Last September, the US government granted me asylum based on evidence of past political persecution and fear of future political persecution by the Hong Kong & Chinese government.
The full statement in Chinese can be seen:
#Thailand
, we are not there with you, but we feel you deeply. It is the least for me to say, we are in this together. We stand with you just like what you did when we needed a friend.
#StandWithThailand
#MilkTeaAlliance
#หยุดคุกคามประชาชน
#ขีดเส้นตายไล่เผด็จการ
#day70
of the 12 HK activists' disappearance. They r provided no right to due process nor access to medication.
The intl community has to hold China accountable for its human rights assaults & pressure for their release. We can't afford to see the 13th victim.
#save12hkyouths
The bounty issued on me is just one of the many accounts of egregious human rights abuses conducted by China on Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, & Chinese dissidents both inside China & abroad. The world needs to know wt the CCP is doing to violate human rights across the globe.
The 91-year-old Cardinal Zen attended
#JimmyLai
’s trial today. What a symbol of true strength and fearlessness in the face of oppression.
#FreeJimmyLai
This is probably one of the most iconic scenes of
#QueenElizabeth
's visit to
#HongKong
in 1975. The space between authority & grassroots almost dissolved in that one frame, which will unlikely to happen in HK with the current admin. Her legend will remain in every hker's heart.
I hv just announced my latest departure from Hong Kong due to personal safety concern: "A few months ago, I was prompted to leave Hong Kong based on sources indicating my likelihood of facing political persecution from the HK gov." Read more:
Breaking: Tony Chung Hon-lam, the first youngest activist sentenced to jail under the National Security Law, announced today that he finished his sentence last June and has arrived in the UK to seek asylum.
Here is a thread about his story:
1/11
Manchester PRC consulate officials attempted to drag protesters into the consulate's area, HongKong Flag Team reported. The man in blue scarf, believed to be the Consul general, were seen vandalizing stand-up banners as Hongkongers protested in front of the consulate.
Woke up with a new arrest warrant & a HKD1m bounty. Grateful for those who reached out & offered support to me & fellow
#Hongkongers
who are wanted by the govt.
As I process this, let me reiterate that my advocacy for democracy & freedom has not and will not stop.
#FreeHK
✊🏼
This is the first time I travel abroad using this refugee travel doc since I was granted asylum in the US. I've always said that I am just lucky in this process while thousands of
#Hongkongers
&
#Uyghurs
struggle to see progress on their asylum applications . 🧵US lifeboat policy
Former HK journalist and current district councilor Pak-kin Leung said he received a blade in a letter that reads "stay silent on 831 (the Aug 31 terrorist incident) to keep your family safe."
He once ducumented the 831 incident for Rice Post where he worked for as a reporter.
#BREAKING
: Numbers of candidates like Ventus Lau, Alvin Yeung, Owen Chow, Fergus Leung, and Gweneth Ho are arrested under the National Security Law for running for the 2020 pro-democratic primaries in July.
#HongKong
BREAKING: Berklee student is sentenced to 9 mo in jail, followed by 3 years of supervised parole & deportation on conviction of stalking & harassing a classmate who posted fliers in support of democracy in China. Judge believes appropriate sentencing will deter similar behaviors.
I just learned that one of the PRC agents behind the counterprotest of a rally I led in Boston in Aug2019 was finally arrested & indicted by federal grand jury tdy. After FOUR YEARS. I'm relieved, outraged & disappointed at the same time. Stay tuned as I am processing it here👇🏽
Documents have shown that Quinn Moon, one of the 12 arrested HK youths, suffers from depression and is regularly prescribed. While their families and lawyers are denied from visiting, Moon is still barred from access to her psychiatric medication for 19 days.
#save12hkyouths
Just now: A Mandarin-speaking man attacked a Hong Kong student at
@Cornell
for putting up posters supporting freedom of
#HongKong
and
#Uyghurs
. This man's action & any kind of Chinese aggression against
#Hongkongers
should never be acceptable. Here's what happened:
One of the shocking news from ytd hearing was when
@samcheunghosum
's lawyer told the judge that Sam is going to be a father.
