The following Hong Kong businesses were added to US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list on Wednesday for links to the Iranian military.
• DOMUS TRADING HK LIMITED
• SHANGSHUN HONG KONG LTD
• SOLOS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
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The man in these photos is a father, an entrepreneur, and a defender of a free press. His name is #JimmyLai.
For nearly six years, he has been held in solitary confinement for defending democracy. At 78 years old with deteriorating health, he doesn't have much time left.
He deserves to come home.
#FreeJimmyLai
On June 9, 2019, an estimated one million Hong Kongers participated in a peaceful march from Victoria Park to the headquarters of the Hong Kong government in opposition to proposed legislation that would have allowed extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China.
This week, we remember the millions of Hong Kongers who peacefully protested against Beijing's broken promise that Hong Kong would maintain a high degree of autonomy from mainland China.
The regime calls them "rioters."
We call them heroes.
A million-dollar bounty hangs over my head, but back in Hong Kong, 1,946 political prisoners are silenced behind bars for the exact same "crime". At @OsloFF this year.
Any criminal case can be ‘certified’ as a nat sec case — trial w/o jury, designated judges, arbitrary detention.
High time to wake up for those who still think HK is buz as usual, even as an absurd definition is grafted onto the common law foundation, trampling its judiciary.
This week, many rallies are being held around the world to mark the 7th anniversary of the start of the 2019 mass protests in #HongKong.
Some cities are participating in the global "umbrella relay": London, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield.