Free Hong Kong Center

16/04/2024

Heartbreaking news.

On April 15, 2024, we lost yet another Ukrainian friend of Hong Kong – civil activist Pavlo Petrychenko, who joined the Ukrainian army in 2022.

Today marks his birthday - he would have turned 32.

Pavlo was among the first prominent civil activists who supported our protests for the freedom of Hong Kong. For years, he was outspoken about the threat of communist China and always stood with the Hong Kong freedom fighters.

He participated in the Revolution of Dignity and later became a key figure in the "Who Killed Katya Handziuk?" movement, advocating for justice for anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handziuk.

Sergeant Pavlo Petrychenko served in the Yakiv Handziuk 59th Motorized Brigade. His last mission was in the region of Donetsk, near Avdiivka.

This is a profound loss for Ukrainian civil society and a lifelong sorrow for Pavlo’s friends and family.

You did an outstanding job, Pasha.

We will miss you dearly.

Rest in peace.

23/08/2023

🇺🇦🏴 To mark the 4th anniversary of Hong Kong Way, our activists at the frontline and their sworn brothers wish to express solidarity with all Hongkongese freedom-seekers oppressed by the hostile regime of the Chinese Communist Party.

The latest persecution development in Hong Kong showed that the CCP regime fears any manifestation of Hong Kong's freedom while trying to silence even those who keep fighting from exile. But history teaches that an oppressor always fails.

We urge our Hongkongese family to stay united in the face of this essential challenge. As the Baltic Way (1989) and the Ukraine Wave (1990) united the free part of Europe to finish the communist occupation, Hong Kong and other like-minded nations will counter the same threat.

加油! We connect!

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01/07/2023

July 1st is an important date in Hong Kong's history.

From the wrongful Hong Kong handover and the so-called National Security Law implementation to the 2003 protest march and 2019 LegCo storm anniversaries.

Today, our frontliners wish all Hongkongers the freedom to determine the future. As Taras Shevchenko wrote in 1845, "Keep fighting - you are sure to win!".

Last but not least, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to our Hongkongese friends, who have kept supporting our struggle for freedom all the last 17 months of the war.

Ukraine will prevail. Hong Kong will revive. The autocracies will fail.

25/06/2023

The Hong Kong National Anthem was presented at the 1st Protasiv Yar Festival of Roman Ratushnyi in Kyiv 🏴🇺🇦

У межах третього дня фестивалю “Протасів Яр” пам’яті Романа Ратушного у Києві відбувся виступ Каору Нґ - гонконгського репортера, що працював в Україні з середини лютого 2022-го року - і понині (він зустрів російське повномасштабне вторгнення під Бучею, і впродовж року висвітлював події у Бахмуті, Херсоні та інших містах України, тяжко вражених злочинами РФ).

Після його виступу на Протасовому Яру вперше пролунав національний гімн Гонконг - “Слава Гонконгу”, написаний під впливом українського “Слава Україні”.

Комуністична партія Китаю намагається знищити гонконгський гімн: людей, що його виконують, може очікувати пожиттєве викрадення до китайської тюрьми.

Влітку 2023-го КНР удалася до тиску на YouTube та інші соцмережі з метою видалення всіх записів пісні: щоб зламати гонконгську волю та культурну пам’ять. Фактично, Китай робить те саме, що Росія робила проти нашого національного гімну “Ще не вмерла Україна” щонайменше з 1917 року.

Ми дякуємо Каору за титанічні зусилля для висвітлення фактів російських злочинів в Україні, зокрема для аудиторій з Гонконгу, Тайваню та Японії.

Водночас ми неабияк раді, що гонконгський гімн уперше пролунав на Протасовому Яру - на фестивалі пам’яті нашого побратима Романа Ратушного, що до останнього дня підтримував гонконгський народ у боротьбі за свободу.

Бо це - велика честь.

願榮光歸香港!

