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Xinhua on Beirut: protesters clash with police, break into offices to demand political reform
Xinhua on Hong Kong: foreign-controlled violent rioters with no aims worth mentioning viciously attack police officers and ransack LegCo, pushing the city to the brink of brutal anarchy
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These designs for a new Taiwan passport cover, up for public vote by the New Power Party, are really impressive.
The results aren’t binding but follow the passing of a resolution to emphasise Taiwan over China in the passport design and national airline.
taiwanpassport.tw/vote/internati…
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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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Then-President Lee Teng-hui on the eve of Hong Kong's in November 1996: “50 years without change won’t be so simple. Our country already plans to enact laws to take in HK people who support democracy when the necessary time arrives, and I believe parliament will pass this bill."
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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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This, presumably, is what HK01 was alluding to by “even bigger news” that would accompany postponement of the LegCo election: a mass disqualification of pro-democracy candidates that seems aimed at barring all primary winners from standing for office.
news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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HK01 reporting that the government will announce today that it is postponing the Legislative Council elections scheduled for September 6 for one year, due to COVID-19.
消息：政府今公布立法會選舉押後一年 另有重大消息一併公布 hk01.com/article/504700…
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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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Tonight officers under the newly-established nat'l security branch of the HK police are rounding up teenagers for “inciting others to separatism,” which many attribute to a single FB post on Sunday: facebook.com/10339838766766…
This is why the NSL is also called the “insecurity law." twitter.com/studentlocalis…
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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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So this whole time blue ribbons and tankies have been spinning spurious conspiracy theories about the US training millions of Hong Kong protesters, turns out they were actually training the Hong Kong police.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ twitter.com/wilfredchan/st…
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Just voted in the local primary for pro-democracy candidates for the September LegCo elections, along with many other neighbours similarly undeterred by government warnings that participating might violate the new state Security Law, and last night’s police raid of pollster PORI.
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Nothing gets the blood boiling quite like listening to a podcast on US-China diplomacy in which American experts talk about/over Hong Kong like it’s just some political poker chip and not home to millions of people who have been struggling for decades to decide their own fate.
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CCP mouthpiece @PDChina stealing my footage (and others) without attribution, then saying the footage—in which journalists are deliberately targeted by police water cannons—will “make you feel good!”
Doesn’t get more unprofessional or inhuman than this.
weibo.com/2803301701/J9L…
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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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Is 免費香港 still OK? twitter.com/HarryBaldwinPG…
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Hong Kong police are very proud about keeping these textiles and stationery off the street today.
The people caught with them could go to prison for years—even life—under Hong Kong’s new National Security Law.
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Over 300 arrests made today—nine under the National Security Law.
七一｜警銅鑼灣灣仔拘逾300人 水炮車多次射催淚水【短片】 news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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Protesters defiant on Hennessy Road. One year and one draconian national security law later, their five demands have not changed.
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The air is thick with mace on Lockhart Road after police unleashed a volley of pepper balls at fleeing protesters.
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Police water canon maliciously targets reporter on Hennessy Road.
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Hong Kong’s Via Dolorosa is just beginning.
Characters on the cross cast “the tyrant Carrie Lam down to Hell.”
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An uneasy stalemate outside Times Square as protesters move forward to meet the retreating police line. Inside, the luxury shopping mall has become an air conditioned refuge.
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One hour before the today’s protest against the National Security Law is meant to begin, the streets of Causeway Bay are eerily quiet, silence blanketing the city’s biggest shopping district on a public holiday. A dozen or more riot police stand at every major street corner.
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