After Dr. Li’s death in Wuhan, “I want freedom of speech” became a viral hashtag on Weibo for 30min before being censored. Amidst the outrage, some Chinese netizens are starting to talk about Hong Kong’s 5 demands, why we are fighting, and regret laughing at our protest. “We need to speak the truth”
HK activist Nathan Law: “In case you have never seen it, this is how Google warns you when they detected government-backed attackers are hacking my accounts. It happens to less than 0.1% of all users, and I have been receiving the same alarms for years. Guess which government sends these attackers?”
Apple Daily reports that Tony Chung, a 19yr old activist had been taken away by the national security police this morning when he attempted to seek political asylum at the US Consulate in HK. He had previously been arrested in July for National Security Law violations, and had his passport withheld.
George Washington University’s president condemns posters that called out the Chinese government’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, after GWU’s Chinese student association complained they were ‘racist’. He ordered their removal and vowed to find the students who had posted them.
