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黃之鋒 Joshua Wong said that it was fortunate this did not become "a copycat of the Causeway Bay Books [incident]".

Party leader 羅冠聰 Nathan Law said: "China is using its economic power and putting pressure on countries it has close ties with, requesting that they execute its blacklist... restricting Hongkongers' freedom of movement. They are clearly destroying One Country Two Systems, damaging Hongkongers' dignity."

Fred Lam Fai has told HKFP that Macau immigration officers prevented his entry into the SAR today.

“They were friendly but couldn’t care less about why I went to Macau... All they said was ‘I don’t know’ and told me to refer to their rejection notice.”

The news came after it emerged 黃之鋒 Joshua Wong had been denied entry to Thailand.

Chief Inspector Kwan of the Kowloon West regional crime unit said “the police immediately searched the homes of the suspects after they were arrested, and found physical evidence related to the attack.”

Two other attackers are still at large.

I was blacklisted without explanation: http://bit.ly/2duBDru Activist Joshua Wong returns from Thailand.

BREAKING: "When I asked them why they detained me in Bangkok, they said 'we will not give you any explanation, you have been blacklisted already'," 黃之鋒 Joshua Wong said.

The 香港眾志 Demosistō party said that activist 黃之鋒 Joshua Wong, who had been held by Thai authorities since this morning, would be back in Hong Kong at around 3:45pm today.

Activist 黃之鋒 Joshua Wong has been detained in Thailand: https://goo.gl/hJ2JTY.

The Hong Kong Immigration Department said the Thai government had confirmed with the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok that a Chinese citizen holding a Hong Kong SAR passport had been refused entry to Thailand. It added that the Chinese Embassy had asked Thai authorities to ensure the citizen’s rights and interests are protected.

The man arrested, 25, is alleged to have collected popular TV shows from overseas websites, and then distributed them via peer-to-peer sharing on an online forum to members.

Local broadcaster TVB said they welcomed the strengthening of law enforcement on piracy.

HKFP has learned that activist 黃之鋒 Joshua Wong is expected to be deported back to Hong Kong on Emirates flight EK384 today; his name is on the manifest.

“I think this incident clearly shows that the Chinese government is trying to use all possible ways to silence the voice of democracy… to stop those from Hong Kong spreading [their ideas] to other countries and civil societies," said 周庭 Agnes Chow Ting of 香港眾志 Demosistō.

"Even just one complaint of beating by officers in the police car provides a sufficient basis for the IPCC and police to seriously study the need for installing CCTV cameras in the cars," IPCC member and Democratic Party lawmaker-elect Helena Wong Pik-wan said.

The amendments will mean that law firms cannot "indulge" their lawyers and must prevent them from "forming groups, gathering signatures for petitions, issuing open letters, congregating online, vocally supporting or using the excuse of case study to create pressure, to attack, or to slander the judicial system."

JUST IN: Activist 黃之鋒 Joshua Wong has been detained at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport, reportedly at the request of China.

His 香港眾志 Demosistō party have condemned the move. HKFP has learned he will be on a 2pm Emirates flight back to Hong Kong today.

Four Chinese cities have announced new restrictions on property purchases as the government tries to cool soaring home prices stoked by property speculators in second- and third-tier cities across the country.

"I am not closing the borders to Chinese citizens, but why are immigrants from China not part of the same approval system as immigrants from the rest of the world?" 游蕙禎 Yau Wai Ching asked.

“If the relationships among lawmakers are already tense and lack trust at the beginning, it would make the work of the legislature very difficult,” said former president Jasper Tsang.

“Both president and lawmakers should have the same goal: put on a good show for the public."

A building inspected has warned that a gravel-filled platform at the Shui Chuen O Estate may not be able to support weight.

Sha Tin district councillor Yau Man-chun said that "it was so loose that you could use your own hand to dig it out."

“Like many Vancouver residents, my family and I suffered greatly under that [Chinese] national flag,” Meena Wong, former Vancouver mayoral candidate said.

She added that the red scarf worn by the Vancouver politician was an icon of the Red Guards of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and - for her - amounted to an infamous symbol of oppression.

Whilst debate rages as to whether the government can build flats on a Wang Chau brownfield site occupied by a car park, a year-old sports centre faces demolition in Sha Tin to make way for public housing.

"There is a lot of land that can be developed, and lots of government land that can be requisitioned," veteran football commentator Li Tak-nang said. "Is a non-profit-making public sports facility not a better use of land than the profit-making car parks and shipping container storage?"

Yuen said that only Article 5 of the Basic Law, which specified that socialism should not be practised in Hong Kong, has a 50 year limit written into it.