11:15pm inside @appledaily_hk’s newsroom. So interesting to be the fly on the wall. And I saw this on a wall. I interpret it to be #HongKong’s chase for universal suffrage. The people always striving - but never achieving it. What do you see? @CBSNews is here. 🇭🇰
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been sentenced to 4 years in jail in China for her coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan https://t.co/lpLloTxvNq
“The Met’s approach to live #FacialRecognition is different to the South Wales Police cases which were appealed.”
This is of course true, because the Met uses it to target black communities.
Summary of what happened to #HongKong press:
- Jimmy Lai, founder of only remaining pro-democratic newspaper @appledaily_hk, arrested under national security law, newsroom searched
- News directors of iCable and NowTV, two credible broadcast stations, replaced
Democrats' plan to win legislative majority to oppose gov't policy may be illegal under security law says Hong Kong's Lam https://t.co/A5RvpSdmzm #hongkong#china
Ghislaine Maxwell has been charged with playing a role in the "sexual exploitation and abuse" of multiple underage girls by Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/pXilOj68ga
Video footage shared widely via Telegram shows journalists being struck with the #HongKong police water cannon. #china#july1 Full coverage: https://t.co/v14oZLwtbC
Those who hold banners, chant slogans or engage in other activities that attempt to split the country or subvert state power may face detention or prosecution under the #NationalSecurityLaw: #HK police