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April 7th is #FreedomOfSpeechDay in Taiwan; the occasion commemorates the selfless sacrifice of political activist #NylonCheng in 1989. We reflect upon the importance of safeguarding Taiwan's civil liberties and the democratic way of life.
We defend our sovereignty and stand with global partners to ensure peace through strength. #Democracy is the cornerstone of Taiwan’s future.
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Many political prisoners in Belarus suffer from serious health problems that are worsening behind bars.
In some cases, they are being denied the most basic medical treatment. At least nine have already died in custody.
All unjustly detained must be released.
#WorldHealthDay
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Beijing’s treatment of Jimmy Lai reveals the lengths the CCP will go to crush any dissent.
No alternative opinions allowed.
The free world must stand together to prevent the spread of Communist China’s authoritarian model.
dailycaller.com/2026/04/04/chi…
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Hong Kong introduced new national security rules in March. An independent bookshop owner and his employees were arrested for allegedly selling seditious books, and the national security trial of two Tiananmen vigil activists continued.
🔗 In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/04/07/exp…
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At the National Prayer Breakfast, Claire Lai shared her father’s story.
In 1997, the year Hong Kong was handed to China, hearts across the city were filled with fear and doubt. #JimmyLai turned to Christ. His doubts were overcome by God’s mercy and grace and transformed into trust.
This Easter, Claire says there is nothing he wants more than to be a faithful servant to our Lord.
He remains alone in a cell, sentenced to 20 years, for refusing to stop believing in freedom.
#FreeJimmyLai
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This is TOTAL MADNESS.
Back in 2018, the Head of Interpol was a CCP Vice-Minister of Public Security (!!!), and even so, on his visit home from France, the CCP made him disappear.
Soon after, Interpol received his "resignation" and CCP so-called "anti-corruption" officials announced he was under investigation; he was later tried and sentenced to over a decade in prison.
The sitting Head of Interpol, while certainly a nasty character as a top CCP Public Security official, was swept up in a political purge and forcibly disappeared by the regime, and the rule-of-law nations didn't really bat an eye.
And now they want to hold their annual meeting in a place that's having its rule-of-law rapidly eviscerated by the CCP.
Again, TOTAL MADNESS.
Byron Wan@Byron_Wan
Hong Kong will host the world's top law enforcement officials later this year at Interpol's annual general assembly, amid warnings from lawyers, rights activists and former police officers that meeting in China could embolden authoritarian regimes and inhibit participation by reporters and NGOs. Interpol's Red Notices are a global alert system used by Interpol member states to locate and detain alleged fugitives from justice. The system is vital, but is also abused by governments to target political or religious dissidents, and others. With the China venue, “You've got one of the most repressive regimes and one of the world's worst abusers of Red Notices holding the general assembly.” Police officers from 196 member states will converge on Hong Kong from Nov 17-20 for Interpol’s 94th General Assembly. Interpol has met in China before, most recently in 2017, in Beijing. The Hong Kong meeting comes amid growing efforts by China to expand the work of its Ministry of Public Security around the world as part of its Global Security Initiative, which Beijing envisages as a new international security order. The Ministry of Public Security is a police service, but also a domestic and foreign intelligence agency that tracks dissidents at home and abroad.  Holding the meeting in Hong Kong was also risky for reporters and NGOs. The Hong Kong authorities have prosecuted thousands of people, including many journalists and civil society participants, under a tough state security law that took effect after the crushing of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in the city in 2019. Most recently, 78-year-old Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison for "collusion with foreign forces." More than 10,200 people were arrested and nearly 2,400 were prosecuted in connection with the protests under the National Security Law that took effect in 2020. The law had a conviction rate of 80%. A planned update to the law announced in March will criminalize refusing to give police the passwords to personal electronic devices or not decrypting communications for them, prompting a security alert for US citizens by 🇺🇸 State Department. Media and other non-law enforcement persons are permitted