Many children in #HongKong are growing up terrified of police.
The use of force in this circumstance for a 12yr old girl appears to be neither neccessary or proportionate #childrights
A young girl of school age was just cornered by riot police & proceeded to run away, before being viciously wrestled to the ground, kicked & pinned down by several police officers.
I wish I could say this isn’t normal in Hong Kong today, but it is.
Vid: HKUST student reporters
A 12yo girl scared, ran, and pushed down by riot police in Mong Kong via HKUST Radio News Reporting Team. @appledaily_hk interviewed her mum, said she only buying paint for schoolwork with her brother https://t.co/a5oUWQODLy #HongKongProtests
According to the RFA,12 Young people in Hong Kong planned to go to Taiwan by speedboat but they were intercepted by the Chinese Coast Guard. It including Li Yuxuan who was arrested by the Hong Kong police National Security Department. The report also said that the rest of......
This is a disaster.
@DominicRaab@tariqahmadbt@nadams@UKinHongKong we've been holding out and holding out some more, hoping that we could salvage something from the Joint Declaration.
We cannot hold out any more. Beijing is making its move on #HongKong and we MUST act now.
As America and the world battle the #covid19#coronavirus that #China communist party turned into a pandemic, what is Beijing doing? Plotting another crackdown against the liberties of #HongKong - and plotting to expand CCP power
We've seen what happened to #HongKong under the “one country, two systems” rule with Communist China. It doesn’t work - NO autonomy.
#Taiwan is a great ally & has been a leader during this pandemic. I stand with President Tsai in her decision to reject this offer.
The provision in the rules of procedure that Andrew Leung is invoking is rule #92, which allows the president to decide on a procedure to follow In any matter that the rules do not already address.
Hong Kong's equivalent of the nuclear option?
1000+ pgs to parse in the Indep. Police Complaints Council’s HK protests study. But screenshot captions of the Aug 31 incident—when police charged into a train station & beat indiscriminately—are unreal. E.g. below, focus is on ppl "cowering," not police use of excessive force?
Eleven months after the #antiELAB protests began in earnest, the Independent Police Complaints Council's study into the events has been completed and its report has been released.
A summary of highlights to follow in this thread https://t.co/eQytrXTHqT
Other takeaways:
-IPCC spends a lot of ink reminding everyone it is pretty powerless.
-A huge amount of source material was drawn from LIHKG
- Some of the more pointed remarks come over the Hong Kong police's inability to protect LegCo.