His charge has a min of 10 yrs sentence. If Sam's bail is rejected, the 1st time he holds his child's hand would be 10yrs later upon completion of it.
Frd of mine who r inside the court texted me she could hear ppl chanting "Liberate HK, Revolution of Our Times," a slogan that is deemed subversive & vanished from HK streets since the NSL was enacted.
I can feel the energy just thru my screen. Hopefully it does the same to u.
My last exchange with Jimmy Lai, "bc we are part of a history of humanity. We go thru this part of history by leaving our footprint for ppl who follow us. So it's important for us to know that my life is not abt myself, but abt sth more important, sth bigger, sth which is true."
#EyeForHK
A young girl, who volunteered herself to be a first-aider in a peaceful protest on 11 Aug 2019, was shot in the right eye by the police causing permanent vision loss. The authority is creating violence every day and using brutality to rule the city.
#EyeforHK
#Eye4HK
Two years ago on this date in Hong Kong, 1.3 million took to the street only with a simple, direct demand:
#NoExtraditionToChina
Yet, none of us would have expected that was the start of a long, brutal battle that costs us everything.
Ard 5 yrs ago, Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow & more of us sat tgt to announce the suspension of Scholarism, a student org started in 2014 against the National Edu Proposal.
As we chanted our familiar "No fear for student activism" slogan, we knew it wouldn't be the end of our fight.
A Chinese citizen put up these banners in Beijing today, crying out for freedom & reform and calling for a strike to "overthrow the dictator traitor
#XiJinping
". The Citizens Daily writes that the individual was arrested by police and related images are censored in China now. (1/
Thread: Today, an 18yo Tibetan-American, Tsela Zoksang, and 22yo Hong Kong American activist
@jooeysiiu
were arrested by Greek authorities after hanging a Tibet and hk flag in Acropolis in Athens.
Here is what you need to know:
(more update will be posted in this thread)
Breaking: Participants reported three car break-ins after attending Alex Chow Tsz-Lok Anniversary Memorial in San Francisco. The perpetrator is yet to be identified.
Today at the
@UN
I spoke abt CCP's oppression within & beyond
#HongKong
since I started my activism at 14. It was a humbling experience to listen to stories of other activists under rule of oppressive tyrannies. I look forward to share & hear more tmr at the
@GenevaSummit
.
Now we got a bunch of white-shirted people in Hong Kong acting like KKK, chasing people down and beating them up into blood. And then police officers are ignoring what is happening and pretending they didn't see anything.
Fuck you HK police, fk u HK government.
The 7th person. She died. She killed herself because the Hong Kong she knows is gone.
The withdrawal of the bill is not enough. Never enough.
#StandwithHK
#antiELAB
#FightForFreedom
#NOW
: Police is now at
@StandNewsHK
office in Kwun Tong with a search warrant.
Earlier in the day, over 50 political individuals were arrested by the National Security dept for their participation in the 2020 pro-democracy primaries last july.
#NationalSecurityLaw
#HongKong
Today we projected the faces of women who hv been put behind bar for >500 days by the
#HongKong
gov for standing up against the destruction of freedom in Hong Kong. Their courage has lighten up
#NewYork
this Friday night. Remember their names.
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
My very last time joining
@chrf_hk
's July 1 march in Hong Kong. I was collecting donations from the crowd for Scholarism, the disbanded student organization that led the Anti-National Education movement in 2012 and the Umberella Revolution in 2014.
"Hong Kong has never been free." I thought hard for a line to describe
#HongKong
's plight to the audience of
#GenevaSummit2023
. Many ppl have mistaken Hong Kong as once a free society. But it has never been free under UK & Chinese rule. Let me explain w/ a snip of my speech: 🧵
Journalism is a crime in Hong Kong.
The chief of Hong Kong National Security department said the actions taken on
@appledaily_hk
today are due to its reports over the past two years on parties calling for global sanctions on the Chinese gov and the HK gov.
photo: Apple Daily
One of the arrested activist
@samcheunghosum
shares this to hkers after he knew he is now charged for subversion. "Ideas are bulletproof. Our future is never determined," he wrote. "Our will and our faith will be the light guiding us thru everything."
BREAKING: Two tibetan activist & hk activist
@jooeysiiu
were arrested as they protest against the
@iocmedia
on the Beijing 2022 Olympics.
MEDIA INQUIRIES: pm me or
@SFTHQ
World leaders should see the recent development in
#HongKong
as signs to look no further than China’s Hong Kong and implement policy change accordingly, so that we are reacting appropriately to CCP’s crackdown on the civil society on Hong Kong & transnational repression abroad.
Do you know that Tibetans, Hongkongers, Taiwanese, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians & Chinese democracy activists are joining forces on Jun 23, the International Olympic Day, to call for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics?
#NoBeijing2022
A recent report by
@SafeguardDefend
shows that China has at least 54 overseas stations in 30 countries, including the US. I thought it will be nice to share a few incidents that my friends and I hv experienced for those who deny the existence of Chinese overseas agencies 😇🧵 1/
"If (the eight Hong Kong overseas advocates) have broken the law, then we have too and are also 'guilty'.."
Join us to support those who experience CCP repression by signing onto the letter and share with the hashtag
#IAmGuiltyToo
.
✍🏼Sign now:
PLEASE SPREAD: Imprisoned
#HongKong
human right defender and lawyer
#ChowHangTung
#鄒幸彤 is put under solitary confinement as she goes on a 34-hour long hunger strike today to commemorate the
#June4th
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
.
"Victoria Park is where candlelight is lit."
🥈🥈Siobhan Haughey got her second silver medal in Women's 100m Freestyle final at
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
breaking Asia's record ONCE MORE🥺👏🏽
#WeAreHongKong
SHE IS THE QUEEN 👑
Today on
@FoxNews
I shared my concerns on personal safety under CCP's notorious practice of transnational repression thru its outposts in the US, including the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices
#HKETO
, Chinese secret police stations & its agents.
Watch:
It's the third or fourth winter that
#HongKong
activists are spending behind bars. As we get to celebrate this holiday of joy with our loved ones, let's not forget those who had lost their freedom to do so. Join me &
@thecfhk
to light a
#Candle4HK
&
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
Here you got students, lawyers, social workers, businessmen, politicians and many more that are perhaps top-notch individuals in the city. All handcuffed and persecuted for their participation in the democratic primaries.
I remember insisting and crying on a bus when someone came to me and forced me to identify myself as a Chinese. Despite all the hardship I encountered due to my identity, I still proudly tell people that I come from Hong Kong and I will not stop.
Young activists chose to be sleeping on the street in freezing cold instead of being in their warm cozy bed for over 48 hrs, all for a chance to go home.
They might hv a home here in the US. But in their hearts, there is only one place to call home.
Today I talked to
@ABC
abt
#JimmyLai
's trial & the HK$ 1m bounty on me. Expecting to see an obscene prison term at the end of this unfair trial, countries should rethink multilateral cooperation on China & call for the release of political prisoners.
On the 1 yr anniversary of Iranian govt’s murder of
#MahaAmini
, I stand in solidarity with all the girls & women who hv struggled & sacrificed in the fight against totalitarian regimes around the world. Tgt we will give strength to one another & set us free 🕊️✊🏻
#FightLikeAGirl
🇹🇷 Tarihimizde ilk kez kayakla atlama elemelerini geçen milli sporcumuz Fatih Arda İpcioğlu, duygularını
#TRTSPORDijital
ile paylaştı!
🗣 “Yarın daha iyi sonuçlar bekliyoruz. Daha en iyi performansımızı göstermedik. Elimizden geleni yapmaya devam ediyoruz.”
BREAKING: The US condemns
#HongKong
police's issuance of bounty on the 8 pro-democracy activists abroad. The international community, especially the UK, US & Australia, where the 8 reside, should speak up and commit to protect the freedom fighters in their states.
#Now
Families of 12 arrested Hong Kong youths meet press for the first time since they are detained in Shenzhen for 20 days, alongside
@ChuHoiDick
@owenchowkashing
and James To.
