Thread by @MinkysHighjinks

This is a dark time for #HongKong, long a beacon for freedom+#HumanRights—and the one place in #China where citizens did not have to “fear the midnight knock on the door.”

Hong Kong people need and deserve the world’s support:
#StandWithHongKong

nytimes.com/2020/05/28/wor…

#HongKong's indomitable spirit is exemplified every year on June 4, when parents bring their children to Victoria Park to light candles for the future.

This year HK’s #TiananmenSquare candlelight vigil is banned for first time since 1989
hrw.org/news/2020/06/0… #6431truth @hrw

Because of ban on gathering in Victoria Park, #HongKong organizers of annual candlelight vigil set up a “Global Mourning Initiative” to “light a candle on June 4+observe a moment of silence at 8:09 worldwide”

Join with your candle and #6431truth hashtag

nytimes.com/2020/06/01/wor…

When #HongKong police arrested 82-year-old Martin Lee in April, they tried+failed to silence the territory’s fiercest defender of the rule of law.

Read Martin’s story of a life spent fighting for democracy+#HumanRights in his hometown: @nytimes by @vwang3
nytimes.com/2020/06/19/wor…

At 23rd year of increasingly repressive rule, Beijing passes #NationalSecurityLaw to import Chinese Communist Party law+oppression to #HongKong.

The law violates 1984 Joint Declaration treaty+”one country, two systems,” imperiling HK freedoms+way of life:hrw.org/news/2020/06/1…

No more safe harbor: #China #NationalSecurityLaw criminalizes “secession, subversion, terrorism+collusion”—Communist legal concepts anthithetical to rule of law that will surely be used to silence #HongKong’s youth, peaceful critics+democracy advocates:

amp.scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

“Long used to freedoms, Hong Kong people now face the prospect of lengthy prison terms for possessing banners or chanting slogans that the authorities dislike”

—@wang_maya on Beijing’s National Security Law for Hong Kong, a road map for repression;

@hrw: hrw.org/news/2020/07/2…