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Ahead of the annual commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre today,
@thecfhk
lit up the Tower of London to honour the anniversary
#TiananmenVigil2022
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam 何桂藍
Her birthday is today, marking 907 days behind bars.
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Thank you
@agcolehamilton
for joining us in our call to
#FreeJimmyLai
on his 1,000th day in
#HongKong
prison.
#JusticeforJimmy
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Today in the
@nytimes
@thecfhk
have focused on the women and girls jailed without trial under the
#NationalSecurityLaw
. Keeping the spotlight on Beijing's abuse of the law.
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Wong Ji-Yuet 黃子悅
Her birthday is today.
Wong Ji-Yuet is a former candidate of the democratic primaries and the former spokesperson of Scholarism, a student activist group in Hong Kong.
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#蘋果日報、#黎智英 和另外六位被控的蘋果高層不會被遺忘。
我們呼籲 #香港 政府立即無條件釋放英國公民黎智英和香港其他敢於公佈真相的政治犯。
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Today marks 2⃣ years since
#AppleDaily
, the pro-democracy newspaper owned by
#JimmyLai
, was forcibly shut down by the
#HongKong
government.
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🚨 The Oscars must revoke their invitation to
@DonnieYenCT
to host the
#Oscars2023
, for he is a member of the
#CCP
's Political Consultative Committee and an ardent supporter of Xi's aggressive dictatorship.
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Thank you
@Ross_Greer
for joining us in our call to
#FreeJimmyLai
on his 1,000th day in
#HongKong
prison.
#JusticeforJimmy
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Thank you
@PaisleyMp
for joining our campaign to call for the release of British citizen
#JimmyLai
👏👏👏
He has been behind bars in
#HongKong
for over 1,000 days.
#FreeJimmyLai
#JusticeforJimmy
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Ji-Yuet Wong 黃子悅
"I never have a faint hope that this regime will give us an easy path. Only when people can recognize that this is an authoritarian and open a new path of resistance, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel."
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On 21 July, we honour the bravery of journalist
#GwynethHo
, who, five years ago, courageously live-streamed the attack at
#YuenLong
Metro Station. Gwyneth was injured by triads and was subsequently targeted by
#HongKong
authorities for live-streaming and speaking out about the
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Chow Hang-tung 鄒幸彤
Her birthday is today, marking 938 days behind bars.
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Join us online this Thursday to watch THE HONG KONGER, a documentary by
@ActonInstitute
on the story of
#JimmyLai
in his struggle for freedom, and a conversation w/ the producer
@iEricKohn
and activists
@frances_hui
@MarkLClifford
.
RSVP today! ➡️
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On Friday night,
@thecfhk
splashed images of
#HongKong
's political prisoners throughout
#NewYorkCity
's skyline ahead of
#InternationalWomensDay2023
.
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Today marks British citizen
#JimmyLai
's 853rd day of detainment in
#HongKong
.
Thank you to the politicians, activists & journalists who participated in
@thecfhk
's
#WorldPressFreedomDay
video to declare that
#JournalismIsNotACrime
and the time is long overdue to
#FreeJimmyLai
.
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“If we don’t speak out for human rights for commercial reasons we lose all moral authority.”
@SpeakerPelosi
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Happy Birthday
#GwynethHo
! 🎂
In
#HongKong
today, Gwyneth spends her 4th birthday in jail without a verdict. She is accused of “conspiracy to commit subversion” under the draconian National Security Law for organising pro-democracy primaries.
Democracy fighters are not
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Two years ago, 200 police officers stormed the offices of
#AppleDaily
and arrested
#JimmyLai
and the
#AppleDailySeven
.
@thecfhk
demand their unequivocal release and ask the
@GOVUK
to do more to ensure this.
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🚨 PRESS RELEASE: U.K. Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
should publicly call for U.K. citizen
#JimmyLai
’s release as he hits 1,000 days behind bars in
#HongKong
.
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Sobering piece by
@finnlau_cd
in
@Telegraph
.
"I still look over my shoulder when I am walking down the street in London... My life, and the lives of Hongkongers in the UK, are on the line."
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🚨 BOUNDTY:
@frances_hui
, from
@thecfhk
played a KEY ROLE in pushing a
#SanctionsBill
through the US Congress which would see several
#HongKong
authority figures banned from entering the US. The Bill is currently supported by
@SenDanSullivan
and
@SenJeffMerkley
.