Thread: (1/3) two yrs ago on Aug18, i organized a rally in Boston. Here was what happened:
- I received pics of firearms and was threatened to cancel the rally (I didn't)
- my personal info was widely spread among the chinese community
- Someone tried to sit in before my home
Thread: Today
@EnesKanter
finally wears his new shoes for Hong Kong in an NBA game. I am so proud to be part of it to make this happen. As we cheer for the player and celebrate such an honor, there are a few points worth knowing:
🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Wong Ji-Yuet 黃子悅
Her birthday is today.
Wong Ji-Yuet is a former candidate of the democratic primaries and the former spokesperson of Scholarism, a student activist group in Hong Kong.
Denise Ho, one of the
@StandNewsHK
's directors who were arrested in hk
#JustNOW
, tesified in front of
@CECCgov
in 2019 in an effort to lobby for the HK Human Rights & Democracy Act. Under great risk imposed by the
#NSL
,
@hoccgoomusic
bravely remains in hk as an independent singer
I cannot stress enough that, this kind of behavior should never happen in the UK and the rest of the world where free speech and protest are supposed to be basic human rights. The UK must hold China and the personnel involved in this attack accountable.
8 yrs ago, Scholarism disbanded. We parted ways aspiring to different political agendas on how to pursue democracy. Tdy many of us are jailed & fled home. Just ytd,
#HongKong
swiftly passed the
#Article23
law. The city has become unrecognizable w/ no room for civil engagements.🧵
“We will continue to demand the unconditional release of
#JimmyLai
& all of Hong Kong’s political prisoners & seek ways to raise the diplomatic & reputational costs globally for the Hong Kong and PRC govt’s rough dismantling of democratic freedom & the rule of law in Hong Kong.”
Man in blue scarf who vandalized banners in the protest and helped dragging the HK protester is believed to be the PRC consulate-general in Manchester, Zheng Xiyuan 鄭曦原
Now News: One of the 12 youths, Andy Li, will be charged for colluding with foreign forces under HK's national security law. The case will be mentioned in court later today.
#save12hkyouths
@andy_is_missing
#GwynethHo
is always determined in doing what she believes to be the right thing to do. She has always tried to spread positivity to others, even while she is in prison. 739 Days behind bars for her participation in
#HongKong
democratic primaries––CCP fears her courage the most.
When you see a flood of opposite comments under your social media post, you know the
#CCP
has noticed your work and listed your post onto their robot's daily task. Somehow entertaining.
The last printed edition of Apple Daily HK, the only pro-democratic newspaper in
#HongKong
, shows a photo of hundreds gathered outside the newsroom; "We Support Apple."
From now on, all the newspapers you can get in Hong Kong are of Beijing's agenda.
til next time.
What a POLICE STATE looks like: A young person in black was pulled over by police officers while walking. ID recorded.
Photo by
@ssataline
in HK station ytd: "Friend believes there’s a type they profile: Sporty, swift, no glasses. Obviously young, male."
Just realized: In 2021, the best way to reject a mainland Chinese guy is to say "I don't have Weixin (WeChat)." Sounds ridiculous to them but it's literal 🤷🏽♀️
i'm back with good news!🙌🏾 I have officially moved to Washington DC and will be here for at least a yr. Plssss hit me up for coffee or bring me to great food around the area.
And yes, I am taking furnitures/things that have been in your storage for years 😜JUST HMU!
#BREAKING
: 15 of the 47 defendents were granted bail. Yet, they were back to remand as the Secretary of Justice immediately applied for appeal against the bail decision. They will go to High Court within 48 hours.
"WE DON'T WELCOME DICTATOR" – San Francisco Hongkongers staged a car parade last weekend ard Moscone Center, where APEC is being held, featuring 3
#HongKong
political prisoners who hv been imprisoned since 2020, including
#TonyChung
,
#JoshuaWong
&
#JimmyLai
. (📷Cr. Michael Ho)
One day, we will see the flag and hear the anthem that represent the true spirit of Hong Kong people. 🥇Congratulations to Edgar our champion!!
(The internet edited it with the song Glory to Hong Kong of 2019. The song that actually rang on live was the PRC national anthem.)
