[One year later, #Policebrutality intensifies]

1. A year ago,millions of #HKers flocked to streets to oppose #AntiExtradition bill & #PoliceViolence. It was the time when demonstrations, protests, strikes, petitions, forming human chains & singing #GlorytoHongKong were permitted 2. One year later, #Hongkongers and the world bear witness to #Beijing's growing direct control on the city’s vanishing liberty. Ordinary citizens are stabbed by pro-#Beijing mobs, smashed to the ground and arrested by #hkpolice just because they sing in public.

DEMOSISTO: RESPONSE TO US SECRETARY POMPEO OFFICIAL DECERTIFICATION OF HONG KONG SPECIAL STATUS

1. #US StateSec Pompeo certified #HK no longer warrants differential treatment under US law as ‘No reasonable person can assert that HK maintains a high degree of autonomy from #China 2. His report to Congress mentioned 3 key events to his decision: NPCSC’s assertion of its right to interpret all #HK; #Liaisonoffice’s claim that it was exempt from Basic Law; and the #NationalSecurityLaw announced last week.

[Demosisto's report on #LiaisonOffice's empire in #HK]

1.When #China's liaison office violates #1country2systems & claims to have "supervisory power" on HK issue, @demosisto today released a report & found that the office owns a property empire w. 757 properties, worth HK$3.4bn+ 2. Since the Umbrella Movement, #liaisonoffice has scaled up its property portfolio, with over 130 properties purchased after 2014. Some of them were rented to pro-#Beijing groups which are active in elections and pro-govt rallies.

[Freedom of Assembly amid growing authoritarian rule ]

1/ @Demosisto and student activist Sunny Cheung @SunnyCheungky have just submitted our comments on the UN Human Rights Committee's Draft General Comment No. 37 on the right of public assembly. 2/ In despotic regimes like #China and #Hongkong, the right to freedom of assembly carries vital meanings for all democracy and human rights fighters amid disproportionate suppression from the state.