Jan 6th might be the toughest day for me since the first day I started fighting for Hong Kong's democracy. I've witness the first tear gas being shot on Sept 28th, 2014 which led to the #UmbrellaMovement; the Fishball Revolution which I passed by; and witness #HKPoliceTerorrist ambushed protesters on June 12th, 2019. None of those was as saddening as the mass arrest yesterday.
Seeing people that I've met getting arrested for #NationalSecurityLaw only because of the Primaries. The unjustice, the anger, the helplessness all appear at the same time. I remember I volunteered to help out, urging people, and even begging my friends and family to vote. I knew that no matter what, the #GovHK or #CCP would rig the election anyway, but what I did not expect was them getting arrested.
~Founder of Hong Kong Democracy Movement 民主運動
Seeing people that I've met getting arrested for #NationalSecurityLaw only because of the Primaries. The unjustice, the anger, the helplessness all appear at the same time. I remember I volunteered to help out, urging people, and even begging my friends and family to vote. I knew that no matter what, the #GovHK or #CCP would rig the election anyway, but what I did not expect was them getting arrested.
~Founder of Hong Kong Democracy Movement 民主運動
Forwarded from 📡Guardians of Hong Kong
#Newspaper #CCPRules
‘Red Roulette’ Uncovers Covert Hands in Hong Kong
//#China has long accused foreign elements of being behind the protests that convulsed Hong Kong in 2019. Authorities returned to the theme in recent days, with the foreign ministry releasing a 6,300-word “fact sheet” of U.S. interference in the territory.
None of the material in either report offers proof of the so-called black hands that Beijing has frequently invoked in its denunciations of external meddling...
There is, though, an account of behind-the-scenes manipulation by an external presence that sought to incite demonstrations in Hong Kong. It’s just that it comes from the other side.
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China is a memoir by Shanghai-born businessman #DesmondShum that was published this month. The book has created a stir among China scholars because of its ringside view of the nexus of business and politics in Beijing. But Shum’s description of China’s actions in Hong Kong is also revealing.
In Shum’s words, he was enlisted by the Communist Party to serve as a foot soldier in its campaign to undermine Hong Kong’s political system. As a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body that is part of the party’s united front operations, Shum says officials ordered him to go to Hong Kong to organize and fund counter-demonstrations during the 2014 #UmbrellaMovement. Those with businesses in Hong Kong were told to pay employees to march in support of China’s position, he says.
The businessman, who was raised in Hong Kong, relates how he joined one march, making sure that he was seen by officials from the Liaison Office, the central government’s main agency in the city, so that he would receive credit.
“I found the whole exercise laughable,” Shum writes. “Everyone, from the Liaison Office officials to all of us marchers, was acting. Few, if any, believed in the main idea underlying the action — that Hong Kong needed less democracy or less freedom. Everyone was there because of self-interest and to gain brownie points in Beijing.”//
Read the full article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-03/china-worried-about-foreign-meddlers-in-hong-kong-plays-its-own-tacit-role
Source: Bloomberg #Oct3
Photo: Chan Long Hei
#Regime #Infiltration #ForeignPower
‘Red Roulette’ Uncovers Covert Hands in Hong Kong
//#China has long accused foreign elements of being behind the protests that convulsed Hong Kong in 2019. Authorities returned to the theme in recent days, with the foreign ministry releasing a 6,300-word “fact sheet” of U.S. interference in the territory.
None of the material in either report offers proof of the so-called black hands that Beijing has frequently invoked in its denunciations of external meddling...
There is, though, an account of behind-the-scenes manipulation by an external presence that sought to incite demonstrations in Hong Kong. It’s just that it comes from the other side.
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China is a memoir by Shanghai-born businessman #DesmondShum that was published this month. The book has created a stir among China scholars because of its ringside view of the nexus of business and politics in Beijing. But Shum’s description of China’s actions in Hong Kong is also revealing.
In Shum’s words, he was enlisted by the Communist Party to serve as a foot soldier in its campaign to undermine Hong Kong’s political system. As a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body that is part of the party’s united front operations, Shum says officials ordered him to go to Hong Kong to organize and fund counter-demonstrations during the 2014 #UmbrellaMovement. Those with businesses in Hong Kong were told to pay employees to march in support of China’s position, he says.
The businessman, who was raised in Hong Kong, relates how he joined one march, making sure that he was seen by officials from the Liaison Office, the central government’s main agency in the city, so that he would receive credit.
“I found the whole exercise laughable,” Shum writes. “Everyone, from the Liaison Office officials to all of us marchers, was acting. Few, if any, believed in the main idea underlying the action — that Hong Kong needed less democracy or less freedom. Everyone was there because of self-interest and to gain brownie points in Beijing.”//
Read the full article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-03/china-worried-about-foreign-meddlers-in-hong-kong-plays-its-own-tacit-role
Source: Bloomberg #Oct3
Photo: Chan Long Hei
#Regime #Infiltration #ForeignPower
Bloomberg.com
‘Red Roulette’ Uncovers Covert Hands in Hong Kong
China has long accused foreign elements of meddling in the city’s affairs, yet a new book sheds light on its own role behind the scenes.