12/06/2023

We are honored to inform you that Ukraine's Army FM became the second national radio station to express solidarity with the people of Hong Kong by airing the anthem 願榮光歸香港 (Слава Гонконгу) on the 612th protest anniversary.

It is HUGE! Thank you, Армія FM!

09/06/2023

We are pleased to announce that Ukraine's Free Hong Kong Center is on Twitter now. We urge you to stay tuned and follow the account.

The link: https://twitter.com/fhkc_ukraine

In the meantime, the page will keep operating as usual.

08/06/2023

Today is one year since we lost our brother, Roman Ratushnyi.

He sacrificed his life in the battle of Izium last year, safeguarding Ukraine and worldwide freedom from the Russian invasion.

We did not save a lot of his wise words in support of the Hong Kong freedom fight. However, we will always remember his passion to keep defending the value of liberty from any communist oppression.

Roman has stood for the freedom of Tibet since his childhood. In 2019, he called for a rally against the Chinese embassy in Ukraine to support the anti-extradition law movement. In 2021, it helped us a lot to organize 6.12 events in solidarity with all freedom-fighting Hongkongers. And a few weeks before his eternal rest, he did his best to build the bridge between Ukraine and Taiwan.

Roman has never been to Hong Kong, but he was a great ally of Hong Kong. And before going, he urged all of us to keep paying the dues in the name of freedom: in Ukraine, in Hong Kong, and worldwide.

In front of the 4th anniversary of the Hong Kong 2019 democracy movement, we do ask you to follow Roman's wisdom and never fear anything in the fight for freedom.

Ukraine will prevail.
Hong Kong will be liberated.

05/06/2023

We all are connected.

Wu'er Kaixi, a 1989 Tiananmen protest leader, lit a candle to honor the heroes of the Revolution of Dignity of Ukraine, on June 4, 2023 (the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre).

🕯🕯🕯

05/06/2023

More pictures from the June 4 visit of Wu'er Kaixi, a student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen protests, to Kyiv.

P.S. The white helmet from the pictures, taken in the Revolution of Dignity Museum, was owned by Roman Ratushnyi, our fallen brother (KIA in the battle of Izum), during the 2013-2014 protests. That time he was 16.

Photo: Національний музей Революції Гідності • Maidan Museum

04/06/2023

Wuer Kaixi led the first-ever event to commemorate heroes and victims of the Tiananmen in Kyiv on the 34th anniversary of the massacre!

Arthur Kharytonov, the main coordinator of the Free Hong Kong Center, was honored to moderate the panel discussion «Anniversary of the violent suppression of the Tiananmen Movement: Impact on Ukraine, then and now» in the Museum of the Revolution of Dignity.

Wuer Kaixi (dissident, one of the leaders of the 1989 student protests in China, Secretary General of the Taiwanese Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights), Oleksandra Matviichuk (head of the Center for Civil Liberties - Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022), Volodymyr Viatrovych (MP, member of the Ukraine-Taiwan Inter-Fractional Parliamentary Association), and Ihor Poshyvailo (Director General of the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity) were presented as the speakers.

We do hope after the victory of Ukraine, the city of Kyiv will join the international capitals to host a full-scale kind of event to honor the Tiananmen people in the Hong Kong way.

Since we connect!

03/06/2023

🔥 Вперше в Україні: один з лідерів протестів на площі Тяньаньмень 1989 року!

До 34-ї річниці влаштованої Комуністичною партією Китаю різанини на площі Тяньаньмень у Києві пройде панельна дискусія «Роковини придушення повстання на площі Тяньаньмень: вплив на Україну тоді та сьогодні».

Приходьте!

◾️ Коли і де:

4 червня 2023 року, 16:00, Інформаційно-виставковий центр Музею Майдану (Майдан Незалежності 18/2, Будинок профспілок, 1-й поверх).

◾️ Спікери:

Уер Кайсі (Wu`er Kaixi) - дисидент, один з лідерів студентських протестів у КНР 1989 року, генеральний секретар Тайванської парламентської комісії з прав людини.

