Luke de Pulford
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1230 days behind bars.
Please share the story of Andy Li.
李宇軒已被關押逾1230日
請關注他的遭遇
#FreeAndyLi
#FreeJimmyLai
#StandwithHongKong
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Very good to take some time
@our
from election observation to tell
#JuniusHo
in person that I was responsible for the revocation of his honorary doctorate from
@AngliaRuskin
#Sorrynotsorry
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Heading back to London.
Thank you
#HK
for letting us share in your unforgettable victory.
香港人, 加油 🇬🇧🇭🇰
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This video is insane. Many reports that some police are advancing on
#PolyU
with lethal weapons + police chief has requested official permission for their use.
Carrie Lam’s Tiananmen may well be a university campus.
The world is watching.
#StandWithHongKong
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Takes a particular sort of scum to brutalise a pregnant woman.
Since July last 2019, the
@hkpoliceforce
have shown again and again that pregnancy is no defence against their disproportionate brutalising of democracy campaigners.
Really hope she is ok.
A pregnant woman is pushed down by the
#HKPolice
. Police then pepper spraying the reporters nearby.
#HongKong
#831PrinceEdwardAttack
#StandWithHongKong
@SolomonYue
@lukedepulford
Photo by Studio Incendo
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One country.
One system.
One party state.
One “President for Life”.
One response: non-violent, resolute resistance.
#StandWithHongKong
Clear evidence shows that
#CCP
Army wearing
#HKPF
uniform to on duty in Hong Kong!
In the video the “Police” shout clearly with fluent Mandarin which definitely not a Hongkonger.
There’s no “ One Country Two System” anymore!
#antichinazi
#StandWithHongKong
#FreeHongKong
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And so it begins.
Beijing Secret Police are now arresting people under the nefarious "National Security Law".
Urgent response needed from
@DominicRaab
@UKinHongKong
Tony Chung, convener of the now disbanded pro-independence group Student Localism was just arrested in name of “inciting subversion of state”.
It is reported that State Agents are involved in the process.
#NationalSecurityLaw
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Lord Hogan-Howe has just said:
“Reports that police in Hong Kong are armed with live ammunition and approaching the sit-ins is alarming. I urge the police to not use lethal force because it can only make the situation worse. Unless life is at risk hold back.”
#StandWithHongKong
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BREAKING: Mass disqualifications of democratic candidates in
#HongKong
happening right now.
Another hammer-blow to Hong King’s autonomy.
“Lifeboat” policies have clearly been inadequate to curb Beijing’s bullying. It’s time for coordinated sanctions.
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My
@spectator
piece on the Junius Ho
@AngliaRuskin
affair. 🚨 GREAT NEWS: in response to pressure, ARU have done the night thing and REVOKED Junius Ho’s honourary doctorate🚨✊HK-ers please show your thanks.
#StandWithHongKong
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Even the hardest heart must crack at this. Thank you Kirsty Young for concluding the excellent
@BBCNews
coverage with such grace and dignity.
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Dear
#HK
Do you think the international community should declare its support for universal suffrage in Hong Kong?
Yes - it would help
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No - foreign meddling
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BREAKING:
Boris Johnson reportedly said he is going to help Hong Kongers in a Ugandan-style "lifeboat" immigration scheme. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
We should be cautious. We need to see the detail - and
@Number10press
response - BUT:
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This has completely floored me.
Tweeted last week that my fam was struggling to find food.
This week
#HKers
sent packages containing masks, dried food and even loo roll!
We will take what we need and donate anything else.
😭 Words fail. Thank you. ❤️🥰
#5demandsnot1less
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HKers - I need your help.
I'm compiling evidence of police brutality involving Rupert Dover, David Jordan and Justin Shave for a legal project 😉
Can you help me by posting links to reports/videos/intel etc in this thread (or DM me)?
Thanks, LdP
#StandwithHongKong
The
@GOVUK
believes that
@hkpoliceforce
brutality should be investigated.
Three of the KEY perpetrators of that brutality are British policemen: Rupert Dover, David Jordan and Justin Shave.
The UK should be conducting its OWN investigation into the behaviour of its citizens.
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Don’t watch this film.
‘MULAN’ has been delayed and will now release on August 21.
