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Dec 29, 2021 • 28 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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(1) BREAKING & developing news: in Hong Kong today, National Security police arrested 6 linked to online media outlet, Stand News, over conspiracy to publish seditious materials incl faded pop singer (Canadian) Denise Ho 何韻詩, barrister Margaret Ng 吳靄儀, who are #RaamWTF
(2) both former board members of Stand News - Ng is a veteran Civic Party member - deputy assignment editor Ronson Chan, who chairs the HK Journalists Association, was taken for questioning- his home was searched over the crime of “publishing seditious publications” with a court
(3) warrant - the arrests were carried out under under the Crime Ordinance (not the new national security law) covering conspiracy to print or distribute seditious materials - this section was enacted during British colonial rule

elegislation.gov.hk/hk/cap200!en
(4) What are the differences between Hong Kong's colonial-era sedition offence & HK's national security law?

scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
(5) More details:

scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
(6) More on Denise Ho, riot instigator & faded pop singer turned anti-China activist doing the bidding of Western forces

(7) Details of the funding of the foundation Denise Ng, Margaret Ng & others co-founded:

(8) More on Stand News:

(9) More on Stand News:

(10) More on Denise Ho instigating unrest during the 2019/2020 riots:

(11) More on Denise Ho's glorious days when she traveled to the US with Joshua Wong on an anti-China move doing the bidding of Western forces

(12) of course mainstream Western media would jump at the chance to paint this as "media suppression" by the HK Govt while they wouldn't care about Julian Assange

even Hollywood Reporter had to jump in

hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-…
(13) Interesting that the HK Journalists Assoc funding raising gala held last night refused entry by..... reporters!
(14) pics of those arrested & taken in for questioning

hk01.com/%E7%AA%81%E7%9…
(14) Hong Kong national security police held a press conference at 4pm local time to explain the arrests, & revealed that company assets worth HK$61 million of the online news outlet Stand News had been frozen

Video of the press conference at this link:

hk01.com/%E7%AA%81%E7%9…
(15) More on UK-based Even Fowler, who co-founded Stand News, HK Free Press & House News, by @LauraRu852

(16) More on UK-based Even Fowler, who co-founded Stand News, HK Free Press & House News, by @LauraRu852

(17) This is British "independent researcher on HK & China" Evan Fowler, who calls himself a "Hongkonger" (HK born) & an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society (UK) - he keeps a low profile

hongkongfp.com/author/evan-fo…
(18) Evan Fowler

scmp.com/author/evan-fo…
(19) Stand News has dismissed all its staff & shut down today

scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
(20) Chan Pui-man, who was arrested earlier for an article in Stand News, was also arrested over conspiracy to publish seditious materials together with the six arrested today - Chan is married to former editor-in-chief of Stand News, Chung Pui-kueng
(21) Tony Tsoi Tung-ho 蔡東豪 is now wanted by the Hong Kong police for publishing seditious material, as 7 others were arrested earlier today on suspicion of related seditious offenses - Tony Tsoi founded the online media outlet, Stand News, which shut down today - he also
(22) founded House News (which closed several years ago) during the 2014 Occupy Central Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong - he is rumoured to have fled to Australia

《立場》董事蔡東豪遭通緝 最少20篇文章涉煽動

hd.stheadline.com/news/realtime/…
(23) Bio of Tony Tsoi 蔡東豪, Founder of Stand News

zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1…
(24) Details of the co-founder of Stand News from 2015

stedu.stheadline.com/sec/article/11…
Correction: Tony Tsoi co-founded Stand News as he was not the sole founder
(25) from @StarboyHK

(26) related article on Stand News by @LauraRu852

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