Irony is apparently very much alive in Hong Kong’s top clown show.

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#thread Today marks the two year anniversary (?) of the #HK47 being summoned by NatSec police for an early report and formally charged of "conspiracy to commit subversion" over an unofficial primary election of the pro-dem camp to shortlist candidates for legco election.

#thread Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor, dearly called “Sister Ngor” by her colleagues and friends, is not just Lee Cheuk-yan’s wife. She is one of the most veteran and prominent female activist for labour rights and independent union movement in Hong Kong.

Hello Hong Kong!

New study reveals growing exodus of Hong Kong journalists and the challenges they face - AOHKMP aohkmp.org.uk/hong-kong-jour…

⁦Louisa Lim⁩: Hong Kong is being remade almost faster than the changes can be reported, as if the whole city had suddenly been unzipped to reveal a shadow society lurking beneath. nytimes.com/2023/04/25/opi…

Not thuggish at all. Just making sure Hong Kong is HAPPY.

#BREAKING Hong Kong's most prominent political cartoonist Wong Kei-kwan “ #Zunzi” has had his comic strip on fammingpao suspended - with effect from Sunday - after a satirical post was criticised by government bodies, AFP News Agency has learned. barrons.com/news/hong-kong…

“Everyone has politics. Even North Korea has politics. But our politics are no longer conducted in public, so it is a disservice to your readers to write about the pantomime provided in its place.”

This simple act of memory is now being criminalized in Hong Kong, before our eyes. Those who persist in remembering have no idea what the penalty will be under National Security Legislation. They just know they will be punished for publicly remembering June Fourth. #June4

Just because you won’t let us gather, we will still commemorate. Just because you censor us, we will still remember. #毋忘六四 #TiananmenSquareMassacre #TiananmenSquare #June4th #hongkong

What is notable aren’t the waves of arrests over the past 24 hours - it is that some Hong Kongers are still risking so much to commemorate a vigil that for some years faded out of importance, as a proxy for everything that has happened since June 4, 2019.

Seditious while driving

#BREAKING HK top court ruled in favour of journalist Bao Choy’s appeal , quashing all her conviction and fines as the court found “there was no reason that bona fide investigative journalism … should be excluded from the phrase ‘other traffic and transport related purpose’.”

“clowns”

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32? Surely been multiplying since they kicked this off.

In the print edition of the The Washington Post today: how juvenile prisoners jailed over their involvement in the 2019 protests are subject to "deradicalization" inside correctional facilities. Proud to see HK's continuing suppression on the front page

via The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/08/05/wor…