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This is extraordinary. Exactly 30 years after the Baltic Way took place, Hong Kong people have taken inspiration from the demonstration and joined hands across the city to form a massive human chain this Friday night.
This video was taken in just one small part of Causeway Bay.
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Week 15 of Hong Kong protests. At this point, it’s about democracy and a refusal to normalize police militarization, immunity and abuse of power. Police banned this march but people showed up anyway, families with young children & black bloc protesters marching side by side
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Thinking of how Joshua Wong & Agnes Chow's paths tell a bigger story about their generation in Hong Kong. Weeks ago they both proudly announced having finally graduated from college/attended their ceremony (after years of juggling activism w. their studies). Today they go to jail
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When people arrive at the Hong Kong airport, they are usually greeted by government branding that welcomes them to “Asia’s world city”.
This is what they’ll see today as soon as they leave the baggage reclaim area:
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She said she lives in the area, and explained: “I came from South Africa to move away from this... I don’t want this. This is not the Hong Kong I’ve grown to love.”
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I’ve interviewed at least seven people at protests who started crying when they talked about how much they loved this place and why they are fighting for it. But this is the first time I’ve seen a white lady cry at the sight of street clashes.
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This is painful. The "University Fitness Room" at CUHK has turned into a makeshift first-aid center for injured students.
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Police officers cornered hundreds of protesters who occupied PolyU, offering them one way out: "drop your weapons" and surrender (and possibly face up to 10 years in jail), or be met with a hail of tear gas and rubber bullets (and still risk arrest).
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The dissent of Hong Kong bureaucrats and civil servants — an unprecedented protest and a huge embarrassment to Carrie Lam and her administration. The rally is about to begin.
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Parents of trapped students joined a sit-in directly in front of the police cordon near campus.
"They realize once their children get out they will be immediately arrested. They just want to take a look at their kid and see if he or she is OK,"
@ClaudiaMCMo
told
@austinramzy
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The Hong Kong government has called for "solidarity" & for people to "put aside their political differences" to fight the pandemic. But it's also been a time of mass arrests, incl. the biggest police swoop on high-profile activists in recent memory today:
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The police laid out these confiscated signs when they announced on Facebook that two women in their 30s, and a 15-year-old girl who waved a Hong Kong independence flag, had been arrested under the national security law. The top left sign says "conscience."
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For how much longer will we see images like these? Hong Kong's crisis has always been an existential one, but it's reached a critical tipping point. I chatted with protesters who gathered in Causeway Bay before the tear gas hit. Here's what they said:
[5.24 Causeway Bay]
A great crowd gathered in Causeway Bay of Hong Kong marching towards Central against the making of national security law
#hongkong
#hongkongprotest
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Hong Kong protesters “mourn” China’s National Day in Causeway Bay with a banner showing solidarity with Uyghurs and Tibetans & by sprinkling ghost money — a Chinese funeral rite
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Happening right now: sit-in protest organized by aviation workers at the Hong Kong International Airport’s arrivals hall.
Protest signs include “tourist warning: the Hong Kong government deploys excessive violence” and “picking up: conscience, HK726”
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For more than two decades, the only Hong Kong I'd known was one where free expression and dissent were legally protected and a vibrant tradition.
@jwf825
and I documented what's changed and disappeared when a place loses these rights.
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An exhibition of works by Indonesian photographer, writer and domestic worker Yuli Riswati, who was detained for weeks and deported after covering the Hong Kong protests for the diaspora—an ugly example of the city’s systemic violence
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The “Hong Kong Way” in Tsim Sha Tsui. Instead of joining hands, most people lit up their phones and covered their right eyes — a gesture against police brutality here
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Week 11 of Hong Kong protests. The crowds outside Victoria Park at 5:45pm are still slowly inching towards Wanchai in the rain, almost four hours after the rally began
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This (from what I can remember) is the first major
#MeToo
rally in Hong Kong, linked to alleged police abuses. Last week a protester said she was sexually harassed while in police custody, by two female officers who subjected her to a humiliating, full strip search.
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A banner supporting a pastor imprisoned in China ripped in half. DNA samples taken from people found to be carrying independence flags. Parents worrying the neighbors will hear their kids singing the protest anthem.
Our story on the new Hong Kong:
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A human rights lawyer in China said he was denied access to 1 of the 12 HKers arrested at sea. Their families spoke out for the first time about what they called their incommunicado detentions in Shenzhen—echoing the very fears that sparked recent protests
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New: Cannes Film Festival, risking Beijing's ire, will show a documentary about Hong Kong's 2019 protests on Friday called "Revolution of Our Times"
We spoke to director Kiwi Chow, who worked in secret & sent footage abroad, reflecting HK's climate today:
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Lawyers in a silent march to the justice secretary’s office to call for an independent commission of inquiry and the independence of government prosecutors.
