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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… […]

Fire dying out

Fiery night in Mongkok

On 24 May 2020, the day started with a failed attempt to mobilize protesters against the national anthem bill. This attempt was foiled by a huge police deployment in Causeway Bay and Admiralty and mass arrests. Despite this, protesters managed nevertheless to create a fiery night in Mongkok. Difficult mobilization New police tactics at work […]