John #Lee should have been sanctioned by EU authorities much earlier. But now he has certainly crossed additional red lines. Let us go for it! #HumanRightsSanctions #StandWithHongKong
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Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯: No decent, civilised leader talks like this.
John Lee is not a leader, he's a thug. A #CCP quisling puppet zombie thug.
And he should be sanctioned.
8 Hong Kong wanted activists should be treated like ‘rats in the street’: John Lee https://sc.mp/exh5?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=share_widget&amp;utm_campaign=3226973 via @scmpnews
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bueti/status/1677726401288364034

The MilkTeaAlliance Friends of Myanmar group condemns the actions of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong government and commits itself to spreading the truth about and sharing the advocacies of those silenced, imprisoned, and oppressed in authoritarian regimes.

#MilkTeaAlliance #MTA_FoM
#StandwithHongKong

EU governments must take additional steps to protect Hong Kong democrats that live in our countries! #StandWithHongKong https://n.respublicae.eu/ipacglobal/status/1675816061688750081
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Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC): 🚨 #NEW statement on eight arrest warrants and bounties issued by the Hong Kong Government. 🚨 https://t.co/4O6v3zS6EH
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bueti/status/1675827135288582145

Three years after the imposition of the brutal National Security Law in Hong Kong, fundamental freedoms have further deteriorated. Hong Kong people do not give up on defending civil liberties and human rights and neither should the EU! #StandWithHongKong https://t.co/xoWh9b73eA

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/hildevautmans/status/1674732239047761921

Today my team and I organized a photo opportunity and street action in solidarity with #HongKong democrats. We remember 01/07/97 Honk Kong's return to #China and 30/06/20 passing of the national security law. #StandWithHongKong https://t.co/XPb961Rue6

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bueti/status/1674127754973925401

A big thank you dear Reinhard and team for organising today’s important solidarity event!
#StandWithHongKong https://n.respublicae.eu/bueti/status/1674127754973925401
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Reinhard Bütikofer: Today my team and I organized a photo opportunity and street action in solidarity with #HongKong democrats. We remember 01/07/97 Honk Kong's return to #China and 30/06/20 passing of the national security law. #StandWithHongKong https://t.co/XPb961Rue6
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MiriamMLex/status/1674133408128159754

Today and every day, we will continue to #StandWithHongKong https://n.respublicae.eu/stand_with_hk/status/1674077436747628548
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Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊: 🇪🇺 Our EU project officer @Narayan_Liu today joined with fellow MEPs in Brussels to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the introduction of NSL. We thank our European friends for always standing with Hongkongers, and continue to raise HK issues in EP. https://t.co/ft9oeanmB2
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MiriamMLex/status/1674098607039840263

As the anniversaries of the introduction of the national security law and the transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China are approaching, together with colleagues from the Hong Kong Watch Group in the European Parliament, we #StandWithHongKong and do our best to… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1674016040009842689 https://t.co/zAJEdjtweC

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/AnnaFotyga_PE/status/1674016040009842689

Be water! Voices from Hong Kong. https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/films/be-water-voices-from-hong-kong

https://www.film-rezensionen.de/2023/04/be-water-voices-from-hong-kong/
#StandWithHongKong

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bueti/status/1653715941455175682

RT @MTA_Calendar
1/23🧵 ✊| 🅽🅴🆆 🅴🆅🅴🅽🆃!
NOT GUILTY –
#StandWithHongKong 47

#HK activists will hold manifestations this wkd to call attention to politically persecuted #HK 47! Locations below + updates still rolling in! More info: https://t.me/standwithHK47/

#FREE47
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners

These brave men and women deserve it! An excellent initiative from @CECCgov !
#StandWithHongKong
RT @CECCgov: Bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers nominate six champions of #HongKong's human rights for Nobel Peace Prize. Read announcement @ https://www.cecc.gov/media-center/press-releases/bipartisan-group-of-lawmakers-nominate-six-champions-of-hong-kong

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MiriamMLex/status/1621490605623738368

Hear about the proposed article 23 law in Hong Kong is disturbing to say the least.

Given that it is building on the incredibly vague & broad Beijing imposed "National Security Law" which has already massively stifled freedom of speech, expression, association. Ripped through academic freedoms & made the "legal system" even more politically controlled, closed down half a dozen media outlets, caused many unions & civil society orgs to disband (over 60).

The proposals of article 23 include:
- Developing a "internet firewall" (Basically bring a version of the great firewall to Hong Kong, making it harder to access information the government doesn't like)
- Targeting foreign agents & “organisations in disguise” to discourage them from going to HK.
- Clamping down on fake news & harmful information (so even more media suppression, like how much more do you need, already fucking prosecuting stand news editors for normal journalistic activity)

And this is just from one interview... it's likely to contain a hell of a lot more things.

