27 March 2025
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6 February 2025
Book Talk: Jimmy Lai and the End of Freedom in Hong Kong?: London (February 6, 2025)
Frontline Club, London
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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FLAME OF FREEDOM 🔥: @thecfhk's Shannon Van Sant exposes how #HongKong authorities are perfecting #CognitiveWarfare tactics & techniques - fear, disinformation & intimidation - at home before exporting them abroad as #TransnationalRepression ⏬
https://thecfhk.org/hong-kong-authorities-hone-cognitive-warfare-at-home-before-aiming-overseas
🗞️NEWSLETTER: A big week for @thecfhk advocacy as @StateDept sanctions #HongKong officials & @USCongress targets HK repression while stepping up efforts to support #JimmyLai. 👏👏
https://thecfhk.org/trump-administration-congress-target-hong-kong-officials/
🚨 USCIS has clarified that #Hongkongers covered by Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) are authorized to work in the US thru Feb. 5, 2027. We welcome this clarification as Hong Kongers in the US seek temporary refuge from the CCP's repression in #HongKong.
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-announces-employment-authorization-document-application-procedures-for-certain-hong-kong
📰@TheRWCHR and @thecfhk renew calls for the #Canadian government to sanction #HongKong officials responsible for human rights abuses and repression.
CFHK Foundation Strategy & Public Affairs Advisor Shannon Van Sant said: “The Canadian government should immediately sanction…
👏👏 @DavidAltonHL for your continued attention to the plight of #JimmyLai & sustained efforts to galvanise the British government into working harder to #FreeJimmyLai.
Foreign Office Minister @CatherineWest1 responds to my letter on behalf of @ipacglobal about #FreeJimmyLai and commits to meeting his legal team again @caoilfhionnanna @DavidLammy @SecRubio @hk_watch @thecfhk @Stand_with_HK @hkfp
Hyper pro-Beijing #HongKong lawmaker 🤡Junius Ho wants to merge state broadcaster @rthk_enews with the government's information service - because what the government needs you to know & the news are basically the same, right? 🤡🤡 #propaganda
Merging Hong Kong’s public broadcaster and gov’t PR wing ‘counterproductive,’ commerce chief tells...
Hong Kong’s commerce chief has turned down an idea floated by a lawmaker to merge the city’s public broadcaste...
hongkongfp.com
No justice in #HongKong - only #CCP loyalists walk free
Social worker Jackie Chen was cleared of “rioting” in 2020, but the government wants her jailed and will keep pushing until she is behind bars.
Helping people is now a crime.
Social worker Jackie Chen a kind person who helps others in need, lawyer says ahead of rioting jail...
Hong Kong social worker Jackie Chen is a kind person who is happy to help others in need, her lawyer has sai...
hongkongfp.com
The #HongKong police have swapped in Joe Chow as the enforcer in chief, lining up another target for sanctions after @StateDept sanctioned predecessor Ray Siu yesterday.
Chow wants to "do even more" national security work. 🤡
New Hong Kong police chief to increase security work despite US sanctions
Hong Kong's new police commissioner played down the impact of recent U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese offic...
www.reuters.com
Thank you @badiucao for continuing to push the envelope in drawing attention to the lack of artistic & other freedoms in #HongKong. A thought-provoking reminder of the role art plays in challenging censorship.
Chinese political artist Badiucao sneaks message onto Mong Kok billboards for Hong Kong’s Art Week
Chinese artist Badiucao has said he snuck a political message onto two billboards in Mong Kok during last week’s...
hongkongfp.com
Thank you to @nytmay for picking up our statement from @frances_hui in reporting on the Trump administration's sanctioning of 6 #HongKong officials for #transnationalrepression yesterday:
U.S. Sanctions Chinese and Hong Kong Officials for Pursuing Activists Abroad
China’s former top spy catcher is among six security enforcers targeted as the Trump administration turns its atte...
www.nytimes.com