Jimmy Lai has been denied to recieve Communion - a bread - for his Catholic faith in prison since Apple Daily trial began, @canonlawyered wrote in @PillarCatholic
#BREAKING: 🇳🇱 Dutch Parliament passes motion on UN Resolution 2758 147 votes to 3, led by 🇳🇱 Co-Chair @jpaternotte for #Initiative2758.
This motion rejects 🇨🇳's distortion of UN Resolution 2758, and requests the Dutch government to seek support for this position within the EU 👇
I was just refused entry to Hong Kong. After 13 sleepless hours under immigration examination in the middle of the night, I was told that I could not enter the city and was eventually allowed to take a plane to Vietnam, where I planned to go only in a couple of days.
@bobbiharlow I have always wanted to go to Lai See Snack Shop at Wah Fu Estate. It’s known for serving the authentic Hong Kong style burgers and fried chicken legs.
Selina Cheng supporting @WSJ's Free Evan campaign w/colleagues last Oct. 👇
She became head of the embattled Journalists Assoc. in HK in June to support press freedom.
25 days later, the @WSJ fired her. They left a Chinese woman without any protection from an int'l media org.
JUST IN: The Wall Street Journal have fired the head of the embattled #HongKong journalists association, @HKJA_Official says - 24 days after she took the position.
Press con at 5.30pm. @wsj.
Stay tuned to @HKFP.
Australian officials try to intervene after officials from the Chinese embassy try to block journalist Cheng Lei from being filmed at a signing ceremony at Parliament House
A new petition calls on the Ukrainian government to ban TikTok, arguing that it poses a national security threat given China’s cozy relationship with Russia. It’s already garnered about half of the signatures it needs to be considered by lawmakers.
https://t.co/kxI6n2yYmu
1/ In an EXPLOSIVE op-ed, UK judge Lord Sumption has deemed a recent judgement against Hong Kong democrats "legally indefensible," and has spoken of an "oppressive atmosphere" and paranoia among the authorities, days after he quit the city's top court. https://t.co/vD53xefLFb
1/3 Lord Sumption writes today, "Many judges have lost sight of their traditional role as defenders of liberty" & "only lip-service is ever paid" to free speech rights. Yet he still calls the judges "honourable people." The cognitive dissonance is truly something to behold.
1/7 NEW REPORT: Fresh details on how ten UK, Australian, & Canadian judges on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal are complicit in political repression, undermining the human rights they once defended. Authored by @Alyssa__Fong & myself w/ @thecfhk.
https://t.co/qawndpfC41
"Hong Kong, once a vibrant and politically diverse community is slowly becoming a totalitarian state."
Whoa. Big piece by former UK Supreme Court Judge and Hong Kong overseas judge Jonathan Sumption who resigned a few days ago.
https://t.co/Afh11gNXZM
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"After being dismissed from classes after complaints from Chinese students, a British professor accused universities of ignoring academic freedom and bowing to money."
#AcademicFreedom at UCL.
Voice of America @voachinese .
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