🚨Change to immigration rules:
A person on the BNO route may be granted access to public funds if there is satisfactory evidence that the applicant is destitute or if there are particularly compelling reasons relating to the welfare of a child of a parent with a very low income.
This is a *huge* challenge to the UK.
Chan has a full British passport and is having totally absurd charges laid against him under the National Security Law. Are we really going to allow this to happen to our citizens @UKinHongKong@DominicRaab?
All true! I trust Hong Kong freedom fighters will find a way to resist #CCP occupation peacefully! I believe 3 things: Evil fears the light. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke Good always triumphs over evil in the end.
#BNO scheme opens today.
Welcome #HongKongers
I’m sorry you had to leave. The road ahead may be tough. And the scheme may not run totally smoothly at first. It’s a tough time for the UK and we are still preparing. Stick with it. You are welcome here.
@hongkongarc
When the CCP shamefully violated Sino-British Joint Declaration, a UN-registered treaty that promised a high degree of autonomy to Hong Kong people, the Trump Administration revoked Hong Kong's special trade status, sanctioned complicit CCP & HKSAR officials. #StandWithHongKong
😭 Lots of friends arrested today in #HK
Remember the international community (esp the UK) has legal obligations to prevent this from happening.
If we get another hand-wringing 5-eyes statement about “serious concern” I swear....
In Hong Kong, the authorities are right now arresting all the democratic nominees who participated in the primaries — 50 candidates! Hong Kong has just become the frontline of China’s new totalitarian state.
When US is handling the election certification, HK gov just arrests nearly all pro-democracy activists and nominees in the primaries today.
As a nominee in the democratic primaries, I urge the US gov and Free World to stay alert and stand with HK by all means.
@JoeBiden@POTUS
The Hong Kong 12 had no bail, no choice of lawyer, and no access to family. This is a stark preview of the future of justice in a Hong Kong stripped of its protections under an authoritarian “One Country, One System” framework. #FightForFreedom#HK12