Protests by the legal community are less uncommon these days under creeping authoritarianism in Hong Kong.
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Occupy vibes in Admiralty right now. Crowds are demanding to cross over—which will block a main artery outside government headquarters. #反送中
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Hong Kong's authoritarian turn has been widely documented, but a lot has also happened away from public view. For
@CJR
I spoke to journalists covering their hometown about how their industry has changed in the last months and how they're living through it.
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Jimmy Sham of Civil Human Rights Front said several riot cops pointed at him and called him a fa**ot today.
“They must’ve recognized me. Otherwise they wouldn’t have used that slur.”
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For
@voxdotcom
I profiled Carrie Lam, who went from student activist to bureaucrat trained in the British colonial civil service to the face of Beijing’s authoritarian rule in Hong Kong
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I wonder how the university administrators feel now, being among student protesters in the field, donning the protective gear his students have been wearing for months, trying in vain to negotiate with police, and experiencing his home turf, his campus, under siege.
#LIVE
: Chinese University’s Dennis Ng makes a third call to the police commander in five minutes, urging them to honour their words to cease fire.
“It is just out of control.”
#hongkongprotests
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Pro-democracy labor unions & strikes will likely play an important role in Hong Kong's movement going forward. Here's a list of newly formed unions, for speech therapists, accountants, workers in the hospitality/medical/pet industries & more, seeking new members at today's march.
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Laser and tear gas on Hennessy Road. Many unmasked passersby are just hanging out here and watching.
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This movement has created new Chinese characters seen across Yuen Long today to depict “collusion”, marrying the words for regime and violence; police and triads; rural powers and politicians.
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Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong today said it's not bound by Article 22 of HK's constitution—which states no department of China's central government may interfere in its local affairs—because it's no ordinary department of the central government.
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Rain or shine, emergency law or not, Hong Kongers are showing the government they will still protest, in an ever more colorful array of face masks & covers.
“我有權帶口罩!” (“I have the right to wear masks!”)
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Tragicomedy in Hong Kong: to dress up on Halloween as an expired tear gas canister, a protester dyed blue by police, and even the metro station raided by police — all with real legal risks
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A woman knelt down in front of riot police who have been firing tear gas
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Scenes inside the legislative building:
“There are no rioters, only a tyranny”, says this graffiti next to a makeshift barricade guarding the library with a sign: “protect the books, no damaging”
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Migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong are leading the city's first major anti-Trump protest on Sunday, their one day-off of the week.
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As global attention turns to the US elections, the police arrested journalist
@Baochoy
, who investigated the mob attack on protesters & commuters last year and the police's slow response to it for RTHK's acclaimed program, Hong Kong Connection. Our story:
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A group of flight attendants joined the sit-in as soon as they landed, their luggage still with them.
“No matter where we go, Hong Kong is always our home and our roots. Whether it’s before or after work, we have to fight for time to show our support in rallies,” one said.
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Sounds like this cleverly formulated, insistent, yes-or-no question from
@jamespomfret
has gone straight to the heart of this crisis and the most sensitive part of Lam when she nakedly dodged it and couldn't even look in his direction. Watch the whole thing.
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Back in August, China had also banned its major couriers from shipping masks to Hong Kong because of the protests, depleting the city's supplies.
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Two Apple Daily reporters told me they'd likely leave the industry because they didn't want to join Hong Kong's remaining independent online outlets only to experience another crackdown or forced closure.
Our story on the newspaper's history & final days:
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For some, it's a night hike. The human chain snaked through some of the densest parts of Hong Kong and all the way up to Lion Rock. Photos by
@fong_fifi
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About one of the key turning points of the Hong Kong protests, from one of the foreign experts who were hired to advise the police watchdog but later left over its lack of powers to investigate:
IPCC reproduces narrative that public view of police illegitimacy that grew from incidents on 21st July were based on misunderstanding.
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The latest protest in Hong Kong is a laser show at the space museum, essentially a fuck-you to police after a student got arrested for carrying laser pointers last night.
It also coincides with a touristy, government-sponsored laser show every night at the harbor.
