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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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🎧 LISTEN: @ctrl_danger interviews @Chloe_chc_25 on #CCP efforts to silence her & how this fits with #China’s foreign relations, from the #TradeWar to AI, national security, PRC investment & 🇬🇧 trading sovereignty & dissidents’ safety for growth.
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the...
Podcast Episode · CTRL ALT DECEIT: Democracy in Danger · 18/04/2025 · 48m
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📰NEWSLETTER: #Australian Robert French became the fifth #ForeignJudge to resign from #HongKong’s Court of Final Appeal, and @SenJohnCurtis and @SenJeffMerkley introduced the 'Stop Corrupt Communist Party (#CCP) Money Laundering Act', plus much more in our weekly round-up.
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Passionate and poignant account from @frances_hui of what it feels like to have the #CCP target your loved ones and parade them before cameras in an attempt to silence your voice — and still to resist, speak up, and advocate for a free #HongKong
China is targeting my family and put a bounty on my head — but I...
On a quiet night last week, I received an unnerving message: My parents in Hong Kong had been taken away by ...
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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."
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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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