🚨 Wu Chi-wai faces deportation from 🇬🇧 this Wednesday.
If @ukhomeoffice sends him back to #HongKong, they will send a political prisoner back into the hands of the officials that jailed him for supporting democracy.
@ShabanaMahmood must immediately reverse course and extend Wu’s stay in the UK.
https://t.co/yB2Z5vuMzo
Yet more outrageous stupidity from @ukhomeoffice Border Force
If this is true, it is an utter scandal how Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Wu Chi-wai has been treated
@andyburnham@ShabanaMahmood@JoWhiteSays : please act immediately to fix this 👇
This is good news
But he should never have been detained or threatened with deportation in the first place.
Furthermore, his BNO status to remain in the UK must be expedited and he should be given assurances that he is welcome to remain in the UK.
Plus @ShabanaMahmood@JoWhiteSays must launch an immediate investigation into how this happened and ensure that @ukhomeoffice gives clear instructions to Border Force about the legitimacy of Hong Kong BNOs to make sure this shameful stupidity doesn’t happen again
Wu has successfully entered the UK, several local media outlets have confirmed. Thank you to all the people who had offered to help and make this happen. I am wishing him all the best in his new life in the UK.
Myanmar requested data from a Norwegian telecoms firm. Months later, an activist was dead
Telenor’s sharing of private data with the military led to the deaths of pro-democracy resistance members, alleges class-action lawsuit filed in Norway
#SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/foB6aBYGrq
Another #HK47#PoliticalPrisoner has been released: Wu Chi-wai arrived home at 6:13 am on Tuesday after serving his full sentence of 4 years & 5 months.
Now 20 of the 45 who were convicted have been released.
Timed to the release of our new report, @Telegraph journalist @SabriSun_Miller went to Kyiv and spoke with Ukrainians directly affected by missile strikes. She also spoke to British-Singaporean @xppower, whose chips were found in similar missles. XP claims, without evidence, that the parts must be “counterfeit” or obtained before the war, a claim that does not fit the available evidence, and is one of the worst manufacturer responses I’ve seen in three years of tracking these illicit shipments.
Read the Telegraph article here: https://t.co/jNfWknYUP9
My new report with @chloe_chc_25 for @thecfhk tracks hundreds of millions in euros of EU, UK, and Swiss military-grade components routed through Hong Kong to Russia.
The key takeaway is systemic failure across the chain:
• European governments are failing to align and enforce export controls.
• Manufacturers are failing to conduct adequate due diligence and end-use tracing.
• Hong Kong and Chinese authorities are failing to shut down transshipment networks operating openly.
This is the third report on this subject I’ve done, and the most shocking yet. Read the full report: https://t.co/ePABq0gphM
My new op-ed on #JimmyLai, just out
"Beijing has been allowed to make an example of Mr Lai by imposing a cruel sentence. Now it must be pressed to show clemency and allow him to leave Hong Kong and spend his final years with his family. Otherwise, Mr Lai will die in jail as a martyr for freedom."
#FreeJimmyLai
Britain cannot leave Jimmy Lai to die in jail https://t.co/c1Exf1ndnd
JUST IN: Sentencing for #JimmyLai, #AppleDaily executives & Stand With HK.
Jimmy Lai: 20 Yrs
Cheung Kim-hung: 6 yrs 9mo
Chan Pui-man: 7 yrs
Law Wai-kwong: 10 yrs
Lam Man-chung: 10 yrs
Fung Wai-kwong: 10 yrs
Yeung Ching-kee: 7 yrs 3 mo
Wayland Chan: 6 yrs 3 mo
Andy Li: 7 yrs 3 mo
Effectively a life sentence for Jimmy Lai.
For peacefully criticising the Chinese government.
Let that sink in.
The world needs to wake up. This is what your a dealing with - not a rational player on the world stage. A vindictive, regime of unchallengeable power
1/ I don’t often speak in my professional capacity as a Hong Kong–born, UK-chartered construction professional (MRICS, MAPM, NECReg, among others). But I need to address inaccurate reporting about bamboo scaffolding in the Hong Kong Tai Po fire.
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Surprise surprise. The Hong Kong police is now treating the mass self-mobilisation of citizen-led volunteers in aid of victims of the Tai Po fires as a national security threat, with Chief superintendent Lee Kwai-wah (who is sanctioned by the US for his leading role in Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in HK) from the National Security Division inspecting relief operations sites for “evidence” of national security crimes.