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Shocked to learn that this man, reportedly Stephen Ng, seen here perpetrating the vicious 7/21 Yuen Long attacks in
#HongKong
has fled and taken refuge in Cambridge.
The U.K. should not be a haven for people like this. We will be raising this with the local authorities.
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BREAKING:
@DominicRaab
has just declared that the National Security Law represents a violation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Now let's hear the consequences.
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Over my dead body will you be permitted to settle in the UK.
This scheme isn’t for triad-colluding, hate-mongering, authoritarian-hugging thugs.
If you come here, we will prosecute you.
Sorry, la
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HKers can you help, please?
I have heard from a number of politicians/ journalists who have asked for help verifying this video.
Any concrete leads, please DM me.
If these are protestors who have indeed been taken to the Mainland, the world needs to know.
#StandwithHK
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BREAKING: 198 legislators from 23 countries condemn Beijing's actions in Hong Kong; vow to
#StandWithHongKong
Including
@marcorubio
@SenatorMenendez
@kimbakit
@MPIainDS
@guyverhofstadt
@RepEliotEngel
@tedcruz
@bueti
@GarnettGenuis
@RmdKenny
@KarinKarlsbro
and many others. 👇
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Just did this for
@BBCWorld
-
@BorisJohnson
@DominicRaab
need to put pressure on Carrie Lam to appoint a mediator and come to the table.
#PolyU
is their home and represents everything they are fighting for. Leave them alone.
#StandWithHongKong
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Worrying reports that a PEACEFUL young female demonstrator has been arrested outside
@UKinHongKong
for sticking up posters.
It seems as if arrest happened on the “grey bricks” normally considered Consulate territory.
Needs urgent attention
@DominicRaab
The
#HKPoliceTerrorism
arrested a peaceful Hong Kong citizen outside the British Consulate-General without any reason and legal power, Hong Kong, where is the British territory.
#StandWithHongKong
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Thanks to whoever did this. You gave me the *second* biggest laugh of the day. 🇬🇧🇭🇰😂✊
#StandWithHongKong
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Hong Kong Twitter is noticeably quieter - the chilling effect of the National Security Law.
I wish I had the ability to reassure friends that tweets won’t be held against them - because the world needs to hear
#HK
voice.
Thank you to those who continue to speak out.
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This is a disaster.
@DominicRaab
@tariqahmadbt
@nadams
@UKinHongKong
we've been holding out and holding out some more, hoping that we could salvage something from the Joint Declaration.
We cannot hold out any more. Beijing is making its move on
#HongKong
and we MUST act now.
#BREAKING
#HongKong
: Beijing will propose a new National Security legislation for Hong Kong in order to "plug the loopholes" by directly putting the clauses into Annex 3 of Basic Law, HK's mini consitution,
@hk01official
reports. Details to be announced in
#NPC
's presser tonight.
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Bates v Post Office: public interest TV at its best.
Prompted a dig into the parliamentary archives. Here’s former Post Office chief Paula Vennells in 2015 saying there was “no evidence” of miscarriages of justice.
Surely false - and knowingly.
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The police commander in this video is caught on tape clearly saying take a “straight shot at the head”. After the past two days of unrestrained police brutality, will the world finally wake up to what is happening in
#HongKong
?
#HongKongStrong
#DefendtheNewFrontline
HKPF commander made an order to aim at the head of student in resident of City University of Hong Kong.
#HongKongPoliceTerrorism
#HKPolice
#HongKongPoliceState
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‼️Private prosecution of Brits in the
@hkpoliceforce
news: today we launch our secure appeal for additional evidence. Please contact us if you have information👇
對於英藉香港警官的私人檢控，我們將於今日呈上有關証據。如有更多消息，請與我們聯絡！
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To the anonymous HKer who sent a valentine + this awesome sweater:
Roses and red
So is HK’s threat
If I weren’t married
We could’ve met
😂 thank you 🥰
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This law is ridiculous.
Art. 38 (non-HK citizens) (who are not even in HK) (who have done what is prohibited in this law) (will also be considered to have violated this Law) [v rough translation]
Guess that’s me then.
The so-called National Security Law in now published - as feared it is a comprehensive assault on the liberties of the people of
#HongKong
and a violation of international treaties.
It is now time for the consequences to be made clear to China.
