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Aug 18, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Was working from our co-working space in Admiralty at points today, and a young man who also works there was there resting with his mom (70s) after the rally. She wanted me to know that she believes China is trying to "wash the brains" of Hong Kongers and they should "go to hell"
She moved to Hong Kong when she was 11, she says, and says it was the best thing her family has done for her. "We built Hong Kong, and now they want to tear it down, and make us just like them"
She was extremely spirited. Wanted me to tell the world that Hong Kong people are "good people", that the world should support them. Our story today: washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

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When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:
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Hong Kong's juvenile political prisoners have become the latest experiment in China's efforts at thought control, through a deradicalization program that has expanded since 2021. We spoke to 10 prisoners and two former CSD officers to detail the program: washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
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Apr 10, 2023
Proud to announce that our book, Among the Braves, will be out this Fall. It took some two and a half years to put this together, but encapsulates a reporting journey with @TMclaughlin3 that really began in the spring of 2019 (1/3) hachettebooks.com/titles/shibani…
@TMclaughlin3 To say it is the most consequential work we've done would be an understatement. Less than a month after we first pitched this book, most democracy activists were arrested, jailed and denied bail the next month. News outlets like Apple Daily and Stand News have disappeared (2/3)
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Yesterday I resigned from the FCC's press freedom committee after three years on the committee, two of them as a board member. As a former winner and judge of the HRPA, I feel nothing but the deepest regret and do not stand by this decision
fcchk.org/hrpa/
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It is emblematic too of the self-censorship many institutions feel forced to subject themselves to in today's Hong Kong, whether with or without their merits, and entirely indicative of how the national security law has changed the landscape for all
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And so the year ends as it started, with more pre-dawn raids and arrests designed to invoke an absolute sense of hopelessness in Hong Kong. The new year has become something not to be celebrated; instead we brace for what comes next:
washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/…
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