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Hong Kong Watch
4 days
Olivia Bailey MP confirmed for our ‘Meet Your MP’ event in Reading! Sign up to meet MPs @YuanfenYang and @livbailey on the 29th here:
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Hong Kong Watch
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#BNO Hong Kongers in Reading, this is your chance to meet @YuanfenYang MP, in our first ‘Meet Your MP’ event of the year. Learn more about Yuan’s vision for Reading and her views on BNO Hong Kong issues by signing up here: Stay tuned for more details
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Hong Kong Watch
10 days
Biweekly political prisoner trial developments in #HongKong ⬇️
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Hong Kong Watch
11 days
Lord Neuberger has resigned from the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, as his role as Chair is not consistent with his role on the #HongKong Court of Final Appeal. We urge Lord Neuberger to seriously reconsider and immediately step down from his position in
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Hong Kong Watch
11 days
Hong Kong Watch Patron Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws has responded to 🇬🇧 Lord Neuberger's role on the #HongKong Court of Final Appeal ⬇️
@IBAHRI
IBA's Human Rights Institute
11 days
IBAHRI Director, Lady Helena Kennedy of the Shaws LT KC, has released a statement in relation to #HongKong : the sentences given to #humanrights defenders, the #RuleofLaw , Judge Lord Neuberger & UK judges not sitting on courts. Read the statement:
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Hong Kong Watch
12 days
Today millions of A-level students will find out where they are going to university in the autumn, but thousands of #BNO Hong Kongers continue to be priced out of their academic dreams by high international tuition fees. This must change. Join our campaign by signing this letter
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Hong Kong Watch
12 days
In a new oped, our co-founder @benedictrogers writes: "We must continue to campaign, advocate, pray, and chant — at every single opportunity available — #FreeJimmyLai . And free all other political prisoners in Hong Kong too."
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Hong Kong Watch
12 days
Thank you @alexander_wpb for covering this significant and unjust verdict. Read more about the case and from the last Governor of #HongKong and Patron of Hong Kong Watch, Lord Patten of Barnes, in our press release: #FreeJimmyLai
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Alexander Butler
13 days
Today's @Independent splash: Shame of British judge keeping free speech hero Jimmy Lai in jail Read more here:
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Hong Kong Watch
13 days
After a week we have over 650 signatures on our letter to the 🇬🇧 Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP Young #BNOs deserve Home Fee status, the same as students from the EU or those on other humanitarian pathways. We need BNOs to write to their local MPs asking for their support –
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Hong Kong Watch
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Lord Patten of Barnes, the last Governor of Hong Kong and a Patron of Hong Kong Watch, told @amyhawk_ of @guardian : “In this case, perhaps some of [🇬🇧 Lord Neuberger’s] views on the law changed between the first-class waiting room at Heathrow and the arrival terminal of Hong Kong
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@hkfp
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
15 days
BREAKING: Jimmy Lai among 7 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures to lose appeal against conviction over taking part in 2019 demo 🔗
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Hong Kong Watch
17 days
Important article by our Research and Policy Advisor @megan_khoo in @Diplomat_APAC on how @UKLabour and @CitImmCanada can demonstrate their commitment to the hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers in 🇬🇧 and 🇨🇦 amid increasing transnational repression. Thank you Lord Patten of
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