Олександра Матвійчук - правозахисниця, голова Центру громадянських свобод (Нобелівська премія миру 2022).

Володимир В’ятрович - народний депутат, член міжфракційного депутатського об’єднання “Україна-Тайвань”, у 2004 та 2013-2014 рр. – одного з лідерів протестів під час Помаранчевої Революції та Євромайдану.

Ігор Пошивайло - генеральний директор Національного музею Революції Гідності.

◾️ Модератор:

Артур Харитонов - президент ГО “Ліберально-Демократична Ліга України”, головний координатор Free Hong Kong Center та координатор Ukraine+Taiwan Forum.

◾️ Організатори:

Національний Музей Революції Гідності

Центр громадянських свобод

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«Anniversary of the violent suppression of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square: Impact on Ukraine, then and now»

Meeting with Wu`er Kaixi, dissident, one of the leaders of the 1989 student protests in China, Secretary General of the Taiwanese Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights.

with participation of Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights activist, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022;

Volodymyr Viatrovych, People's Deputy, member of the Ukraine-Taiwan Inter-Fractional Parliamentary Association, one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan protests in 2004 and 2013-2014;

Ihor Poshyvailo, Director General of the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity.

Moderator: Arthur Kharytonov (president of Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine, Free Hong Kong Center main coordinator, Ukraine+Taiwan forum coordinator)

On Sunday in Kyiv, we invite media representatives to a meeting and discussion with one of the founders and key student leaders of the Tiananmen Democracy Movement, which took place in 1989 in China. It is fair to say that the Chinese student movement inspired and led to the next wave of revolutions in the Soviet Union, and East Germany, and the Velvet Revolutions in Eastern Europe, ending the Cold War. Every year the world remembers this day.

Wu`er Kaixi came to Ukraine on a humanitarian mission as Secretary General of the Taiwanese Parliamentary Human Rights Commission. «My stay in Ukraine gives me a perfect opportunity to deliver a message to the world, in the special circumstances of your country, that when comes to freedom and dignity, we the oppressed and resistants must unite».

The event will take place on Sunday, June 4, 16:00 at the Information and Exhibition Center of the Maidan Museum (18/2 Independence Square, Trade Unions Building, 1st floor).

We invite representatives of the media and public sector to attend the event.

Organizers:

National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity (Maidan Museum)

Center for Civil Liberties

19/04/2023

💥 Read the interview with our main coordinator Arthur Kharytonov for the Svidomi Media:

"I call what happened after the protests ended and the pandemic began a "hybrid occupation" of Hong Kong. China has violated all international agreements, the Hong Kong constitution and its obligations by introducing the so-called "national security law". This law destroyed freedom and democracy.

Within months, China launched a crackdown on democratic representatives, some in prison and others in exile in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Hong Kongers who came to Ukraine after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion said they were now studying the experience of the UPR in exile".

https://cutt.ly/A758i0Q

27/02/2023

🔥 Take a look at the RFA's interview with the outstanding HK journalist, Kaoru Ng, reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian full-scale war!

"Freedom is worth dying for; Ukrainians are able to express this fully"

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Ng, whose hometown of Hong Kong also saw pitched battles between demonstrators and armed riot police in a mass protest against encroaching totalitarianism in 2019, said Ukrainians are also fairly united in their perception of what is at stake.

"They see this as a war between liberalism and totalitarianism," he said, adding that many in Ukraine have expressed solidarity with the democratic island of Taiwan, which China claims despite never having controlled the country, and has threatened to annex by force if it continues to refuse "peaceful unification" under Chinese Communist Party rule.

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"Ukrainians aren't going to sit around waiting to die, either," he said. "I have learned from them what it means to live with dignity."

"It's worth dying for freedom, and Ukrainians are able to express this fully."

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Read in full: https://bit.ly/3IvO1pj

02/02/2023

Dear friends and followers! 🏴🇺🇦

The Free Hong Kong Center team would like to express our most profound appreciation for all your support of Ukraine, and especially for your donations to the FHKC activists at the frontline.

