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Contributing writer @TheAtlantic . Co-author of Among the Braves. No opinions, only typos:

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Timothy McLaughlin
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Coming this fall, and available now for pre-order, a project that has been in the works since 2019. Among the Braves, with @ShibaniMahtani , the story of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and the lives and city it has shaped.
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Activist Fleco Mo Kai-hong, in a post on Facebook, says Tony Chung of the now disbanded Studentlocalism group has been arrested for violating the state security law. Few details at the moment, no official announcement, seems like it will be a developing story through the night.
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Someone purchased every copy of today’s Apple Daily from the Circle K in Sai Ying Pun and left them out for people to take for free. (Even attached the receipt as proof of purchase.)
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Hong Kong police say they have arrested four people and frozen HKD70 mil in connection with Spark Alliance, a group collecting funds to support protesters, due to possible money laundering. SCMP reported in Nov the group's HSBC account had raised red flags
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Blaming your country's ills on colonialism, but suppressing your peoples' freedoms with colonial laws. A favorite play of so many leaders in Asia.
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Absolutely say no to the TIME Magazine cover story if you are a leader in Asia.
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Appears unis will again be a focus of protests in Hong Kong today. The govt's prediction that students returning to school would kill the energy of protests was totally wrong. The Sept. CUHK rally remains one of the most remarkable events I've attended:
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Somewhere a Hong Kong uncle is smiling knowing his knowledge has been passed on.
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One Detroit protester brought a leaf blower, saying it’s to blow back tear gas, in case there’s any
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Applause and cheers as the crowd near the Bank of China parts to allow protesters in wheelchairs to make their way down the road.
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Kyaw Moe Tun is a name many more people in Myanmar and around the world will know tomorrow.
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Protesters in Hong Kong are now bolting barricades into the road using power drills.
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High Street in Hong Kong is always jammed with motorbikes as drivers wait to pick up from the Deliveroo Kitchen. Over the past week nearly every one has been adorned with these stickers for the Indian farmers' protest.
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"Fight for Freedom, Stand With Hong Kong" banner at the Village Halloween Parade in NYC tonight with a few yellow umbrellas and Winnie the Poohs. Some heckling from the sidewalk. Vid via an attendee
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“In the 20 years that this shop has been open, the past half year has been my happiest time here. When people buy my products they tell me to ‘add oil.’ It’s touching. I’ve never experienced anything like this.”
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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.
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Stand News captures the scene tonight in Hong Kong.
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The anti-coup resistance of Sanchaung Township on the front page of today’s @washingtonpost . More photos inside from a supremely brave and talented Myanmar photographer who continues to report under awful conditions. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Media head handcuffed and gets perp walked through his own newsroom. "It is clearly stated in Article 4 that people of Hong Kong should be able to continue to enjoy the freedom of speech, freedom of press, of publications, protest, assembly and so on." Carrie Lam, July 1
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Mary Hui
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. @JimmyLaiApple now at the Apple Daily newsroom. The reporter asks Lai what he thinks of his arrest. He snickers. "What do I think? They have to arrest me, what can I think? I don't know what I to think." Lai said he saw the search warrant, tho unclear if it covers all floors
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If there was the thinnest of silver linings this week, tissue paper thin, it’s that nearly every person I was in touch with from Hong Kong and Myanmar, asked how people in the other place were doing and if they were keeping up their fight.
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Things very much back to normal in Central Hong Kong at the moment. The government/police appear to have totally given up enforcing the social distancing regulations unless of course they disagree with your political positions. So crazy how that has happened:
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Human Rights Watch calls for an independent investigation into the Hong Kong Police Force, letter to CE Carrie Lam cites reporting from @washingtonpost published last month on police guidelines being violated:
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“Dear Burmans of Myanmar - please don’t hate us Chinese...I don’t have a drop of Burmese blood. But I am a person of Myanmar. I was born in Myanmar. I eat Burmese food and I drink Burmese water."
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MiMi Aye
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This is the mother of 17 year old medical student Khant Nyar Hein. Her son was shot dead by junta police in Tamwe, Yangon yesterday before they dragged his body away. I’m going to tell you all what she says in this video here #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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A half a dozen people have already arrived to help clean the blue stains off the front of the mosque.
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Shibani Mahtani
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Passerby helping to clean the mosque after the huge blast of blue water from the cannon. Muslim bystanders here shocked and offended that they would do this to their place of worship. HK people comforting them
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Enormous turnout at today’s march, which police objected to.
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Around a dozen police officers in Central Des Vouxs Road stopping young people and checking their IDs/searching their bags. Have seen two young men stopped in the last 5 minutes.
