A Hong Kong student in 🇯🇵returned home to renew ID card to find herself under arrest by NSL- over posts on Facebook - her passport is confiscated. Many cases like these no longer reported by international news, thanks to Prof @tomoko_ako for voicing out.
https://t.co/f4HjKyOPNd
Chow Hang-tung is one of the few activists in Hong Kong still speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the city. Her story shows how Beijing is trying to silence civil rights lawyers in Hong Kong – as it is doing on the mainland https://t.co/bSo7D6ogTV
To think #Hongkong once had a judicial system strong enough to defend #humanrights. Now it expedites and enables their demise. @hrw_chinese https://t.co/3Atdjyn5OH
Lest we forget.
"Nov 11" is plastered across Chinese University of Hong Kong today. It was the first day of the siege of CUHK in 2019
Source: Renews
#傷十一#中大保衛戰#黎明行動#不能忘
Today's the 3rd anniversary of the police siege of
Chinese University of Hong Kong. Under repression, it was marked by graffiti on campus:
"11.11 is not singles' day"
"We've not forgotten 11.11"
& a Cantonese play on words expressing the scar 11.11 has left.
Source: @renews_hk IG
Fans of popular adult cartoon series 'Rick and Morty' have spotted a message from the creators that points toward in Hong Kong's democracy movement that took place in 2020 and shows solidarity with the protestors
https://t.co/jg4gQ6kqyQ
We’re excited to announce a one day parliamentary workshop for #BNO#HongKongers interested in learning more about 🇬🇧 politics on Thurs 27 Oct & the soft launch of our cross-party parliamentary internship programme for January 2023.
Today’s Times editorial rightly excoriates the Vatican for its “shocking” failure to support Hong Kong’s Cardinal Zen or those persecuted by the CCP for their faith - including Uyghurs. The Vatican’s Concordat with the CCP is at best naïve and at worst a gross betrayal.
New @CECCgov report “Hong Civil Society: From an Open City to a City of Fear” is an oral history of how the #HongKong government crushed civil society and democratic institutions through draconian enforcement of the National Security Law. Read the report @ https://t.co/fkrhbsthz1
HK’s Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (a pro-democracy union) announces it will disband. The govt had accused it of illegal activities. Former chair Winnie Yu is one of the “HK 47” in custody awaiting trial in national security charges.