HK leader John Lee confirmed just now one of the three men charged by the UK ystd for surveilling overseas activists for HK intelligence service is an old classmate as shown in the photo. “All my impression on this person is this photo,” Lee told reporters.

The three men were charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and also with foreign interference, in violation of the 2023 Nat Sec Act.

'The foreign intelligence service to which the above charges relate is that of Hong Kong,' police said.

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'The composer of the song has intended it to be a 'weapon' and so it had become,' wrote Poon.

Civil injunction is needed as 'criminal law alone would not achieve the public interest purpose of safeguarding national security'.

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At 2:30pm HKT today HK’s Court of Appeal will deliver its decision on the government’s application for a ban on the protest song #GloryToHongKong . Will it become the city’s first legally banned song since 1997?Holmes Chan on spot for the hand-down.

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#BREAKING Verdict on HK’s largest #NSL trial of 47 pro-democracy politicians and activists will be handed down on May 30 and 31, more than three years since the group was brought to court under the charge of “conspiracy to subversion” over an unofficial primary election.

#UPDATE #StandNews sedition case verdict day was changed again , moving one day earlier to Aug 29.

Nil of protest is now a norm in HK but some still try to speak up for rights albeit it’s a 4 ppl vs a dozen plus police short petition. The League of Social Democrats demanded “living salary” for workers and called it a “shame” that the min hourly wage can’t buy a proper meal.

When some seeds were no longer wanted in HK, where could they go?

Who would take them back after half a century?

Can they grow again on home soil?

What defines “HK rice”, or more fundamentally, “Hong Kong”?

Story here:

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#BREAKING Long-awaited verdict on #Standnews sedition case - which was previously set on April 29 - is postponed again to the end of August according to latest court listing.

#NEW Appeal against a magistrate conviction of the ex trustees of #612HumanitarianReliefFund failing to register the fund with the police as a “society” will be heard in January 2025.

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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Judge Ernest Lin said John had 'distorted history, demonised China, and appealed to foreign countries to destroy (Hong Kong) and China by political or simply violent means.”

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#JUSTIN Joseph John, also named Wong Kin-chung , was sentenced to 60 months in jail for “incitement to secession” under HK’s Beijing-made #NSL by District Court judge Ernest Lin. John , with Portuguese nationality, is the first dual-national #NSL convict.

#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.

Today is also the last day in biz of pro-democracy Sai Kung Store run by ex district councillor Debby Chan. The store has been presenting local , eco products, advocacy merchs , products from other independent biz like media and bookstores.

The shop’s little back story 👉🏻

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.

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And first HK Gov condemnation after enactment of #Article23 goes to BBC News 中文 and “some anti-China organisations and wanted abscondees” regarding their “misleading” and “distorted” remarks on Ma Chun-man, who was held back from release due to the new law’s effect on Monday.

First rebuttal and condemn letter from HK’s security chief since enactment of #Article23 goes to an op-ed by Maya Wang 王松蓮 on New York Times Opinion The New York Times .

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