to attend the general assembly's opening and closing events, Interpol says. For NGO members or reporters, “the fact that you can't go to a meeting of Interpol because you might be arrested and detained is mad.” In January, Hong Kong's Commissioner of Police, Joe Chow Yat-ming, said that the event was an opportunity to "showcase positive stories about China, Hong Kong, and the HKPF." China has sought to expand its influence over Interpol and is among the top five abusers of its global "wanted" alert system of Red Notices and Diffusions, alongside Russia. Interpol does not release figures for which country requests how many alerts each year but says that the volume of Red Notices is continually rising and that hundreds are rejected by the organization annually on the grounds that they violate human rights, or are unserious. In 2024, Interpol published 15,548 Red Notices and Diffusions — a 27% increase over 2023. A total of 2,462 alerts were rejected. Of these, 305 were rejected because they violated Interpol's Constitution which requires respecting the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and refusing requests that are of a political, military, religious or racial character. The rest did not meet the criteria of being "serious ordinary law crimes." In 2025 the total number of rejections had risen to 2,550, though it was unclear how many alerts were issued. Of the rejected ones, 558 were over human rights concerns, sharply up. Under growing pressure to react to abuse of the system, Interpol has strengthened its own monitoring of requests. “We don't know how many notices are requested by China or how many are refused. But there is no way they are not in the top five.” 1/n newsweek.com/interpol-how-s…
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🚨 SHUT IT DOWN: Protests hit #HKETO #London
Yesterday (4 April), activists gathered outside the HK Economic & Trade Office, calling for its immediate closure following "HK Spy Case" revelations.
The Verdict from the Frontline:
🗣️ Christopher Mung (HK Labour Rights Monitor): A target of surveillance himself, he warns HKers in the UK face "ceaseless" stalking. "This is a tool for intimidation, not trade."
🗣️ Dr. Benson Wong (Academic): Slams the #UK Govt’s "ignorance" toward transnational repression operating under the guise of cultural exchange.
🗣️ Sai (Burmese Activist): Draws parallels to Myanmar’s junta. "Why does the UK allow authoritarian regimes to export fear onto our streets?"
🗣️ @clarawanchai (Ex-Councillor): Launching a 100k-signature petition to trigger a Parliamentary debate. "HKETO does not represent the people."
The bottom line: Trade outposts shouldn't be surveillance hubs. Freedom from fear is non-negotiable. 🇬🇧✊
#HongKong #HKETO #TransnationalRepression #HumanRights
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Hong Kong will host the world's top law enforcement officials later this year at Interpol's annual general assembly, amid warnings from lawyers, rights activists and former police officers that meeting in China could embolden authoritarian regimes and inhibit participation by reporters and NGOs.
Interpol's Red Notices are a global alert system used by Interpol member states to locate and detain alleged fugitives from justice. The system is vital, but is also abused by governments to target political or religious dissidents, and others.
With the China venue, “You've got one of the most repressive regimes and one of the world's worst abusers of Red Notices holding the general assembly.”
Police officers from 196 member states will converge on Hong Kong from Nov 17-20 for Interpol’s 94th General Assembly. Interpol has met in China before, most recently in 2017, in Beijing.
The Hong Kong meeting comes amid growing efforts by China to expand the work of its Ministry of Public Security around the world as part of its Global Security Initiative, which Beijing envisages as a new international security order.
The Ministry of Public Security is a police service, but also a domestic and foreign intelligence agency that tracks dissidents at home and abroad.

Holding the meeting in Hong Kong was also risky for reporters and NGOs.
The Hong Kong authorities have prosecuted thousands of people, including many journalists and civil society participants, under a tough state security law that took effect after the crushing of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in the city in 2019. Most recently, 78-year-old Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison for "collusion with foreign forces."
More than 10,200 people were arrested and nearly 2,400 were prosecuted in connection with the protests under the National Security Law that took effect in 2020. The law had a conviction rate of 80%.
A planned update to the law announced in March will criminalize refusing to give police the passwords to personal electronic devices or not decrypting communications for them, prompting a security alert for US citizens by 🇺🇸 State Department.
