Top Beijing officials in charge of Hong Kong affairs on Monday lashed out at critics of the city's new national security law, calling them 'mantises and flies'.

Beijing’s liaison chief also declared a “tit-for-tat cognitive warfare” against smearing.

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#BREAKING A representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been deported from Hong Kong on arrival to the territory to monitor the landmark trial of publisher Jimmy Lai, the international press freedom concern group said in a statement.

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#JUSTIN 2.5 years after the security police raid of #StandNews , HK’s District Court has finally set a date to hand down verdict on the sedition case against the shuttered news platform and its two former chief editors.

Hong Kong book lovers mourn closure of independent book store.

Weekly government inspections spurred by anonymous complaints forced the liberal-minded Mount Zero bookstore to close down

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Mount Zero has lived through dramatic political change since founding six years ago and book lovers mourned that the liberal-minded bookstore had seemingly become a victim of political tide shifts.

Proud teamwork w Holmes Chan Selim Chtayti Justin Chan

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#LATEST Civic Party is today officially “wiped from the Earth” as its founding and last leader Alan Leong predicted.

Last year we spent 6 months following the party’s last mile 👉🏻 rfi.fr/en/internation…

NSL convict Ma Chun-man is believed to be the first man hit by the newly enacted #Article23 as his earliest discharge day came 48 hours after the new law came in force.

Losing the 1/3 remission means 20 more months in jail for Ma.

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Former Australian judge James Allsop AC will join Hong Kong’s top court as a non-permanent judge, pending Legco approval.

The former chief justice of the Federal Court will be the 10th overseas judge on HKCFA’s roster. info.gov.hk/gia/general/20…