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🔥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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