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International Human Rights Day has passed, but human rights violations continue in Hong Kong. #LeeCheukYan and #ChowHangTiung remain in prolonged pre-trial detention for preserving historical memory. Upholding truth and fighting for democracy are not crimes. Our solidarity continues. 🕯️✊

This is not a security case 🚨 It is a verdict against press freedom 📰 #JimmyLai & #AppleDaily silenced, truth criminalised ⚖️ A society that forbids questioning loses the ability to discern right from wrong ⚖️ A city without press freedom lets power run unchecked ✊ Full: bit.ly/48Dz3Mb

Chow Hang Tung, detained 1500+ days, asks in court: “Does saying ‘end one-party rule’ now count as a crime?” ⚖️ Prosecution says ANY call to end CCP rule → illegal. Solidarity with Chow in London 🇬🇧 this Sat! 🕯️ 8 Nov 2025 • 2PM 📍 Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, W1B 1JL Full: bit.ly/47ysQ2b

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💥 French Trade Unions Take a Stand Against SHEIN 💥 French unions are leading the charge against SHEIN at BHV Paris, protecting workers’ rights, and demanding real reforms. ✊ Cheap fashion shouldn’t mean exploited workers. 🌍 Full: bit.ly/3WsnKzu Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty Images

💔 HK$13.7 per meal? That’s what 300,000+ migrant domestic workers in #HK survive on. Minimum wage raised 2.2% → HK$5,100 (USD657). Food allowance frozen 2 years → HK$13.7 (USD1.8) per meal. Not enough for a Filet-O-Fish. They deserve fair wages & proper allowances! 💪 Full: bit.ly/3LeLynY

Mid-Autumn Festival — Thinking of those unjustly imprisoned We remember Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho, detained for four years over the subversion case against the Hong Kong Alliance. Their trial begins on 11 Nov. Let’s not forget them and keep supporting their fight for justice. 🕯️🌕

4 years after its forced dissolution, the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions remains a powerful symbol of worker solidarity. It fought for a minimum wage, collective bargaining, and independent unions. Though gone, its spirit of perseverance continues to inspire Hong Kong’s labour movement.

#China’s National Day = blood & tears, not celebration. In London, 200+ from HK, Uyghur, Tibet, China & Taiwan projected “ #NotoCCP” on the Royal Mint. HKLRM: The CCP are liars, they stole HK’s freedoms, breaking every promise. Hong Kong is proof of their betrayal.

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Today, on the 11th anniversary of the Umbrella Movement, around 1,000 people gathered in London for the sixth protest against China’s mega embassy. We moved through Chinatown, chanting “CCP, Go To Hell” and “No China Mega Embassy,” while handing out leaflets to restaurant patrons along the way.

🚨 Ahead of the Chief Executive’s Policy Address, the HKLRM released a report on the review of the imported labour scheme, revealing loopholes & weak penalties which allow exploitation of both migrant and local workers. Calls for suspension of unjust labour schemes. Full: bit.ly/4mdvKyD

#HongKong playwright Candace Chong says she’s been blacklisted. She marched for democracy and wrote May 35th, a rare play about Tiananmen. That act “marked” her, leading to cancelled revivals, erased credits, and blocked curtain calls. Full 🔗https://bit.ly/4nvNqqB #June4 #TiananmenMassacre

💪 Solidarity wins! Over 180 Swire Coca-Cola #HK workers stood together after a union leader was fired — the company backed down. Dismissal withdrawn; now on paid suspension pending judgment. ✊ Unity works! Source: Hong Kong In-media #Solidarity

🚨 UK Parliament debates the future of the #BNO 5+1 scheme on 8 Sept Christopher Mung warned: 💷 Policy changes could burden families with extra costs 🛂 HK authorities use passport cancellations as transnational repression UK must uphold its BNO pledge. Full🔗 : bit.ly/3V4KIMt Photo: HK Watch

During the National Security Law era, labour strikes have rarely reappeared in #HongKong. Over 100 Swire Coca-Cola workers opposed the employer’s unreasonable dismissal of a union officer. Full article: bit.ly/47pUBvD Source: The Collective HK

🚨 #HK social worker suspended 6 months for posting “Liberate HK, Revolution of Our Times” on IG — first case without a criminal conviction. Since 2023, 30 licences revoked, 20 tied to activism. Critics warn: “No appeal. No transparency.” Full: bit.ly/425X1Mh Source: The Collective

