This is the clip when “Glory to Hong Kong,” the protest anthem, was played at the Asian Rugby Seven Series in South Korea: t.co/o02abNBQ5y
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This could be considered as first arrest of a known political figure using the national security law. News also posted on Studentlocalism’s Facebook.
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Breaking: Tony Chung, convenor of pro-independent Studentlocalism, is reportedly arrested for "inciting separatism" after national security officers searched his home (source: Facebook). Chung disbanded Studentlocalism prior to the implementation of the National Security Law.
I spoke to “Bob”, the Hong Kong protester who got dragged into the Chinese consulate in Manchester when protesting outside. He was terrified: he sustained injuries on his head, face, neck, back and waist.
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A protest in Hong Kong🇭🇰against war in Ukraine🇺🇦amid tight covid & demonstration restrictions, that’s why protesters were standing alone, one by one.
“I’m Russian I’m against war”
“This crime against humanity has no justifications”
Photos courtesy Egor Lyfar in Hong Kong.
RTHK’s “Hong Kong Connection” programme checked security footage on July 21 last year and found a suspected police officer - apparently holding a warrant card - was present when people in white shirts gathered with weapons, before the men attacked people at Yuen Long MTR station
Police senior superintendent Wong Wai-shun admitted at a press conference today that tear gas emits dioxin, but claimed protesters burning plastic cause more dioxin
This came after an article circulated online that claimed a police officer was also diagnosed with chloracne
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Hong Kong reporter diagnosed with chloracne after tear gas exposure, prompting public health concerns hongkongfp.com/2019/11/14/hon via @hongkongfp
Just in: story says the some 10 people caught were Hong Kong protesters fleeing to Taiwan, including Andy Li, an activist who was arrested under the national security law on August 10 over alleged “collusion with foreign forces”
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Guangdong Coast Guard caught a fast boat on Aug 23, arresting some 10 people on suspicion of “unlawfully crossing boarder.” The news was only released 3 days later. The location was not far outside Hong Kong. This raised eyebrows over who were on the boat and their treatment.
Police taking arrest actions across Hong Kong at 4am, suspected to be related to PolyU siege, according to district councillor Hermine Chan
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Donnie Yen, a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee member, speaking at #Oscars despite 100,000 people petitioned to have him disinvited. Going to be great press for CCP news outlets.
Breaking: Hong Kong police arrested Wilson Li, a freelance ITV videographer in Hong Kong. The exact reason is uncertain
At least 3 former members of have been arrested under national security law for “incitement to secession” including ex-convener Tony Chung and his girlfriend, as well as Ho Nok-hang. They were sent to the Ma On Shan police station.
The award-winning Hong Kong protest documentary will be streamed on Vimeo from June 1
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Hong Kong pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers fight over control of House Committee - Starry Lee took chair seat but meeting could not start. Democrats have been delaying election of chair since October, now Beijing wants to push through the national anthem law
 Representatives from the diplomatic community: EU, US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Australia and Canada went to queue for the court hearing of the 47.
EU, US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Australia & Canada
Chinese lawyer Lu Siwei denied visit to 12 Hongkongers caught when fleeing to Taiwan & detained at Yantian, Shenzhen following requests by family members. He said they could face life imprisonment for “organising others to unlawfully cross the border”. cablenews.i-cable.com/ci/videopage/n
Just in: visits the revived Causeway Bay Books in Taipei run by Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee. Obviously this is a planned visit to show support of Hong Kong.