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When the prison van carrying Edward Leung finally emerged, a few minutes before 3pm. People had waited for hours for this moment, this brief encounter separated by tinted glass, to show him their support
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In Victoria Park for the banned vigil, Tiananmen exile & labor activist Han Dongfang said he's lived in HK for 27 years & isn't planning to leave.
“31 years ago we fought for something we didn’t know & hadn’t experienced. (Now) HK people are losing what’s part of their lives.”
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The latest in Hong Kong: 24 people charged for joining this year's Tiananmen vigil. A longtime organizer who's facing 9 charges over 4 different protests—including 3 just for the vigil—says the latest charges are clearly meant to chill peaceful rallies:
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All afternoon people have been guarding the Kowloon Mosque worrying it might be targeted by undercover cops to frame protesters & stoke divisions, then police just went ahead & sprayed stinging blue dye all over the entrance of one of Hong Kong's most important places of worship
The mosque’s stairs are stained with blue dye laced with pepper spray. People are retching from the stinging chemicals.
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Some of the signs they’re greeted by (including a “questions welcome” [partially] in simplified Chinese aimed at mainland visitors)
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Views from the departures hall upstairs.
A traveler from Chile was excited to see this during her six-hour layover: “I can relate. This is a global issue—the system that’s supposed to protect us isn’t doing it. It’s rather the opposite.”
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"You could hear he was trying so hard to breathe."
A one-year-old baby was hospitalized for three days with bronchitis after tear gas came into their 23/F apartment. And his mother "still has to wash out his nose three times a day to keep his coughing under control."
Police are seriously jeopardizing Hong Kong's health, firing 6,000 canisters of tear gas since June in 88% of populated areas.
Read my story on how elderly, children -- and the previously healthy -- are suffering from indiscriminate tear gassing:
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Hong Kong's tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions, disabling location tracking on their phones, buying train tickets with cash and purging their social media conversations. By me
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These were Agnes Chow's words hours before the national security law took effect on 6/30 & just over a month before she'd be arrested: "Even if we live in despair, we must continue to be strong & always remember the existence of one another. We'll see hope for as long as we live"
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CUHK, fortified. I don’t like Western-centric comparisons but imagine students at Columbia trying to defend their campus from the police like this.
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The TST section of the human chain can be seen from across the harbor as a thread of white light. (Taken at around 8:50pm)
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Someone I'd interviewed before called me out of the blue just to say she saw an elderly woman holding a walking stick and shaking. She asked her to leave the area because it's getting dangerous, but the woman replied, I'm here to march. I'm doing what I can for Hong Kong.
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A retiree in Admiralty today said in recent years the national anthem had begun playing at the start of Cantonese opera which she enjoyed attending, & where the audience was required to stand.
“I stood up against my will, but in my heart, I was singing ‘Glory to Hong Kong.’”
Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong defied police orders as they took to the streets and gathered in shopping malls to voice their outrage at the Chinese Communist Party’s moves to tighten the grip on the city
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Police fired tear gas onto an overpass, where it was mostly just journalists filming
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Martin Lee, 81, who helped draft the Basic Law, has defended activists in court incl. those arrested today. He said he had no regrets in joining them as a defendant.
“I am proud to finally have a chance to continue on this path to democracy with these fine young people of HK."
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Chater Garden is way too small for this rally. Protesters — government workers and their allies — have inadvertently occupied Chater Road.
“Carrie Lam, step down!”
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A volunteer was distributing bento boxes outside police offices, telling protesters “don’t just eat McDonald’s!”
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Protest signs and placards in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, German and more.
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"We won't celebrate because there are many people yet to have a fair ruling," said Henry Tong, who was found not guilty of rioting along with his wife Elaine To today. "We hope to celebrate with everyone after they have all had a fair ruling."
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Notice for general strike meets traditional Chinese calendar.
Horoscope for August 5: “good day for industrial action, abstain from work, school, merrymaking”
#805strike
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The authorities banned the annual Tiananmen vigil in Victoria Park, so other ones cropped up across Hong Kong, including in Mong Kok, Tuen Mun, Sai Ying Pun, Kwun Tong, Tsuen Wan, Tai Wai, Sai Wan Ho, and more. And people went to Victoria Park anyway.
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Civil disobedience at one of the world’s busiest airports. No Hong Kong protest is complete without a Lennon Wall these days.
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Hong Kong's opposition often gets reduced to this one-dimensional idea of "democracy" but the list of people arrested today—e.g. Carol Ng, Jeffrey Andrews, Lee Chi-yung—is a reminder of how some of their struggles have always been rooted in labor/racial/refugee/disability justice
Folks like Lee and Jeffrey Andrews ran in the primaries to advocate for marginalized communities in HK. These efforts highlight how the fight for democracy is interconnected with other social justice issues. The harm the gov is doing thru NSL is immense.