Forwarded from 國際文宣組 IFC
TLDR: 就算失望，不能絕望。共勉之。
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This is not a post recounting the details of the #UmbrellaRevolution so much as what it stood for and how it informed the #fightforfreedom in #HongKong. For years, #HKers had been struggling to defend our rights and values from the #CCP. The #UmbrellaMovement in 2014 was for many an awakening to the root cause of the social problems in #HK - the lack of a popularly mandated government as ours was (and is) but a #Beijing puppet.
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The experience of 2014 produced the now much more mainstream indigenous ideology and inspired new protest tactics in 2019. Hong Kong has never stopped evolving to cope with challenges and does not intend to stop now. "Be water", the city-wide pro-democracy movement in 2019 taught us, even though it may be dark and the suffering ahead seem endless, don't lose heart. We will remember who we are, what we stand for, persevere and outlive the tyrant.
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#China #democracy #freedomofspeech #standwithhongkong
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This is not a post recounting the details of the #UmbrellaRevolution so much as what it stood for and how it informed the #fightforfreedom in #HongKong. For years, #HKers had been struggling to defend our rights and values from the #CCP. The #UmbrellaMovement in 2014 was for many an awakening to the root cause of the social problems in #HK - the lack of a popularly mandated government as ours was (and is) but a #Beijing puppet.
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The experience of 2014 produced the now much more mainstream indigenous ideology and inspired new protest tactics in 2019. Hong Kong has never stopped evolving to cope with challenges and does not intend to stop now. "Be water", the city-wide pro-democracy movement in 2019 taught us, even though it may be dark and the suffering ahead seem endless, don't lose heart. We will remember who we are, what we stand for, persevere and outlive the tyrant.
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#China #democracy #freedomofspeech #standwithhongkong
香港司法延誤問題
多年來，香港檢控程序緩慢引發關注。2014年雨傘運動的案件，兩年才審判，如今四年或更長的等待似乎成為常態。
最近，一位法官注意到2019年被捕的雙胞胎，當時他們只有14歲。隨著時間推移，他們已成為成年人，失去青少年犯的特殊待遇，姓名也被公開，影響未來的就業和教育。
如果在英國，這樣的延誤必然會引發抗議。香港的司法體系亟需改革，以實現公正與效率!
Judicial Delays in Hong Kong
For years, the slow pace of prosecutions in Hong Kong has raised concerns. In the 2014 Umbrella Movement cases, trials took two years, and now waiting four years or more is becoming common.
Recently, a judge noted the case of twins arrested in 2019 when they were just 14. Now adults, they’ve lost the protections meant for juveniles, and their names are public, affecting their future opportunities.
In the UK, such delays would provoke outrage. It's time for Hong Kong's judicial system to reform for true justice and efficiency!
#香港 #JudicialDelays #人權 #HumanRights #公正 #Justice #雨傘運動 #UmbrellaMovement #PoliticalArrest
https://hongkongfp.com/2024/10/20/hong-kong-court-delays-are-so-long-juvenile-offenders-become-adults-while-awaiting-justice/
多年來，香港檢控程序緩慢引發關注。2014年雨傘運動的案件，兩年才審判，如今四年或更長的等待似乎成為常態。
最近，一位法官注意到2019年被捕的雙胞胎，當時他們只有14歲。隨著時間推移，他們已成為成年人，失去青少年犯的特殊待遇，姓名也被公開，影響未來的就業和教育。
如果在英國，這樣的延誤必然會引發抗議。香港的司法體系亟需改革，以實現公正與效率!
Judicial Delays in Hong Kong
For years, the slow pace of prosecutions in Hong Kong has raised concerns. In the 2014 Umbrella Movement cases, trials took two years, and now waiting four years or more is becoming common.
Recently, a judge noted the case of twins arrested in 2019 when they were just 14. Now adults, they’ve lost the protections meant for juveniles, and their names are public, affecting their future opportunities.
In the UK, such delays would provoke outrage. It's time for Hong Kong's judicial system to reform for true justice and efficiency!
#香港 #JudicialDelays #人權 #HumanRights #公正 #Justice #雨傘運動 #UmbrellaMovement #PoliticalArrest
https://hongkongfp.com/2024/10/20/hong-kong-court-delays-are-so-long-juvenile-offenders-become-adults-while-awaiting-justice/
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Hong Kong court delays are so long, juvenile offenders become adults while awaiting justice
I have been complaining for many years – it’s not particularly fun but someone has to do it – about the lamentable speed with which prosecutions proceed in Hong Kong. The Ceremonial Opening o…