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At an online forum, Christopher Mung warned the #HK national security law goes beyond punishing 2019 protesters. It seeks to uproot dissent & impose authoritarian order. 🏛️ Unions placed under 24/7 surveillance 🚫 Venues & resources blocked 📉 Labour & civil groups forced to dissolve bit.ly/4lQ3sKA

🚴‍♂️💥 Over 12,000 accidents in a year in China. Riders risking their lives for your lunch. Most get no insurance, no protection. In China & HK, food delivery thrives on exploitation. A city’s convenience shouldn’t cost a worker’s life. Full: bit.ly/3US1PAP #GigEconomy #LabourRights #FoodDelivery

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Carol Ng, a fearless voice for workers and democracy in Hong Kong, is finally free after more than 4 years in prison. She stood for fairness, dignity, and workers’ rights—and never surrendered. Her fight is a powerful reminder: workers’ voices matter and must never be silenced. Full: bit.ly/479WoVc

#HK47 Appeal — Standing with all who believe in justice. Winnie Yu & “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung fought for democracy and freedom. They appeal not just for themselves, but for #Hongkongers who believes in freedom. “May Hongkongers never forget: fight for democracy, defend justice!” bit.ly/4nVgEQC

🚨 New trade union law in #HongKong deepens the crackdown on workers' rights. @ifjglobal.bsky.social condemns: "Denying union registration on vague national security grounds without a right to appeal undermines the rule of law and weakens workers’ power." www.ifj.org/media-centre...

🚨 Hong Kong gov gazetted the new Trade Unions Ordinance. ❌ Unions can be denied registration with no appeal. ❌ Activists permanently banned. ❌ Foreign ties & funding blocked. ❌ Warrantless searches allowed. We condemn this. International solidarity needed now. bit.ly/3TuRABZ

💥 "An uphill struggle" — Hong Kong unions face intense political pressure, harsh restrictions under the NSL and Trade Union Ordinance, surveillance, and criminalisation. Yet they keep organising. Read more 👉 equaltimes.org/it-s-an-uphi...

5 years after #HongKong National Security Law: The govt crushes unions through ⚔️ ⚔️Political purges 📜Draconian laws 💣Constant harassment Over 240 unions dissolved, 16 leaders arrested, jailed or exiled. Yet workers still fight on. 🌏 Solidarity needed. Full: bit.ly/4l0GlNG #nsl2025

Rather Be Ashes Than Dust – League of Social Democrats’ Disbandment Statement Full: bit.ly/4lAX5ey Your commitment to social justice and freedom will never be forgotten. You have inspired countless others to keep fighting, no matter the cost. In solidarity. ✊🏽 #HongKong #LSD #NSL

💔 End of an era. The League of Social Democrats is set to disband, marking the 3rd major opposition group to fold since the #NSL. They stood for grassroots, justice, and speaking truth, long after many had gone silent. Now, silence grows. @HKFP : bit.ly/3FUaa3r

🚨 400,000 MPF default notices in #HK, but only 0.07% prosecuted. ⚠️ Missing MPS payments often signal business collapse. Yet workers suffer the most: 💸 delayed or missing #MPF contributions mean less retirement savings. The data exists. The law exists. But action? Barely. Full: bit.ly/4kQiYq3

Even silence scares them. 🕯️In #HongKong, a woman clasped her hands — surrounded. 🍬An artist chewed gum — searched. 📜A placard quoting history — shut down in seconds. 🚨The state’s response reveals its cowardice: even the quietest act of remembrance scares them. 🔗Full: bit.ly/3Sxi6u3 #Tiananmen36

An elderly woman held a white flower in Causeway Bay. Within seconds, plainclothes police surrounded her. One officer grew visibly agitated. She was escorted into the MTR and taken away. On #June4, even a silent flower is treated as a threat. #Tiananmen36 #HongKong Source: ReNews

🕯️36 years after Tiananmen, Hong Kong marks a 6th year without candlelight. The vigil organisers Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung & Albert Ho — jailed without trial for over 1,000 days. Their crime? Refusing to forget. bit.ly/3SwVBWc #June4 #TiananmenSquareMassacre #HongKong

"My expectation for myself is to remember those who are still suffering." — a Pro-democracy activist, Jimmy Sham, after 4 years in jail under HK's national security law. Released, still under red lines, but not forgetting those left behind. bit.ly/4kMVoKx #JimmySham #HongKong47 #FreeHK #June4

📦 Food couriers aren’t not “self-employed” — they’re workers. 🚴‍♂️ Yet #HK’s govt still refuses to legislate basic protections for platform workers” Strikes keep rising. Surveys show the risks. We need laws to protect the rights of gig workers. 🔗HK Free Press : hongkongfp.com/2025/05/28/h...

