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Hong Kong police have arrested someone for disturbing public order after they sprayed water at a police officer during Songkran celebrations in Kowloon City earlier this week.
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At the starting line for today’s march. According to the organisers, the Civil Human Rights Front, the lawn at Victoria Park is almost completely full now, meaning we could be out of the gates earlier than the expected 1500 start.
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The arrestees on the ground are now being stood up and marched with their hands tied behind their backs toward a fleet of coaches that will transport them to a police station or detention centre. For about 4 hours now, all of Hennessy Road has been exclusively occupied by police.
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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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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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Huge fire raging outside Causeway Bay MTR Station.
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This was the first tear gas grenade fired in Causeway Bay. Seriously, what are they thinking? twitter.com/Ellaovo/status…
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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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What if the @WHO isn't a corrupt cabal maliciously misleading the world to defend the CCP, and is just a timid, flaccid bureaucracy too crippled by the competing interests of its own member states to offer any practical let alone moral leadership during a rapidly evolving crisis.
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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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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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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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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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The Hong Kong-mainland border crossings (marked 封) that will be closed from tomorrow to contain #nCoV2019 versus the far busier ones that will stay open. The entry points that will be closed account for only about 8% of arrivals from the mainland. Low-hanging fruit, to be sure.
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Something worth pointing out to casual observers:
It is not just that this exhibition could not take place in HK due to political pressure—à la the June 4th Museum—or pandemic measures.
Under the NSL, displaying any of these materials in HK now could mean up to life in prison. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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At first it was just at Shenzhen that Hongkongers had their phones confiscated and checked and were held for hours on end. Then we started hearing about the same happening in Beijing. Now, even Hongkongers entering Macau are being singled out and detained. topick.hket.com/article/243862…
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Genting Cruise Lines’ vessel World Dream has docked at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Cruise Terminal after being turned away from Kaohsiung due to coronavirus concerns. Taiwanese authorities prohibited her from making her expected port of call yesterday having sailed from Guangzhou 24 Jan.
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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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Organisers have just said over 135,000 people took part in the 45km-long #HongKongWay human chain tonight. Here are some of the amazing photos of Lion Rock being shared on Telegram:
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For years, Hong Kong has promoted itself as a global art hub.
Now, the legality of artwork in the city will now be determined by a secretive, opaque new arm of the police accountable only to Beijing, and tasked making arrests for political crimes.
Let that sink in for a moment. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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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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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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In which Carrie Lam finally admits she does not want to see a peaceful resolution to the political crisis she started. She just expects police to make it disappear with evermore tear gas, baton charges, pepper-balls, foam grenades, rubber bullets, water cannons, and arrests. twitter.com/phila_siu/stat…
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