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I really f**king love Hong Kong, and Funassyi!

*No longer suspended by Twitter! (Woo hoo!!) Am also YTSL "over there", if you're still straddling between Twitter and here like I am.

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It's been 9 months since I began this series. Am going to put in on a pause for a few days/weeks -- along with my BlueSkying. But plan to be back after a break! (In the meantime, feel free to have a look at my old entries. If you'd like to work from latest back, check out the post on Kenneth Lam.)

Have decided to post daily re Hong Kong heroes & heroines. 1st up: Chow Hang-tung. Activist, barrister, former vice-chairman of the HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China that organised Hong Kong's (once) annual June 4th candlelight vigils, and current political prisoner.

Kenneth Lam. Solicitor known for his pro bono and community work. Provided legal assistance to Umbrella Movement protesters. Tiananmen Square Massacre survivor (He was there in his capacity as as chair of the Hong Kong Federation of Students). Featured in Chan Tze-woon's "Blue Island" (2022).

Alex Chan Tsz-yuk. Freelance photojournalist who covered the Hong Kong extradition bill-turned-pro-democracy protests and the continuing civil unrest in his home city. His interest in human rights issues and global conflicts has also led him to cover events in Belarus and Ukraine in recent years.

Do NOT say "cibai" when you want to say "try" to someone in Malaysia!

One of my favourite google translate fails of all time.

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The news of protesters getting Jailed over the protests in 2019 in Hong Kong is still relentless. They had these case hanging over them for 5 years already. One was a minor at the time still got 60 months. Ai ya... they paying hefty price for fighting back against the suppression of freedoms. 😢

17 people jailed up to 5 years, 10 months over attempted escape from besieged Hong Kong campus during 2019 protestshongkongfp.com Seventeen people have received jail sentences ranging from one year and eight months to five years and 10 months after they were convicted over dramatic rope escapes from a besieged Hong Kong unive…

Dave Coulson (@cheesindave.bsky.social). Photographer-photojournalist who's a self-identified British Hongkonger. Lived in Hong Kong for years (decades?) and took many iconic 2019 Hong Kong protest photos. Now based in Edinburgh. he regularly takes part in pro-Hong Kong democracy events in the UK.

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Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate!

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery. This is the beach immediately outside the airport on the island of Phuket. People come here planespotting as the aircraft land or take off one or two hundred feet overhead 📷 10 November 2022

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V concerning. Forced evictions/job losses/and other unlawful abuses are well-established ways authorities make life extremely difficult for activists and their families in Mainland China. In many cases the families have had nothing to do with the activism.

Mother of wanted Hong Kong activist Nathan Law evicted from public housing over unpaid renthongkongfp.com The public housing unit occupied by the mother of wanted self-exiled activist Nathan Law has been reclaimed by the Hong Kong government. Citing sources, local media outlets reported on Sunday that …

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This is an excellent description of the editorial failure behind The NY Times' decision to run Alina Chan's lab leak article. What's the value proposition to the readership of presenting a one-sided argument that most scientists find lacking? Did no editor bother to ask that question?

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If you see this … post a photo you made at sunset Ucluelet 📷 22 Nov 2022

If you see this … post a photo you made at sunset

Lumli Lumlong. Artist duo, mainly of oil-paintings in a self-described "grotesque style", many Hong Kong pro-democracy protest themed. Formerly lecturers of oil-painting at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, they went into exile in the UK in 2021.

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5 years ago today 2 million +1 #hongkongers marched in protest of the extradition bill in #hongkong. . Here are a few of my photos from that day. © Dave Coulson Photography #antielab #hkprotest #FreeHK

If you see this … post a photo you made at sunset

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Mga dapat alamin tungkol sa #StandUpForTibet I-suporta ang #MilkTeaAlliance at mga kasama natin. —— More: mtag.info/gal2live Original tweet by @ActiefvoorTibet Link: twitter.com/999703225828827138/status/1800774154234237316

Still visible at Admiralty in June 2024.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ရဲ့ လတ်တလော ခံစားမှုအချို့ #နို့လက်ဖက်ရည်မဟာမိတ် နှင့် မဟာမိတ်အင်အားစုများကို ထောက်ခံပံ့ပိုးကြ။ —— More: mtag.info/gal2live Original tweet by @FY4Chan Link: twitter.com/1427500444327104514/status/1800794712959545356

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2019年6月16日，另一個香港人不會忘記的日子，200萬人＋1，#梁凌杰 16 June 2019 - another date that Hong Kongers wouldn't forget. 2 million +1. #MarcoLeungLingkit x.com/patrickpoon/...

