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Maya Wang 王松蓮
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Deputy Asia director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns. Email: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org.
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    May 4
    🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 China’s kindergarten policies are reshaping how Tibetan children learn, speak, and understand who they are. @hrw's new 72-page report shows how kindergarten has become a frontline for language loss and assimilation. hrw.org/news/2026/05/0…
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Sep 30, 2022
    China's political environment at a glance, by brilliant (and in exile) #HongKong illustrator Ah To (阿塗):
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Jul 29, 2020
    Breaking: Tony Chung, convenor of pro-independent Studentlocalism, is reportedly arrested for "inciting separatism" after national security officers searched his home (source: Facebook). Chung disbanded Studentlocalism prior to the implementation of the National Security Law.
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Dec 12, 2020
    Outrageous. #Hongkongers will never forget this:
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Jun 3, 2022
    China is a country which could have been but didn't. Remember #TiananmenSquareMassacre on June 4. hrw.org/news/2022/06/0…
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Mar 13, 2020
    Folks in the west, it's scary to see the epidemic coming & your politicians aren't prepared, but pls refrain from concluding that govts like China are doing a better job because they are authoritarian. 1/5
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Mar 26, 2020
    #HongKong is in crackdown mode. Pressing public broadcaster to drop political satire program, arresting elected pro-democratic official for the incredible crime of "seditious intent" (for a Facebook post!). It's betting nobody pays attention during #COVID2019
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    Ezra Cheung
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    Mar 26, 2020
    Public broadcaster RTHK has faced increasing pressure from pro-Beijing politicians. Its director, Leung Ka-wing, was summoned by several CPPCC National Committee members, forcing him to cancel two shows, HK Connection and Headliner. #HongKongProtests news.mingpao.com/pns/%e6%b8%af%…
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    May 22, 2020
    Imagine the Chinese Communist Party takes over New York, kicks out your fav senators/representatives, cancels Saturday Nightlive, imposes "national security" legislation to make speech a crime & then tells you this is rule of law. That's pretty much what's happening in #HongKong.
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Nov 22, 2020
    Urgent: A Uyghur religious scholar Hemdullah Abduweli , who’s been legally residing in Turkey but travelling in Saudi Arabia, was arrested by the Saudis yesterday (21/11), reportedly at the behest of the Chinese government & fearing deportation. 1/4
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    Abduweli Ayup
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    Nov 21, 2020
    When Hemdulla arrested Nurmemet Rozi is with him.Saudi State Security also got arrested him. Call 0122389914, this is the phone number of the detention center. Nur called his wife after arrested. We can't save Uyghurs in China, let's save two Uyghurs in Saudi from deportation.
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    May 1, 2019
    These might look like normal metal detectors, but they’re “data doors,” covertly gathering the identifying info of your phones, including IMEI no. & MAC addresses. New @hrw report is packed full of new discoveries on Xinjiang’s mass surveillance systems: hrw.org/video-photos/i…
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Jan 5, 2021
    Apple Daily is reporting that Prof Robert Chung, former Director of the HKU Public Opinion Programme, is also arrested for, essentially, *doing a public opinion poll* hk.appledaily.com/breaking/20210…
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Oct 19, 2022
    Messages of Beijing bridge protester appear in public toilets--the least surveilled places in China. The New Toilet Revolution, the trend is called. chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/688638…
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    May 15, 2023
    Policemen from China went to Mongolia--an independent country-- and snatched a Southern Mongolian writer and took him to China smhric.org/news_720.htm Another case of cross-border abduction by the Chinese authorities.
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    Maya Wang 王松蓮
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    Jun 3, 2024
    35 years. The Chinese govt took 35 years to extinguish the flames of Hong Kong, with two national security laws, the threat of life imprisonment, & overwhelming police presence. And yet, the people will remember.
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