Beijing won't make trade concessions if US plays Hong Kong card, Chinese state media says
The suspect has been arrested at Lo Wu while trying to cross the border into mainland China. 26-year-old Hong Kong woman in critical condition after knife attack at 'Lennon Wall' in Tseung Kwan O
9 month agoHong Kong Police statement on the videos showing alleged abuse of arrested man. Says they don't tolerate illegal punishments and have opened an investigation
Reuters: Simon Cheng, an employee at the U.K. consulate in Hong Kong, did not return to work on August 9 after visiting Shenzhen the previous day, Hong Kong news website HK01 reported, citing an interview with his girlfriend
UK says 'extremely concerned' by reports an employee of its consulate in Hong Kong has been detained in China
Reuters: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she is willing to talk to peaceful protesters to narrow differences, extradition bill is dead and no plan to revive the bill
Twitter announces that it has blocked 200,000 accounts belonging to China targeting the protestors in Hong Kong
Facebook and Twitter have purged hundreds of accounts and some pages linked to a covert Chinese influence campaign against Hong Kong protesters, whom some of the accounts compared to cockroaches and ISIS militants.
9 month agoVid of knife attack in Lennon Tunnel in Tseung Kwan O circulated on Telegram
Twitter says it has uncovered a "significant state-backed information operation" originating from inside China aimed "deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong."
9 month agoMore than a hundred are now at the Victoria Park because the guys said they would run naked if more than a million marched on Sunday. They were chanting: "Take off your pants. Liberate HK and the revolution of our time."
@hkpoliceforce said it did not make any new arrests relating to the #AntiELAB protests this weekend
9 month agoThis is a better timelapse of Victoria Park AntiElab protest yesterday
[email protected] recognises that while many roads were blocked during the antiELAB movement on Sunday, the protests were "largely peaceful." Police said this was the reason why it did not intervene in dispersing the crowd yesterday
9 month agoMap: This Friday, 23 Aug, at 7pm, millions of Hong Kongers will stand hand-in-hand to form a human chain to make our political demands heard
9 month agoHong Kong Protestors shine lasers on riot policemen outside gov't HQ.
9 month agoFour supercars waving Mainland China flags show up to pro-Hong Kong protest in Toronto.
9 month agoOrganizers say 1.7 million took part in Hong Kong's mass demonstration
The Civil Human Rights Front, which organised the rally in Victoria Park, says the rally has officially ended. The group will stay at the park until 11pm, when the event was officially allowed to run until #HongKongProtests
9 month agoHarcourt Road is full of people and the atmosphere is completely peaceful. Here is the best illustration - protesters aiming their lasers at a cockroach, trying to make the cockroach burn. After a countdown, a cheer erupts because the cockroach has still, very much, not combusted
9 month agoProtesters shining laser pointers at police HQ from Harcourt Road pedestrian bridge. Few actual policemen in sight to aim them at so protesters have been reduced to targeting buildings
9 month agoOutside Sogo. This march, defying a police ban, shows how the movement still has broad public support
9 month ago18:46 in Causeway Bay: Close to 5 hours after the rally begins, there are still a massive amount of people trying to get in or out of Victoria Park
9 month agoFrom Windsor, a shopping centre right outside Victoria Park. Some antiELAB protesters taking a break here while others are waiting to get out #hongkongprotests
9 month agoRiot police on guard on Connaught Rd W off Centre St to make sure no one goes to liaison office. So far, indeed, no one is going. Significance of 818march is to recover and reinforce trust among AntiELAB movement, and to demonstrate to the government that its differentiation tactic
9 month agoThe march is moving fast on Hennessy Road #antiELAB
9 month ago5:10pm and the massive crowd continues to pass into Admiralty. Numbers show no sign of abating any time soon
9 month agoHere's what Wanchai looks like. Protestors every which way on all the roads. Be water has led to omnidirectional resistance. And in the pouring rain.
9 month ago16:55 at Causeway Bay: Meanwhile in Victoria Park where the rally is held. Outside of the Park is still jam packed with people, but there is always room for emergency services
9 month agoThe front end of the Victoria evacuation elks past LIPPO
