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[LIHKG Picks 🇭🇰🎗😷 @LIHKGPicks]

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The helpless feeling overwhelms HK when we witness the daily arrest of activists, the persecution of journos & ex-lawmakers, the detainment of the 12 HKers by 🇨🇳 for 100+ days.

But a LIHKGer reminds us, "Don't give up fighting for the future".
Read on 👇🏾

[Mary Hui @maryhui]

"Engaging with dictatorships always fails. They must be isolated & contained, or else they spread their corruption to the free world..The traditional recipes of int'l diplomacy are worthless against a mafia dictatorship that cares nothing for ideology or national interests."

[Nikki 🇺🇸 🌸 @nikki_miumiu]

#HongKong place tens of thousands of residents in a lockdown at Yau Ma Tei and Jordan district, for mandatory #Coronavirus test. Many residents are unprepared and doubting its effectiveness. The lockdown takes up to 3 days, affecting over 10,000 residents.

@appledaily_hk

[Hong Kong Liberty 攬炒團隊 @HKLiberty_Team]

#EuropeanUnionParliament @Europarl_EN condemns arrests under #NationalSecurityLaw and calls for activists’ release; urges EU countries to consider #sanctions against #HongKong and #China officials including CE #CarrieLam, under the EU Human Rights Global Sanction Regime.

[Aaron Mc Nicholas @aaronMCN]

Kowloon City district councillor and lawyer Daniel Wong Kwok-tung was reportedly visited by police officers from the national security department this morning. More updates to follow https://t.co/lt2lL8xq1z

[Chung Ching Kwong 鄺頌晴 @chungchingkwong]

Update: the site HKchronicles cannot be accessed from anywhere right now. And as in HK, upon visit it shows "502 Bad Gateway", meaning that it is not "site-blocked", but the reason why it can't be accessed is unknown.

[LIHKG Picks 🇭🇰🎗😷 @LIHKGPicks]

In the near future, holding BNOs would be subversion.
Speak English? Subversion.
Logged on Google and Facebook? Subversion.
Speak Cantonese? Subversion.

Born before 2020? Totally a tyrant.

Good luck 😔

[LIHKG Picks 🇭🇰🎗😷 @LIHKGPicks]

[初選=顛覆]
https://t.co/fypP3jHMAq

Few years ago, facilitating Hong Kong Independence alone was enough to be considered as subversive.

Last year, chanting “Liberate Hong Kong” became subversive.

Now, even participating in preliminary elections becomes subversive.

[LIHKG Picks 🇭🇰🎗😷 @LIHKGPicks]

Waking up to another round of mass arrest 😔

[Nathan Law 羅冠聰 @nathanlawkc]

BREAKING:
HK activists & politicians are arrested under "subversion" due to their participation in pro-democracy camp's primary election.
When one of the most critical Senate races is ongoing in the US, in HK, participation in elections could lead to life-long imprisonment.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

10 Hongkongers jailed for up to 3 years in China after trying to flee city for Taiwan

https://t.co/EzT0demYpY

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

Tsang Chi-kin didn’t appear in court today and goes into hiding. #HongKongProtests

Hong Kong activist rejected by US consulate reveals he was student shot during last year’s protests, now fears brunt of national security law https://t.co/vUeD0vyuPF

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

Court of Final Appeal ruled is constitutional for gov to ban face covering at legal and illegal gatherings, and the Emergency Regulations Ordinance is constitutional too. Combining with COVID-19 laws, you have to wear and not wear a mask at a protest at the same time.

[Ezra Cheung @ezracheungtoto]

#BREAKING: Citing new #coronavirus strain found in British, Hong Kong health minister bans flights from the UK and forbids those inbound travellers who have stayed on British soil for two hours or more to enter the city. The ban includes Hong Kong citizens, she added.

[Antony Dapiran @antd]

BREAKING: HK Court of Final Appeal has upheld the govt’s “face mask ban” introduced during the protests last year, for both lawful & unlawful assemblies, & ruled the Emergency Regulations Ordinance is valid. Full judgment here: https://t.co/ybHFdgA9uL

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Absurd, even for Hong Kong in 2020.

This is a transparent attempt to scare #HK Twitter into silence. They know how influential it has been among Western politicians.

Don’t fall for it. It just underlines the power and necessity of your voice.

https://t.co/LcxrWLjAJ7

[Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊 @Stand_with_HK]

Hong Kong, before and after the National Security Law 🇨🇳

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

#BREAKING @tedhuichifung and families account frozen again with notice from police

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Freshgrad Arthur Yeung among 8 arrested by Hong Kong national security police over peaceful campus demo – report

https://t.co/MkkVeEPdLN

[Frances Sit @frances_sit]

A Legco with no pan-dems have passed a 550-million-dollar funding request for the government to look into how feasible its Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation project is. Critics have called the artificial island plan a wasteful scheme that destroys the environment #HongKong