Police surrounded the city's legislature with water-filled barriers and conducted widespread stop-and-search operations in a bid to deter mass gatherings.
"You can see there are police every corner, it's like martial law in force," added a woman, who gave her nickname Bean, after she was searched. Requests by civil society groups to hold protests have been denied for months by authorities citing both the pandemic and last year's unrest. The legislature was blockaded and later trashed by demonstrators during last year's protests as officials tried to fast-track an eventually scrapped bill allowing extraditions to the authoritarian mainland.
Beijing has been infuriated by Hong Kongers - especially football fans - booing the national anthem to signal dissatisfaction with China.Fights have broken out between rival lawmakers over the legislation. Activists say their rallies, which have been attended by millions, are the only way to voice opposition in a city without fully free elections.
The problem is not the law itself, but CCP can interpret the law in its own way
When mockery is a crime, Hong Kong people are being ruled a tyrant The irony is that Tian Han, the writer of CCP's national anthem, was struggled to death by🇨🇳during the Cultural Revolution orchestrated by🇨🇳
The policeman unreasonably catches young people when they see them! So, about 300 people are caught all day long.
miniminne1 Young people are our hero 👍🏻👍🏻
evafungyw Serious police brutality in Hong Kong. They used unreasonable violent behavior to menace citizens, journalists and students PoliceBrutality PoliceTerrorist
Just shocking for the HK people
China - the greatest threat to world peace !
CCP trying to control everything in HK.
They are so called Terrorists by CCP
Won’t be visiting Honkers again anytime soon!
charlottefrente HKPolice targeting our children. Please let the world know.
winebooster hongkongpolicebrutality never stop. So called “asian finest” is a joke, they did lots of shady things. They think they are the law. Hong Kong is a PoliceState now. HongKongPoliceTerrorism
www_1841er [May 27, 2020 MongKok] HKPolice subdued a man and stepped on his knee joint, this is totally Torture and Extrajudicial Punishment, a CrimeAgainstHumanity PoliceBrutality HKPoliceState Photo: appledaily_hk
FreeHongKong StandWithHongKong FightForFreedom HKpolicebrutality
CCP let HK becomes HKPoliceState 😡😡😡 It happened at lunchtime in main business district😡😡😡 HKPoliceTerrorist CCP_is_terrorist YouCantStopUs FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong
It’s HongKong.🙏🏿🙏🏿StandwithHK FreeHongKong HongKongers
NationalSecueityLaw is also another reason, it bypass HK legislative council, & CCP plans to send Chines ppl to execute the law, both actions r breaking the Sino-British Joint Declaration, Basic Law and “1 country, 2 systems” agreement. CCPChinaJudgmentDay StandWithHongKong
See, people walking on the street normally, chatting with friends, did not do anything to harm the police. What the police do is to fire them suddenly.
27May 656+ defenseless citizens are arrested and attacked by HongKongPolice. All of them still risk their life and prospect to go out to urge the world impose sanction against CCP and defend HongKong democracy. Plz save us and our kids! Hongkongprotests HKPoliceState
Hong Kong has become a police city, and the citizens can no longer live normally. The tyranny granted these police terrorists unlimited powers to arbitrarily deter citizens and make arrests😤 StandWithHongKong FightForFreedom
The new law would only be a political tool for hk govt to suppress the freedom.
China cannot even stand a sound of criticism
Here are the details of NationalAnthemLaw and you can see why we have to protest: YouCantStopUs StandWithHongKong
The police’s crackdown on protests signaled “1 Country 2 Systems” is coming to death. Please sanction the human violators in Hong Kong
Please help Hong Kong 🙏🏻🙏🏻😭 The police keep arresting and attacking the protesters 😭
Peaceful protest don’t deserve to got shot by pepper pellets. When the people chanting their slogans or trying to sing a song about freedom, what government should do is listen and reconsider what is really ‘good’ for the people, but not trying arrest all ppl appeared on street.
let us make it clear that if national anthem law and security law pass, arbitrary arrests will become even more common than now, that's the reason why we stand against the bill hope that the international community can StandWithHongKong
No one is spared even though you’re just buying your lunch. HKPoliceState
We all know how weak and sensitive the heart of CCP is. Everything against her can be “insulting”. What she wants is the obedience of every single person and every single country
The unreasonable indiscriminate attacks and mass arrests today show that Hong Kong has already become a policestate.
