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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 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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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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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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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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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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The people versus Beijing has become the people versus the police newstatesman.com/world/asia/201…
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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 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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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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Huge fire raging outside Causeway Bay MTR Station.
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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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“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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@TiffanyAndCo .@TiffanyAndCo just deleted a tweet showing a model with her hand over her right eye because Chinese bots were accusing the company of supporting the “rioters” in Hong Kong.
Incredible how quickly global companies will self-censor now and sell out people fighting for democracy.
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@TiffanyAndCo For anyone who hasn’t been following the #HongKongProtests, here’s the story behind the medic who was shot in her right eye at a protest and how she became an icon for the #antiELAB movement: theguardian.com/world/2019/aug…
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China has really overstepped this time. Thanks to their stunning pettiness with the NBA and South Park’s "Band in China" episode, the issue of exported Chinese censorship has been catapulted to the national conversation in the US. We could look back on this as a watershed moment. twitter.com/CNN/status/118…
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What was the justification for shutting down the entire MTR network at 1800 tonight? No protests planned. The gov’t is so nakedly trying to manufacture mass hysteria that they hope will turn the public against protesters it’s hardly worth commenting on. A curfew in all but name.
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This Weibo poll covers every possible opinion you could express (in China).
“What do you have to say about the #NBAChina fiasco?”
🔘”Support banning broadcasts!”
🔘 “I wouldn’t watch this kind of NBA anyway!”
🔘 “Morey must apologise!”
🔘 “Basketball fans have the motherland!”
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While opponents of the #HongKongProtests continue claim—with no evidence—that protesters are paid, they’re not even being discreet about creating massive financial incentives for crippling and very nearly killing protesters. twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Opponents of the protests often say claims of police violence and abuse must be fabricated because the alleged victims don’t go public.
This is why.
A day after she spoke out, this brave student has already been doxxed and is being threatened with death and police prosecution. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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They took the #HongKongProstests Lady Liberty statue all the way up Lion Rock this morning!
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In Taikoo Shing mall, people are circling around the ice skating rink chanting #antiELAB protest slogans. Similar scenes are currently unfolding in malls in all 18 of Hong Kong’s districts today.
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After police leapt at protesters from out of an LCSD van today, they’ve confirmed they’ve been borrowing vehicles from other departments since Aug. That means any LCSD, AFCD, HD or other gov’t car is a potential source of danger—and a potential target. thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%B…
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The crowd at the rally in Central tonight in support of the US Human Rights and Democracy act is so huge is essentially become a march by necessity, as overspill from Chater Garden fan out in all directions. #StandWithHongKong #HKHRDA
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.@Dior became the latest company to prostrate itself before Chinese nationalists this morning, apologising profusely for PPT slide in which a map of China did not include Taiwan.
“Dior celebrates the 70th anniversary of the glorious birth of New China!”
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