Calls for “Xi Jinping, step down!” in London
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Democratic Party lawmaker Roy Kwong was subdued and arrested by police in Mong Kok - reason unknown for now - as protests were happening
London: Around 1,000 Hong Kong people attend a human chain protest in Kingston in solidarity with journalists and political prisoners (Timelapse)
Next Digital stock price more than 1000% since the arrest of @JimmyLaiApple raid of @appledaily_hk yesterday
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee - who was abducted in mainland China and later escaped - reopens Causeway Bay bookstore in Taipei - with congratulations from Tsai Ing-wen (signed without presidential title) as well as Legislative Yuan chief
The new slogan is "Hong Kong people, resist!" (香港人，反抗！)
What an amazing job done for Carrie Lam
Here it goes: National Security Law for Hong Kong full text. No English translation. gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/2
Live stream scenes: Dozens of journalists surrounded by police, some were shouted at and told to stop their live broadcast. Some had been pepper sprayed beforehand
Horrifying scenes in Mong Kok of a man being dragged when arrested by plainclothes officers
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Earlier: London protesters marched from Piccadilly Circus towards the Chinese Embassy
Several pro-Beijing activists tore apart their BN(O) passports in front of the British Consulate and pledged that they would only hold SAR passports, support One Country Two Systems and national security law.
*They can re-apply for BN(O) anytime according to the rules.
“This is not my first time to say goodbye to the audience. But to face it once again, it is certainly not easy. I believe many Hongkongers are facing it together, & I believe we will be stronger after many challenges” - ex Cable TV, Apple Daily, journalist Ingrid Tse
「今日係咁先，好無，唔該」
Carrie Lam refuses to answer two questions about national security law, answered one about US sanctions, before she said “that’s all for today, ok? thanks” and left.
Pro-democracy candidate Tiffany Yuen said the returning officer cited her Instagram photo 6m ago showing “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times” and questioned if she was “continously displaying” the slogan in subversion. Yuen called him a “political censorship stalker.”
The so-called ‘kill police’ channel was registered with a name in Mandarin - no joking
Hong Kong protesters hit back over police claims they plan to 'kill officers, bomb malls' on China National Day hongkongfp.com/2019/09/30/hon via @hongkongfp
University of Hong Kong : On this site, between 5 June 1997 and 22 December 2021, no Pillar of Shame was present
Just in: Police are at home of Ronson Chan, head of and deputy editor of @StandNewsHK, with a court warrant for home search over the crime of “publishing seditious publications”. The live stream was too short to know more details, as police warned not to film.
Police are now banning people from going up the Lion Rock, where people are protesting with lights. Police say there may be an unlawful assembly on the mountain. (Stand News)
HK leader ditches meeting Ted Cruz, says the U.S. senator | Reuters reuters.com/article/us-hon
Correct me if I am wrong, I don’t remember the Finnish consulate ever doing this in the past…
Meanwhile, the July 1 protest in London quickly responded to the police stabbing incident
Regrettably many details in court could not be reported due to legal restrictions; but what happened outside the court can be reported. See a @StandNewsHK photo of the 47’s gestures when getting on the prison van to the court:
Hong Kong June 12 protest 3rd anniversary rally at Parliament Square, London - more than 1,000 people attending
London: Hundreds participate in a rally and march from Piccadilly Circus to the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office to urge “give back my press freedom” as liberal press in Hong Kong closed under pressure
Police had applied for a warrant to demand Facebook give the IP address and registration info of ’s page surrounding a protest on June 21 last year at the police headquarters, in order to prove Chow incited the protest, she said
A photographer for local online news outlet TMHK was arrested by the police when covering the protest in Mong Kok, reason unknown. The photographer has a press card issued by the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association.
Hong Kong police at 6am local time raided home of Allan Au, veteran journalist, ex-Stand News blogger and journalism scholar, taken to police station
accusation: “conspiracy to publish seditious publications,” says sources, same as 2 other Stand News journalists who were charged
This clip showed the police officer in question took out his pistol, rushed front to kick a protester, before he was surrounded and attacked by a protester with a metal rod; you can decide if it was necessary to fire a live round twitter.com/Robin42908400/
Revolution of Our Times, a documentary by Kiwi Chow about the 2019 Hong Kong protests which will not be shown in Hong Kong, wins Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards in best documentary
Happened to pass by Russian Embassy (Consular section) in London and there’s a protest, including Russians who are against the war.
We got a clip of volunteer first aid responders being arrested - they may be charged with rioting:
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A group appearing to be first-aiders are arrested by police near PolyU.