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Thank you
@JeremyRBalfour
for joining our campaign to
#FreeJimmyLai
as he spends his 1,000th day behind bars in
#HongKong
.
#JusticeforJimmy
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam 何桂藍
"Pleading not guilty is an expectation for myself: No matter how impossible and how difficult it seems, I believe we can find the crack to a new space."
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Hey
@NBC
, we sent you a message at 30 Rock in
#NYC
. Will
@NBCOlympics
report on the CCP’s continued crackdown on
#HongKongers
+
#pressfreedom
+ its appalling
#humanrights
abuses, or will you just continue silently profiting from Chinese oppression? Cc:
@Olympics
#FreeHongKong
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Outstanding from
@WSJopinion
. "Alexei Navalny and Jimmy Lai .... should become global household names, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov were during the Cold War."
The world needs to speak up for Alexei Navalny, the critic of Vladimir Putin who may be close to death in a Russian prison.
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As China continues to sportswash
#Beijing2022
and following our
@nytimes
ad,
@thecfhk
are drawing attention to women who have been imprisoned under the
#NationalSecurityLaw
. IMPRISONED for exercising their right to
#democracy
and
#freespeech
.
First up is
#GwynethHo
.
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On this day, our thoughts go out to all political prisoners in
#HongKong
— true heroes who have sacrificed for the pursuit of democracy. Your courage inspires us, and we will never stop fighting for your freedom.
#FreePoliticalPrisoners
#InternationalDayOfDemocracy
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🚨 In 18 hours,
@DonnieYenCT
, a member of the
#CCP
and critic of freedom in
#HongKong
, will host the
#Oscars2023
. When will the Oscars prevent Yen from taking the stage to promote
#China
's tyranny?
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🚨 PRESS RELEASE:
#HongKong
Activist
@frances_hui
Demands Release of
#JimmyLai
and All Political Prisoners in Hong Kong.
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📰 NEWSLETTER:
#GwynethHo
: Refusing to Play Along with the Charade of
#HongKong
’s Show Trial
Read more here:
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Owen Chow 鄒家成
Owen Chow is a former elected candidate in the New Territories East region of Hong Kong during the 2020 democratic primaries.
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🚨
@DonnieYenCT
is a member of the
#CCP
and actively opposes democracy in
#HongKong
. He should have no place handing out the
#Oscars
which champion freedom worldwide.
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“Without fighting, we don’t have hope. We don’t know when we’ll win, but we’re so sure we’re on the right side of history, and time is on our side.” -
#JimmyLai
#FreeJimmyLai
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
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"If you don’t have a free press you do not have a free society," Mark Simon, aide to jailed Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai on
@CNN
about HK government's freezing of the newspaper's funds so it can't pay reporters, staff and vendors.
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Welcome to
@thecfhk
🇬🇧 office,
@Chloe_chc_25
!
We are delighted to welcome Chloe as our Communications Assistant. Chloe moved to the U.K. from
#HongKong
3⃣ years ago, and joins us from Leeds.
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Former journalist and
@NobelPrize
nominee Gwyneth Ho risks a longer sentence by choosing not to submit a mitigation plea in her national security case. Her courage and dedication to
#HongKong
democracy will not go unnoticed
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Full house at today's press conference at
@csjthinktank
with
@MPIainDS
,
@DavidAltonHL
,
@Afzal4Gorton
and
@benedictrogers
, where peaceful
#HongKong
protestor Bob Chan is describing being violently attacked at the Chinese Consulate in
#Manchester
by the
#CCP
.
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🌟 Political Prisoner Spotlight: Lee Cheuk-Yan 李卓人
His birthday is today. Arrested twice in 2020, he has spent 1,395 days behind bars in a
#HongKong
jail.
On his birthday, we want to remind Lee Cheuk-yan, we have not forgotten you and we will see you soon.
#FreeThemAll
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Great to kick off a week of meetings in
#WashingtonDC
with fellow supporters and campaigners for
#HongKong
.
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📣 Today marks 1,000 days in
#HongKong
prison for Jimmy Lai, a 75-year-old husband, father & entrepreneur who founded Apple Daily, a Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper forcibly shut by the government in 2021.
Important message from
@EnesFreedom
⬇️
#FreeJimmyLai
#JusticeforJimmy
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🖼️ Last night,
#Melboure
neon artist Steven Cole set up a neon display of British citizen
#JimmyLai
at St. Andrew's Cathedral in
#Sydney
.
#FreeJimmyLai
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In 2019, when the pro-democracy movement broke out,
#HongKong
journalist
#GwynethHo
live-streamed a brutal attack at the
#YuenLong
metro station.