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Journalist doing good journalism found to have breached the "One-China Principle," Hong Kong government says. Government rebuke stems from RTHK reporter asking WHO rep about Taiwan's efforts to contain coronavirus. That's it. Really, that's all she did.
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The @washingtonpost gets it.
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4 years
Big lines already at primary polling stations in Hong Kong. Huge turnout yesterday, now targeting 500K votes.
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Undercover police beating a protester repeatedly in the head with a baton tonight in Mei Foo. This is against their own guidelines and training.
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While there might be “a lot of resistance on the part of parents and students,” ... “they cannot stop the Education Bureau.”
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Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪
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#THREAD HK education minister Kevin Yeung mentioned a number of important measures in this exclusive interview with Shangguan News, a branch of PLA mouthpiece Jiefang Daily. 1) Yeung said in handling teachers complained of “misconducts” in protests...
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A reporter has just taken over the Hong Kong Police Force daily presser, now shining the bright flashlights that police use to obstruct journalists in a police officer's face.
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Police just opened up with the water cannon on the Kowloon Mosque. Many people coughing and choking on the water which is mixed with blue tie and powerful irritant. A small group of peaceful protesters and journos were outside the mosque at the time.
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4 years
As was pointed out yesterday, these regulations are blatantly being selectively enforced by the police. Used almost exclusively against pro-democracy supporters.
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Timothy Lee 李軒朗
4 years
[Insanity in HK] HKers outside Tuen Mun Court Bldg to show solidarity with arrested protesters set to appear in the court hearing. The police showed up & issue fine tickets to them, accusing them of violating the Group Gathering Ban fiat.
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“These people that are forming labor unions, it means that they have hope,” he said. “The labor unions are utilizing their power against a government that is refusing to respond.” Hong Kong’s new unions are starting to show just how powerful they can be.
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Watching video after video of Myanmar police violently attacking and killing protesters and I sincerely hope there is a full accounting into the years long EU funded program that claimed it would reform and change the police.
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Lots of love for @dmorey in Hong Kong tonight.
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The Washington Post
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LeBron James criticizes Daryl Morey’s decision to send controversial Hong Kong tweet
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“Carrie Lam embraces this very valueless mindset, which is actually a colonial legacy.” To mark one year since the beginning of Hong Kong's protest, a look at the stubborn "closed-minded" "very mainland-Chinese bureaucrat" who started it all:
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Lots of folks in Hong Kong who were very chill about other peoples kids getting their heads kicked in by the police are now decidedly unchill about their own kids having their schooling disrupted again. People really thought a wholesale re-engineering wouldn't touch them. Cute.
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119 people arrested during protests last night in Hong Kong including two journalists. Youngest arrested 13 years old.
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"Doxxing ban" seems like a title that deliberately down plays the severity of the injunction that just raced through the Hong Kong court and was granted. Widespread implications under the guise of protecting private data of police officers. Alarming development.
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What is remarkable about what is happening in Hong Kong is the cowardice of it all, the constant hiding and excuses. An unnamed law firm giving unknown legal advice to remove a statue under darkness. And you can be almost certain it’ll be crickets from HKU’s deans and admins.
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How self obsessed and delusional is Min Aung Hlaing? Last night as his soldiers murdered more than 100 people across Myanmar, including young children, he celebrated the "glorious" history of the military at a lavish dinner complete with a drone portrait of himself.
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Myanmar rakes in roughly USD6.5 million on the 8th day of the annual jade and pearl expo in Naypyitaw. Plundering natural resources will be a possible financial lifeline for the junta.
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Two graphs buried dedicated to the police use of force. Again @washingtonpost published the police use of force guidelines and an examination of officer actions by a group of the world's leading policing experts:
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Apple Daily says 35-year-old American banker is the man in widely circulated video showing fight between him and others with baton wielding older man who turned out to be a police officer in plainclothes:
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This was the scene outside the Kowloon Mosque moments after it was sprayed by the Hong Kong police water cannon. Not a large crowd at all, certainly not frontline geared up protesters.
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3 years
Hong Kong's CE Carrie Lam and Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong both delivering updates at the same time on COVID plans. Singapore announcing clear path forward, lifting outdoor mask mandates and travel restrictions etc. Hong Kong focused primarily on traditional Chinese medicine.
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4 years
A very merry National Security Education Day to all!
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4 years
Not everyone is clapping for medical workers. Lawmaker Regina Ip suggests retaliatory measures be taken against doctors who took part in hospital strike, a measure that seems like it would certainly hurt the medical sector and population more broadly:
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2 years
Chinese state media comes again for Boris over Hong Kong.
