The May 18 Foundation of South Korea awarded its Gwangju Human Rights Award to @zouxingtong despite pressure from the Chinese Embassy. Her Korean friend Na Hyun-Phil accepted on her behalf—it was considered too risky for a #HongKonger to do so. https://t.co/gZ1mZ0G2mg
Female student, 20, was arrested at the airport for rioting for alleged participation in protest outside @HongKongPolyU in November 2019. She is barred from leaving Hong Kong and has to report to police 3 times a week.
https://t.co/16YvCSW2rz
UK universities largely fail to actively protect academic freedoms.
CCP influence persists on campus, threatening students from HK, Taiwan, Uyghur community, and also Chinese students cherishing democracy.
@RishiSunak 's U-turn on Confucius Institute policy is shameful.
#BookCensorship@vawongsir’s cartoon: “Where’s my book?” Only the #NationalSecurityLaw on the shelves.
#HongKong Public Libraries have removed hundreds of books for “endangering national security” but won’t say which or how many. John Lee says, “We won’t recommend bad ideologies”
In testimony at yesterday’s @CECCgov hearing on #HongKong#PoliticalPrisoners, HKDC’s @AnnaKwokFY focused on the many things the US can do in response to the crisis, including providing humanitarian pathways to persecuted HongKongers.
Full testimony:
https://t.co/e1LITSFF7n
WARNING: This image may get you in jail
British citizen Mei Mac "is not totally safe. Article 38 of Hong Kong National Security Law allows Chinese authorities to take appropriate action against all those who violate the law, even if they are not Chinese citizens & do it abroad."
90 UK parliamentarians write to UK government to demand action on the Chinese & #HongKong governments’ “retaliatory” denial of Mandatory Provident Fund payouts to Hong Kongers emigrating to the UK via the BN(O) visa scheme & criticizing @HSBC’s complicity. https://t.co/SZvECBaehi
#HongKong public libraries have removed political cartoonist Zunzi’s books from the shelves days after @mingpaocom terminated his comic strip which ran for 40+ years. He’d been repeatedly denounced by top HK gov’t officials. #BookCensorship
https://t.co/EN4LeAOXBh
The protesters in China are fighting back against censorship and oppression. The display of blank paper shows that although they are voiceless, they are still powerful.
I am proud to use my voice to stand up to this abusive Chinese regime and support those fighting for freedom.
In 2019, a Hong Kong cop pulled a gun without justification & grabbed the first person he saw in a headlock. Another protester in black tried to help the victim. The cop then shot him.
Today, the good samaritan was sentenced to 6 years in prison. The cop has never been punished.
Anti-CCP protesters are arguing w/ a single pro-CCP man in Tokyo. The man asks why you guys want to break up China repeatedly? But no protesters say to him a free China will let, Hongkongers/Uyghurs/Tibetans/Mongols & many other minorities decide if they want to be part of it.
Friends have told me that when my thread on the #Chinaprotest was forwarded to Weibo, their accounts were banned.
The PRC government is so afraid of kind words to people. They are scared of the inner pursuit of freedom of humankind.
Let’s continue to spread the words.
Chow Pak-kwan, who's 21 when the unarmed protester was shot by a police officer in 2019 #HongKong protest, was sentenced to 6 years in jail for obstructing police, attempting to snatch the officer’s gun & attempting to escape. It was a landmark incident which escalated tensions.