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The only good way to conclude this thread.
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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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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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Some minor corrections to the local signage.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.@joshuawongcf sentenced to 13.5 months in prison while @chowtingagnes receives 10 months and Ivan Lam seven months over 21 June 2019 demo outside police HQ.
This will be the third time Wong, 24, has been imprisoned for his activism. hk01.com/article/556415…
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Sentences handed down to the 12 Hongkongers detained in Shenzhen range from 2 and 3 years for those charged with organising the alleged escape attempt and 7 months for the others. The 2 minutes implicated were repatriated back to HK earlier today. ott-news.i-cable.com/zh-hk/l/open-c…
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Shocking news out of Hong Kong this morning as “at least 50” pan-democrats are arrested, many for “subverting state power” under the NSL.
大批泛民遭警上門拘捕 疑與民主派初選有關 涉顛覆國家政權罪
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Their act of “subversion” was participating in primaries to determine democratic candidates for the 2020 Legislative Council elections, subsequently cancelled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
If convicted, they could face life in prison under the draconian National Security Law. twitter.com/HKDemocrats/st…
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At the time of the primaries authorities warned that democrats’ strategy to win a legislative majority was illegal under the new Beijing-imposed law.
It sounded like a joke but today we see they truly meant it: Trying to win an election can now land you in prison for life in HK. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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As well as arresting legal scholar Benny Tai and @hkporihkpop director Robert Chung, police have also appeared at the @StandNewsHK newsroom demanding docs from the EIC.
Lawyers, academics, journalists—no one is safe. They truly are coming for everyone.
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Media raids now extended to @appledaily_hk and @inmediahk as Albert Ho’s law firm is also raided and lawyer John Clancey has been arrested in today’s ever-widening dragnet.
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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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Carrie Lam adviser and cabinet member Regina Ip today proposing making HK residency—plus ensuing rights—subject to a loyalty test.
In the same week that police blocked access to a protest site, another troubling sign of what's to come as HK gets full “restive region” treatment.
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This is a solidly average home price in HK, where developers and gov’t collude to keep property values sky-high.
For this supposedly leftist group to give a free pass to crony capitalism and instead find fault with ordinary HKers for owning a thing is… very on-brand, actually.
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Taiwan reports this AM that 5 million Covid‑19 vaccines ordered from Pfizer–BioNTech last year have been “intercepted” due to “Chinese political intervention”: cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
How’s that "campaign to win hearts of Taiwanese” (reuters.com/article/us-tai…) with vaccines going?
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