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Daniel Kwok Tsz-kin. Ex-district councillor elected to office as part of the 2019 pro-democracy landslide. Unseated in 2021 as he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Hong Kong government. Now in exile in the UK, where he co-founded the Scottish Hongkongers (aka Hong Kong Scots) group.

It says much that I've become used to the idea of "seditious t-shirts and masks" -- and that what shocks me the most about this most recent Article 23 arrest is that the "Five demands, not one less" slogan appears to be deemed seditious now along with "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times". 😔

SEDITIOUS T-SHIRTS AND MASKS 😱

New security law: Man denied bail under Article 23 over ‘seditious’ slogans on t-shirt and maskhongkongfp.com A Hong Kong man was denied bail under the city’s new domestic security law after he allegedly wore a t-shirt with a banned protest slogan and a yellow mask. West Kowloon Law Courts Building. …

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honestly wish i could frame this (& send a copy to all the ""China hawks"" that buy into LL for that reason):

I really didn't need a report to tell me that...

“The 2023 annual report illustrates in great detail the continuous erosion of the rights & freedoms of the people of #HongKong & the dismantling of the ‘1 country 2 systems’ principle...” High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell said. #EU #China www.europeaninterest.eu/fundamental-...

Fundamental freedoms are deteriorating in Hong Kong, according to an EU reportwww.europeaninterest.eu The situation of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong is gravely deteriorating. On July 6, 2023, lawmakers adopted an amendment to the law of District Councils, the last major political representative bo...

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. #HongKong dropped to 152th (among 179 countries & territories) on the Academic Freedom Index in 2023 — one of the top 6 declines since 2000. academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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www.reuters.com/investigates... Jesus wept. We Filipinos became unwilling victims to a broader geopolitical game that literally cost lives. Many adopted a "wait and see approach." Many vaccination drives failed and resulted to wastage.

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

A reminder that Macau is even more repressive than Hong Kong. The person denied entry there today, Vivian Tam, is currently a senior journalism lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong -- and, this might what caused her barring, has written a book about the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.

in macau, hosting a news writing workshop is to “jeopardise public security or public order”. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Macau denies entry to Hong Kong media lecturer over ‘public security’ concernswww.scmp.com Macau Journalists Association accuses local authorities of ‘abusing the law’ over decision to bar CUHK’s Vivian Tam from entering city.

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The Guardian: A Chinese court has sentenced the prominent #MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin to five years in jail and the labour activist Wang Jianbing to three and a half years, almost 1,000 days after they were detained on allegations of inciting state subversion, according to supporters.

Prominent China #MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin sentenced to five years in jail, supporters saywww.theguardian.com Sophia Huang Xueqin, who reported on #MeToo movement and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, sentenced along with labour activist Wang Jianbing

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Is China Exporting Its Political Model To The World? A New Report Says Yes.www.rferl.org A new report based on thousands of previously unseen Chinese government documents shows how Beijing is selling its authoritarian political model to the Global South -- and Eastern Europe and Central A...

"A Hong Kong man was denied bail under the city’s new domestic security law after he allegedly wore a t-shirt with a banned protest slogan and a yellow mask." No, this is not April Fool's Day.

Chu Kai-pong, 27 years old, is the 1st person to be charged under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance ( #Article23 ) since it was passed in March. His shirt allegedly contained the banned slogan “Liberate #HongKong , revolution of our times.” hongkongfp.com/2024/06/14/n...

Derek Chu Kong-wai. Ex-district councillor turned owner of Yellow Economic Circle shops As One. This past June 4, the police went and confiscated commorative electric candles he was handing out to customers at his Mongkok store. Previously arrested (on trumped up) charges but he still persists.

Ken Tsang Kin-chiu. Registered social worker and activist. A member of the Election Committee for the Chief Executive in 2011 and 2016, he came to public attention during the 2014 "Occupy" phase of the Umbrella Movement after he was filmed being beaten up by 7 police officers at Admiralty.

Hong Kong under a dark cloud but still looking gorgeous.