The mid-autumn festival, just like the lunar new year, is a significant celebration where people embrace the idea of reunion.
So, to many Hkers nowadays, whether in diaspora, behind bars, or in local Hong Kong, this festival definitely feels heavier than ever
#中秋節平安
Another video shows the
#HongKongPolice
knew the woman is pregnant before they pulled her to the ground.
"You did it on purpose! Don't you see her pregnant?" Her husband yelled at the police after they bumped into his wife.
20s later, officers ran into them and pulled them down
Today, I represented over 200 global campaign groups of affected and concerned communities to deliver a letter to
@NBCNews
, the US broadcaster of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, to urge it to immediately cancel its broadcasting deals with the IOC.
#NoBeijing2022
In today's meeting with
@StateDept
, I shared my personal encounters with CCP's transnational repression, including receiving physical death threats and being spied on by Chinese agencies, and the latest after the HKG placed a HK$1m bounty on my head in Dec 2023. (1)
Honored to meet with courageous advocates for Hong Kong’s democracy and human rights who’ve been unjustly targeted for exercising their fundamental freedoms. We call on Hong Kong authorities to immediately cease all efforts to intimidate people in Hong Kong and around the world,…
The kind of harassment & intimidations overseas
#HongKong
activists & their families in HK are facing is becoming more severe than what we have known. It's disturbing to see this is wt our community & allies are dealing w/ on a daily basis afar.
Huge win for the Hong Kong community.
The
@POTUS
has done the right thing to keep its gate from John Lee, whom it sanctioned in 2020 on human right violation grounds. He shouldn't have stood a chance to step foot into the US ever.
Statement in response to
#HongKong
govt's recent issuance of bounty and arrest warrant on me: "In the spirit of Hongkongers' persistance, I will keep on fighting."
I will elaborate further at the
@HudsonInstitute
event later today at 12pm. Please join me in-person or virtually.
@DrewPavlou
has been arrested and charged following a protest in Eastwood attended by Tibetan and anti-CCP activists.
The signs held were said by attendees to say ‘down with xijinping’ and were google translated to also say ‘son of a bitch.
I was in Hong Kong since last March as I was finishing my study. Who would know that four months after that, the city completely turned into a draconian society where dissents are essentially considered crimes.
Not surprisingly,
@frances_hui
announced she won't return to Hong Kong even though she completed her studies in the US over the summer
Hui founded
@WeTheHongkonger
, a campaign which encouraged others in the US to state their identity as HKer instead of Chinese in the 2020 Census
It’s been a while not to wake up & see another friend being arrested under serious charges. This is Ivan Lam, former
@demosisto
chairman, arrested today with 3 other men on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and acts with seditious intent.
📷
@SiuTyrone
2 years after Jun 12, Hongkongers is making a comeback. Will you stand with us again? Watch my latest YouTube video about what happened on this date in 2019 and the global campaign for this year's anniversary.
#Remember612
#HKBEWATER2021
When HK national security officers search Student Politicism's storage, they make sure to box the m&ms, crackers, towels, soap, and books, most of which are jail-approved visiting items for prisoners. Guess now they think even m&ms and crackers would endanger the regime.
I met w/
@SenateForeign
ytd to exchange updates & details of the
#HKETO
Certification Act introduced by
@marcorubio
@SenJeffMerkley
. Very excited to hear that it's been put up to next week's markup just now. I look forward to more progress on this in both chambers. HKETO must go.
Four years from today, a man jumped off a bridge in
#HongKong
to call for a full withdrawal of the extradition law.
His name is Leung Ling-Kit (#梁淩杰) – he is the first among 11 lives we lost in the movement. His life went to an end but the movement did not and will not.
This is so embarrassing. It hurts to read the comments made by Chinese netizens, some of which are discriminatory and hateful speech toward Native Americans involving the model's appearance and cultural heritage. I can't understand why this is acceptable in China and abroad...
An Apple employee's photo has caused a wave of online nationalism in China over the weekend. Netizens accuse Apple of discrimination for posting an allegedly "ugly" Asian employee's photo on its Chinese website.