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In a scarred Hong Kong, “beautiful things are gone”.
Remembering what happened in 2019 has become more important than ever.
One year after China imposed the #NSL, we speak to six different Hong Kong people on how they’re keeping the city's memories alive.
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Democracy activists charge that those in power are trying to take control of the narrative, and they fear that future generations will hear only the government’s version of events.
📷: Reuters/Lam Yik
It’s not only a battle over the narrative: Since the protests died down last year, the city’s very landscape has changed, leaving familiar places unfamiliar.
📷: Reuters/Lam Yik
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#BREAKING: Beijing is planning to increase the number of seats for the Hong Kong Chief Executive election committee from 1,200 to 1,500, and the Hong Kong Legislative Council from 70 to 90 seats, local news outlet Now News cites sources. #HongKongProtest
“The development in recent years show that the electoral system needs to be improved to keep abreast with the times and......
provide sound institutional guarantee for the full and accurate implementation of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and the principle of ‘patriots administering Hong Kong’,” says Zhang Yesui, spokesperson of the National People’s Congress annual plenary session which starts Friday.
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The #NatSecLaw is officially in use. HKPF stated chanting slogans and waving flags, or even just having those intentions, would land you in jail.

#HongKongProtests #StandWithHongKong
New in — Police cordon in Wan Chai, outside of fast food restaurant Jolibee. More than 30 people are arrested earlier for violating the #NationalSecurityLaw and other charges.
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#最新
母親節的香港依舊不安。今(10日)香港網民發起「母親節行街」及「與你sing」活動,但晚上香港商場裡,一位年僅13歲的學生因為參與現場報導,遭員警質疑與言語奚落,被帶回警局偵訊,最後釋放。(攝影/劉貳龍)
#香港 #反送中 #HongKongProtest Image
警方自下午便在多數商場驅散民眾,與民眾發生數次衝突與推擠,讓原本應該是家族團圓充滿溫馨的母親節,染上了一絲不安的氣氛。(攝影/劉貳龍) ImageImageImage
直到晚間10點,仍有逾百位的記者、民眾與防暴警察在旺角附近對峙,警方不斷以麥克風要求現場民眾離開,也有疑似戴口罩的便衣警員把市民制服在地上,警方與民眾發生零星的推擠。(攝影/劉貳龍) ImageImageImageImage
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#BREAKING: Incumbent Taiwan President, Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, is due to be re-elected by the great margin of more than two million votes in the 2020 #TaiwanElection. #HongKongProtests Image
Just in #TaiwanElection: Having bagged at least 7.77 million votes, Taiwan President, Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, has won at least 10,000 times more votes than the number of votes that Hong Kong Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, gained in 2017. #HongKongProtests Image
Just in: Over 7.77 million votes, Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen has won historically highest support among all the Taiwan Presidents-elect. #HongKongProtests Image
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Latest for @dw_chinese - Into its seventh month, there is no sign that the #HongKongProtest would stop anytime soon. I talked to @KongTsungGan about the recent changes to the movement and how he thinks the movement might develop as we get close to the end of 2019.
@dw_chinese @KongTsungGan With two major rallies attracting hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the street since the DC election, Kong thinks that this is a strong indication that protesters still have strong motivations to demonstrate on the street.
@dw_chinese @KongTsungGan To him, the biggest difference is the absence of frontline protesters in large numbers. "Frontline protesters haven't carried out any large-scale actions since before District Council elections. That's the main way things have changed," he told me.
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#MerryChristmas — Who ever say #HongKong🇭🇰 is a cultural desert must be disappointed!

Check out this thread for all the AMAZING #Christmas Cards designed by #HongKongProtesters!

