By @XinqiSu: "A #HongKong scholar who helped run a now-disbanded defence fund for democracy protesters was arrested at the airport under the national security law, two legal sources said." sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-defe…
"Hui Po-keung, a prominent cultural studies scholar, was on his way to take up an academic post in Europe before he was detained on Tuesday, the sources said, asking not to be named."
"Hui was arrested for 'collusion with foreign forces', one source said, an offence under a new security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in response to huge protests three years ago."
"Hui was one of six trustees of the '612 Humanitarian Relief Fund' which helped arrested protesters pay for their legal and medical bills."
"Other trustees of the fund include retired cleric Cardinal Joseph Zen, veteran barrister Margaret Ng, gay rights activist and pop singer Denise Ho as well jailed democracy activist Cyd Ho."
"Shortly before the fund closed, Hong Kong's Lingnan University confirmed that its contract with Hui had ended the month before but declined to state a reason on personal privacy grounds."
"An active social commentator and prolific author, Hui taught for more than two decades at Lingnan University and was credited by prominent former student leader Nathan Law for inspiring his political career."

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May 13
Breaking: #Taiwan reported 64972 local cases, 41 deaths and 217 cases with moderate or serious symptoms. The number of deaths is the highest since the start of this wave of outbreak. cna.com.tw/news/ahel/2022…
The age of the 41 death cases are between 50 and 90, and 40 of those cases have chronic health issues and 2 have not received any vaccine.
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A leaked list of thousands of detained #Uyghurs has helped Nursimangul Abdureshid shed some light on the whereabouts of her missing family members, who have disappeared in #China's sweeping crackdown on Xinjiang. france24.com/en/live-news/2…
Abdureshid, who now lives in Turkey, lost contact with her family five years ago. It took until 2020 for the Chinese embassy in Ankara to confirm that her younger brother Memetili, as well as her parents, had been imprisoned for terrorism-related offences.
But a suspected police list leaked to Uyghur activists outside China has located Memetili in a prison outside the city of Aksu, some 600 kilometres (375 miles) from their home.
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From @cnmediaproject: "Days before her death on May 4, #Shanghai journalist Tong Weijing was kept busy writing from lockdown for one of the city's leading state-run daily. State media have responded with silence to the tragic news of her passing." chinamediaproject.org/2022/05/12/pas…
"Among the first to report the news of Tong’s death was the WeChat public account “Media Daily” (传媒见闻). In its post on May 5, the account quoted a colleague of Tong’s as saying: ...
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"Right now, expats who want to escape #Shanghai typically need consular assistance, approval from community leaders to get extra non-government Covid tests, a registered driver to take them to the airport, and a ticket on a rare flight out." edition.cnn.com/2022/05/12/asi…
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From @FT: "Local Catholic leaders recently decided to cancel annual commemorations of #China’s bloody crushing of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 for fear of violating the law imposed by Beijing two years ago, according to church insiders." ft.com/content/c9a564…
"The cancellation of this year’s commemorative masses on June 4 underscores the chilling effect that Hong Kong’s intensifying political crackdown has already had even within religious communities."
"Priests and senior lay people in the Hong Kong church said that the targeting of the cardinal, who was released on bail on Wednesday night, had deeply saddened Catholics in the city."
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"The National Immigration Authority’s announcement, made on social media platform WeChat, also referred to the need to prevent people bringing the virus into China and comes on top of existing measures that heavily limit movement within and into the country."
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