NEWSLETTER: Hong Kong is helping arm Iran with shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers. Is this what the U.S. gets in return for dropping sanctions on the officials behind the national security crackdown? 🔗https://hkuncensored.substack.com/p/washington-lowers-the-pressure-on

This is the real conspiracy behind the latest evolution in Hong Kong's national security laws. @tom-kellogg.bsky.social shows how sweeping new powers severely undermine defendants’ rights at every stage — from investigation and bail applications to trial proceedings and release.

FLAME OF FREEDOM: Henry Tong, a Hong Kong activist in exile in Taiwan, on finding the strength to keep resisting after the CCP tried to frighten him into silence. #HongKong #TransnationalRepression 🔥https://thecfhk.org/paint-on-my-door-threats-on-my-wall-a-hong-kong-exiles-story-of-resistance/

FLAME OF FREEDOM: @kseniamaximova.bsky.social writes on how Hong Kong's crypto trading rules allow billions to move from sanctioned entities to London's Russian diaspora. #HongKong #CryptoPayments #London #USDT 🔥https://thecfhk.org/the-new-illicit-crypto-corridor-russia-hong-kong-london/

President Trump helped secure the release of Chinese Pastor Ezra Jin after appealing directly to Beijing. Lyndon Li explores what Britain can learn from America's success in the fight to #FreeJimmyLai. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/america-just-freed-a-chinese-pastor-britain-cant-free-its-own-citizen

NEWSLETTER: Hong Kong activists find ways to mark "sensitive" anniversaries; we mourn Causeway Bay Books founder Lam Wing-kee; and the world pushes back against China's Ethnic Unity and Progress Law. 🗞️https://thecfhk.org/six-years-on-beijings-crackdown-goes-global/

Wanted Hong Kong activist Finn Lau writes on why HK Chief Executive John Lee's June expansion of security powers should prompt the U.K. Home Office to prioritize Hong Kong asylum applications. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/hong-kongs-new-security-powers-should-change-how-britain-treats-asylum-claims/

FLAME OF FREEDOM: A veteran Hong Kong journalist writes on how the silencing of Wang Fuk fire survivors shows that the CCP are now denying HK homeowners basic ownership rights. #HongKong #PressFreedom 🔥https://thecfhk.org/in-the-ashes-of-a-deadly-hong-kong-fire-a-banner-too-dangerous-to-hang/

FLAME OF FREEDOM: China analyst Elizabeth Lindley suggests that the West should study #FreeJimmyLai to grasp how freedoms earned over decades can be disappeared in a matter of years. #HongKong #China #Politics 🔥https://thecfhk.org/jimmy-lai-lessons-the-west-must-study-hong-kongs-loss-of-freedoms/

NEWSLETTER: This week, Chief Executive John Lee gave himself the power to make any case he likes a national security matter. What now for Hong Kong's once respected rule of law? 🔗https://thecfhk.org/john-lee-ends-judicial-independence-in-hong-kong/

Seven years ago, Hong Kongers stood up for democracy and the basic freedoms they were promised. The Hong Kong government responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and truncheons. We'll never forget the protesters' courage. The struggle continues until freedom is won.

NEWSLETTER: @thecfhk.bsky.social activists address Tiananmen vigils, Hong Kong police detain June 4 mourners, and @osloff.bsky.social hears from Hong Kongers. #TiananmenSquare #June4 #HongKong 🕯️https://thecfhk.org/remembering-the-tiananmen-massacre/

FLAME OF FREEDOM: Chinese dissident Qi Hong, granted asylum in the U.K. after projecting protest messages critical of the CCP onto buildings in Chongqing, reflects on growing up in the shadow of the #TiananmenSquare massacre. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/tiananmens-legacy-is-a-nation-too-afraid-to-speak/

With #TiananmenSquare memorials banned in Hong Kong amid an oppressive police presence, the duty of keeping the flame of freedom alive in the Chinese-speaking world falls to Taiwan. Picture credit: Artist in Exile. #PillarofShame #June4 #Taipei

NEWSLETTER: Our policy and advocacy coordinator, Frances Hui, shares allegations from exile that top Hong Kong prosecutor Anthony Chau abused his office to fund extravagant hotel stays and dinners with a female subordinate. #HongKong #Corruption #PressFreedom 📰 thecfhk.org/hong-kongs-t...