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Timothy McLaughlin
4 years
Falsely, Carrie Lam says the five demands of the Hong Kong protesters evolved into a demand for independence. PORI and Reuters polling shows a small minority of people in Hong Kong want this. Also cites, again without any evidence, foreign forces are behind the protests.
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The scene at Admiralty Centre now, where riot police have moved in and pushed media outside. No one allowed to stand inside for more than a few beats before police push them along.
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Photo from Hong Kong's protests looks to be getting a second life and going very viral because of demonstrations in Iran. Has come across the timeline multiple times in the past few days.
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The Hong Kong government seems keen to use the city’s past pop and movies stars to tell the Happy Hong Kong story, but with certain omissions. Anita Mui was one of the first people to see Wu'er Kaixi the day after he arrived in Hong Kong following the Tiananmen massacre.
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Like other government officials, Lam provides zero details and zero clarity on what the national security law will actually entail. Instead she falls back on the same old tropes making extraordinary claims without evidence and shifting blame for the state of Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
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Chief Exec. Carrie Lam has hit out at protesters whilst justifying the impending security law. "Violence by rioters has escalated, with illegal firearms and explosives posing a terrorist threat," she claimed. #HongKong democrats are concerned the law will stifle freedoms.
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The Uyghur solidarity rally is underway at Edinburgh Place in Hong Kong. Decent crowd and more arriving.
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Marco Rubio tells ⁦⁦ @TheAtlantic ⁩ he has personally spoken with President Trump about the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and has not encountered resistance. “The White House has indicated that they would sign it.”
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“In the latest example, British bank HSBC has reportedly prevented Hong Kong-based executives at Next Media, a well-known publisher of pro-democracy publications, from accessing their credit cards and personal bank accounts.”
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The further from July we get, the more important Hong Kong's pro-democracy primary seems. A huge, peaceful protest by way of a vote. It seemed to get lost in the shuffle of a summer of bad news:
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Hong Kong supporters section turns its back en masse on the Chinese national anthem and flips the bird before the match starts.
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Rich expats complaining that spending some days in Hong Kong's quarantine centers is like going to prison, while 47 people face life sentences in actual prisons nicely sums up the total aloofness of the bubble in which many live. Tone deaf doesn't even touch it.
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3 years
Two years ago, about ten minutes before 5 pm.
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Troubling story, yet again, developing in Hong Kong. Former leader of pro-independence group Studentlocalism Tony Chung reportedly arrested outside the US Consulate as he was waiting for the consulate to open so he could seek asylum:
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Timothy McLaughlin
5 years
“Glory to Hong Kong” leads things off here in Chater where the crowd is spilling into surrounding roads.
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4 years
One year ago today, snapped just as the Hong Kong police gave up trying to holder demonstrators to one side of the road and the crowd surged toward Central. One of the more memorable moments I’ve witnessed in my life.
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4 years
To cheers, a man unfurls the flag of East Turkestan. Police again raise the blue flag. Dozens of people held opposite Don Don Donki have been arrested.
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AppleDaily just caught an officer with a Chinese flag on his helmet, pro-Beijing group says the police should be nominated for the Nobel Prize, Chinese state media loves the idea. Re-upping this story on how the HKPF is seen as mercenaries of Beijing:
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Residents gathering to protest Hong Kong government announcement to use unoccupied public estate as quarantine area for those infected with Wuhan coronavirus. One commentator on livestream says, "this will unite yellow and blue."
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4 years
Interesting bit of the IPCC report that confirms what @ShibaniMahtani and I heard from a frontline officer last year, there was a plan on July 1 to push protesters away from LegCo but it was nixed by police brass.
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“It is a curse for Myanmar to be a neighbor of China.” Since Myanmar's coup, the anti-Chinese sentiment that Aung San Suu Kyi was largely able to hold at bay by aligning herself and her party with Beijing has come rushing back: #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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4 years
The answer to (now under investigation) Nabela Qoser's question about where Carrie Lam was on 7.21 and why the government was so slow to react that night is terribly embarrassing and reads like something out of Veep:
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Timothy McLaughlin
5 years
Human chain stretching what appears to be the entire length of Macdonnell Road in Mid Levels area of Hong Kong this morning.
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It wasn’t the kids they had to worry about. Hundreds of office workers spilling into the streets in Central Hong Kong protesting the national anthem bill and national security laws. Blue flag raised.
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Journalists from the Editorial Board, HSUSU captured a Hong Kong police officer beating a protesters on the head with a can of pepper spray this afternoon.
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3 years
A mosaic of the headlines from around the world about the raid this AM on Hong Kong's Apple Daily via Reddit.