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Special Christmas wishes to
#HongKongers
. It’s impossible to thank you adequately for all your cards, kindness and encouragement, so here’s a version of
#GloryToHongKong
Merry Christmas. Do not be discouraged.
#StandwithHK
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WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS IF EATING.
The Chinese Ambassador the the U.K.
@AmbLiuXiaoMing
has just like a tweet of a woman masturbating a man with her feet.
Is this what Roosevelt called big stick diplomacy?
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Just another 1m person march in
#HongKong
Westerners asking: “didn’t they just win elections?”
Yes. Millions voted. Millions have marched. And nothing has changed.
This is the obstinate nature of the threat they face and it’s why they have to keep going.
#五大訴求缺一不可
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More tragic and *completely* avoidable news from
#HK
. Have been told that a 15 year old school boy is in a critical condition after being hit by a tear gas canister. He has undergone emergency surgery but not looking good. He was in a crowd outside a shopping mall. Barbaric.
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Hearing that the police are not allowing pro-democracy demonstrators access to emergency services. Many are injured from rubber bullets and tear gas.
@dominicraab
@foreignoffice
@UKinHongKong
need to make urgent representations.
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Can anyone explain to me how today’s “voluntary assistance” from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is consistent with the
#HongKong
Basic Law.
Didn’t think so.
Clearing today. Crackdown tomorrow.
#OneSystemOneCountry
#StandWithHongKong
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#HongKong
should have been voting today.
Instead they’re picking brualised schoolgirls up off the tarmac.
Take a bow, international community. You allowed this to happen by legitimising the CCP Party-state.
A young girl of school age was just cornered by riot police & proceeded to run away, before being viciously wrestled to the ground, kicked & pinned down by several police officers.
I wish I could say this isn’t normal in Hong Kong today, but it is.
Vid: HKUST student reporters
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United States of America:
👉 No legal obligation to defend HK autonomy and way of life.
👉 Just passed legislation to protect it.
United Kingdom:
👉 Signed a treaty to defend HK autonomy and way of life.
👉 Done nothing.
@DominicRaab
this is humiliating. Please
#StandwithHK
The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is now law. Beijing has a choice between honoring its commitments to Hong Kong or facing the consequences.
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PLEASE tell me this
@hkpoliceforce
officer is not shoving a young child to the floor, face first, and holding him down by the neck.
What possible context could justify this? Imagine this were your child, and your only crime was to ask for democracy.
HK police dragged a child on the floor in shopping mall food court in mother's day. They claimed to clear protest but no protest is happening.
(source: telegram)
#HongKongPolice
#StandWithHongKong
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This is incredible.
Dear
@DominicRaab
If you betray the most organised and disciplined pro-democracy campaign in the world.
Don’t be surprised when they chuck you out of office.
Still time for a rethink.
願榮光歸香港!
#StandWithHongKong
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Winning an election is subversion of the state.
Ok then.
A reminder that we signed a treaty promising to protect
#HongKong
from stuff like this. Where are those promises now?
[Just In] Former lawmakers James To, Andrew Wan, Lam Cheuk Ting were arrested by police national security branch this morning for last yr legislature election. Police said “35+” (winning the majority in LegCo election) was an act of SUBVERSION, in violation of the NSL.
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❗️This is a huge story.
@GOVUK
contemplating sanctions on China! Barely reported yet.
Perhaps followers in HK would PLEASE SHARE and show
@BBCNews
@BBCWorld
@bbclysedoucet
@JohnSimpsonNews
@StephenMcDonell
the strength of feeling about this locally.
Lord Ahmad says UK is "contemplating" sanctions on China
"We would be looking to introduce Magnitsky-style sanctions ... [which] will play an important part in the overall mix as we consider our human rights policy globally"
See here:
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“Violence must cease on both sides” the UK says with a straight face while their consulate workers are tortured and while kids defend themselves from thousands of volleys of tear gas with umbrellas. Apparently Cheng is a BNO passport holder.
#WakeUp
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BREAKING
@MPIainDS
calls for Carrie Lam to be sanctioned under the UK’s new Magnitsky sanctions regime.
@DominicRaab
doesn’t rule it out.
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Carrie Lam! The world is watching. Order your police away from the university now! Do you not realise that some of these students would rather die than allow their campus - and everything it represents - to be overridden? Do you want a massacre on your conscience?
