A complete outrage which shames 🇬🇧
We promised to maintain HK’s high degree of autonomy and way of life.
What did #HK get?
9 years in jail for waving a flag Beijing doesn’t like.
@DominicRaab we must move to accountability.
The Morrison government is fast-tracking visa applications from Hong Kongers. Thank you @AlexHawkeMP for your leadership on this important issue. Listen to my interview with @stephendziedzic this morning: https://t.co/lLXE2NWW3i
I have no words to express my embarrassment and shame at the sorry fact that the President of the United States has more to say about the UK’s treaty obligations than we do. #AppleDailyHK
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@XHNews He is correct! You have more democracy in China if you are rich and you have a foreign passport. For other 1.39 billion Chinese in China, they don't even have access to Facebook, Google, and Twitter. 🤣🤣
This is one of the most disgusting attacks on press freedom. Apple Daily is murdered by the Chinese Communist Party because it supports democratic movement.
HK pro-democracy paper Apple Daily announces closure https://t.co/3G8Kkie4l6
@laurelchor Just disappointed and sad. On June 4 1989, over 2 million Hongkongers were on strike against #ChinaCCP, but now Hongkongers just let it happen and do nothing. 😟😟
Wrote this about @appledaily_hk today. Where is the UK?
“The truth is that we are allowing these outrages to happen, issuing handwringing statements expressing “deep concern”, which amount to nothing.” https://t.co/CAMO7klAJQ
Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai will be honored with a @PressFreedom award for fighting "for the right of his Apple News organization to publish freely, even as China and its backers in Hong Kong use every tool to quash them." https://t.co/sr1jGQmU1w
#AppleDaily is not only a newspaper, it is also the symbol of Free Speech and Free Press in Hong Kong. Hong Kong will be in a dark age if #AppleDaily is forced to shut down.
Pro-democracy shops in Hong Kong supporting @appledaily_hk by offering the news outlet's employees free meals.
Customers have also bought stacks of Apple Daily newspapers to be distributed for free at "yellow" shops.
Resistance is still alive and strong at the community level.
1/3: We have several concerns.
Firstly, the PRC's legal system lacks judicial independence, legal protections, transparency, and presumption of innocence (resulting in 99% conviction rates). Any trial in the PRC is bound to be unfair and life-threatening.
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