Yevhen Cherepnia, one of our activists, a Ukrainian soldier, and an ally of all freedom-fighting Hongkongers, sends his kind regards from the hottest point of the planet, the city of Bakhmut (Donetsk region, Ukraine).

Furthermore, he is a member of the group within the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar", who went to the front in the mid-Spring of 2022, after the battle of Kyiv.

Yevhen said he feels thankful and proud to be supported by the people of Hong Kong. And asked to share with you a message to every Hongkonger, who keeps fighting for freedom through the red darkness of oppression.

“Never stop fighting. Do not forgive your enemies. Always hold each other. And keep the oil warm inside till the moment when the flames became new fires to ignite thousands of hearts and lead the people to the best of times.”

The funds you sent us on Patreon went to support the frontline work of our activists, as well as to maintain their ammunition, humanitarian supplies, and mechanical issues (such as car repair).

From April 2022 till February 2023 we successfully received 6390$, equally shared among your frontliners on monthly bases.

Once again we are thanking every Hongkonger and friend of the FHKC of Ukraine!

We do hope our followers and patrons will keep standing with us till the final Ukrainian victory!

加油香港!

Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Hong Kong! Freedom will prevail!

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28/11/2022

Прошу президента України підтримати законопроєкт 8221, що передбачає заборону діяльності установ, які підпорядковуються країні-агресору. У законопроєкті передбача...

16/11/2022

The major part of Ukraine is without electricity due to the latest massive Russian rocket attack. Over the month civilians are facing blackouts for 10-12 hours per day or more - just because of the Russian terrorist state existing.

However, even without the light we chose freedom.

FHKC’s main coordinator posted the picture of Sir Patten’s book about Hong Kong which is available now in Ukraine.

Freedom will prevail, as well as Hong Kong and Ukraine will.

14/11/2022

🇹🇼 The farewell ceremony of the fallen Taiwanese brother Jonathan Tseng in the city of Lviv.

Russians will pay.

Glory to Taiwan!
Glory to the Hero!

Photo: Андрій Садовий / Лівий Берег - LB.UA

04/11/2022

Sad news.

Our Taiwanese brother, Jonathan Tseng, was killed in action in the Luhansk area, defending Ukraine from the Russian barbarians.

He just turned 25.

The brother of Ukraine served in the 49th separate rifle battalion "Karpatska Sich".

Eternal memory to the fallen Hero of Ukraine and Taiwan.

Our condolences to Jonathan's family, friends, and sworn brothers and sisters.

Glory to Taiwan!

We will take revenge!

Маємо сумні новини.

Під час виконання бойового завдання за Луганським напрямком загинув наш тайванський побратим, Джонатан Ценг. Йому тільки-но виповнилося 25. Брат України служив у складі 49-го окремого стрілецького батальйону «Карпатська Січ».

Вічна пам'ять герою України та Тайваню.

Щирі співчуття рідним, друзям і побратимам Джонатана.

16/10/2022

Our activist Nadia, who is currently based in Japan, finally met Uryu Hirano and William Lee in Tokyo - the very best colleagues from the Stand with HK at JPN! We are proud to build the Ukraine-Hong Kong-Japan bridge to resist the joint enemy together!

皆さん、がんばりましょう!

🏴🇯🇵🇺🇦

P.S. If you are also a Japan-based activist and would like to meet Nadia, do not hesitate to reach us out!

07/10/2022

Olexandra Matviychuk, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 awarded Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties / Центр Громадянських Свобод, at the FHKC's rally against Chinese crimes in Hong Kong (Kyiv, 2019).

Olexandra is a prominent Ukrainian freedom-fighter, who was always standing for Hong Kong, Tibet, Taiwan, and East Turkestan.

Warm congratulations to her and the CCL team!

P.S. In the meanwhile we are sad that the Nobel committee inlined organizations from Russia and Belarus with powerful Ukraine's team of CCL. We do not want to share anything with the people from states, involved in the war in Ukraine. There is no place for whitewashing criminal societies!

