Thai authorities must “take concrete actions to uphold human rights, including for its sizable refugee population,” said Thanida Piyachot, Human Rights Specialist at @FortifyRights, in a news release issued ahead of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of #Thailand’s human rights record this November.
https://t.co/s93mBsAw7u
#StandWithTaiwan
China has built a near-constant naval presence on all sides of Taiwan. See how Beijing is tightening the noose on the island it claims as its own. https://t.co/aLKTlefK8T via @WSJ
I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms."
I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly.
But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it.
China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident.
Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.
June 9: 1 million marched dressed in white.
June 12: tens of thousands surrounded gov't HQ & were attacked by police.
June 15: Marco Leung fell to his death while protesting. June 16, 2 million marched dressed in black, full of rage & anger at the HK gov't.
7yrs ago today, 2 million people marched in #HongKong to demand full withdrawal of an HK gov't bill that would legalize extradition to China + accountability for police brutality on 12 June. From afternoon to late evening, one of the largest protests anywhere ever.
7yrs ago today, 2 million people marched in #HongKong to demand full withdrawal of an HK gov't bill that would legalize extradition to China + accountability for police brutality on 12 June. From afternoon to late evening, one of the largest protests anywhere ever.
Ex-CUHK student union head Jacky So's challenge to the new crime of "inciting others not to vote" is rejected by CFA. So, convicted of the crime, argued it unreasonably restricts free speech. In HK it's legal not to vote but illegal to tell others not to.
https://t.co/df8FHEgAnN
Just another proof that after nsl all freedoms and rule of law in hk lost.
Courts have become tools of political persecutions.
Think twice before you invest in #policestatehk#standwithhongkong#fightforfreedom
Ex-CUHK student union head Jacky So's challenge to the new crime of "inciting others not to vote" is rejected by CFA. So, convicted of the crime, argued it unreasonably restricts free speech. In HK it's legal not to vote but illegal to tell others not to.
https://t.co/df8FHEgAnN
As of 2024 at least 1,325 #HongKongers had applied for asylum & 344 granted asylum worldwide:
1,282 applied, 328 granted in Canada, UK, Australia
Germany: 14 applied, 5 granted
NZ: 5 applied, 2 granted
US: 19 applied, 4 granted
Sweden: 5 applied, 5 granted
https://t.co/XEwynEXFDF
Since 2019, 377 #HongKongers have sought asylum in the UK:
85 granted asylum
134 refused
114 withdrawn
6 invalid
38 still awaiting outcome
https://t.co/iyCjzD56Ic
Since 2019, 377 #HongKongers have sought asylum in the UK:
85 granted asylum
134 refused
114 withdrawn
6 invalid
38 still awaiting outcome
https://t.co/iyCjzD56Ic
Chung Biu “Bill” Yuen and Chi Leung “Peter” Wai were sentenced to prison at the Old Bailey in London on Thursday after being convicted of spying on pro-democracy activists in Britain on behalf of Hong Kong authorities.
Well deserved.
#wuhansars and hk's collapse show the tyranny can only lie and has huge amibiton to rule the world.
When will all democratic nations stop kowkowing to the unreal money of the tyranny?
#decocuplingautocracy to defend Sovereignty now
Chung Biu “Bill” Yuen and Chi Leung “Peter” Wai were sentenced to prison at the Old Bailey in London on Thursday after being convicted of spying on pro-democracy activists in Britain on behalf of Hong Kong authorities.