BREAKING NEWS: Chinese international student caught on video ripping down posters supporting Hong Kong democracy and criticizing Chinese dictatorship at University of Queensland Lennon Wall, laughs about Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps and denies Tiananmen Massacre
⚠️ If you're in #Ukraine and reading this please turn geolocation off on your phone now. Russia is using it to track gatherings. Tell those around you to do the same.
- Hello,darling,I looted, raped, tortured and killed in #Ukraine. But I am sending you a TV, air conditioners,e-scooters and other goods.
I watched the 3-hour CCTV recording from a courier service in Mazyr, #Belarus. Russian servicemen send endless packages with what they stole
Shanghai's 25 million people under lockdown indefinitely. Chinese social media shows some breaking out of lockdown to protest, chanting: "we want freedom"; "why are you starving us?"
Much of the dissent is censored. Most of videos in our story were erased from the internet @cnn
1/2 I’m appealing my 2021 conviction to the Court of Final Appeal. If the court hears the case, it will be the first CFA hearing directly addressing police abuses during the 2019 unrest.
If you’d like to support the appeal costs, please click here: linktr.ee/samuelbickett
HKFP has obtained the list of prizes the now-defunct StandNews would have won at the recently-axed Human Rights Press Awards.
Sources tell HKFP the wins led to the decision to axe the event, prompting board member Dan Strumpf to step down. In full: bit.ly/36MBM8R
Cocacola's Bonaqua has launched a label-less plastic water bottle. Nevertheless, Hongkongers sent 1.55 billion bottles to landfill in 2019 - 200 per person.
#HongKong has plummeted down an international press freedom chart as authorities have wielded a draconian new security law to silence critical news outlets and jail journalists, a new RSF report said on Tuesday. In full: bit.ly/3vCMw3j #pressfreedomday #WPFD
Hong Kong singer Denise Ho (right) and former lawmaker Margaret Ng (2nd left) have been arrested - sources. Both trustees of 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund which help w/ legal fees of protesters, after trustee Hui Po-keung (2nd right) was arrested at the airport.
Prominent Hong Kong barrister Margaret Ng - a trustee of a now-defunct protester relief fund - has been arrested, HKFP has learned.
Scholar Hui Po-keung, 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen & singer-activist Denise Ho were also reportedly arrested. In full: bit.ly/3L5u1ZV
"I will not leave, cannot leave and should not leave... I cannot give up. I am still the Bishop Emeritus of #HongKong," said Cardinal Joseph Zen, in an interview with the now-shuttered Stand News last May. The 90-year-old was arrested today.
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