Seven years ago, Hong Kong citizens were attacked by a group of men dressed in white and armed with batons inside Yuen Long MTR station.
At least 45 people were injured, while police just stood by and allowed the violence to happen.
The attackers were later reported to have links to the notorious 14K triad. Now, some of those same networks appear to have resurfaced in the U.K. Evidence presented during the HKETO spying trial included discussions about involving the 14K triad in similar attacks against Hong Kong activists in Britain.
If triads, Hong Kong police, and their Beijing-backed networks can coordinate across borders, can anywhere truly be safe for Hong Kong activists in exile?
Today, Jimmy Lai and his wife Teresa celebrate 35 years of marriage.
This photo was taken before Jimmy's arrest, when he could still sit beside her over dinner.
For nearly six years now, a prison cell has taken that away. He is spending this milestone separated from the woman who has stood by him through everything.
He deserves to come home to her.
#FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome
Utter nonsense.
If ending the Hong Kong national emergency were just "streamlining," the Administration would have simply reissued sanctions against the remaining nine officials using the HKAA and HKHRDA as the basis. And they wouldn't have moved the other 39 off the SDN list and onto a list with fewer restrictions.
Stop lying, @USTreasury, and own up to the deal you made with China.
Foreigners in China often rave: ‘Hospitals are so cheap and fast!’ ‘Amazing service for the price!’
But for this Shanghai man, borrowing money from friends to treat his father’s stroke ended in doctors recommending DNR — and death anyway.
Why the huge gap between expat praise and ordinary Chinese reality?
1/ Today’s substantial sentences of 10 and eight years for Peter Wai and Bill Yuen send an unequivocal message: transnational repression and state-sponsored surveillance on British soil are not tolerated. For years, the Hong Kong diaspora has warned that the #HKETO has been
An anonymous petition has called for my expulsion from City University of Hong Kong, following my decision to speak up as a whistleblower in a Hong Kong education scandal involving the app MediSafe, which was suspected of academic misconduct.
What’s concerning is that this petition claimed support from 40 CIOs, a lawmaker, and university professors, yet remained completely anonymous.
It even threatened not to hire CityU graduates and tried to pressure institutions.
That’s not accountability, it’s intimidation.
I still stand by speaking up, and I believe the public can see clearly what this is.
Read more via Hong Kong Free Press:
https://t.co/XAsdHpTJdM
Here are the Chinese 'spies' as they allegedly try to convince a surveillance target that her flat was flooding by pouring water under the door. They are also using a 'snake camera' to look inside https://t.co/0oH8MwQn2U
Chung Ching, who lives in London and works for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, says she believes the safety of dissidents from Hong Kong and China is at risk.
The bigger the embassy, the more "oppression and espionage activities" there will be, she says.
"For our community to know that this is going to be the biggest embassy, there's going to be a few hundred more staff on the ground in the UK is a very scary thought because we fled the country to try to escape oppression, surveillance and the long arm of the state."
https://t.co/tWzEgHSLFP
After a month & a half, exiled #HongKong artists @lumli_lumlong have completed their new 198×650cm mural in the California desert. Depicting the dream of every freedom-loving Hong Konger, it's called "The Fall." https://t.co/lzsXeXSx1C