Galileo Cheng
@galileocheng
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Award-winning investigative journalist and photojournalist, @ubcjournalism, Mentee @roomupfront; Works @initiumnews @hkfrontline @hkfp @rfacantonese
Hong Kong
Joined August 2008
Miles Kwan, a fifth-year student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), was arrested for alleged sedition by national security police on Saturday. His close friends shared a poignant memory of him with me.
At a nearby train station, several people distributed hundreds of leaflets demanding an independent inquiry into regulatory negligence, resettlement, government accountability and for the construction monitoring system to be re-examined. https://t.co/y12nuaHL3S
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7) This is a common tactic for authoritarian governments: to demoralise political dissent with non-political crimes, then punish him or her with tough security crimes to frame him or her as an enemy of state.
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Few thoughts on Jimmy Lai’s conviction: 1) I am not surprised by the conviction given the fact that Beijing has repeatedly labelled Jimmy Lai is a national security criminal and the local court has little room to contradict the sovereign state’s notion.
#BREAKING : Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of all three charges in his national security trial. He faced two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications.
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Sebastian Lai, son of imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, smiles after the presser over his father's verdict in London, Britian on December 15, 2025.
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The Jimmy Lai case's 855-page, 1 million-word reasons for verdict far exceeded 319 pages of #nsl47 case, reaching a new height for journalists to digest. https://t.co/iHp5UM6nui
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#BREAKING : Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of all three charges in his national security trial. He faced two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications.
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Police was paying extra care to a box of Apple outside the courthouse where dozens of people are queueing up for the verdict hearing of #AppleDaily founder #JimmyLai on Monday. Officers searched the box to verify that they are real apples. 😅 (Source: The Witness HK)
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Someone asked Grok to verify the widely shared video of a brave man tackling one of the Bondi Beach shooters today, which is 100% genuine. Grok says in response that the video is old (it isn't) and shows a man climbing a palm tree in a parking lot (it doesn't).
@OwenShroyer1776 @bradlander This appears to be an old viral video of a man climbing a palm tree in a parking lot, possibly to trim it, resulting in a branch falling and damaging a parked car. Searches across sources show no verified location, date, or injuries. It may be staged; authenticity is uncertain.
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Latest project with @JessiePang0125, @Han_Miami and @jamespomfret about the national security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai. Illustrations are done in the High Court, a pity isn't allowed to draw there now, I had to attend and make sketches after observation.
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Five years on, Beijing is apparently still afraid of me. I sought to fly @CathayPacific from New York to Australia, transiting thru Hong Kong. Immigration authorities blocked me. Evidently my spending even a few hours in the airport was too scary for them.
nytimes.com
Kenneth Roth, executive director of the organization, said immigration officials turned him away at the airport in what some saw as the latest sign of deteriorating freedoms in the city.
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高兟被拘留后，其妻赵雅良后来试图带着儿子返回纽约，但在北京机场被官员拦下，官员以国家安全为由禁止他们离境。当她试图去美国大使馆寻求帮助时，两人被警察拦截并带回三河市。 “这是他们惯用的策略——控制你的家人，让你尽快认罪，”她说。尽管如此，她说她的丈夫不会认罪。 https://t.co/5LpLiMCHPj
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曾创作批评文革作品的艺术家高兟2024年回中国探亲时被捕，如今在等待审判，罪名是涉嫌侵害英雄烈士名誉。他的妻儿被禁止离开中国，高兟从狱中寄出信件和手撕画作，寄托对家人的爱意和思念。
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【紧急关注：维吾尔集中营实地拍摄者关恒遭ICE拘捕，面临遣返危机】曾于2020年独自深入新疆、实地拍摄并揭露集中营设施的中国青年关恒，于2025年8月被美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）拘捕。目前，关恒被关押在纽约州布鲁姆县监狱，面临即将到来的遣返听证程序。
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In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of Uyghur concentration camps. Now, his fate hangs in the balance as he awaits his immigration hearing on December 15th. If sent back to China, he would face drastic consequences. Read: https://t.co/vrosNddoKF
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Creating fake, AI-generated images of historical figures, especially those connected with Auschwitz and the Second World War, is not harmless creativity. It falsifies the past and disrespects the memory of real people. Their photographs are often the last surviving traces of
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Thousands mourns for the deadly Tai Po fire claimed at least 159 lifes in London, Britian on December 5, 2025.
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These unusual diplomatic gray-zone events reflect a sub-national #UnitedFront strategy – shaping provincial policymaking and gaining leverage against unfavorable federal policies, ultimately influencing national decisions Thanks @scoopercooper for covering my research:)
From Illegal ‘Police Stations’ to Rolling Consulates: Beijing’s New Interference Tactic Expands Beyond Major Cities on Canadian Soil
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Last night the Prime Minister spoke about the UK China relationship. He argued for closer ties, saying: “This is not a question of balancing economic and security considerations” But that’s exactly what it is. His own Minister was honest about this back in January. 👇
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Police have declined to comment on specifics, saying only that they will take action in accordance with the law. https://t.co/4wppzLpLK7
reuters.com
Hong Kong authorities said they had arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a probe into the city's deadliest fire in decades, pointing to substandard renovation materials for fuelling a...
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