Pro-democracy protesters and bystanders were mercilessly beaten by triads wearing white T-shirts. Gwyneth was also physically
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🚨 When will the Oscars listen to the 104,131 people who have signed a petition to rescind
@DonnieYenCT
's invitation to host the
#Oscars2023
? The
#CCP
has no place at an awards ceremony that celebrates global freedom.
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LIVE from
#London
: Sebastien Lai kicking off a discussion on the extraordinary life of his father, who is approaching 1,000 days behind bars in
#HongKong
.
#FreeJimmyLai
#JusticeforJimmy
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Great to meet
@finnlau_cd
last night, a brave campaigner and leading light of the
#HongKong
diaspora.
@thecfhk
look forward to working closely in the future.
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⭐ Joshua Wong (
@joshuawongcf
), a prominent student leader during the
#HongKong
Umbrella Movement, has been arrested multiple times for his activism. Despite serving several prison sentences, he continues to be a symbol of resistance. Wong has now been in jail for more than 3
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If the CCP is willing willing to swallow up a city of more than 7 million people in broad daylight, crushing the free press, crushing dissent, and jailing journalists, you have to ask yourself: what — or who — will come next? by
@bariweiss
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Spot on,
@OliverDowden
👏👏👏
The Chinese Communist Party has no place in British universities.
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Today, on
#JimmyLai
’s celebrated birthday, the 75-year-old awaits his
#NationalSecurityLaw
trial in solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison. It is vital that we continue to push for democracy and rule of law in
#HongKong
#FreeHongKong
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
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📰 NEWSLETTER: Senior Catholic leaders from around the world urge Hong Kong to unconditionally free Jimmy Lai
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Today in the
@nytimes
@thecfhk
have called for Hong Kong to free
#JimmyLai
, free the
#AppleDaily
Seven and free all prisoners of conscience who are still imprisoned under the far-reaching National Security Law. More needs to be done for those imprisoned by Beijing’s draconian law
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On this
#IWD2024
:
@frances_hui
, policy and advocacy coordinator for
@thecfhk
, remembers the young female political prisoners who have selflessly put their lives at stake for the
#HongKong
democracy movement. These girls continue to sit behind bars, separated from their families.
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.
@nathanlawkc
shared his fears of being kidnapped after the
#HongKong
government placed a bounty on his head.
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Former
#StandNews
journalist
#GwynethHo
chose not to present mitigation statements that might have reduced her sentence in the city’s largest national security case. A brave stance, reflecting her firm belief in her innocence.
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We stand with Grandma Wong ✊✊
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
Pro-democracy activist "Grandma" Alexandra Wong wielded a placard outside government headquarters on Tuesday - she told HKFP authorities "should release all political prisoners" ahead of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.
Photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP.
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Remembering the forced closure of
#AppleDaily
three years ago, with
#JimmyLai
and six others still behind bars. We will keep fighting on for press freedom.
The
@thecfhk
’s full-page ad in
@nytimes
reminds the world of our cause. 👇🏻👇🏻
#FreeJimmyLai
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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📰 NEWSLETTER:
#HongKong
imprisoned lawyer
#HangTungChow
receives the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (
#CCBE
) Human Rights Award 2023
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🚨 PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Congress introduces first-ever sanctions bill targeting Hong Kong judges and prosecutors.
@RepYoungKim
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🚨 BOUNDTY: "Hong Kong has never been free." said
@frances_hui
from
@thecfhk
at the
#GenevaSummit2023
. Now, she is wanted by
#HongKong
authorities with a HK$1 million bounty placed. Is she really free in the US, or is she under transnational repression?
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Thank you Lord Chris Patten for meeting with the Chairman of
@thecfhk
James Cunningham to discuss the challenges posed by the
#CCP
engaging in transnational repression against
#HongKongers
in Britain and the trial of
#JimmyLai
#FreeJimmyLai
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Ahead of the annual commemoration of the 1989
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
today,
@thecfhk
lit up Tower Bridge in Central London to honour the anniversary
#TiananmenVigil2022
#VirtualVictoriaPark
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.
@lukedepulford
declared, "This place must not welcome theives like the man in that building. No one should welcome a heinous human rights abuser like Christopher Hui."
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📷
@thecfhk
invites you to stand in solidarity with the
#HongKong
8⃣ by signing onto our letter and by posting a photo of yourself with a white piece of paper, emblazoned with the hashtag
#IAmGuiltyToo
.
