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Important @StandNewsHK report shows poster advertising 721 Yuen Long demo first appeared on Weibo and only on LIHKG/TG days later, with protesters warning not to fall for this trap.
More proof that police narrative of "clash" between two groups is false.
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Laws, rules, “red lines”—none of it matters anymore. They take whoever they want whenever they want. twitter.com/galileocheng/s…
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A motorbike collision is terrorism. A slogan is secessionism.
For anyone hoping this trial would set a high bar for such serious charges with incredibly heavy sentences under the National Security Law, not a reassuring sign. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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Siobhan Bernadette Haughey takes silver in the 200m freestyle, winning Hong Kong’s first-ever Olympic medal in swimming and, if I may, reflected glory for all us mixed Irish-Hongkongers!
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Another silver for Siobhán Haughey in the 100m freestyle! After already winning Hong Kong’s first swimming medal and making this the first Olympics in which Hong Kong has won more than one medal, she has now become our first Olympian to score multiple medals in a single Olympics.
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Dangerous driving resulting in light injuries is punishable by nine years in prison in Hong Kong, depending on your political affiliation. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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After losing to Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin in the badminton men’s doubles gold medal match yesterday, China’s Li Junhui takes to Weibo to congratulate… China.
“Congratulations to our Taipei, China team 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳,” he writes.
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All it takes is a missive from state media for Hong Kong to crush a 50-year-old union that represented over 90% of education professionals in the city.
Not a radical protest organisation. Not an opposition political party. Not a pro-democracy pressure group.
A teachers’ union. twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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As HKers are imprisoned and exiled, silenced and traumatised by state violence, we get not 1 but ✌️ @PrimeVideo series about expats.
This is starting to feel like cruel and unusual punishment. How much more does the city need to suffer before they care about actual HKers’ lives? twitter.com/bobbiharlow/st…
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Nicole and her crew skipping quarantine to film Expats is “necessary” for the economy, according to the HK gov't, which at the same time is throttling the local film industry with a new “national security” censorship regime banning films and screenings.
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Wholesome “patriots-only” mooncakes ☺️
Via 香港地FB
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Yes, these are M&M’s being collected as evidence for state subversion after members of a student group were arrested today under the National Security Law.
M&M’s are the only chocolates allowed in Hong Kong jails. The students were collecting them to send to political prisoners. twitter.com/galileocheng/s…
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「台灣不再是『亞細亞的孤兒』。」
“Taiwan is no longer the ‘Orphan of Asia.’” - Pres. Tsai @iingwen
One of the most memorable lines, for me, from the President’s National Day address, after acknowledging the increasing global support and vaccine donations Taiwan has received.
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Hong Kong police have sealed off Tuen Mun’s Sun Yat-sen Park and the Red House—reputedly Sun’s revolutionary hideout—on the anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.
How long until Dr Sun’s statue is removed from HKU along with the Pillar of Shame?
(photo via @StandNewsHK)
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There is nothing more political than “keeping politics out of sport.”
If the detention of Tibetans, Uyghurs, and HKers in Athens last week didn’t make that clear, just look at the runners being surrounded by HK police today for politically incorrect clothing.
(via @hkcnews_com) twitter.com/ofarry/status/…
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In Hong Kong’s first speech crime trial under the National Security Law, protester Ma Chun-man has been sentenced to 5 years, 9 months in prison for chanting slogans.
第二代美國隊長呼「光時」港獨口號囚5年9月 news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%…
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HK judges: a baton isn’t a weapon, but a water bottle is. twitter.com/antd/status/14…
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They went to the trouble of annexing Taiwan for the PRC yet Tasmania isn't Australian, Northern Ireland has left the UK, and Newfoundland, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, and the entire Arctic Archipelago have all succeeded from Canada.
I'm just fascinated by how bad this map is. twitter.com/NFL345/status/…
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.@StandNewsHK announces it is ceasing operations and letting go of all staff, after HK police froze its assets and arrested six for publishing seditious material.
After Apple Daily, this is the second opposition news source that authorities have shut down this year.
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The more we learn about this from police, the more chilling it becomes.
The alleged “seditious” material includes quotes from interviewees and accounts of the protests that contradict the official police narrative.
This effectively opens every news source to the same treatment. twitter.com/hkfp/status/14…
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How fitting and tragic that @StandNewsHK’s last story before the announcement of their closure was this video on “forbidden words”—the things we can no longer say and the platforms we’ve lost to say them.
Watch here until their YouTube channel goes dark: youtu.be/CtsRbo_C9l4
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You need to read this entire thread on Junius Ho's meltdown after a single day in Penny's Bay. Behold the righteous indignation of a man whose political opponents have spent over a year in pretrial detention. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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Saw Revolution of Our Times at an advance screening today (general release in Taiwan Feb. 25) and I have never heard such a chorus of sniffles when the credits ran—not to mention gasps at footage of police violence. No less moving for those of us who were there on the frontlines.
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It says a lot about the anti-"sedition" crackdown in Hong Kong that every time someone is arrested under the charge, we all have to wonder what they did.
At the very least, we hope, this case might finally make it clear what sedition is now and how to avoid it—but it never does. twitter.com/hkfp/status/15…
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