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The turnout for today’s banned #antiELAB march from TST to West Kowloon is remarkable. Two streams moving northward and southward on Nathan Road. #HKprotests #HongKongProstests
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Hongkongers in Taipei are making the third anniversary of the 12 June 2019 protest today with a march, a rally, and—briefly—flag-burning at the Bank of China steps. They say the struggle has moved overseas but it is not over.
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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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And right on cue, the first tear gas of 2020.
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Blue flag raised by police again outside a store on Sai Yeung Choi St in which they’re searching people who sought shelter there, after the crowd began chanting anti-police slogans.
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On police-lined Nathan Road, the pavement is packed with people walking north chanting protest slogans, including the now-banned “liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time.
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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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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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Has Hong Kong become a police state? Let’s hear from the FTU’s Alice Mak.
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Hong Kong students are magic. Change my mind.
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Report raises questions about Chinese leader's #coronavirus timeline dpa-international.com/topic/topic/re… 來自 @dpa_intl
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Apple Daily reports that the Hong Kong Police Force has been issued close to 640,000 N95 respirators by the gov’t—over 40 times more than the Department of Health.
HKPF also received 40,000 protective coverall suits, versus 2,000 for medical personnel.
hk.appledaily.com/local/20200215…
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Everyone trapped inside the stores is now being carded, patted down, and having their bags searched.
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Protest-themed carols at the TST Star Ferry Pier. This riff on “Santa is Coming to Town” is titled “Article 23 is Coming to Town.”
“Christmas is here again and you have teargas to breathe, “ they sing.
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Extremely concerning that @aimenlau has had her account permanently suspended for “platform manipulation and spam”—especially when the only “amplification” she’s engaged in is retweeting #A4Revolution #ChinaProtests content.
If there’s anyone even left @TwitterSupport, fix this.
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In her victory speech, incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen says the historic #TaiwanElection turnout shows “how much we treasure democracy and our country: the Republic of China Taiwan.” The name she used—「中華民國台灣」—is a subtle but significant shift in nomenclature.
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One year ago today. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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After all the ink spilled in the West about the unstoppable “march of authoritarianism” worldwide maybe we ought to be writing more about how the people of HK and Taiwan stood their ground and pushed right back this year.
And maybe the rest of the world ought to be behind them.
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Lady Liberty on wheels leading #antiELAB protesters’ retreat east toward Causeway Bay.
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Government officials have refused to directly answer whether journalists would be liable to persecution for covering newly outlawed opinions and “wanted” individuals—but the chilling effect of such strategic ambiguity is already being felt with media organisations self-censoring. twitter.com/hkchrislau/sta…
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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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“Today’s Xinjiang, tomorrow’s Hong Kong”: New video shared on Telegram expresses Hongkongers’ fears about lampposts being installed in parts of the city that are feared to have facial recognition technology reminiscent of those used to track people’s social credit score in China.
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Pro-democracy candidates won 80% of District Council seats last November and polls indicate that close to 3 million HKers joined protests last year, with their supporters outnumbered their opponents nearly 2:1.
Yet Carrie Lam is still calling them “enemies of the people”. Wow. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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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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Researchers at a Shenzhen hospital have just found #2019nCoV survives in the excrement of the infected. This strongly suggests fecal as well as respiratory transmission is possible, making a scenario like the infamous Amoy Gardens SARS outbreak possible.
weibo.com/2831150640/Ise…
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