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Today
@RepYoungKim
called on
@SecBlinken
to impose targeted sanctions on
#HongKong
officials, judges & prosecutors listed in the Hong Kong Sanctions Act in response to
#Article23
. We hope to see the
@StateDept
act on this under US law asap to hold these individuals accountable.
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Thank you
@JimShannonMP
for your ongoing support of British citizen
#JimmyLai
👏👏👏
#FreeJimmyLai
#JusticeforJimmy
On Jimmy Lai’s 1000th day in prison, I call on the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary to publicly urge the Hong Kong government to immediately and unconditionally release Jimmy Lai, and to reaffirm Jimmy Lai's British citizenship. Jimmy Lai is British
#JimmyLai
#FreeJimmyLai
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A sole activist. Such bravery.
We stand with Grandma Wong ✊✊
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#JimmyLai
's trial is now scheduled for Dec 18. Sebastien Lai said "He's a man who decided to sacrifice everything that he has for these ideals of freedom..." And the world "should be paying attention to my father's case."
#FreeJimmyLai
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#HongKong
activist Agnes Chow Ting escapes to
#Canada
. She was forced to visit
#China
exhibition on
#CCP
greatness,
@TencentGlobal
, and forced to write an apology for her activities. How bad is it in Hong Kong, leaving no air to breathe for dissidents?
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Strong article by
@HenryBodkin
exposing
@luhc
for threatening to cut funding from a group of
#HongKongers
who simply desired to provide a safe space for Hongkongers to share the struggles they have faced in the transition from
#HK
to Britain.
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“If commemorating those who died because of injustice is a crime, then inflict on me that crime and let me suffer the punishment … so I may share the burden and glory of those young men and women who shed their blood on 4 June [1989].” -
#JimmyLai
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Today is the 3⃣rd anniversary of the arrest of British citizen
#JimmyLai
in
#HongKong
.
Join
@IndexCensorship
in sending Lai a message of support, which will be transcribed to a postcard, ahead of his upcoming trial on 25 September ⬇️
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Thank you
@Finnlau_cd
and
@IsobelYeung
for revealing the insidious
#Chinese
influence in the
#UK
on the big screen. Well done for exposing the malicious actions the
#CCP
has taken against
#HongKong
activists overseas.
Replay here ⬇️
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Thousands of people in
#HongKong
are spending their Christmas & winter solstice behind bars. Let's not forget about them and their bravery in the fight for freedom as we celebrate the holiday. Will you light up a
#Candle4HK
with us and call to
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
?
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"Like so many in
#HongKong
, he came to escape hunger and found freedom. And when he became wealthy, he made it his life’s work to defend those freedoms.
#JimmyLai
’s story is Hong Kong’s story, and his fate is Hong Kong’s fate" -
@MarkLClifford
, President of
@thecfhk
& author of
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今天是 #蘋果日報 停刊兩週年
蘋果日報在1995年由 #黎智英 創立，後來在2021年被香港政府強行關閉。
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.
@ipacglobal
Executive Director
@lukedepulford
remembers the victims of the 1989
#TiananmenSquare
and calls for us to hold the CCP accountable for its past and present crimes.
#VirtualVictoriaPark
#TiananmenVigil2022
#WeStandWithHK
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We stand together with all our friends in prison, like
#JimmyLai
, Chow Hang-tung, and Joshua Wong, and call for the release of all political prisoners!
@thecfhk
will keep fighting for freedom and democracy and rights for
#HongKongers
under Basic Law.
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Great article by
@benedictrogers
about
#JimmyLai
.
"No statement has been made by the British government since Mr Lai’s arrest in December 2020, when Dominic Raab spoke out as Foreign Secretary. That is disgraceful."
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New Op-ed from
@MarkLClifford
, President of
@thecfhk
, on
#JimmyLai
: Choosing to be prepared to die in prison rather than surrender his belief that
#HongKongers
deserve freedom.
🚨His trial will start next Monday, December 18th. The world is watching.
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#FreeGwynethHo
#FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners
Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam (何桂藍) was one of the 14 pro-democracy activists who were convicted of subversion under
#HongKong
's National Security Law early this month after pleading not guilty to the charge.
Ho ran as a candidate for the New
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'
#JimmyLai
and the
#China
That Could Have Been' via
@WSJ
: "In a China that tolerated free speech, he would have been the country’s best ambassador."
#FreeJimmyLai
#JusticeforJimmy
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