Talk or shot? Why not both? HKPoliceState
HK is unedinably becoming a police state thanks to the CCP controlled police! HongKongProtests hongkongpolicebrutality
HongKongProtests FreeHongKong StandWithHongKong FreeHK HongKongSecurityLaw HongKongNeedHelp CCPSecuritylaw CCPChina OneCountryTwoSystemsIsDead PoliceBrutality hongkongpolicebrutality
What a useless law, another excuse to arrest hongkonger who have different point of view on democracy & totalitarianism.
Hong Kong has become a place of police brutality which is totally intolerable. We should resist such excessive force under this totalitarian regime.
HongKong is just a policestate
We have the right to protest! You cannot kill us all!
Legend_mh9 CCP and Hong Kong police are killing the people in Hong Kong... please StandWithHongKong
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I believe every young ppl arrested are innocent and with passion righteousness and loyalty StandWithHongKong
They are firing rubber bullets at unarmed civilians. During lunch hour. On weekday. HongKongPoliceTerrorists just won’t let HKers to enjoy their lunch peacefully. StandWithHongKong
Its happened today. HongKongPolice are crazy. StandWithHongKong FightForFreedom HongKongProtests
The ‘finest’ HongKongPolice has achieved a lot in the past year; arrest more than 10k HongKong civilians that related social movement, fire uncontrollable rounds of teargas, pepper spray, many suspicious dead bodies and ultimately turn HK into a PoliceState.
HongKongPoliceTerrorism is hunting for fun
Police state
The world should response strongly to the inhuman act of PoliceBrutality and their implementation of NationalSecueityLaw. What I think is strong: 1. Revoke their relatives nationality 2. Freeze their assets overseas 3. Revoke HK privilege status StandwithHongKong
CCP all wound up because the world’s woken up to their bullshit. Best they can do is antagonize their little brother. Typical.
600 people were arrested today. And pepper pellets in HK's CBD, wow, that's how HongKongPoliceState works.
HongKongers: *exist* Hong Kong Police: Criminals! Totally absurd, and it's reality.
they hurt and arrested a lot of innca\\
Violence & arrests happened everyday at HongKong.
Tell me, who are covering their faces with guns just like what terrorists do.
not only prosecuted for insulting, but also for not chanting the anthem😡
홍콩 사람은 자유를 지키고 있습니다.죽어버러 도 홍콩 문화를 지킨 결심을 했습니다.국제 관심을 주셔서 다행입니다.
HK ppl use their tear, blood & life to prove China is a brutal totalitarian reigme. The world should beware of China threats. Its devil long arm has reached every corner in the planet. Stop & sanction them now. Help HK & help the world. StandWithHK
CarrieLam & its govt & HKPoliceState are puppets of CCP only. She give up HK autonomy & core values of freedom & justice. The interest of CCP is only concern of her. Justice in HK is threatened. Oppression is deepened. But no surrender.
There goes the pepper pellets for fun
HKPoliceState Shooting pepper-spray bullets towards the crowns at LUNCH TIME in Central.... This is insane...... SOSHK StandwithHK HKpolicebrutality HongKongProtests
You can see all the insane HKPoliceBrutality just from today. That NationalSecurityLaw is not even in place. Not hard to imagine even stronger crackdown when the law is passed tomorrow. Please StandwithHongKong and ask your politicians to pressure China. Thanks!🙏🏻 SOSHK
There were no riots, only tyranny.
Indeed a lot of people were not protestors at all! But HKPoliceTerrorists can't wait to show their loyalty to the tyranny CCP by shooting all unarmed people HongKongers! AntiNationalSecurityLaw
CCPChina - styled abusive & inhuman repression keeps happening in HongKong Police arrest , assault , torture civilians w/ baseless charges and twisted law . CCP wants to silence everyone by unprecedented violence & white terror Like what happened to coronavirus whistblower
Hong Kong has become a PoliceState that even people in Central, the main business area like Wall street in New York, suffer HKPoliceBrutality and arbitrary arrests by HKPolice. The enactment of the NationalSecurityLaw will only make the situation worse.