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I'd pushed my period back for weeks with the pill when covering the Hong Kong protests. Now doing the same bc of a run on toilet paper. But some medics in hazmat suits risking their lives every day have to do it bc decision makers are ignoring their needs.
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Tear gas and petrol bombs v. water cannons at the government headquarters
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Here’s their protest video narrated like a tranquil in-flight announcement
“Kindly put on your masks and black t-shirts when attending the assembly... Hongkongers will always stand in unity to fight for our rights and freedom. Thank you for flying with us, members of Hong Kong”
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His comments are striking because he was sometimes dismissed by younger activists as too moderate. He told me last year, with some self-deprecation:
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Inside Chater Garden.
Sexism (and racism, classism) both casual and systemic is everywhere in Hong Kong. But resistance against sexual violence by the police force—which is backed by the CCP and HK’s first female leader—is now part of the movement
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High school students starting the academic year with a class boycott.
Signs of an extraordinary time: young protesters in school uniforms at the rally are listening to legal advice on what to do and how to protect themselves in the event of an arrest
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Outside Sogo.
This march, defying a police ban, shows how the movement still has broad public support.
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I've got countless quotes over the years from ppl explaining they must come out to march while they can, that they can only defend their freedoms by exercising them. Many today said the same, & they're taking things "one step at a time" knowing their city will forever be changed.
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When the real thing beats the ‘Hong Kong Police Farce’ parody account at its own game
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And of course, Hong Kong served as a haven for political refugees including Tiananmen Square student leaders. Now, an entire section about the movement and the June 4 massacre got removed. The names Zhou Yongkang & Bo Xilai were also taken out from this section about corruption.
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Hong Kong’s billionaires, whose common interest with the government is to ignore the root problems of current protests (rampant inequality, housing woes, undemocratic regime), helped vote Lam into power and have once again thrown their weight behind her.
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A young woman said she'd regret it if she didn't join the fight today because the cost of demonstrating or simply joining a rally could be unbearable after the security laws are enacted.
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For a few moments, people marching across Central chanted the less common slogan "一息尚存 抗爭到底 / we will fight till our last breath" (not filmed here—and sounds even more fraught, but also lyrical, in Chinese).
Pro-democracy protesters have started marching from Chater Garden along Queen's Road Central, despite riot police warning it is an unlawful assembly.
HKFP_Live:
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The Hong Kong police making more high-profile arrests of pro-democracy figures on the anniversary of the 228 Massacre in Taiwan and the same week Gui Minhai got sentenced to 10 years in prison
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After cheering for police and listening to speeches about peace and order, police supporters leaving the rally are riled up by the sight of
@joshuawongcf
inside LegCo. “How much money did you pocket? Fuck your mom! Chinese traitor!”
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This was New Town Plaza at 10pm. Riot police charged into the mall and used pepper spray (could feel it stinging our throats, the floor was slippery), and some protesters hurled water bottles at police.
This mall is filled with luxury stores and popular with mainland shoppers
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The banner, “Revolt”, at the High Court. The hearing for Edward Leung’s application to appeal his jail sentence is over but hundreds are still gathered here and chanting.
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How publishers have hastily rewritten their Liberal Studies textbooks is well documented by Hong Kong's media. Here's an example we found: a reference to the suspected "collusion between the government, big businesses, rural powers & triads" (underlined in red) was scrubbed
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It’s quite something to see the Babylonian law graffitied and printed all over the Hong Kong airport. A woman was allegedly hit in the face by a bean bag round last night, reportedly rupturing her eye. Police brutality continues to be the focus of rage at today’s protest.
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Steve Li of the police's new national security unit said "making declarations is already a crime of incitement," after online posts about a new group advocating Hong Kong independence led to the arrests of 4 students.
#HongKongPolice
say 4 arrested on allegations of violating
#NationalSecurityLaw
, aged 16-21, all students. They are accused of organising a group online after the law came into effect to advocate/incite others to support
#HongKong
independence
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We used to tinker with our cheongsam uniform by wearing a slouchy cardigan over it, PE shorts underneath, etc. It’s striking and moving to see students of this generation pairing that same dress with hard hats and gas masks
HK High School students formed human chains connecting high schools across town before school this morning to draw attention to the protesters’ cause (Thread of photos/videos)
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Tear gas fired at protesters in Sheung Wan outside Central Police Station
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