Video: Supplied. #HongKong
A “yellow” shop has apparently turned “red” by putting up Cultural Revolution-era posters
「做香港人真係好忙，要識法律、要熟讀警察通例、要識自衛術、要跑得快、要識急救、要識買Gear、要識睇地圖搵逃生路線、要識隱身上網、要識 FB/Twitter report 仇恨言論、要識廣東話拼音、要識外交關係、要識同唔同政見人士溝通、要識流通貨幣、仲要識唔同國家歷史。」
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Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Aso Taro slams , calling it ‘Chinese Health Org’ which blocks Taiwan from joining. He praised Taiwan as the ‘country’ handling the outbreak the best, and teased that Japanese Communist Party would criticize him for not calling Taiwan a ‘region’.
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日本副首相麻生太郎：世界卫生组织(WHO)分明就是中国卫生组织(CHO)，台湾是防疫最好的国家，说台湾是国家，共产党就会说是“地区”....
#台湾
#武汉肺炎
#CCPVirus
#WuhanVirus
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Monday is a public holiday. The MTR shut down its services completely at 6pm citing vandalism from the past days, except for the Airport Express line.
Photo: MTR Service Update. #hongkong #hongkongprotests #antiELAB
Trivia: Carrie Lam’s second son Josh Lam, a maths graduate student at Harvard, represented the United Kingdom at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2011 and 2012. He got a silver medal in 2012.
The Complaints Against Police Office, an internal police department, has launched an investigation into Sonia Ng’s accusation.
Hundreds of masked protesters march in support of Hong Kong student who accused cop of sexual assault hongkongfp.com/2019/10/11/hun via @hongkongfp
Today is my last day at @HongKongFP after 4.5 years - what a ride since 2015: elections, disqualifications, abductions, expulsions, protests, accidents, strikes, scandals, court battles and now a virus outbreak. It was indeed a very interesting and challenging period to do news.
Oh wow finally put Singapore in front of Hong Kong first in 25 years. It’s a game of numbers (drop in investment freedom) but still the Hong Kong gov can’t boast its too position anymore
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Now TV: 's Dennis Kwok, Alvin Yeung, Kwok Ka-ki, and Cheng Tat-hung disqualified from running in Legislative Council election;
Lester Shum also barred - according to
Just in: Pro-democracy former lawmaker Fernando Cheung, after serving a 3-week sentence for protesting peacefully inside the legislature, has left for Toronto with his family.
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Rumour is that Carrie Lam may finally withdraw the extradition bill. It’s like ordering a five-course meal & after fierce fights with the waiters, the restaurant is only willing to give you the first course - now a piece of rotten steak tartare - and you still have to pay for it.
Simon Cheng: Former UK consulate worker says he was tortured in China
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“Bob” said the situation was awkward - in such a chaotic situation and officers could not enforce the law inside the premises of the consulate, this officer did his best to help pull him out. But he was truly afraid that if unpunished, more incidents of this kind can occur
Police commissioner Chris Tang confirms to HK01 the new arrangement for press today: only trusted media can enter the cordon line to cover the news
Drew Pavlou says NSW Police apparently want to charge him with incitement, while clip shows a man grabbed his sign and broke it.
Also very familiar words from a woman in Cantonese “you shouldn’t use foul words” 你唔可以講粗口😅 twitter.com/DrewPavlou/sta
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A 23-year-old social worker urging police to allow protesters to leave last July was convicted of obstruction of police and sentenced to a year in jail s.nextmedia.com/realtime/a.php
Pro-Beijing Hong Kong film director Clifton Ko is in London and complains about people not wearing mask and no network coverage on Tube. Maybe try going to Shanghai instead?
First question: will Carrie Lam’s son at Harvard maths be affected?
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NEWS: The Trump admin is poised to impose sanctions on Chinese officials including CARRIE LAM. The new sanctions will be announced today. Will also target Chinese companies and Communist Party officials, sources tell me, @nwadhams and @jendeben.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is rich in cash because she doesn’t have a bank account following US sanctions. Would be interesting to know how her HK$400,000 monthly salary is transported to her in cash!
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A Chinese Weibo user apparently sent messages to a Russian client praising Putin and the invasion, but the client didn’t support the war at all as shown in the screenshots.