Media and other non-law enforcement persons are permitted to attend the general assembly's opening and closing events, Interpol says.
For NGO members or reporters, “the fact that you can't go to a meeting of Interpol because you might be arrested and detained is mad.”
In January, Hong Kong's Commissioner of Police, Joe Chow Yat-ming, said that the event was an opportunity to "showcase positive stories about China, Hong Kong, and the HKPF."
China has sought to expand its influence over Interpol and is among the top five abusers of its global "wanted" alert system of Red Notices and Diffusions, alongside Russia.
Interpol does not release figures for which country requests how many alerts each year but says that the volume of Red Notices is continually rising and that hundreds are rejected by the organization annually on the grounds that they violate human rights, or are unserious.
In 2024, Interpol published 15,548 Red Notices and Diffusions — a 27% increase over 2023. A total of 2,462 alerts were rejected. Of these, 305 were rejected because they violated Interpol's Constitution which requires respecting the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and refusing requests that are of a political, military, religious or racial character. The rest did not meet the criteria of being "serious ordinary law crimes."
In 2025 the total number of rejections had risen to 2,550, though it was unclear how many alerts were issued. Of the rejected ones, 558 were over human rights concerns, sharply up. Under growing pressure to react to abuse of the system, Interpol has strengthened its own monitoring of requests.
“We don't know how many notices are requested by China or how many are refused. But there is no way they are not in the top five.”
1/n
newsweek.com/interpol-how-s…
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“If the government isn’t there to make sure that things are done properly, monitor and enforce the standards it has set to protect the lives and property of its residents, then it has failed at its most fundamental job.”
scmp.com/opinion/hong-k…
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A reminder that the Chinese government goes after family members, especially if it can't get to the subject of their ire. (And that its proxy government in Hong Kong has taken to doing so too. A case in point: what's happened to @AnnaKwokFY's father.)
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It strains credulity that an international police conference is being held in Hong Kong, where the police have madly gone after its citizens for peaceful protest. It is yet another sign of how the international order has gradually been captured by the CCP.
Didi Kirsten Tatlow@dktatlow
#HongKong hosting the #Interpol general assembly for top law enforcement officers from 196 countries in November is "a really terrible idea. You've got one of the most repressive regimes and one of the world's worst abusers of Red Notices ..." Read more: newsweek.com/interpol-how-s…
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The reason why HongKongers can’t give up. Today, April 4(404), some of us will protest at London’s HKETO, because it s a 404 error for this office to keep its diplomatic privileges, after Hong Kong lost its autonomy and freedom completely. !Shut down HKETO!
The Campaign for Hong Kong@Campaign4HK
A powerful story and illustrations of the impact of NSL in Hong Kong. reuters.com/graphics/HONGK…
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We reiterate our condemnation of the unjust sentencing of #HongKong democracy advocate Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison and join the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling on authorities to halt efforts to seize his assets under the National Security Law, which was designed to silence independent journalism and dissent.
CPJ Asia@CPJAsia
#HongKong: CPJ calls on authorities to halt efforts to seize Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai’s assets under the National Security Law. Weeks after sentencing him to 20 years in prison, authorities moved to confiscate his assets. The 78-year-old, whose health is deteriorating, is among the most severely sentenced defendants under the law. Hong Kong government's statement: info.gov.hk/gia/general/20… #PressFreedom
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Beijing’s sweeping NSL has reshaped HK’s political landscape, silencing the city’s democratic opposition.
The Post-it notes in this story depict these cases against activists, politicians, lawyers, students and journalists.
w/@jamespomfret @adolfux
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Hong Kong: A City Where Even Books and Phones Are No Longer Safe theepochtimes.com/opinion/hong-k… via @epochtimes
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After Jimmy Lai's 20 year jail term in Feb, Reuters delved into thousands of national security and protest related arrests by Hong Kong police between 2019 and 2026, in an interactive graphic "Awaiting Justice" #HK w/@JessiePang0125 @adolfux
reuters.com/graphics/HONGK…
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