Our advocacy manager, @chloecheung.bsky.social, shares with @thetimes.com the story behind the landmark national security convictions of two men linked to Hong Kong's trade office in London for spying on Hong Kong activists and British parliamentarians. 👀https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518eiPHePI4

Has China's spy ring of foreign influence operations started to crumble? | Chloe Cheung

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NEWSLETTER: The U.S. Congress is unanimous in its support for President Trump's efforts to free political prisoners in China and Hong Kong, including #FreeJimmyLai and Pastor Ezra Jin. 🔗https://thecfhk.org/congress-unites-behind-political-prisoners-during-trump-xi-summit/

Following the conviction of two men linked to the #HongKong Economic and Trade Office in #London for espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, @chloecheung.bsky.social calls for the government to shut the office without delay. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

It’s time to close London’s Hong Kong trade office

China’s so-called economic centre is at the heart of a recent spying case — it should no longer be granted diplomatic status

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🚨PETITION: CLOSE THE LONDON HKETO🖊️ A jury has convicted two men linked to #London's Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) of spying on #HongKongers in the U.K. 👉It's time to act. Sign and share the petition. Shut the HKETO. Protect people in Britain: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

NEWSLETTER: Guilty verdicts for Hong Kong trade office spies in London sparks calls to close #HKETOs worldwide. #HongKong #FreeJimmyLai 🗞️https://thecfhk.org/hong-kong-spies-convicted-in-landmark-london-trial/

PRESS RELEASE: Bill Yuen, office manager at London's Hong Kong Trade Office, and his accomplice Peter Wai, have been found guilty of "assisting a foreign intelligence service" under National Security Act. 👇 thecfhk.org/hong-kong-tr...

FLAME OF FREEDOM: @coyleneil.bsky.social, Labour MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, argues that the U.K. Govt must challenge "industrial scale" Chinese espionage and the role of #HKETOs. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/u-k-right-to-reassess-hong-kong-trade-office-role-amid-industrial-scale-chinese-espionage/

"It would be a huge win for his legacy." @opinion.bloomberg.com's @mbrooker.bsky.social captures why President Trump should follow through on his promise to secure #FreeJimmyLai on humanitarian grounds when they meet in Beijing next week. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Jimmy Lai's Freedom Hinges on Donald Trump's Dealmaking

US President Donald Trump says he will raise the case of imprisoned Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when he meets President Xi Jinping in China next week. It might seem implausible that Beijing would...

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And @consilium.europa.eu sanctioned six other #HongKong traders of sanctioned dual-use components report authors @samuelbickett.bsky.social & @chloecheung.bsky.social identified in"Bypassing the Blockade." 👇 thecfhk.org/research/eur...

Bypassing the Blockade: How Hong Kong Feeds European Technology Into Russia’s War in Ukraine

A network of Hong Kong-based trading and shell companies is feeding European technology into Russia’s war machine. We drew on battlefield forensics, Hong Kong public records, and records on more than ...

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In February, a report by @thecfhk.bsky.social found Woeroon Electronic Sourcing Ltd. was a key intermediary in the transfer of hundreds of technological goods from Hong Kong to Russia. @consilium.europa.eu recently included them in its latest sanctions list.

NEWSLETTER: Reporters Without Borders describes #PressFreedom in #HongKong as near "systemic collapse" as the European Union and British Parliament take aim at the city's sanctions-busting traders. 📰https://thecfhk.org/hong-kong-drops-to-new-low-in-world-press-freedom-index/

The EU has sanctioned seven companies we identified in our "Bypassing the Blockade" report, authored by @samuelbickett.bsky.social & @chloecheung.bsky.social, as distributing sanctioned military-grade components via #HongKong for use in #Russia's war against #Ukraine. 🗞️ thecfhk.org/european-uni...

NEWSLETTER: With President Trump set to meet Xi Jinping in just 3 weeks, pressure is building to put freedom of political prisoners, esp pro-democracy publisher #FreeJimmyLai, at the top of the agenda. 📰https://thecfhk.org/u-s-senators-urge-president-trump-to-free-jimmy-lai-on-his-beijing-trip/

FLAME OF FREEDOM: Andrei Sannikov, former president-elect of #Belarus, warns that democracy is facing its most severe crisis since the Cold War, but hope remains if the West acts early to support people power. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/from-belarus-to-hong-kong-democracies-must-stand-with-people-power/

NEWSLETTER: From brazen asset seizures to ballooning #Iran-linked trade, the increasing risk of doing business in #HongKong should make investors sit up and take notice. 📰https://thecfhk.org/cfhk-foundation-leads-new-warning-on-hong-kong-risks/

FLAME OF FREEDOM: Eleanora Mongelli calls for #Italy to better protect #HongKong dissidents at risk from #TransnationalRepression by authoritarian regimes. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/transnational-repression-is-a-democratic-vulnerability-that-threatens-hong-kongers-italy-should-respond-accordingly/