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Yesterday, a detainee at a detention centre in Hebei was tortured to death by police, with help from a fellow detainee.
This is the same type of facility that the 12 HK youths intercepted by the China Coast Guard have been held in for over three months.
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Ray, one of 7 pro-democracy lawmakers arrested in HK this AM, is the man seen here being forcefully dragged across the floor. He was protesting after a pro-Beijing leader—aided by security staff—illegally occupied the Chair seat to pass legislation criminalising insults to China. t.co/sn2OVBbmrk
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Just in from today’s foreign ministry press briefing: Beijing explains there can’t have been an incident involving Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Suva because “Taiwan has no so-called diplomats in Fiji” and Chinese Embassy staff were provoked by _a cake_ bearing the ROC flag.
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How Double Tenth was marked by HK:
Dozens of police and private security sealed off the historic Red House used as Sun Yat-sen’s secret base (thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%B…) while at HKU—Sun’s alma mater—the Lennon Wall was destroyed in an unprecedented move (hkcnews.com/article/34647/…).
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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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Blue flag already raised at East Point, Causeway Bay, the starting point for today’s proposed National Day march to Central calling for the release of 12 young Hongkongers being held incommunicado in a mainland detention centre for over a month.
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Coronavirus social distancing measures banning groups of more than four, scheduled to be relaxed this Thursday, have just been extended to October 1—not long after a protest march was announced for that day.
林鄭月娥：原定周四午夜到期防疫措施延長至10月1日 news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/compon…
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Some minor corrections to the local signage.
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Per @StandNewsHK the bus driver arrested y’day for dangerous driving—after he reportedly honked at police blocking the road—has now been charged with possession of a concealed weapon: a spanner.
The divers’ union head says the tool is sometimes used to adjust rear-view mirrors.
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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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Police closing in from all sides. It’s impossible to leave Mong Kok now without passing through a police line.
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Blue flag raised by police again outside a store on Sai Yeung Choi St in which they’re searching people who sought shelter there, after the crowd began chanting anti-police slogans.
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Everyone trapped inside the stores is now being carded, patted down, and having their bags searched.
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Mong Kok is being fought for block by block, as riot police sweep through, nabbing some and cordoning off dozens for processing. Many caught in their crosshairs attempt to find shelter in nearby shops.
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Bedlam just broke out on Shantung Street in Mong Kong after undercover police posing as protesters tackled several people to the ground and pepper sprayed the crowd.
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Kettled on Nathan between Saigon and Ning Po after a blue flag was raised near where Student Politics members were giving out face masks.
Most journalists were allowed out after checking our press passes but some reporters, either students or from small outlets, were retained.
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On police-lined Nathan Road, the pavement is packed with people walking north chanting protest slogans, including the now-banned “liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time.
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Today’s the day HK’s election was scheduled for before being postponed by at least a year, and a rally is due to kick off in Kowloon to protest the move.
Thousands of police are patrolling the area. My bus across the harbour was boarded by officers who searched everyone’s bags.
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When you march around town for hours to vox pop the people queuing outside multiple sample collection sites for the government’s controversial universal coronavirus testing programme but there’s literally no one at any of them.
σ^_^;
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Outside LegCo, a one-man protest calling for immediate restoration of the 6 September Legislative Council election delayed for at least one year by Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
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Months in the making, the journey of the 12 HK protesters intercepted at sea last week involved an EU national and likely tacit support from Taiwan.
Huge thanks to the HKers and Taiwanese who helped us piece together details behind this remarkable story.
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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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