Mark Tarrant
marktarrant.bsky.social
Mark Tarrant
@marktarrant.bsky.social
Australian lawyer and film-maker
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Cartoon on Japan‘s Takaichi Sanae take on China’s aggression
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Honoured to have our pink 'Jimmy Lai Behind Bars' silk screen print poster used for the Dec issue of The Nation magazine's feature article 'The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai' by Liam Scott.
The poster was designed by Sydney graphic designer Michael Davies and myself.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai
How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
NZ Barrister Warren Pyke praising 'the political stability and stunning economic development of China since the events in Tiananmen Square', HK as a 'marvellous city with vibrant, safe streets'. As a man who charges by the hour what motivated Pyke to pen such tripe?

lawnews.nz/administrati...
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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🚨 Today, Hong Kong Watch is launching a new report analysing the dismantling of #HongKong’s autonomy and the exploitation of Hong Kong’s special status under ‘one country, two systems’.

Read in full here: www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
October 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
'Bitter Winter', a Turin-based magazine on religious freedom and human rights premiered my film 'Nixon Addendum' in April. You can watch the film for free via the link.

bitterwinter.org/nixon-addend...
bitterwinter.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: UK's £800m+ "slave labour" imports from Xinjiang revealed

Vast numbers of products flown into Britain from Uyghur region of China - revealed for first time by my @theipaper.com investigation

Stop Uyghur Genocide calls it a "national disgrace" 🧵1
inews.co.uk/news/uk-800m...
UK's £800m 'slave labour' China imports revealed - from bras to lawnmowers
Thousands of tonnes of clothes, toys, furniture and tech are being flown in from Xinjiang - which Uyghur campaigners say is a 'national disgrace'
inews.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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It was great to interview Chen Yongling - the Chinese diplomat who sensationally defected

He spoke to me for @theipaper.com about China's threat to the UK, his experiences at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and his father's murder in the Cultural Revolution:
inews.co.uk/news/world/d...
I defected from China and revealed its spying tactics - now I fear assassination
Chen Yonglin caused a diplomatic storm when the diplomat spoke out against his country and claimed asylum – 20 years on, he claims China is 'the enemy of human beings'
inews.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
British diplomats and staff attacked in Shanghai & Peking 1967 - from 'Nixon Addendum'
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
PRC diplomats attacking Londoners in 1967 - next stop the Royal Mint Court in 2025
[from my 2025 documentary 'Nixon Addendum']
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
PRC Mission staff Portland Place, Marylebone attacking Londoners in 1967 - next stop the Royal Mint Court in 2025.
Photo by Peter Johns, the Guardian News and Media Archive
October 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
My 2025 film 'Nixon Addendum' - 'US President Richard Nixon's acceptance in 1971 of Mao Tse-tung's invitation to visit Peking marked the beginning of the end of an independent Hong Kong. www.imdb.com/title/tt3863...
Nixon Addendum (Short 2025) | Documentary, Short
35m
www.imdb.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM