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Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪

21 Jul, 12 tweets, 5 min read

#NOW in the public transport terminus under Yuen Long MTR station, police officers wearing rather bulky vests are standing on guard.

Three young men from TSW Connect, including resigned district councillor Lam Chun, set up a street booth in the public transport terminus under Yuen Long Station. Police jotted down their personal info and reminded them of anti-gathering ban.

Police gave first public warning of gathering ban after a representative of the Confederation of Trade Unions arrived and was about to join the street booth.

Under watch of dozens of police, Lam Chun of TSW Connect began to speak, urging people not to forget what happened in Yuen Long tonight two years ago.

While two activists are trying to keep voices heard on street in Yuen Long, a number of young men are under stop and search a few meters in front of them.

Leo Tang (left) of CTU said a hotel staff union was warned this afternoon by police for handing out a leaflet reminding ppl 7 steps to wash hands for 21 seconds. Police said the leaflet was “beautifying the black violence” and “we could ask national security unit to handle you”.

Eight policemen surrounded one man for a search. Heard an officer said to the man, “Are you going to buy a bun? You should go if not. I have seen you twice here.”

Founder of Student Politicism Wong Yat-chin joined the street booth. He said every HKer can find something to do. “When we are arrested and jailed, it will become a duty to fill the vacated posts. We are now also merely filling some vacated posts.”

Not only police officers are guarding Yuen Long station tonight, but also their big dogs.

A man wore this blue “I ❤️ Police” T-shirt and walked around Yuen Long Station as his little act of sarcasm .

2 women with 3 young kids left a watermelon and a book entitled “Revolution of Our Times” on a fire hose in Yuen Long station, and 1 woman began to feed a meal to one of the kids. Police removed and returned the items to them warning that they might have violated some bylaws.

Ripped and riven, posters beneath Yuen Long Station two years on from #721Attack

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#NOW League of Social Democrats opened a street booth on the Great George St, a vibrant commercial lane leading to Victoria Park. Two plain clothed police reminded them to “follow laws in HK”. Chan Po-ying an LSD veteran said “we’ll talk about history and CY Leung will be cited”

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#BREAKING A few changes - including some alarming ones - in the latest print of #NSL Reader Beijing gifted all HK teachers and schools to read. The book’s leading author is Wang Zhenmin, ex legal affairs chief of the Liaison Office.

Listing out in this #thread

1. Most alarming one - in the section about cases in HK’s jurisdiction, 1st print said other regulations in HK’s existing laws concerning national security “of course shall be followed” but the line is gone in 2nd print ...

(L: 1st print; R: 2nd print)

...instead 2nd print listed 3 ordinances in HK laws deemed “concerning national security offences” including the Crimes Ordinance, the Official Secrets Ordinance and the Societies Ordinance, and said if they contradict with #NSL, #NSL shall prevail.

(L: 1st print; R: 2nd print)

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In terms of length of gov backdrop slogan, HK is surely developing.

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National security police and National Security Committee of HK gov will provide reports on candidates for the Qualification Review Committee to vet candidates of legislature, election committee and chief executive elections, said Tam Yiu-chung, HK's sole delegate to NPCSC.

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(graphic by me)

Among the new 90 seats in LegCo:

40 will be chosen by the 1500-member Election Committee with no min vote requirement;

30 from functional constituencies among which only 9 sectors have individual votes;

20 from 10 geo constituencies with 2 seats/district and 1 voter/voter.

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This is a #thread about what happened in HK today.

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