1/4: Three years ago on #831 , hordes of tactical police swarmed into the trains at Prince Edward MTR station. There, they indiscriminately bludgeoned passengers with batons, before cordoning off the station from paramedics and reporters.

What has happened since then? 2/4: Now backed by the power of the overbearing national security law, authorities have actively suppressed any commemoration of the tragedy (e.g. memorials and laying flowers). Meanwhile, witnesses of the event have also been personally threatened into silence.

1/4: Three years ago on #June9th , 1.03 million marched on the streets as one of the last and desperate attempts to stop an Extradition Bill whose passage was virtually certain. No one could ever imagine how much #HK would change forever from that day forward. 2/4: This blossomed into a grand political movement with five demands: withdrawal of the Extradition Bill, ceasing the labelling of protestors as rioters, dropping charges against protesters, conducting independent inquiries into police behaviour, and genuine universal suffrage.

1/n: The national security law for HK was just put on the gazette. These things are new:

1. It is confirmed that the maximum sentence for all of the four offences is *life imprisonment*

The full draft: gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/2… 2/n: China will exercise its jurisdiction when the it’s difficult for the SAR to do so due to the complexity in foreign interference; when the SAR is unable to enforce the law or when national security is seriously endangered (i.e. whenever they want cos that’s awfully vague).

1/4: On this day last year, 1.03 million marched on the streets as one of the last and desperate attempts to stop an Extradition Bill whose passage was virtually certain... 2/4: Few expected Hongkongers to unite as one at the frontlines of a global fight against CCP influence. No one anticipated these be-water protests to reshape the future of global political climate. This was the beginning of what has now become a year-long battle.