clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jul 31, 2020
> A succinct summary of the past three days by @‌appledaily_hk:

> Tuesday: academic freedom gone (HKU’s firing of Benny Tai)
> Wednesday: freedom of speech gone (arrest of Student Localism members under NSL)
> Thur: freedom to run for office gone (mass DQ of pro-democracy LegCo hopefuls)
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 (@rhokilpatrick)

A succinct summary of the past three days by @appledaily_hk: Tuesday: academic freedom gone (HKU’s firing of Benny Tai) Wednesday: freedom of speech gone (arrest of Student Localism members under NSL) Thur: freedom to run for office gone (mass DQ of pro-democracy LegCo hopefuls)

Show threadJordiGHJul 31, 2020
@clacke DQ? No longer qualified to run for Office?
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jul 31, 2020
@JordiGH Yep.

The demand for democratic candidates is so strong that the existing quirks to keep pro-Beijing parties in power may not hold. HK's pseudodemocracy was doing just fine until people started voting for the Wrong People.

It's like they say, "if elections could change anything, elections would be illegal". HK wants to look like it holds elections, so it's better to make key candidates illegal.
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jul 31, 2020
> As HKG cites "expressing an objection in principle” and "expressing an intention to force the Gov't to accede to certain political demands” as reasons for DQing candidates, all of HK is left wondering: isn’t that precisely why parties and elections exist?
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 (@rhokilpatrick)

As HKG cites "expressing an objection in principle” and "expressing an intention to force the Gov't to accede to certain political demands” as reasons for DQing candidates, all of HK is left wondering: isn’t that precisely why parties and elections exist? https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202007/30/P2020073000481.htm?fontSize=1

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jul 31, 2020
> The Hong Kong government declared an unprecedented 12 pro-democracy politicians’ candidacies for September’s legislative elections invalid on Thursday, saying it would not rule out the possibility of further disqualifications.
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'Hammer blow to Hong Kong’s autonomy': politicians and activists react to LegCo candidates' disqualifications | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

The Hong Kong government declared an unprecedented 12 pro-democracy politicians’ candidacies for September’s legislative elections invalid on Thursday, saying it would not rule out the possibility of further disqualifications. HKFP has rounded up reactions to the move from local as well as international politicians and human rights groups. 69 Members of the Parliaments from 17 […]

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Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jul 31, 2020
> Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is expected to announce later on Friday a postponement of the Sept. 6 election [ . . . ]‌

> Lam is expected to delay the poll for a year amid a spike in coronavirus cases [ . . . ]
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Hong Kong leader to announce delay to September 6 election on Friday

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is expected to announce later on Friday a postponement of the Sept. 6 election for seats in the Chinese-ruled city's legislature, local Cable TV reported.

Show threadlefarfadetJul 31, 2020

@clacke
Done! How practical. Expect another "gift" of 10k hkd again next year !

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/31/breaking-hong-kong-postpones-legislative-election-citing-covid-19/

BREAKING: Hong Kong postpones legislative election citing Covid-19 | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong is to postpone September’s legislative election by one year owing to a resurgence in untraceable coronavirus cases, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday. The leader will invoke the Emergency Regulations Ordinance to hold off the vote – a decision she said was supported by Beijing. “The announcement I have to make today […]

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
I used to say I didn't want to live in Singapore, because while they had democracy on paper it didn't work out all that well in practice, and while HK didn't have real democracy it did have a stronger record on freedom of speech and other civil rights and a hands-off government, and that's what really matters in the end.

Well.

Singapore seems to have an increasingly lively opposition and they did hold elections in the midst of the pandemic.
Jul 31, 2020 at 11:46amWeb