Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪
@XinqiSu
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Ex journalist/ Tweets are my own / RT not endorsement
Joined October 2017
Have signed off from my last day in the extraordinary journey with AFP (and the press) If someone requests interview in my name as an AFP (or any outlet) reporter, that’s not me. But like HK, there is still one last story up in the sleeve. Meanwhile:
Lee Yue-shun is one of the first two men who walked free out of an #NSL trial, breaking the prosecution’s 100% conviction rate. 45 others are sentenced to years in jail today. Freedom can taste complicated and what can one do with it? Story:
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Talkative and commandeering as he testified in court Wednesday, Hong Kong media mogul #JimmyLai still seemed like a man used to being in charge despite spending most of the last four years in jail. w/@holmeschan_ @BeiJia_B
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“All I was doing was carrying a torch behind the reality … I was just commenting on things that have already taken place,” Lai told the court.
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@ipacglobal 7. He never knew or heard of Bill Browder and Yamao Shiori , who have been alleged by the prosecution as his co-conspirators. 8. He never donated money to political parties outside HK. 9. He never became a member of any political party.
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Lai denied a drastic change in Apple Daily’s coverage and his own political stand after 2014. He said the newspaper had all long covered social movements and only seemed to be more active when it had to respond as the city saw more movements in the past decade. #developing
#UPDATE Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai told a court on Wednesday that his now-shuttered newspaper Apple Daily represented "the core values of the people of Hong Kong". "The core values of Apple Daily are actually the core values of the people of Hong Kong... rule of law, freedom, pursuit of democracy," Lai said as he testified in his foreign collusion trial under Hong Kong's national security law
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Former journalist Gwyneth Ho's statement included an impassioned plea to Hong Kongers: "Restore faith in democratic values through action". Ho also called it "comical" for authorities to cast their informal poll as subversion.
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Benny Tai made a landmark speech at his mitigation for the sentence over Occupy Central co-leadership in 2018. He has yet said or published anything this time. Revisit his profile we published upon verdict in May and updated today:
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Veteran activists Lui Yuk-lin, “Bull” Tsang Kin-shing and Raphael Wong — the first two had started queueing on weekend outside the court — were taken out of queue by police for brief search before being sent back in place.
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