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Hong Kong, 11 Jul 2020 A volunteer helps an elector to handle the electronic vote system at the Whampoa booth for the pan-democrat primaries. The Hong Kong Governement denounced these as a "violation" of the National Security Law, and the police raided the offices of the firm organizing the vote on the evening prior to the vote, thus delaying its start to 12.00 noon.

Hong Kong: the big lockup

We took the habit since a few months now, of waking up every morning and checking our social media to know who was arrested this time. This week, we woke up to a big lockup of opposition activists in one fell swoop: 53 members of the pan-democrat camp were arrested and accused of plotting to… […]

A deserted battlefield strewn with umbrellas

Death by a thousand cuts for hong kong

After passing the National Security Law, on July 1st, China set out to radically transform the political landscape of Hong Kong. Although many hailed the law as the death knell for Hong Kong, it appears today that it was only the prelude and the mechanism by which to inflict “death by a thousand cuts” for […]