Suppression is already heavy in HK, indeed the joke amongst some friends is that there are things they can't do in HK that they could on the mainland. Many have already taken steps to scrub their 2019 posts off the other place or left Soc Med altogether.

It's gonna get worse.

#StandwithHongKong
#MilkTeaAlliance

RT @DanielFreeHK51@twitter.com

Day 858, #BringThemBack, #BringThemALLBack, #save12hkyouths from #CCP.

Free ALL political prisoners & defend our rights & freedom in #HongKong.

#CCP_is_terrorist, you can't beat us all. #NSL is trash and justice will eventually prevail.

#SOSHK #FreeHongKong #StandWithHongKong

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DanielFreeHK51/status/1607768463241797637

Good news from #HongKong: Chow Hang Tung - whose group organizes yearly #TiananmenSquare Vigils - has her conviction overturned: the police acted unlawfully!

It could have implications for other cases against pro-#democracy activists!

#StandWithHongKong

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63967780

At the heart of protests, young people cry for freedom

#freetheuighurs #standwithhongkong #saveourstudents
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/china/china-protests-covid-political-freedom-intl-hnk-mic/index.html

Clip of when “Glory to Hong Kong,” was played at the Asian Rugby Seven Series in South Korea instead of the HK anthem... 😏

Love to see it. Owe whomever made that "mistake" a beer...

光復香港，時代革命
#StandwithHongKong

Full version of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIDL4SB60g

TW: Death & Disappearance. Suicide & Loss.

Adapted & updated from a thread written in April 2021. Partly doing this because seeing similar things happen again due to some of the heightened risks over there & coming here was definitely a mitigation attempt so as not to loose touch with some people.

Who knew we would make so many friends on the internet that loosing them would reduce us to tears over & over again. That we would scramble again to find alternative routes of communication to try to hold our communities together & our friends if not close but in touch.
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One of the many shared pains of #MilkTeaAlliance community is when someone just *disappears* & there is often no way of knowing what has happened.

A friend wrote:
"You ever notice someone from Burma missing on Twitter?
And you're like worried. I mean I get that ppl do need to take a break from all this. Perhaps they have a main account, or moved on, etc.
But also ARE THEY SAFE???? "

I've lost count of the number of accounts that have gone silent or quietly deactivated with no warning. The not knowing is hard. All we can do is continue the struggle & hope for they safe.

In the Hong Kong context there was a wave (When the national security law was implemented) some announced some did not. Important voices vanished overnight, some remained for a while but faded. Other high profile people got arrested & their accounts deactivated.
There are still many here, some are careful, many are anonymous, many are now locked.

In Myanmar it seems more sporadic, sometimes it's twitter suspensions, sometimes voices just go dark, they had to flee, the internet got cut. It is everyday a few but also it feels like more join too. Although recently it feels like the losses are steeper & it's quieter.

Life happens as well, for many exam season is coming, work, life, internet issues can all cause temporary silence.

But in some cases I know that they were arrested or killed and that is also really hard because you feel powerless, sitting thousands of miles away. Heartbroken.

A Response from a friend:
Them: "The wondering if your friend/teammate is arrested or "suicided" part is the worst feeling ever."
Me: "I am sorry I shoulda put a warning on this thread"
Them: "It's okay TAT. I mean it shouldn't be okay but it is. I mean it's a violent, unjust world. And I mean most HK news don't have trigger warnings so it's aight, but it's not.. but you get it.
So it's aight. Some folks are still MIA that said they would report in."

(I broke in tears in that moment & I again cried re-reading it to write this)

One day I hope that we will hear many of these voices again. Until such time look out for one another. Wherever you are, you are not alone in this, we stand together #MilkTeaAlliance
#StandwithHongKong
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

I miss my friends, many of whom I only knew by their nicknames. I wonder what happened to them. and for some I know & I kind of wish I didn't.

Original thread.
https://twitter.com/XunlingAu/status/1388041792067719168?s=20&t=w--9WUiiACkB_RoeOByUhQ

👋 #Introduction

😊 I'm a product manager at #DeepMind responsible for hardware / software infrastructure our research teams use / will use.

❤️ I'm passionate in building / using very large compute systems and examine novel architectures.

📖 Previously: Android ML, Android Wear, Google Glass & Chromecast. Failed startup founder. Equity Research VP at Deutsche Bank / Citigroup. Consulting Manager at Accenture. Studied Engineering at #Cambridge.

#StandWithHongKong #StandWithUkraine #RejoinEU

RT @natalieben: #StandWithHongKong

Deeply disturbing event which must have serious consequences.

Those in the consulate responsible must not be allowed to remain in the UK and China must apologise

#FreedomofSpeech @McrGreenParty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63280519

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1581912227635814403

#BütisWoche: "Fünf Hong Konger DemokratInnen vor Gericht" https://bit.ly/3C0Imp6 #StandWithHongKong

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/bueti/status/1572899403802738689