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Look at this fleet of supports and kind-hearted strangers trying to get protesters out of the Tsing Ma Bridge toll plaza and #backhome safe.
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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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This is the scene outside Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital, where medical workers are striking to demand the government close the city’s border with mainland China to contain the #WuhanCoronavirusOutbreak and provide adequate support for both hospital employees and regular HKs.
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Becoming a broken record here but once again: the HKPF’s own guidelines say pepper spray is only for use against “physical action [that] might cause injury to oneself or others." There can be no justification for this. Will this officer ever face discipline? Can he even be ID’d? twitter.com/studioincendo/…
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Unreal scene as riot police come in from all directions, using pepper spray to disperse people on TST’s iconic Avenue of Stars. A marine police launch bobs in the blackened water of Victoria Harbour while the Central skyline glitters in the distance.
What had this city become?
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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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Macau has passed a law requiring all passengers aboard public transportation to wear face-masks from today to prevent the spread of #2019nC0V, joining Guangzhou.
Hong Kong’s government is still fighting a court appeal to impose a law banning face-masks.
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Mong Kok is being fought for block by block, as riot police sweep through, nabbing some and cordoning off dozens for processing. Many caught in their crosshairs attempt to find shelter in nearby shops.
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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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In yet another assault on a pro-democracy figure in Hong Kong, former Democratic Party leader Albert Ho is reportedly in hospital after being attacked by a gang at the Tin Hau MTR Station: 民主黨前主席何俊仁天后遭圍毆 送院治理 hk01.com/article/400185
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Beijing’s move to promulgate a nat’l security law for HK constitutes an “all-out assault on basic human rights” and a ploy to seize total control, says the organiser.
“Taiwanese people and the gov’t cannot stay aloof. We will stand together with HK and oppose China’s tyranny.”
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In the atrium of the upscale Landmark shopping mall in Central, a rally begins to support striking Hospital Authority staff and reiterate their demand that Hong Kong close its border with the mainland to stem the spread of #2019nC0V, which killed its first local victim today.
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As Taiwan remembers the 228 massacre that began its decades-long White Terror, police in Hong Kong have arrested pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, former Labour Party leader Lee Cheuk-yen, and former Democratic Party leaders Yeung Sum and Albert Ho.
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So proud to have won the Human Rights Press Award for Investigative Feature Writing for our work examining the Hong Kong Police Force's misconduct and ongoing unaccountability. It was an honour to work with @ShibaniMahtani, @TMclaughlin3 and Tiffany Liang on this important story. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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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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Yet another day of mass arrests of pro-democracy politicians and activists in Hong Kong unfolding today. Over 2 dozen people rounded up by Hong Kong police including 82-year-old Martin Lee, @appledaily_hk’s Jimmy Lai, @chrf_hk’s Jimmy Sham, and @loktinau.
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Tens of thousands of people are coursing through the heart of Causeway Bay. At the tail end of the march, Victoria Park is still full of protesters waiting to file out and join the march.
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lol I’m literally a Chinese citizen born in Hong Kong, which due to our ethnically discriminatory nationality policy is restricted to Hongkongers of Chinese ancestry. Sorry the fact one of my parents isn’t Han violates your one-drop rule.
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47 opposition figures in HK charged with “inciting subversion” under the NSL today and denied bail, all because they tried to win an election.
How appropriate that this is happening as Taiwan marks the anniversary of the 228 Incident and the White Terror. tw.appledaily.com/international/…
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Outside LegCo, a one-man protest calling for immediate restoration of the 6 September Legislative Council election delayed for at least one year by Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
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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.
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The “Made in HK” vaudeville may seem like much ado about nothing, but it gets to the heart of the city’s existential crisis: Beijing says 1 Country, 2 Systems now means we can keep economic, but not political autonomy. Washington says it’s all or nothing.
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Police, many in full riot gear, were deployed to schools across the city today. Uniformed schoolchildren were stopped, searched and intimidated for staging peaceful protests or handing out flyers. A bleak glimpse of Hong Kong under martial law.
(Pics via AD, TG, HKUSU Campus TV)
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