64 London Vigil Never Forget Tiananmen Massacre A candlelight vigil to mark the 36th anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement. 📅: Wednesday 4 June 2025, 8-10pm 📍: Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL Hosting organisation: June Fourth Sparks #8964 #RememberJune4 #HongKong

#HK’s tax office aggressively targeted at least 8 📰 independent media outlets & 20 🧑‍💻 journalists — some accused of income from non-existent firms or slapped with inflated assessments 💰. Weaponising bureaucracy isn’t administration — it’s intimidation 🚨. Photo: Yahoo HK 🔗Full: bit.ly/4jnNHcI

🗞️ HK Journalists Association: 49 journalists arrested. 9 still jailed. #JimmyLai jailed 1,600+ days. Stand News editors convicted. 26 new media outlets, at home or in exile, rise in resistance under an increasingly authoritarian climate. 📢 Journalism isn’t a crime. 🔗Full article: bit.ly/433Crgy

🎭📚 Arrested under Article 23 on the eve of June 4 last year, Former District Councillor Chan Kim Kam was removed from both a theatre show & teaching post — all in one day. 🗣️ “I may be small and powerless, but I refuse to be silent.” Graphic: Cham Kim Kam Full article: bit.ly/4kqszTW bit.ly/4kqszTW

💰 Hong Kong's new minimum wage: $40 to $42.10/hour from May 2025 — that’s a 5.25% rise over 2 years. No help for the working poor. 🧾💸 Meanwhile... Mexico: +12% Romania: +22.7% Japan : +5% Taiwan : +4% "Asia’s World City"? Only in name. 😶‍🌫️ 🔗Article: bit.ly/43jlBJm

🧾 Ex-district councillor Kenneth Cheung ❌ denied registration as a social worker — not for serious crimes, but for protest-related fines. ⚠️ Is this professional licensing or political screening? Full article: bit.ly/43mpGwA #HongKong #SocialWork #politicalscreening

#HK gov proposed letting China gov exercise jurisdiction over “serious” nat sec cases — and civil servants must assist when called. 🫠 Gov says: “Human rights will not be affected.” 🙃 With the previous arbitrary arrests & fair trial rights, you buying that? 🎭🚨 hongkongfp.com/2025/05/12/p...

🚨🚴‍♂️💥 Keeta couriers in Hong Kong went on strike over sudden pay cuts & a ⚠️ dangerous order-grabbing system causing accidents. 🚪With Deliveroo’s exit, competition thins, and delivery workers face mounting pressures amid shrinking earnings and increasing risks. Full article: bit.ly/4jXyd06

🚨 Beijing's reach extends further in Hong Kong. A new proposal allows China's national security office in HK to “exercise jurisdiction” over complex cases — a move local media have dubbed the “extradition to China” mechanism. hongkongfp.com/2025/05/12/b... #HongKong #NationalSecurityLaw #Article23

🚨 State of Labour 2024: Hong Kong faces a deepening labour crisis. 👋 163K+ young workers gone since 2018, an over 25% drop in workforce 👵 Seniors (65+) in workforce up 59% 💥 Gov’t talent schemes failing 🔗Summary: bit.ly/4d3dSDE 🔗Full report: bit.ly/3YBgSRU

From Myanmar to Belarus, Vietnam to Hong Kong — authoritarian regimes are silencing workers & crushing unions. This #MayDay, exiled unionists call for global solidarity against authoritarianism.✊🌍 Let’s rise together. International declaration on May Day by trade unionists in exile: bit.ly/4jzdpvs

HongKong: The Disappearing MayDay March #MayDay is when workers take to the streets to demand their rights globally. But in #HongKong, there hasn’t been a single May Day march for five years.

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