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“That was frustrating,” one current reporter told me “they’ve given an impression that SCMP is anti protesters. As journalists, we should never be pro or against protesters.” A look at some tensions inside Hong Kong’s biggest English language newspaper.
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The young woman who was shot by Hong Kong police in the eye with what appeared to be bean bag round quickly becoming the latest image of tremendous anger with police and their tactics. Calls for a mass rally at the airport this afternoon.
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Carrie Lam when asked about the sweeping National Security law just enacted from Beijing: "It is inappropriate for me to comment on the Hong Kong National Security Law."
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Student journalist from unis in Hong Kong have been hustling for months covering the protests, not just for their own outlets but helping out loads of other journos. Tonight a few of them captured an awful but important moment and put their own lives in very real danger to do it.
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Early reporting from HK01 spells another dark day for Hong Kong. If correct, imagine those spared will be lesser known ppl who joined primary. Pro-BJ camp has said since arrests that we needed to wait and see who would be charged, so will likely spin this as a moderate action.
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Hong Kong Global Connect
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As the activists who were arrested in Jan on suspicion of subversion under the NSL for organising the pro-democracy camp primaries report to police today, HK01 reports that at least 30 out of the 55 will be charged and appear in court tmr.
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No where is the hypocrisy of Hong Kong’s politicized enforcement of COVID restrictions on clearer display than Peel St. Tonight 3 officers standing in the middle of the crowd doing nothing but 1 kid holding up five fingers is enough to warrant a ticket:
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Eight years ago Josh Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam rose to prominence fighting against efforts to bring national education to Hong Kong. Today, they were jailed and the changes they helped to stave off are moving forward as Beijing marches across the city.
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3 years
Hmmmm.
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Defense Minister Mya Tun Oo retained Ari Ben-Menashe and his Montreal-based Dickens & Madson Canada to “assist in explaining the real situation in the country.”
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That feeling when every gathering with more than five people turns into a protest against the Hong Kong government.
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A few months ago ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩ began receiving docs from concerned Hong Kong police officers. The more than 100 pages detail guidelines for use of force and training, but have been repeatedly broken/ignored by officers during months of protests.
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75-year-old Hong Kong activist with stage four cancer arrested, held for 5 months without bail and found guilty for a one man protest that was only *planned* and never even took place.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
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BREAKING: Elderly Hong Kong activist convicted under sedition law over plan to protest 2022 Beijing Olympics
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Two faculty members at the University of Hong Kong reported to the national security law tip line, student unions axed, professors attacked by pro-Beijing media and a feeling that “help is not on the way.” University life in Hong Kong post NSL:
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Timothy McLaughlin
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This woman, and presumably her mother, talking about the Hong Kong police captures so much. Anger at the police is the easiest reaction to see, go to Mong Kok police station on any night, but the sadness and disappointment and sense of betrayal people feel is also so deep.
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As protests in Thailand again grow, a look at the #MilkTeaAlliance which now, the youthful, very online movement that now "envelops people across Asia who are fed up with expanding authoritarianism and demand democratic reforms":
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“Pedo guy” Musk is referring to is Brit Vernon Unsworth who US military and many others involved told us was integral at every stage of the rescue. US officials said the cave system is his “absolute obsession” no one in the world knows it better.
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Timothy McLaughlin
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Early morning arrests being carried out in Hong Kong. At least three former LegCo members from the Democratic Party, including Lam Cheuk-ting have been arrested by national security forces. As always, expect this number to grow.
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Democratic Party 民主黨
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【即時】前立法會議員涂謹申、尹兆堅、林卓廷今早被警方國安處上門拘捕,指去年立法會選舉 35+ 涉嫌顛覆國家政權罪。仍在了解其他黨友的情況。
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Very big crowd outside the Hospital Authority building this AM as strike actions escalate. Tough to capture the entire group, which snakes down the road.
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Protesters taking the road outside Sogo. Police falling back.
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This is absolutely true. China has sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat, pulled off a power Grab in Hong Kong, started a naval stand-off near Malaysia, alienated the Philippines with a bizarre song and created fictitious administrative regions:
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"But the poster came under fire from Chinese internet users who contended that it contained coded messages in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests."
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A person, presumably a student, has been waving this “Revolution of our times” flag nom stop since earlier in the day on the CUHK frontline. Now taken cover behind a table but still waving the flag under a barrage of police fire.
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You know the basis for an argument is solid when an academic starts laughing halfway through your question about it: "The silent majority is more of a metaphor than a real group of people. The voting results tell us it doesn’t exist."
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Two years ago today when the people of Hong Kong were told a giant lie.
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