Thanks Friends from #FreeWorld & our great HK designers❤️🎄
#freehkxmascard

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Personal favourite — the same “Flag Raising” but this time we are wishing you a #MerryChristmas! 🎅🏻🎄

#5DemandsNot1Less! #聖誕快樂

Thanks you #HongKong designers! You guys are the BEST!
#StandWithHongKong 🇭🇰
#freehkxmascard #Christmas #ChristmasGift #Christmas2019 ImageImage
Second fav — a Heart created by #HongKongProtesters’ umbrellas in a rally. They chanted “#Love is more powerful than #Violence. STOP #policebrutalityhk!”

This creative❤️ is echoing HK Gov’s propaganda:

#愛比暴力強與警暴割席
#HongKongProtest #HongKong ImageImage
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Ain’t sure where head of the procession is, but Hennessy Road and all the side streets are alrdy filled with experienced marchers waiting to cut the queue. Likely another massive turnout for today’s CHRF march, one of the biggest we’ve seen in a while as many woleifei’re back.
You know things are about to start...when luxury shops are pulling down their shutters.
Quite a delay in uploading videos. Connection is bad. But hey, here’s Pepe crossover Sesame Street?
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ATL🇺🇸 in #HongKong: THREAD 1/n

Today SO MUCH in one short video:

* Melee of press, #police, protesters & tourists
* #HongKongProtester being arrested
* UK tourist watching atop the silver sculpture
* Sound of pepper spray being sprayed (fountain-style)
* Tear gas being shot
#HongKong THREAD 2/n

I'm not here to be at the front lines (this guy👇👇👇 is), but to visit with some #HongKongers & their supporters involved.

Think of it as American Thought Leaders🇺🇸, #HongKong Edition, & why not ATL🇺🇸—it's been said that this resembles, in some ways, 1776.
#HongKongProtests THREAD 3/n

Meet conflict reporter @Michael_Yon (with gas mask & orange vest) & #HongKong videographer Eric Fok @RazvenHK (donning mask).

Ok, before you meet them, meet the rather assertive #HongKongPolice. Big blue sign means "this protest is unauthorized."
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An hour past the “deadline”. This looks to be the final stand—entrance to #PolyU. Intermittent chants by remaining protestors & heckling@police. No idea what’s going on inside campus. But there are ppl who wanna leave but are trapped & afraid to try. #HongKongProtests #HongKong
Water cannon, TG deployed 5-10mins ago, and more TG now as protestors start hurling petrol bombs towards the Chatham Rd intersection. Protestor line holding. #HongKong #HongKongProtesters
Protestor being treated and helped into campus. The frontline has grown 200-300, w/ppl ferrying supplies in and out of campus. Another line guarding Science Museum Rd. #HongKong #PolyU #HongKongProtesters
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That was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. At PolyU now. This is after an armored vehicle made a charge for the protesters on the bridge only to get engulfed in flames after petrol bombs were thrown. It reversed, while on fire, as police fired teargas. #HongKongProtest
It’s 4am. A group of journalists have set up camp in a room at PolyU, watching the live-streams. Downstairs, protesters continue clashing with police as they have for 19 hours. Outside, Yau Tsim Mong District seems to be in chaos. Many journos have left, fearing their safety.
Police attacked campus. Fire on the bridge and at the main entrance.
Explosions heard on bridge from Molotovs. I’ve seen a couple protesters sobbing hysterically in fear. Protesters trying to put entrance fire out.
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Riot cops have just arrived to Central in front of IFC. #HongKongProtest
Riot cops are on the pedestrian bridge over Connaught
Standoff on Pedder
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Tonight’s #CUHK — where brave #university students are defending their home.

#CCP is replaying the horrific #Tiananmen2019 in #HongKong.

黎明終會來到

#香港中文大學 #光復香港
#ResistBeijing #LiberateHongKong Image
#Battlefield in Chinese University of Hong Kong now — heart broken.. stay safe everyone.

#光復香港 #antichinazi
#HongKong #HongKongProtest
Some of theTearGas canisters, estimated near 1,000 were fired just tonight in #CUHK.

#CCP-backed #HongKong puppet Gov & #HKPolice are trying to genocide the whole young generation becoz — you can NEVER MAKE #FREEMEN BOW TO TYRANNY.

