#BREAKING: Hong Kong jails legal scholar Benny Tai for 10 years for subversion, the longest sentence handed out so far under the city's national security law.
Tai and 44 others were earlier found guilty in Hong Kong's largest national security trial.
More to follow.🧵
The sentences of the HK 47 add up to 245 years and 6 months, according to @campaign4hk. This move imprisons a generation of civil society leaders for holding a primary ie trying to fight an election using democratic means.
https://t.co/q487iNItN9
1/ 🚨 BREAKING: The ex-chief editor of independent Hong Kong media outlet Stand News Chung Pui-kuen has been jailed for one year and nine months over publishing 11 “seditious” materials, in a landmark case.
https://t.co/NmCSmJWoX9
#BREAKING Jimmy Lai and 6 other pro-democracy activists lost landmark final appeal on illgeal assembly conviction of Aug 18 2019
They challenged Hong Kong courts ignored the ECHR Ziegler and Abortion Service cases, imposed disproportionate restriction on freedom of assembly
5 years ago, I boarded that train halted at Yuen Long Station.
Wearing a grey helment, I was assaulted when attempting to push Gwyneth Ho away from the white shirt mobs
And the rest is history. Video courtesy of the OG Hong Kong Collection team
#CCP tries to bury #TiananmenSquareMassacre history. But candlelight can break through darkness. Join us on #June4th to light a 🕯️for freedom, justice, democracy ,& those still imprisoned. Let's resist the brutal regime with 🕯️& keep the truth alive. #Tiananmen35#NeverForget
My latest: #HongKong’s High Court found 14 prominent pro-democracy figures guilty of conspiracy to subvert state power Thursday, as diplomats and civil society organizations closely followed the verdicts in the biggest national security trial in the city. https://t.co/WZqFiw8drE
#BREAKING: Hong Kong's appeal court has granted the government's request to ban "Glory to Hong Kong", an anthem popularised during the city's massive democracy protests in 2019.
The ban is the first of its kind since Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997. More to follow🧵
Crowds gather outside pro-democracy Mt. Zero book store to bid the store farewell. The book store, which had also served as a local community space will cease operating after today, citing mounting pressure from government monitoring the store for minor infractions.
#BREAKING: Hong Kong's legislature has unanimously passed the Basic Law Article 23 homegrown national security law, 11 days after the bill was tabled.
It introduces five categories of offences—including treason, insurrection—and penalties of up to life in jail.
More to follow🧵
#BREAKING: Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has pleaded not guilty to national security crimes.
Lai, 76, faces charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law, including “collusion” with foreign forces. This is Day 4 of his trial.
More to follow.🧵
Exiled HK activist @chowtingagnes shared her trauma over the past 3 years w/ @dwnews & how a lingering question pushed her to break the silence. "Many thought my PTSD was caused by imprisonment. No. It's the arrest & raid by the security police in 2020...
https://t.co/lJKquDhWpP
Agnes Chow gilt als eine der bekanntesten Vertreterinnen der Demokratiebewegung in Hongkong – und will nun nicht dorthin zurückkehren. Die dortigen Behörden kommentieren die Pläne der Aktivistin deutlich. https://t.co/69ekyCGGkG
🇭🇰 „Vielleicht kehre ich bis ans Ende meines Lebens nicht mehr zurück nach #Hongkong“
Agnes Chow, eine der profiliertesten Vertreterinnen der Hongkonger Demokratie-Bewegung, hat sich nach Kanada abgesetzt, um einem weiteren politischen Prozess zu entgehen https://t.co/Zd9GOYXZjC
Hong Kong student jailed for 2 months for posting about HK independence online when studying in Japan - she was arrested earlier this year when she came back to HK to renew id card
NEW: One year ago, on October 13, 2022, #PengLifa staged a solo protest in Beijing against China’s COVID lockdowns and the anti-democratic rule Xi Jinping.
One year on, his whereabouts are completely unknown and there are new fears for his family 🧵
https://t.co/bcmGG36JIh
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai has been in jail for nearly 1,000 days (next Tuesday). His Taiwan-based son Sebastien only managed to see him, through photos, for the first time in three years, and was worried about his health.
https://t.co/D2OBIy4guQ