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
9 month agoProtesters are also on Kai Chiu Road and Yun Ping Road, relatively narrow streets in Causeway Bay. Hennessy Road, the main thoroughfare, is fully jammed #antiEALB
Protest is already at LIPPO
9 month agoProtesters are taking shelter inside Hysan Place from the rain
9 month agoCrowd outside Sogo is solid and very messy, some still trying to move towards Victoria Park, some heading towards Wan Chai
9 month agoOrganizers have asked protestors inside the park to leave and make room for the ones still waiting to enter. The rain is not helping, exit route completely jammed
TV reports that the police water cannon vehicles have left their base in Fanling and have been moved to Hong Kong Island as a precautionary measure
9 month agoPouring rain now, but the crowd refused to go- they're just calmly awaiting to leave Victoria Park as CHRF asked them to disperse to every part of island side. Already become a de facto march
9 month agoIn a Sunday afternoon statement, the government said it regretted that rally slogans target the police. "According to the satisfaction and public opinion surveys conducted by the police in 2018, 84 percent of respondents felt 'very satisfied' or 'satisfied' with the force."
9 month agoA pray station nearby the VictoriaPark, protesters said they will pray for journalists too.
9 month agoCauseway Road full of antiELAB protesters as crowds predictably overflowed from Victoria Park. in "illegal assembly" territory
9 month agoRally speakers condemn HongKong police for comparing protesters to "cockroaches," saying that's the dehumanizing language of genocide
HongKong's railway operator MTR says due to overcrowding, some trains will not stop at Causeway Bay or Tin Hau stations - the two metro stations closest to Victoria Park
9 month agoAt 2.41pm, we've nearly reached full capacity. The organisers are calling for a "streamlined" march, and warn others attempting to come to Victoria Park to do so from Causeway Bay
9 month agoThe Civil Human Rights Front has called for Sunday afternoon's rally in Victoria Park to be "streamlined". If the venue is full, the public should leave to Causeway Bay, and of Causeway Bay is full, to Wanchai, and so on. #antiELAB
9 month agoPreviously 14:28 at Central: One of the main interchanging station for MTR to Hong Kong Island line is packed with people in black. Crowd are chanting 'Reclaim HK, Revolution of our time'
9 month agoHongKong: thousands flooding towards Victoria Park where the biggest rally in weeks will take place this afternoon
9 month agoThe queue for the train towards Causeway Bay almost reaches the other end from Tseun Wan. #antiELAB
9 month agoTerrible scenes this morning in HongKong, where several people have been seriously wounded in an alleged triad attack against a bar in Wan Chai in daylight. It is not related to the protests, but to criminal activities
9 month agoHongKong Victoria Park at 2:25pm, hard court football pitches filled with AntiELAB protesters. Photo courtesy of PH Yang.
9 month agoAt 2:30pm, the Civil Human Rights Front announced that protesters have filled up all six concrete football pitches at Victoria Park. Photo: HKFP. #antiELAB
9 month agoAt least four of the six football pitches in Victoria Park are filled with protesters #HongKongProtests
9 month agoAll six football pitches are full and the central lawn is nearly there too, as a constant stream of people continues to flow into Victoria Park from all directions. #HKprotests
9 month ago#StandWithHK march today at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica
