Around 1,000 #HKers gather at Downing Street in London to protest against the assault and abduction of peaceful protestors by the Chinese Consulate in #Manchester
.@SuellaBraverman & @JamesCleverly need to urgently investigate.
The CCP will not import their beating of protestors and denial of free speech to British streets.
Chinese Ambassador should be summoned & if any official has beaten protesters, they must be expelled or prosecuted.
I will not be diplomatic on this. Everyone who now doubts whether Russia should be banned from SWIFT has to understand that the blood of innocent Ukrainian men, women and children will be on their hands too. BAN RUSSIA FROM SWIFT.
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1. The documentary “Winter on Fire” has been a documentary Hong Kong protestors are watching. We understand how it feels to have a threatening neighbour and people’s will being suppressed by authoritarian power.
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1. The documentary “Winter on Fire” has been a documentary Hong Kong protestors are watching. We understand how it feels to have a threatening neighbour and people’s will being suppressed by authoritarian power.
Join our Twitter-storm on February 24rd from 12 to 2 pm Kyiv, 10 am - 12 pm UTC. Use #StopRussianAggression and #RussiaInvadedUkraine hashtags to tell the world of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine and the fact that Ukraine is under attack.
Hong Kong's national security police have arrested six individuals associated with a pro-democracy media outlet -- including pop star Denise Ho -- and raided its office, raising further concerns about diminishing press freedoms in the city. https://t.co/AteJOqgqkR
#HongKong police were raiding the office of an online news outlet on Wednesday after arresting six people for conspiracy to publish a seditious publication.
#StandnewsHK
https://t.co/BXjJ9rh954
6 arrests, with over 200 national security police officers raiding the offices of non-profit online news outlet Stand News.
Now hearing four current staff taken in for questioning.
Full updates: https://t.co/H0S5guE3HB
THREAD:
1.After the Apple Daily closure, Stand News became the largest free media in Hong Kong. Today, we have witnessed another forced closure with a number of arrests. The message Beijing sends is clear: report in the way that we allow, or end up in jail.
1/ Arresting 6 senior executives of @StandNewsHK for "conspiracy to publish seditious publications" under s.10 of the Crimes Ordinance, the authorities are working together once again to crack down on freedom of expression in #HongKong.