James Pomfret

@jamespomfret

Special Correspondent, Hongkonger, james.pomfret@reuters.com

Greater China/Hong Kong/Asia
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Nov 2019

    Dramatic getaway of some protesters, who abseiled down from a bridge, and sped away on the backs of motorbikes that came out of nowhere on a flyover. Police pelted them with tear gas and projectiles as they perched on precarious ledges

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 15

    4. More importantly, the government regards any oath violators as infringing the national security, who can be subject to additional political persecution under the NSL. In other words, using professionalism to go against controversial policies becomes a crime.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 15

    5. Beyond any doubt, the new pledge of allegiance is a new form of speech crime, stifling all dissenting voices and demanding absolute loyalty from public servants to Beijing, instead of serving HK people. Now Beijing has cleared its way to more disputed measures in HK. -END

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 15

    Hong Kong civil servants given four weeks to pledge loyalty to the government; said they should in “no uncertain terms acknowledge and accept these basic duties”

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 15

    U.S. announces new sanctions on six linked to Hong Kong mass arrests

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  6. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    In case you have never seen it, this is how Google warns you when they detected government-backed attackers are hacking my accounts. It happens to less than 0.1% of all users, and I have been receiving the same alarms for years. Guess which government sends these attackers?

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping: the future of private business in China via

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    Exclusive: China plans further Hong Kong crackdown after mass arrest - sources

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 12

    There were many likely reasons behind last week's mass round up of pro-democracy activists -- intimidation, passport seizures -- but a key one: collecting their devices. Police have started sending these to the mainland for data extraction, say 2 sources:

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 12

    An alarming Reuters story this morning pointing to further steps China might be looking to take in Hong Kong, including further gerrymandering of elections, disqualifications and arrests.

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    Jan 6

    Canada condemns Hong Kong arrests as grave repression of pluralism

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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 6

    Just about everyone I’ve ever interviewed or photographed while covering the 2014 protests — at the start of my career — and the 2019 protests has been arrested, is in jail, or in exile. The entire cast of characters of the story of democracy in Hong Kong gone in one fell swoop.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jan 5

    . is NOT arrested, but was taken in to ‘assist with an investigation’, staff at confirmed with me. Reports flying around that he was arrested this morning, this is not true.

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    Jan 5

    Timely column from on localism and repression in Hong Kong, as what appears to be a sweeping purge of the pro-democratic camp unfolds: “Today’s CCP is not yesterday’s CCP. President Xi Jinping’s party does not believe it needs Hong Kong”

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 5

    1. The current political crackdown is not only limited to the winners of the 2020 Pro-Democracy Primary Elections, nor is it limited to the Resistance Camp formed after the Primaries. This is a large-scale liquidation involving 52 democrats across different political spectrums.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 5

    Just to be clear, political crackdown is having a significant negative impact on business. Legitimate questions about rule of law raised + as image deteriorates, it becomes more and more difficult to defend why you should maintain costly operations here

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    Jan 5

    When US is handling the election certification, HK gov just arrests nearly all pro-democracy activists and nominees in the primaries today. As a nominee in the democratic primaries, I urge the US gov and Free World to stay alert and stand with HK by all means.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 5

    ：Candidates including Alvin Yeung, Gary Fan, Ventus Lau, Gwyneth Ho etc, who ran for the democratic primaries in July 2020 were arrested under the National Security Law.

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    Jan 5

    Eddie Chu was again arrested this morning at 6:25 am pertaining to the 35+ primary election. Eddie Chu is accused of breaching the draconian National Security Law. It is not yet known which Police station has been sent to.

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    Jan 5

    Over 50 pro-democratic activists in Hong Kong were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of breaking the city’s , local media reported, in the biggest crackdown yet against the democratic opposition under the new law.

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    Jan 5

    We condemn the arrests of 52 pro-democracy politicians who ran in the primaries last July that drew 600,000+ HKers. Among the arrested were veteran lawmakers, as well as Jeffrey Andrews, first ethnic minority social worker to run. They are charged with “subversion to the state”.

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