27/09/2022

Jane Fedotova, the vice president of the Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine (mother organization of the FHKC), has finally met in Copenhagen outstanding young Danish freedom fighters, Thomas Rohden and Anders Storgaard, who have secured Ted Hui's escape from Hong Kong in 2020!

What a team! 🇺🇦🇩🇰🏴

19/09/2022

A Ukrainian soldier found the red rubbish and made the empowering photo with love to all our friends from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and East Turkestan.

Source: Ілля Кононов

08/09/2022

Thank you and goodbye, Your Majesty 🇬🇧

05/08/2022

The bonus fund of the Arno Esch Prize 2022 awarded to the FHKC mother organization is donated to the Armed Forces of Ukraine! 🔥

The Bureau of the Liberal Democratic League Ukraine, the mother organization of the Free Hong Kong Center, decided to transfer all the prize money (1200 euros) to the frontliners of the Mobile Anti-Tank Group of the 93rd Independent Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade.

The specified amount in hryvnia equivalent has already been transferred to the defenders of Ukraine.

Our brother and friend, the first LDLU honorary member, Roman Ratushnyi (24), who fell in battle, defended not only Ukraine but also the highest, global values of freedom and human dignity, fought as part of "Kholodnyi Yar" (“Cold Ravine”).

We believe that Roman's contribution to the Ukrainian democracy would have been highly appreciated by Arno Esch (23), who died fighting the Russian-Soviet terror machine in 1951.

And although it is a small amount, we are convinced that our decision relays a vital message. From generation to generation, heroic youth prove that freedom is not free.

In memory of our fallen friends and those who fought before them, we urge you to work every day together with us for the victory of Ukraine, to donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and to fully support its defenders. Until the last enemy of freedom disappears from the freedom-loving Ukrainian land!

Have a great hunt, Kholodnyi Yar brothers!

Note 1.

Arno Esch Prize - a prize awarded once every two years since 1990 by the Association of Liberal Academics, honoring the memory of Arno Esch - a 23-year-old law student from the University of Rostock, who was tortured by the Russian occupiers of Germany for fighting against communist evil.

In 2022 it was awarded to the Liberal Democratic League and its president, Arthur Kharytonov (https://bit.ly/3NE13lZ). In 2020 it was awarded to the Hong Kong students and Nathan Law.

Note 2.

Photo: jewelry work of the Ukrainian military to ensure the freedom of Europe from the Russian enemy.

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01/08/2022

The Ukrainian Voices (烏克蘭之聲): activists in Taiwan founded an educational media platform about Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇹🇼

A group of Ukrainian students and social science researchers in Taiwan founded a media platform 烏克蘭之聲 Ukrainian Voices, whose idea is to explain current events in Ukraine through the prism of historical and cultural contexts. Implemented in both Mandarin and English, this platform aims to inspire people in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and beyond to better understand Ukraine with its complex history and turbulent present.

“We want to deconstruct the colonial narratives that still dominate foreigners' knowledge of Ukraine while showing how much the freedom-loving people of Ukraine and Taiwan have in common." - said the platform's founders.

The well-known local news channel CNA has written about Ukrainian Voices’ initiators, "After five months of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a group of young Ukrainians felt that the Taiwanese people did not know enough about their country, and decided to present a project about Ukraine in English and Chinese on Facebook and Instagram, hoping that the people of Taiwan would continue to follow Russia's aggression in Ukraine, and will also take a deeper interest in culture, history and the current situation in Ukraine."

You can follow Ukrainian Voices’ educational content on Facebook and Instagram and the team’s communications on Twitter.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukrainianvoices.tw

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ukrainianvoices.tw

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ukrvoices_tw

17/07/2022

The Black Bauhinia flag of Hong Kong, as well as the Taiwanese flag, appeared at the Maidan in wartime Kyiv.

The same place where 8 years ago the Revolution of Dignity has been started.