Wow.
So the junta in #Bangkok has decided to install a nobody as the new #primeminister after it kept the actual winner of the elections away from power with plenty of dirty tricks.
But who knows, maybe the misjudged Srettha Thavisin and he will become their nemesis.
#Thailand needs more Pita, and I'm not referring to the bread. And the country needs to get rid of those military rulers.
#democracy #civicrights #Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/23/srettha-thavisin-the-real-estate-tycoon-turned-thai-prime-minister

Sometimes what is missing is more telling than what is being published.

The latest #unemployment data from #China ominously omitted unemployment by age brackets, conveniently hiding the massive unemployment of young and highly qualified folks.
The #CCP bases its authority on growth and prosperity, it offers economic perspectives in exchange for #freedoms and #civicrights. What will happen if this promise turns out be hollow? Can the regime remain in place?
#FarEast #economy

In what has to be called good news for #humanrights and #civicrights, #Beijing obviously is not done yet with the #RuleOfLaw in #HongKong.
How utterly pesky an independent #judiciary can be, right?
Time to close in on those pro-#democracy advocates I'd say.
And time for any remaining activists to leave the city for their own best.

Glory to Hong Kong!
#FarEast #liberties
#StandwithHongKong

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/hong-kong-pro-democracy-advocates-have-part-of-convictions-quashed-jimmy-lai-martin-lee-margaret-ng-

In what has to be called good news for #humanrights and #civicrights, #Beijing obviously is not done yet with the #RuleOfLaw in #HongKong.
How utterly pesky an independent #judiciary can be, right?
Time to close in on those pro-#democracy advocates I'd say.
And time for any remaining activists to leave the city for their own best.

Glory to Hong Kong!
#FarEast #liberties
#StandwithHongKong

#HongKong has become a very dark place as of late "thanks" to the ghoulish #CCP.
#kinliability is NOT acceptable under the #ruleoflaw, but then again we are talking about a highly repressive and authoritarian one-party dictatorship aka #China.
This is an attempt to blackmail the family of #NathanLaw and abuse it as a leverage to get hold of a #civicrights and #democracy activist that managed to escape.
#humanrights #FarEast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/police-in-hong-kong-raid-family-home-of-uk-based-exile-nathan-law

@lexanchina @ostrich

«I advice you to visit China 🇨🇳 you will love it»

And if not the #CCP will no doubt MAKE you love #China unconditionally and will broadcast a forced confession of yours where you apologize for hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.

The Chinese people deserve better than this ghoulish regime. The Chinese people deserve #freedoms and #civicrights that this regime does not want to grant to anyone.

Love China, hate the CCP regime.

PS: Is Mastodon NOT censored in China?

"Living in the fear": #China and its cringeworthy puppets in #HongKong blatantly want to export their #repression on a global level.
This is utterly unacceptable and needs to be answered unambiguously by the free world. The ghoulish #CCP shall not enforce its oppressive laws abroad. Any diplomatic personnel trying to do push for this should be declared personae non gratae.
#civicrights #humanrights #freedoms #FucktheCCP https://hongkongfp.com/2023/07/04/they-will-live-in-fear-hong-kongs-john-lee-invites-anyone-to-help-police-arrest-wanted-overseas-democrats/

The arrest warrants issued by #HongKong's *government* against eight #democracy and #civicrights activists are the latest example of crass #overreach by #China's #CCP.

EVERY democratic state under the #ruleoflaw has to ignore these arrest warrants. Additionally, chief executive #JohnLee and security chief #ChrisTang should be declared unwanted persons from here. They have shown their true faces and should not be welcome anywhere outside China and Hong Kong.
#FucktheCCP https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/hong-kong-activists-china-uk-protecting-fugitives-national-security-law

As the case of #GreenOnionBae goes to show, the commie rulers in #Vietnam are just as pathetic and thin-skinned as those in #China.
Even some witty sarcasm is answered with full #repression and accusations of "anti-state propaganda" while the real issue is a member of the ruling commie party eating an over-prized gold-leaf steak in the #London restaurant of wannabe-kitchen maestro Salt Bae.

Freedom for Green Onion Bae!
#civicrights #civilliberties #censorship #Asia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/noodle-vendor-who-parodied-salt-bae-jailed-in-vietnam-for-anti-state-propaganda

Has anybody noticed that #SuellaBraverman is publicly wrecking #civicrights, #humanrights and the #ruleoflaw?
Seriously, this woman is everything that is wrong with post-#Brexit #tories. The nasty party indeed, from abuse of governmental power to taking personal profit whenever possible.

