” (posters, paint, etc)
🖤 Triad dens and Gov’t bases = “refurbish” (smash)
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Huge fire raging outside Causeway Bay MTR Station.
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An emergency rally and march is beginning in Chater Garden right now to voice citizens’ opposition to the invocation of emergency powers to ban the wearing of masks at protests. It started very small but has been growing quickly in size and volume. #StandwithHK
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The 18-year-old protester shot in the chest at close range by police 1 Oct has been charged with rioting and 2 counts of assaulting a police officer. When I went to the hospital that night, his operating room was already flanked by cops in with riot gear. hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime…
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According to a medic who treated journalist Veby Mega Indah on Sunday after she was shot in the eye by police, the Indonesian consulate has contacted her and indicated that a case against the HK police may be brought to international court of justice. inmediahk.net/node/1067637
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The people versus Beijing has become the people versus the police newstatesman.com/world/asia/201…
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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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Allegedly an X-ray being circulated on Telegram of the form 5 student shot in the chest by police in Tsuen Wan earlier today. It shows bullet fragments just 3cm from the boy’s heart. He remains in critical condition.
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Latest from 阿塗 gives a preview of today’s Nat'l Day festivities. Protesters have yet to assemble but masked riot police are standing by at MTR stations. Telegram groups continue to see messages requesting that a user just arrested be removed and everyone delete chats with them.
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The national flag has just been raised and the entire city is on lockdown. Key MTR station never opened this morning and it’s just been announced every station near a planned protest will close at 1100. Meanwhile, malls all over Hong Kong have shut down. What a way to celebrate.
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Today is, so the calendars say, our National Day—and If I could make one birthday wish on behalf of this "People’s Republic,” it'd be that no more of my fellow HKers need to shed their blood fighting for their future and their freedom. Stay safe, everyone. 香港人加油，萬事小心。
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"Who’s next if we lose? It’s beyond Hong Kong—it’s the free world versus the Chinese Communist Party. Will you stand with us?”
New #HongKongProtests video short shared on Telegram ahead of National Day tomorrow.
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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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My favourite new poster of the day so far: “We can print endless promotional material, but we can’t lose even one brother or sister!” 😻
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Citizens are assembling tonight to stand up for victims of San Uk Ling, a remote detention centre near the Chinese border where arrested #antiELAB protesters have allegedly suffered beatings, torture, and sexual assault, and have been denied medical care and legal assistance.
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Seeing this clip from Lam’s “dialogue” shared everywhere. The speaker declares he “loves life” & wouldn’t kill himself. The belief that protesters are being “suicided”—killed by police then found in staged suicides—has truly gone mainstream, and many are saying this preemptively.
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Check out this great full-spread Apple Daily feature on ethnic-minority Hongkongers (no “expats”🙅) participating in the #AntiELAB #HongKongProtests: s.nextmedia.com/apple/a.php?i=…
It’s not often I get to say this, but read the comments while you’re there. They’re really heartwarming.
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Hey @GAINAXNET, did you license this? Chinese state media is using the Neon Genesis Evangelion soundtrack in its propaganda against Hong Kong democracy protests and I suspect it might be copyright infringement. twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/s…
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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 bubble tea guide for future protest refreshment:
👮♂️ 喜茶 HEYTEA
👮♂️ 茶狼 Cha Long
👮♂️ 幸福堂 Xing Fu Tang
👮♂️ 老虎堂黑糖專売 Tiger Sugar
🎗 九份茶舍 Jiu Fen Tea House
🎗 幸茶舍 Bittersweet Teahouse
🎗 天仁茗茶 TenRen's Tea
🎗 一芳台灣水果茶 Yifang Taiwan Fruit Tea twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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Hong Kong students at I-Shou University in Kaohsiung have begun forming “self-protection groups” after a mainland student tried to strangle a Hong Kong dorm mate who wrote a post-it supporting the protests (thankfully, he was saved by fellow Hongkongers) cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
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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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Just a few of the images shared online exposing the double standards of HK police last night. A man who repeatedly assaulted journalists was genially led away, while another openly brandishing a cleaver was lent a riot shield. Compare and contrast with treatment of protesters.
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Tomorrow night, local football fans will form a #HongKongWay human chain up Caroline Hill, home of the Hong Kong Football Association. These #antiELAB demonstrations just keep getting more niche!
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