The police did not only arrest the protesters but even these young kids who are still in school uniform and just off from school as today is the first day of class resuming .
PigLihkg Extremely unacceptable! Indiscriminate and disproportionate action by the puppet police! StandWithHongKong
HongKongPolice shot pepper bullets on the street full of pedestrians in downtown HongKong hongkongpolicebrutality HongKongPoliceTerrorists StandWithHongKong Chinazi
It’s not only about insulting national anthem. It’s also about brainwashing education about loving CCPChina . SOSHK
HongKongPolice even arrested the students who were wearing the school uniform HongKongPoliceState OneCountryTwoSystemsIsDead CCP_is_terrorist
TomT88696910 Moral & Conscience gone
The areas are placed with heavily armed hkpolice which prepares to physical brutality anytime! All windows of police vehicles are covered with foil paper that no one can ensure the arrestees are safe! SOSHK onecountryonesystem
HongKongPoliceState is the tools of CCPChina used to destroy Hong Kong. HongKongNeedsHelp StandWithHongKong
China should maybe ask advice from Australia, maybe Peter Dutton, who thinks protestors who disrupt traffic should have their welfare payments cut and be subject to mandatory jail sentences?
The riot police attack and arrest protesters while they do nothing harmful and just walking on the street. They are out of control and wanna kill Hong Kong youngsters. HongKong StandWithHongKong
'The Purge'. Aside from HKpolice's terrorising HongKong's commercial district, they're picking on students in uniforms who just resumed school under COVID19. When journalists told students to look at their cameras lest they vanished w/o a trace, I'm tearful. This is insane.
Thank you for keeping an eye on HongKong. Count the pellets sound, at least 20 shots were fired. While the crowd has been dismissed. Arrest HongKongProtest HongKongPoliceState HongKongPoliceTerrorists NationalAnthemBill
No matter what you did, once you have different views with them, HK police would arrest you for any ridiculous reason. This is what HK protesters facing at the moment. Please StandWithHongKong FightForFreedom
Hong Kong is no longer a safe place due to the police terrorism. StandWithHongKong
It’s a clear message from hongkong people that we can’t accept NationalSecurityLegislation in our city. We condemn it strongly and clearLu. We urge realDonaldTrump government to enact HongKongHumanRightsandDemocracyAct IMMEDIATELY.
Today, the riot police suppress freeedom by shooting pepper pellets to civilians in D Aguilar Street, do you think HK is still a safe city after security law is enacted? AntiNationalSecurityLaw
HKers were arrested because of walking on the street. Freedom of Speech has already taken away by HK gov and CCP.
The definition of “insulting” is so vague in this proposed national anthem law. How can Hong Kong people believe that the government will not apply this law abusively to charge dissidents as they like? StandWithHongKong
Even though you are pedestrian, you will also be attacked by these crazy people. PoliceBrutality HongKongPoliceBurtality HongKongPoliceState
It makes no sense for HKpolice ‘s actions, they are HKPoliceTerrorist and serial killers
hongkongpolicebrutality They are killing HKers
What’ up with China? Did China test Rabies on themselves? Why China want to “rock the boat”? Hong Kong been China’s greatest asset, magnificent gateway to the West, gaining free access, to jump centuries of development, totally bypassing the normal line of technological evolution
Whats new? China cant handle any criticism everyone knows that. Their new laws remind of Sharia law, don't they have a thing about insults too that can get you in trouble or worse? Seems like they have a lot in common Hongkongers have 1 chance & the time is now. Give them hell
Fvck China before China fvcks you!
Is the national anthem of your country used to insult?
Rosetta53298436 Protestors, who were just walking on the streets, will also be arrested without any valid reason. CCP & HongKongPolice conduct HongKongers arbitrarily. World, please StandWithHongKong to fight against CCP HongKongPoliceTerrorism! 🔥🔥🔥
Heartbreaking for HongKong abc730 had a good report this evening.
Your reporting is atrocious.
Hong Kong is dead.
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