Whenever you feel despair, just remember your courage and strength for the past 6 mos have inspired the world!
當你覺得好攰好灰,要記得呢六個月嚟你嘅堅持感動咗成個世界。加油啊 💪🏼 🇭🇰💛 #5DemandsNot1Less#HongKongProtests#StandWithHongKong
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Is this the end of an era? A look back at some of this mask-obsessed city's mask-investigative journalism in HK... & some of the weirdest moments we had. https://t.co/TmX4wWCFEh
#NOW a curious long queue is extending outside the West Kowloon Court for the #NSL trial with 47 democrats charged of “conspiracy to commit subversion”. Many of them queued overnight and refused to talk to reporters. Some said they don’t know what the case is about.
Good morning to readers, hello from Ukraine.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but was one of the cities targeting in a missile barrage yesterday.
But the most horrific of the strikes happened at an apartment bldg in Dnipro, where today emergency crews are still working.
#DEVELOPING Chung Pui-kuen, founding chief editor of #StandNews began to take the witness stand this morning as defense started their case.
A few points from Chung's account:
* "From the very beginning to the very end, we did not change our production of content due to temporary pressure or reaction from the readers. We adhered to some fundamental principles...one of the key mission of this platform is to defend freedom of speech."
Chengdu Candle vigil turns into a gathering of chanting slogans again. Ppl shouted “ freedom of press, freedom of expression”. I have to say it’s amazing to hear these slogans so loudly& earnestly shouted out by Chinese ppl without fear. Unknown why gov could allow this. To watch
Beijing tonight, right now. 京城大厦 Beijing Capital Club, a landmark 5-star mansion on the third ring road, kilos away from Liang Ma Qiao. Ppl chanting “ 不要谎言要尊严” which means we don’t want lies, we want dignity. It’s happening right now!
Many Chinese journos at this moment were in tears watching the video. It’s happening. Still in Liang Ma He 亮马河 area. A girl shows “Give movies back, we want cinema freedom. We want free expression. give media back, give us journalism back”. Ppl echoed. It’s going unstoppable.
In a rare surge of protests in China, demonstrators called for the ruling Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, to step down, amid anger at the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire in Xinjiang, presumably during a strict Covid lockdown. https://t.co/7eT7YT4nHw
At this movement in the chilly winter night, Shanghai people are chanting on the downtown street “ we don’t want dictatorship, we want democracy”.Extraordinary courage and solidarity showed. After 3 years of suffering from lockdown & control of society, people are raged.
Crowd of at least 100 making its way to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sunday night, chanting, “We want universal values,” “We want freedom, equality, democracy, rule of law,” “We don’t want dictatorship,” “We don’t want personality cult.”
Iranian team refused to sing the official Iranian anthem at #FIFAWorldCup2022 as a sign of support for protesters in their homeland.
Admire everyone who is fighting for freedom and democracy! The price of freedom is so high but it's the only option.
Exactly 9 years ago today, I was in a pub with my uni pals when we heard the news that then-president Yanukovych would not sign the association agreement with the EU, crushing Ukraine's European hopes and locking us to Russia.
We were not buying it.
Here's what happened next 🧵
A 90-year-old Hong Kong cardinal will go on trial alongside four fellow democracy supporters on Monday over their role in running a fund to help defend people arrested in anti-government protests https://t.co/rG6KWTHDkA
#BREAKING: As a man plays "God Save the Queen" on his harmonica, hundreds of Hong Kongers chant 'Ga Yau,' a phrase that translates as add oil, and one that became synonymous with the pro-democracy movement in 2019. (1/3)
The iconic Lin Heung Tea House 蓮香樓 closed its doors on August 8. The tea house was born in Guangzhou in 1889, and first opened in Hong Kong in 1926. The branch on Wellington and Aberdeen Street has been there for 24 years.
(Photos by Hong Kong Reminiscence 香港遺美)
A stroll in the now-dismantled Hongkongers' Book Fair.
It aimed to "start from the perspective of local readers... and provide more choices to widen the reading spectrum in Hong Kong," according to its Facebook page.
Their cancellation announcement: https://t.co/khVrpXQaC5