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Since 2019, the ongoing national security crackdown in Hong Kong has resulted in the imprisonment of more than 1,900 political prisoners, aged 13 to 76, roughly half of whom are still behind bars. The CFHK Foundation campaigns to secure the release of all political prisoners in Hong Kong, each of whom is a testament to the liberty the city has lost. Here are their stories:
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As millions observe this Good Friday, 78-year-old Jimmy Lai, a devout Catholic, remains imprisoned in Hong Kong for standing up for truth and democracy.
Lai has been denied access to Communion in prison—cut off not only from the outside world but from the sacrament that sustains…
🔥FLAME OF FREEDOM: @KongTsungGan writes on what the #HongKong government is really trying to achieve with bounties on Hong Kongers in exile & what can be done by western govts to protect the targets and push back against the #CCP.
https://thecfhk.org/why-the-ccp-places-bounties-on-overseas-hong-kongers-and-how-the-west-can-counter-them/
The #HongKong police have arrested 6 people linked to independent media founded by former #ApplyDaily staff on accusations of 'loan fraud' 🧐🧐🧐🤬
Director of Hong Kong media outlet Channel C’s parent company among 6 arrested over alleged...
Hong Kong police have arrested six people, including at least one director of independent media outlet Channel C’s...
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Reasons for the UK government to pause ministerial visits to #China & #HongKong keep stacking up: sanctioned MPs, bountied UK-residents like @Chloe_chc_25, British political prisoner #JimmyLai, @Wera_Hobhouse denied entry to see her grandson.
Plenty to talk to @AmbZhengZeguang…
This is an excellent read by @Wera_Hobhouse - she rightly calls for a cancellation of any UK ministerial vists to Hong Kong - just as the Trade Scretary Douglas Alexander returns from his own trip - the details of which remain murky to say the least.
One week on and still no…
🔖READ: This translated @flowhk story on the traumatic experiences of 2 #HongKong journalists, reflecting on the end of #AppleDaily, the collapse of civil society & navigating self-censorship & risk as authoritarianism closes in is.
https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/stepping-into-emptiness/
Another turn of the authoritarian screw, this time targeting #HongKong unions.
This blocks employment for those convicted for national security offences, for example the 13 or so of the #HongKong45 who may be released this year.
Nat. sec amendments to Hong Kong union laws to be submitted to ‘patriots only’ legislature at end...
Amendments to Hong Kong’s trade union laws proposing jail terms of up to three years for national security infra...
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👏👏 @zeldacaldwell for asking what the US-China impasse means for #JimmyLai in #HongKong.
@MarkLClifford said: “When Sino-US relations start warming, letting Jimmy Lai out would be a low-cost, high-reward gesture on the part of China."
#FreeJimmyLai
What Does a Trade War With China Mean for Jimmy Lai?
As Washington and Beijing clash over tariffs and influence, advocates worry that political prisoners like the Catholic...
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@thecfhk fully supports @hkdc_us's efforts to call out China's efforts to silence & suppress criticism. The pathway to report on #TransnationalRepression at the UN must be kept open.
HKDC's submitted a report to @UNHumanRights on Chinese government reprisals against @carmenkamanlau for cooperating with the UN & calls on it to acknowledge #TransnationalRepression as a threat to #HumanRights & work with host countries to protect HRDs.
https://www.hkdc.us/unreprisalssubmission
Shocking to see how the #HongKong government's obsession with national security is compromising children's freedom of thought.
"Soft resistance" is code for telling kids the truth about the #CCP crushing their freedom & corrupting their future.
Hong Kong schools on ‘frontline’ of preventing ‘soft resistance,’ education minister says
Hong Kong’s education minister has said that schools are on the “frontline” of preventing the spread of “sof...
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The only people the #CCP should blame for #HongKong’s decline into a national security obsessed and increasingly unfree place are themselves.
Beijing’s top official in Hong Kong calls US tariffs ‘arrogant, shameless’
Beijing’s top official on Hong Kong affairs has taken aim at the United States, warning that the country “is ...
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