Newcastle Stands with Hong Kong

Political group about HK issues on human rights, democracy and freedom run by HK students in #Newcastle UK
#fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong #光復香港時代革命

[Newcastle Stands with Hong Kong @nclhk]

Good News!

On 2 Nov 2022, Newcastle City Council unanimously passed motion to detwin with Taiyuan, China.

#globaldetwinwithchina #seversistercitytieswithchina #newcastlestandswithhk

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Two men found guilty of spying for China

https://t.co/YioP4ixSuh

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK immigration officer among two men guilty of carrying out "shadow policing" on behalf of China in Britain https://t.co/iCR9sVxvuj

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Every British university which has set up an outpost in China has a branch of the Chinese Communist Party for staff and students, a new report has claimed ⬇️ https://t.co/blURJ30a5s

[Poppy Wood @poppyeh]

Excl: Confucius Institutes have had their government funding stripped amid concerns over Chinese influence

Likened to 'Trojan horses', Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has linked them to the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department

https://t.co/LlcK9nm2hN

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Statement: HKFP condemns harassment of Hong Kong’s independent press, reports intimidation of staff to police: https://t.co/lobEEkxqxM

Full story: https://t.co/GF2UHSxfXN

[David Missal @DavidJRMissal]

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.

[Alicia Kearns MP @aliciakearns]

Concerned by reports the largest China research institute in the UK, KCL's Lau China Institute, is 99% funded by a Hong Kong donor with close links to the CCP, Mr Lau Ming-wai.

Despite multiple Freedom of Information requests, KCL has refused to disclose the terms and conditions attached to these donations, or the extent of Mr Lau's influence over the Institute's operations and research agenda.

Given the growing threats to academic freedom and national security posed by the CCP, it's clear that transparancy and accountability measures for donations to UK universities should be reviewed.
https://t.co/R4PV9n1YFJ

[Catherine West @CatherineWest1]

Journalism is not a crime.

Yet two former Stand News editors have been found guilty of sedition in Hong Kong today, for doing their job.

Free media is essential if societies & economies are to prosper. But HK has dropped from 18 to 135 in World Press Freedom Index since 2002.

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

Why Britain must say no – again – to China’s ‘super embassy’ in London https://t.co/dtR00uqdfo

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Be clear about what this is.

Beijing instructing a foreign (Romanian) political party to discipline one of their MPs for doing something the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t like.

And they have the brass-neck to lecture others about “internal affairs”.

We tried to warn you.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Man charged with aiding Hong Kong intelligence service dies in "unexplained circumstances" https://t.co/5CY4eZG22d

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: China has hacked the Ministry of Defence, Sky News understands
https://t.co/IUQZEMUt4O

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Breaking and extremely disturbing news.

According to the United States Department of Justice, 43 UK Parliamentarians were victims of the 🇨🇳cyber attack. And the entire EU membership of IPAC.

I am learning about this from a US Government press release. 🤡

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

The Chinese students policing Britain's universities @UnHerd https://t.co/kPsTiSHdvQ

[Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green @MPIainDS]

UK secretly softens policy on Chinese firms accused of human rights abuse. https://t.co/9FVy8jD11B

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

A bunch of 🇨🇳-waving Chinese, apparently from a 🇨🇳 TV broadcaster, told pianist Brendan Kavanagh — who regularly live-streams his performances on public pianos in public venues — to stop showing their faces in his live-streaming while he’s playing the piano in a shopping mall in London on Jan 19 because showing their faces — their image rights — isn’t allowed under 🇨🇳 law… did this group of 🇨🇳 nationals — one of the women claims she’s British — think London is part of China?

The 🇨🇳 man shown in the pics even yelled at Brendan accusing him of touching one of the women when Brendan merely touched the 🇨🇳 she was holding…

Why didn’t they simply walk farther away from the piano?

full video 👉🏻 https://t.co/fNsYUWK3Q6

👇🏻 clip from ~9’08” to ~24’58” of the original video

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

#NEW 🚨 #AgnesChow, who served 6 months in an Hong Kong max security prison for “inciting unlawful assembly”, announces that she won’t return to HK, and that she was forced to go to China by National Security Police before being granted permission to study abroad.

[UK-China Transparency @ukctransparency]

🇬🇧🇨🇳 NEW RESEARCH🇬🇧🇨🇳

UK universities give funding to Chinese PhD students on the basis of their political views.

Students must report regularly to Chinese diplomats.

Each student must nominate family & friends in China to be punished if the he/she breaks scholarship rules.

[Newcastle Stands with Hong Kong @nclhk]

We hope that councils in the North East region will review their procurement policy and phase out these products in light of the security concerns and human rights violations associated with these companies.
#hikvision #dahua
@ChronicleLive
@TheNorthernEcho
@SunderlandEcho

[Newcastle Stands with Hong Kong @nclhk]

[Councils in North East England using Chinese state-linked surveillance products]

#DurhamStandswithHK and #NewcastleStandswithHK have jointly released a report examining the usage of surveillance products affiliated with the Chinese government by councils in the North East

[Newcastle Stands with Hong Kong @nclhk]

Some councils in Scotland and Kent have already promised to dismantle CCTV systems associated with Hikvision and Dahua, aligning with a broader trend of re-evaluating their technological partnerships in light of human rights and security considerations.