Yo Suella: Get your hands off the #media, and better do so quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/20/meps-condemn-suella-braverman-over-arrest-of-french-publisher-ernest-moret

Has anybody noticed that #SuellaBraverman is publicly wrecking #civicrights, #humanrights and the #ruleoflaw?
Seriously, this woman is everything that is wrong with post-#Brexit #tories. The nasty party indeed, from abuse of governmental power to taking personal profit whenever possible.

Yo Suella: Get you hands off the #media, and do so quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/20/meps-condemn-suella-braverman-over-arrest-of-french-publisher-ernest-moret

PSA Organizations like #PivottoPeace and #CodePink can go straight to hell.
Whoever sides with the #CCP and #China in undermining the democratic and sovereign country of #Taiwan can go straight to hell.

Only ONE country threatens to use #violence in this conflict. And that country is NOT Taiwan.
But rest assured that Taiwan will not surrender without a fight, as its people have too much to lose in terms of #freedoms and #civicrights. And the #PLA is not ready for that fight. #TaiwanisnotChina

‘Hostile, authoritarian’ UK downgraded in civic freedoms index

Civicus Monitor cites hostility towards campaigners and charities, and clamp down on public protests.

#UK #democracy #CivicRights #charities #activism #protests #law #rights #CivicusMonitor

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/hostile-authoritarian-uk-downgraded-in-civic-freedoms-index

@realsimon
So what glory does the #CCP have on offer?
State-of-the-art #surveillance and mass violations of #humanrights and #civicrights?
A shitty parody of the real internet behind the #greatfirewall?
A strive for moderate prosperity based on forged GDP data?
A one-party rule under one mediocre guy who thinks he's the new Mao?

#China has got no #softpower, and the ghoulish CCP has lost all credibility with its treatment of #HongKong.

China should leave #Taiwan alone, simple as that.

No matter how many vigil group #China is throwing into jail based on its overreaching arbitrary #NationalSecurityLaw: the #TiananmenMassacre will remain #unforgotten and #unforgiven. #civicrights
#fucktheCCP

@yaohsi
In #China the #CCP has firmly established the law of (the) rule(rs), meaning they can twist and change the law as they like. And if you end up in a law suit as a foreigner, you have lost before it even starts.
Freedom House gives China 9 out of a maximum of 100 points. In another obvious display that #TaiwanisnotChina, #Taiwan got 94 out of 100 points in 2022, just two points off Switzerland.
#freedom #civicrights

In #Putin's Sovjet #Russia, oligarchs fall to their death from windows or commit suicide by shooting themselves... three times, in the back of their head.
In #XiJinping's #China, rich businessmen simply disappear in the #CCP's opaque system of clandestine arrest facilities like #BaoFan.

Since I value #humanrights and #civicrights I prefer to steer clear of both dictatorships. Thank you very much.

Standing up for #democracy and #civicrights as part of autonomy is never subversion. Not honouring the #JointAgreement with #GreatBritain and eliminating all freedoms in #HongKong with its sweeping #NationalSecurityLaw: that IS subversion.

So if anyone is guilty of subversion, it's #China's #CCP and not the #HongKong47.

China's CCP should go play with balloons and let the rest of the world live in peace.

Turns out Patriarch Kirill I of #Moscow has been active as a #KGB agent in Switzerland in the 70ies.
So even the leader of #Russia's orthodox church is a former member of the #secretservice of the Sovjet Union. The "pale clothing moth" likes to surround himself with #siloviki.
Seen the increasing #repression and the quick erosion of #civicrights in #Russia, this does not come as a surprise. This state is governed by a mix of mafia mobsters and spies.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/russian-orthodox-church-patriarch-kirill-spied-on-switzerland--swiss-media/48260108

Apart from the two social democrats Molina and Atici that have already arrived, the group of Swiss MPs to visit #Taiwan will feature Nicolas Walder and Léonore Porchet of the ecologist Green party und Yves Nidegger of the SVP.
Very disappointing to see no one from the rightwing-liberal FDP or the Center take the trip. This #kowtowing towards the #CCP is undermining #democracy and #civicrights in Taiwan. And that is not something MPs from #Switzerland should do.