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Op-ed just published: China isn't only an oppresssor in Hong Kong. It's a threat to all of us. Here's how to respond.
#StandWithHongKong
#DefendtheNewFrontline
🇬🇧🇭🇰
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Lord Alton, who led this week’s debate on Hong Kong, said:
“Junius Ho has brought shame upon the Legco with his comments about protesters, gay people, and his wide disregard for the rule of law. It beggars belief that any U.K. University would be content to honour him....
Dear
@AngliaRuskin
@IGM64
@president_ARU
- Junius Ho has:
- congratulated violent triads;
- issued death threats live on air;
- calls protestors “cockroaches” and says it isn’t a “big deal” to kill “pigs and dogs”;
Why is he still honoured by your university?
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MTR the Hong Kong railway company is set to operate the
@elizabethline
in London. Their chairman Rex Auyeung is appointed by Carrie Lam, and selected for pro-Beijing credentials.
About time we revisited this arrangement, wouldn’t you say,
@SadiqKhan
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Easy to laugh at these pro-establishment loyalists struggling to tear up British Passports, but this odd scene reveals something important about ever-deepening divisions in
#HK
society right now.
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In a single week the thugs in the
@hkpoliceforce
have hospitalised a pregnant woman and smashed a 12 year-old girl to the ground.
Will anyone be disciplined for it? No chance.
Anyone still asking why I’m pursuing a private prosecution?
#notoimpunity
Hong Kong police tackled a 12-year old girl to the ground and arrested her on Sunday amid protests against delayed parliamentary elections.
She was later charged for allegedly violating coronavirus social distancing rules.
Read more:
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Corruption, plain and simple. They’re not even pretending any more.
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This happens many times a day, every day in
#HongKong
How would you feel if this were your child or brother/ sister?
And we have the nerve to question the motovations of these demonstrators?
Western media needs to help close the empathy gap.
#StandWithHongKong
#HKpolice
beat
#HKprotester
brutally with baton even he wasn't resisting. World, please help Hong Kong. And save the children in
#PolyU
.
(source:FB)
#SOSHK
#HKPoliceState
#HKPoliceTerrorism
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Bye, bye, Huawei!
This has been a very good night.
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Utterly heartbreaking photographs. These are children.
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It is becoming clear that Armistice Day 2019 will be remembered as one of the darkest in the history of
#HongKong
. No one can defend this. The international community - especially the U.K. - must act now.
@TomTugendhat
@tariqahmadbt
@foreignoffice
@HongKongFP
@RepChrisSmith
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RIP One Country Two Systems
RIP Hong Kong as we know it.
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Worrying. We would appreciate information on this video for verification purposes. Please DM me.
#HongKongElection
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The
#HongKong
police officer in this video is now BACK ON DUTY.
While nearly 6000 pro-democracy demonstrators have been arrested.
In Carrie Lam’s HK, campaigning to elect your leaders lands you in prison.
Driving into civilians on an ISIS-inspired rage does not.
#5Demands
Hong Kong police trying to mow protesters down on a motorbike.
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Thank you for speaking out Ili Zheng Jia chun ❤️
#Taiwanhelps
我被感動了，看到一半停了，不忍再看下去。台灣能出這樣美麗動人的天使般的藝人，是台灣的希望和驕傲！我對台灣始終充滿信心，不是因為那些政客多優秀，而是台灣人太出類拔萃了！他們就像昏暗世界中的一盞明燈，正在照亮華人社會乃至整個世界！謝謝妳，台灣女神鄭家純！
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Good. We have to send a signal against impunity.
Wondering when
@WolfsonCam
will realise that having sanctioned members of the Hong Kong administration as honorary fellows isn’t really a good look.
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Give up already. We’re not going to watch it.
Put your energy into reclaiming the millions in losses caused by the boycott provoked by
@hkpoliceforce
brutality endorsing star
@yifei_cc
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This banner neatly expresses why “lifeboat” “airlift” and other escape policies to help
#HongKong
are welcome, but inadequate.
It reads: “Actually, we really f*cking like Hong Kong”
Pls note
@DominicRaab
@lisanandy
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I am delighted to see that after a long campaign,
@WolfsonCam
is considering revoking Carrie Lam’s honorary doctorate. Finally.