#HKPoliceTerrorism #香港デモ #HongKongProtests ImageImageImage
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Can we talk about #POWER instead of "violence," please? #Violence is a broad label that gets thrown around in the #HongKongprotest context, and it's basically meaningless.
When people say they can't condone violence, what I hear them say is: "I condone powerful systems of #oppression and #institutionalviolence, and protesters taking a small bit of power back into their own hands makes me uncomfortable."
People who are uncomfortable with protesters fighting strong power with weak power need to examine their priorities.
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#BREAKING: Local reporters protest at the daily police presser a second time accusing the police of lying. Yesterday, two reporters were arrested when covering the #antiELAB protest. Freelance reporter Amy Ip @amyipkaman also called on others to boycott the presser late week. Image
#LIVE: Police are trying to expel these six reporters from four local media outlets. However, they refuse. A police representative, therefore, puts a halt to the press conference. #antiELAB #HongKongProtests Image
#LIVE: Although the police representative keeps saying those reporters who put signs on their helmets are obstructing other reporters, others immediately respond and say none has obstructed them. They keep giving the police representative the silent treatment. #HongKongProtest Image
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The Trolls Are Back: My latest story w @asebenius looks at new research showing how social media attacks on Hong Kong’s protesters have persevered despite take downs bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics @pelstrom @dantenkate
Out of around 30,000 accounts that tweeted about the protests, about a third were created since August says @AstroscreenHQ and @donara_barojan
They follow a pattern: less than 10 followers, uses a generic photo to disguise identity, tweet primarily about protests, use generic hashtags like #hongkongprotest to avoid detection. Many posts now appear in English in apparent bid to sway global opinion, says @donara_barojan
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Graphic alert ⚠️

A #FirstAider’s back was BURNT &
seriously injured by #HKPolice’s TEAR GAS in Causeway Bay— situation is critical & he’s gone into shock from pain.

1845 銅鑼灣一名 #急救員 被手擲式 #催淚彈 炸傷後背,背部大範圍燒傷,目前出現休克情況。

Source: @cityusucbc ImageImageImage
#HongKongProtest — a #Fireman was assaulted by Riot Police after tear gas been fired at his #firetruck!

#HongKongRioters = CCP State-supported #HKPolice 😡

#HongKong #HKPoliceTerrorism
#ResistBeijing #LiberateHongKong
The moment when the First-Aider was shot by #HKPolice’s #MadeInChina Tear Gas.

Amid the #painful screaming & heavy smoke, Police just WALKED AWAY. Journalists & other FA choose to RESCUE!
#HongKongProtests #HongKong
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so-called “special traffic arrangements” at famous Lan Kwai Fong is just another example of #HKGov’s OPPRESSION on civilians’ #freedom of assembly, freedom of celebrating #Halloween

Tons of water-filled BARRIERS are offloading in LKF - #AntiMaskLaw.

#HKPoliceState #HongKong ImageImageImage
Back in 1993, a tragedy #LanKwaiFong Stampede happened on New Year day, killing 20 & injuried 100+ on the SLOPING street.

See wht #HKPolice doing NOW make us wonder if they’re planning another one.

Photos: @galileocheng
#hongkong #hongkongprotest
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Happy #Halloween !

#halloween2019, #HongKong style! Best #halloweencostume 👮🏻‍♂️👮🏻‍♂️👮🏻‍♂️

Photo: @StandNewsHK Image
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#WeAreHongKongers 👳🏾‍♀️👨🏾‍🦰👨🏻‍🦱👩🏽‍🦱🧑🏼—
thanks our minorities friends!

