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Why is Beijing so afraid of Jimmy Lai? The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre galvanized his political activism. He started the pro-democracy newspaper The Apple Daily with the slogan “An Apple a Day Keeps the Liars Away." https://t.co/sY4uVi1znX
A Hong Kong court found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national security violation on Wednesday after he tried to end her insurance policy and withdraw the funds. https://t.co/AaXvdtLsPC
First, China sentences Jimmy Lai to die in prison for committing journalism. Now it prosecutes the aging father of Anna Kwok to punish her for dissent. This is Xi’s dictatorship. https://t.co/4UdLO4AIdp via @NYTimes
“Five years since the Beijing-imposed national security law, Hong Kong’s once-vibrant free press is a ghost of its former self,” @behlihyi, @CPJAsia Regional Director, told the @guardian. Read more on Jimmy Lai’s unjust 20-year sentence ⤵️
https://t.co/B6ULCDBvpB
New @NikkeiAsia: The Fung family can finally reunite in the UK as daughter, born 1996, benefits from the BN(O) visa expansion.
"We thought there was no hope."
A happy story amid a "death sentence" for Jimmy Lai and harsh ones for Apple Daily editors.
https://t.co/FBRmuISTIe
1/ The sentencing of #JimmyLai & the others is a grave attack on press freedom & international advocacy. #HongKong authorities & the judiciary have weaponized the courts to criminalize speech & imprison those who speak up. @thecfhk urges the US to impose targeted sanctions—asset freezes, travel bans, & financial restrictions—on those driving this repression.
More telling of the lengths that Hong Kong will go to in order to make life miserable for the city’s perceived enemies than the Lai trial and sentence.
🕯️Today, Owen Chow 鄒家成 spends his 29th birthday unjustly imprisoned in #HongKong.
No one should spend time in prison for defending democracy.
We wish him a happy birthday and call for his immediate release, along with all political prisoners still suffering in #HK.
Pls read this whole thread by HKDC's @AnnaKwokFY about the CCP & Hong Kong government persecuting her father in HK in order to retaliate against her for her activism & advocacy for #HongKong. https://t.co/0aJD13tBHE
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has deplored the 20-year jail sentence handed down against Jimmy Lai and urged his release.
"This verdict needs to be promptly quashed as incompatible with international law.”
https://t.co/oqiTnmeA4y
.@hrw's response to the conviction of Anna Kwok's father under Hong Kong's draconian national security law for "attempting to deal with the funds of an absconder" - an alarming act of collective punishment.
https://t.co/swJnRmVGl0
Deplorable new low in Hong Kong.
They’ve convicted the father of US based @AnnaKwokFY for national security offences, merely for trying to settle unresolved financial affairs on her behalf.
Nothing is beneath this appalling regime.
The father of a U.S.-based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities was convicted of attempting to deal with an absconder’s financial assets, in the first court case of its kind brought under a homegrown national security law.
https://t.co/fL0CRsKnw5
HKDC on the conviction of the father of HKDC's @AnnaKwokFY in #HongKong. In response to this retaliatory #TransnationalRepression, we call for targeted Magnitsky-style sanctions against officials responsible for political prosecutions & sustained highest-level diplomatic pressure
1/🚨BREAKING: A #HongKong court has found Kwok Yin-sang—the father of US-based activist @annakwokfy—guilty under Article 23.
This is #TransnationalRepression in action.
This is the CCP’s playbook of collective punishment: targeting families at home to intimidate activists abroad.