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Great honour to accompany
@nathanlawkc
to the US Residency in London where he had a superb meeting with
@SecPompeo
#StandWithHongKong
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Simply revolting.
Police grabbed and pushed down pregnant women, pepper sprayed her husband and others in Mong Kok on 1yr after August 31st incident via
#HongKongProtests
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Fully accept that we are in a difficult position, guys, but you really ought to know how infuriating these statements are for people on the ground.
The whole reason
#HK
is in existential turmoil is precisely because the Joint Declaration is failing them.
#StandwithHK
35 years ago today the UK and China reached an agreement on the future of Hong Kong. That treaty remains in force and as a co-signatory the UK is committed to upholding the rights, freedoms and high-degree of autonomy for Hong Kong enshrined within it
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At
#PolyU
where riot police are growing in numbers and legislators have assembled to negotiate an exit for those still trapped.
Didn’t these policing methods get a pretty unequivocal thumbs DOWN yesterday?
#LetThemOut
#LetTheDoctorsIn
#StandWithHK
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Past 24 hours in
#fightback
news:
👉 205 senior legislators sign statement condemning Beijing’s actions in HK
👉 Boris cancels
@Huawei
👉 Boris offers immigration lifeline to HKers
✊
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Some good news for
#HongKong
- this response from
@HeatherWheeler
makes crystal clear that
@GOVUK
WILL introduce “a human rights sanctions regime” post-Brexit. No equivocation or qualification. Already in development. ✊👏🇭🇰🇬🇧
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BREAKING: 5-Eyes statement on
#HongKong
!
"...gravely concerned by the Hong Kong government’s unjust disqualification of candidates and disproportionate postponement of Legislative Council elections"
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I love this man, and it kills me that the most I can do is make a video about him. They took him 57 days ago.
Of your kindness, please share this to raise awareness.
#FreeAndyLi
#Save12HKYouths
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In just a few days
#HongKong
has witnessed:
- The death of Alex Chow Tsz-lok
- The arrest of 7 pro-democracy legislators
- Yet more indiscriminate use of force by police
- A rape charge against police.
Is anyone still wondering what is at stake here?
#DefendtheNewFrontline
🇭🇰
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BREAKING: my private prosecution of British police in
#HongKong
backed by
@nathanlawkc
and a wide coalition of orgs has raised £100,000 in just over 24 hours.
🤯 mind blown at your generosity.
#StandWithHongKong
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Next they came for the journalists.
Journalists from the three largest news agencies:
@AFP
,
@AP
and
@Reuters
, alongside with Hong Kong public broadcaster
@rthk_news
, are barred by the police from entering Apple Daily office to report.
Hong Kong’s press freedom is now in line with any authoritarian states
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Finally the text of the "National Security" Law.
No English translation.
Why I am not surprised.
Here it goes: National Security Law for Hong Kong full text. No English translation.
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BREAKING: after months of campaigning, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has decided to PROSECUTE Junius Ho and have referred him to a special tribunal (the process to strike him from the UK register).
A little piece of good news for
#HongKong
#sorrynotsorry
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This report is an absurd, preposterous whitewash.
The sentence “No evidence of collusion in Yuen Long attack” alone discredits it beyond all credulity.
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These arrests are a crisis for the free world, not just Hong Kong.
Politically motivated, trumped up charges. Many on this list have spent their entire political lives advocating peaceful resistance.
The world will not stand idly.
#StandwithHONGKONG
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The fight back is well underway ✊
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Carrie Lam should lose her foreign privileges wherever she has them. She has played an active and mendacious role in the destruction of Hong Kong’s freedoms. I hope this gives the people of Hong Kong some hope in this time of darkness.
I am delighted to see that after a long campaign,
@WolfsonCam
is considering revoking Carrie Lam’s honorary doctorate. Finally.
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One Country, Two Systems?
@tariqahmadbt
@DominicRaab
@foreignoffice
look at this dystopia - the treaty we negotiated is in tatters.
We have an obligation to
#HongKong
.
We cannot stay silent. They need to hear that we are going to keep our word. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
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An honour, Nathan. London loves you. But Hong Kong needs you.
🤚☝️
Thank you so much
@lukedepulford
for your tenacious support on Hong Kong democratic movement. It is a pleasure to be able to meet you.
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