Time to turn gratitude in ACTION!
Let’s go visit #ChungkingMansions’ restaurants & shops this Fri!
We all ❤️#HK

#curry #tandoori #lassi 🤤
#ChickenTikkaMasala #phirni 😍

#StandWithHongKong
#HongKong #HongKongProtest ImageImageImage
Singing outside #ChungKingMansions just now 🎼

Can we forget the #color of each other
#可否不分膚色的界限
Hold on to #Freedom amid the rain
#風雨中抱緊自由

#WeAreHongKongers — we’ll ALWAYS stand together as #香港人🇭🇰

@StandNewsHK #HongKong #HongKongProstest ImageImageImage
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Water Cannon #Blue
— a new unique #Pantone for #HongKong.

THANK YOU all #journalists for covering #HongKongProtest in these few months. #StaySafe everyone 🙏🏻!

@shanmushy @studioincendo
Watch till 0:03.

“They spray is #BLUE, but we’ll make it through.” — #HongKongPoliceTerrorism

#antichinazi #hongkong #HongKongProstests #香港デモ
#戰地記者 #記你老母
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Clashes in #HongKong on 20th Straight Weekend of #Protests (Thread 👇)

Full video & story: news.ntd.com/thousands-of-h…

#China #Eye4HK #加油 #antiELAB #反送中 #HkPoliceBrutality #HongKongProtests #FreeHK #StandWithHongKong #HongKongProtest
#HumanRights #Chinazi #HongKongPolice
"So everytime we do have a peaceful parade or march, it's just that every time there’s police coming out to provoke us. If they don’t come out, they don’t suddenly raise their flag, everytime it will be fine, it will be peaceful."

#StandWithHongKong #hkpolicebrutality #HongKong
"There are mysterious suicides everyday and there have been at least 114 mysterious suicides since the beginning of the time revolution in June, and we can see police brutality on the frontline on a daily basis."

#StandWithHongKong #hkpolicebrutality #HongKong #China #Eye4HK #HK
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#WeAreHongKongers 👨🏽👨🏿‍🦰👲🏾👳🏽‍♀️—

Group of ethnic minority in #HongKonger said they’ll station at ChungKing Mansions from 12nn tmr to offer #HongKongProtesters water, SMILE, & their famous hospitality!

🇭🇰#HongKonger is never a race; it’s an identity, a bond & a fighting spirit! ImageImage
「親愛的華裔手足,我地決定以和平理性的方式與大家同行,20/10由1200 開始,我地會於 #重慶大廈 前為各位遊行人士提供水、微笑及有 #南亞特色 的招待。如果大家希望支持加入我地,歡迎你為有需要的手足多帶一支水。
#香港人 🇭🇰,#齊上齊落

Source: Mr. Andrew’s fb
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#WeAreHongKongers 🇭🇰
「不論你在哪裡出生,只要愛 #香港,就是 #香港人。So we need to stand together, as Hongkonger」

烏都語海報,寫上 Fight for #freedom Stand with #HongKong — in Urdu

#HongKongProtest #香港デモ #StandWithHongKong

@StandNewsHK: thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%B… ImageImage
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10 Oct - #ThankfulThursday for us all!
We need to express our *heartfelt gratitude* to those restaurants & shops who support #HongKongProtest in these past few months.

#HKers Let’s GO! 🇭🇰💛💛

#食爆買爆十八區
#我愛黃店 #支持小店 #全民感謝日 #StandWithHongKong #HKprotests ImageImageImage
#ThankfulThursday — let’s support small shops today!

My fav #cake shop, they hv #LennonWall Cake, #連豬 😍 #LionRock & they’re #DELICIOUS🤤

👉🏻Amai Workshop: facebook.com/amaiworkshop/

#BoycottMaxim #HongKongProtest
#StandWithHongKong #birthdaycake
#食爆買爆十八區 #黃色小店 ImageImageImage
#ThankfulThursday — Following next is my fav #cafe in Tsuen Wan, #HongKong.

Aromatic #coffee, #wine, soul-soothing #jazzmusic.. 💃
They even joined #strike on 6.12!

👉🏻#RETOLD coffee.tea.spirits: instagram.com/retold_cts/

#抗爭日常化 #食爆買爆十八區
#黃色小店 #StandWithHongKong ImageImageImage
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