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Police officers used government aircrafts to track Hong Kong 12 before mainland capture hk.appledaily.com/news/20201008/
The arrest of is important news. At 90, Zen still stands strong (not literally, his back is not good). He visits up to 3 prisons across Hong Kong within a day. No one does that, but he can. He offers spiritual support for many in jail.
People noticed that when interviewed on TV for the coronation concert, Hong Kong-British actress Mei Mac’s left jacket sleeve has a “Hong Kong/add oil” image on it - an image often used in the pro-democracy movement. “Add oil” means “fight on” in Cantonese.
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JUST IN: All flights cancelled out of Hong Kong as thousands of protesters besiege airport over police violence hongkongfp.com/2019/08/12/jus via @hongkongfp
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“My short comment is in this horrible moment I see that lots lots of people want to come and participate in that event.
Unfortunately even if we try to follow 2 person and social distance rules, police didn’t allow gathering.” - Egor Lyfar, photographer, at Pier 3, Central.
Now we apparently know why Angus Ng chose to wear his own clothes (Lululemon) in the first round - this FILA shirt was all wet during the match, while his Guatemalan competitor’s Yonex shirt was alright (Yonex was Ng’s former sponsor)
Breaking: Director of Public Prosecution David Leung, gov’s top criminal prosecutor, has resigned from the Department of Justice.
“It is most unfortunate that I do not see eye to eye with the SJ on the running of PD, and the situation has not improved with the passage of time.”
Veteran medical professor Lai Ching-lung, who has taught thousands of doctors at HKU, supports the medical sector strike
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【#即時：約三千人參與醫管工會罷工，港大 #黎青龍 教授到場支持】
醫管局員工陣線今日（2月3日）發起罷工，向政府施壓要求禁止所有旅客由大陸入境，預期約三千人參與。72歲港大肝病權威黎青龍教授亦戴白絲帶到場支持。
Hong Kong singer Eason Chan cut ties with Adidas in latest round of counter-boycott of foreign brands which stopped using cotton from Xinjiang.
Other Hong Kong celebs probably should throw away all their Nike and Adidas stuff now to prove loyalty.
Almost at the same time as Hong Kong gov bans the slogan, displayed the slogan at US Senate floor, thus violating the national security law for Hong Kong, according to its article 38, or the universal jurisdiction clause.
Protest at LegCo House Committee as President Andrew Leung assigned pro-Beijing lawmaker Chan Kin-por to head the meeting for the chair election. Once again as security guards follow Chan’s orders, democrats were unable to get to the chair table.
Hong Kong singer (right) and former lawmaker Margaret Ng (2nd left) have been arrested - sources. Both trustees of 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund which help w/ legal fees of protesters, after trustee Hui Po-keung (2nd right) was arrested at the airport.
Around 10 people out of 7.5 milliom have seen the draft national security law because they are National People’s Congress members from Hong Kong, so around 99.999867% of Hong Kong people haven’t seen it
Arrests in Mong Kok by plainclothes undercover police outside Langham Place as commemoration was ongoing; objects were seen on the road, potentially what triggered police action
Taiwan reports 0 cases today, total at 393 cases and 6 deaths. Last time reporting 0 cases was between March 7 and 9.
“[Liberate] Hong Kong and its tomorrow will be better”
- parody on Jiang Zemin’s calligraphy on final days of Hong Kong Story exhibition at History Museum @appledaily_hk
Protest calling for the sacking of RTHK’s for her question asking official if it will reconsider Taiwan joining - as legal as it can get. Just four people
A statement “from Peng Shuai” and carried by Chinese state media, saying “everything is fine”… where have we seen similar things before?
. said at least five accounts of his, his wife and parents were frozen today. The accounts contained millions of Hong Kong dollars, and the savings insider were all that he had. At least two banks were involved, including HSBC.
Sai Kung district councillor Jacky Lai explains why it’s bad omen for police to have 風林火山stickers on their backs: The family of Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord who used the same words as his war flag, almost all died in war, including his children who committed suicide
