Working on a session proposal for a conference, and they have #Taiwan, #HongKong and, most surprisingly, #Tibet listed as "countries" for registration.
When someone told me that they thought this would be the last vigil, I was skeptical. Turns out, they were right. And I haven't been back to #HK, one of my favorite cities in the world, since.
Human Rights Watch called on the Hong Kong government to immediately quash a court’s groundless national security law convictions of prominent pro-democracy activists
“Hong Kong’s mass show trial lays bare Beijing’s utter contempt for fundamental freedoms and democratic political processes,” said Maya Wang, acting China director at HRW
I feel like one of the only Americans who was paying more attention to the trial of the #HongKong pro-democracy activist trial than the one happening in #NYC.
And because of how I check things and the filters on feed here, didn't hear news about that for quite a while after I woke up today.
Human rights groups and foreign governments have expressed their concerns about verdicts handed down in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date, involving some of the city's best-known pro-democracy activists. 14 of the 47 defendants were convicted of "subversion" and two others were acquitted. FRANCE24's Tom Burges Watson speaks to Kenneth Yueng, Member of the Paris-based Committee for the freedom of Hong Kong. #China#HongKong#ProDemocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFl5mlL7XvM&t=33s
"Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis."
In Hongkong kann de facto alles kriminalisiert werden, was sich gegen die autoritäre Führung in Peking richtet. Auf Grundlage des "Sicherheitsgesetzes" wurden nun 14 Demokratie-Aktivisten schuldig gesprochen. Von. B. Eyssel.