First-aider Who Assisted The Injured Was Hit By Police With Baton

22:49 | #MongKok

While providing medical assistance at Soy Street in Mong Kok, a volunteer first-aider was hit by police with baton. The first-aider had redness and swelling on his head. He immediately requested the police officer for his warrant card. However, another team of riot police arrived at the scene and pushed all first-aiders with long shields. Another first-aider was taken into the police cordon for further interception.

Source: Stand News

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August 11, 2019: Hong Kong Police Fire Bean Bag Round into the Eye of a Female First Aider

At around 7:30pm in Tsim Sha Tsui on August 11, 2019, the police headshot a female voluntary first aider outside the police station.

The bean bag round cracked the eye shield of the girl and went into her right eye, causing the rupturing of her eyeball and breaking her eyelid and maxilla.

On the same day, some pro-democracy protesters arrested in the area were sent to the notorious San Uk Ling Holding Center next to the border with China, where tortures and sexual assaults by the police would later be uncovered.

Image: Am730
Source: Hong Kong Free Press
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Hong Kong's First aider charged with rioting for possessing radio communication device in Anti-ELAB Protests

On December 28, 2020, the District Maginstrates in Hong Kong cleared six people of rioting charges during an #antiELAB protests in Causeway Bay on August 31, 2019, but convicted one man of rioting after noting that he had tried to run away from the police.

Handing down the not-guilty verdicts, judge Frankie Yiu said although the six defendants had been wearing similar outfits to the rioters at the scene, the prosecution had failed to prove their involvement beyond all reasonable doubt.

However, Chan Cho-ho, aged 24, was convicted of rioting and possessing radio communication devices without a licence. Yiu said Chan was equipped with full protest gear and had attempted to run away from the police, while his companion had also tried to attack officers as they fled.

According to thr judge, it was "unacceptable" of Chan to try to defend himself by saying he was at the scene of the riot as a first-aider. Chan was remanded in custody until sentencing next month.

Source: Stand News; RTHK #Dec28

https://www.thestandnews.com/court/8-31-%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%81%A3%E8%A1%9D%E7%AA%81-7%E4%BA%BA%E8%A2%AB%E6%8E%A7%E6%9A%B4%E5%8B%95-1%E4%BA%BA%E7%BD%AA%E6%88%90-6%E4%BA%BA%E7%BD%AA%E5%90%8D%E4%B8%8D%E6%88%90%E7%AB%8B/

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#CoronersInquest
Volunteer #FirstAider who attended in #AlexChow’s case criticises the police for being dishonest

Source: Cupid News #Jan9

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Volunteer #FirstAider who attended in #AlexChow’s case criticises the police for being dishonest

Carson Tsang Long-hin, spokesperson of the group #Ideologist, was the volunteer first aider who appeared at the Coroner’s Court as a citizen witness for Alex Chow’s case.

Tsang said he respected the jury’s decision that the cause of death was suspicious, and hoped Hong Kongers would allow time for the Chow’s family to reflect and digest the decision.

Tsang criticised the police for lying at the press conference following Chow’s death that they did not enter the parking lot when Chow fell. The police only admitted doing so when evidence that showed the opposite was found.

Tsang also questioned whether the police have done their best on the investigation as they claimed that no videotape showing Chow’s fall was found. The videotape was later found upon investigation by the Coroner and the Coroner officer.

Source: Cupid News #Jan9
https://www.facebook.com/117540932243292/posts/722022685128444/?d=n

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The Canadian Front | 20-year-old first aider arrested at PolyU, appreciating the true value of freedom upon return to Toronto

During November in 2019, Hongkongers stayed up late into the nights; before the defence of Chinese University could end, the “Siege of PolyU" had begun. The protesters did not rest after leaving CUHK and rushed to the walls of the red-bricked campus to support their fellows.

Among them was Logan, a 20-year-old volunteer first aider. Logan was arrested at PolyU, despite being devoted to saving lives. After being released on bail, he returned to his birthplace in Canada.

Continue Reading our full translated article:
https://telegra.ph/The-Canadian-Front--20-year-old-first-aider-arrested-at-PolyU-appreciating-the-true-value-of-freedom-upon-return-to-Toronto-01-17

Source：AppleDaily #Dec03
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#FirstHand #Feb19
HK Authorities Prosecute 12 People for Riotting in #PolyUSiege; Police Ticket and Arrest Pro-democracy Supporters

On Feb 19, 2021, the Hong Kong police arrested 12 people at midnight. The police accused them of "rioting" for their reported presence in the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU) during the police siege of the university in November 2019.

More than one year after, the 12 Hongkongers were the first ones to be prosecuted among the 200 arrests made in PolyU. They were mentioned in the Kowloon City Magistrates on the late afternoon of the same day. The court refused to grant bail for 11 of them, apart from one being a voluntary first aider. The group will be detained until the next hearing in March 2021.

At round 21:30, 22 citizens (7 men and 15 women) in support of the pro-democracy movement showed support for the arrestees outside of the court. The police ticketed and fined all of them for the violatiok of the 599G gathering ban. Among the supporters, the police arrested a man in his twenties, for finding an 'Octopus' travel card with a name different than his.

See photos:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/28679

The young man was taken away in the police car with the license number AM7057.

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#Court
High Court Judge Claims First Aiders "Encourage" Fighting, as First Aider Appeals 4-Year Rioting Sentence

In Hong Kong, the High Court has heard an appeal against the conviction of a 26-year-old man sentenced to four years for rioting in a 2019 #AntiELAB protest.

The man is one of 16 charged with rioting in Causeway Bay and Wan Chai on 31 August 2019, the fifth anniversary of the Chinese congress’ ’31 August decision’ to limit candidacy and representation in Hong Kong’s elections.

While six of the accused were acquitted, the man, who maintained that he was volunteering as a #FirstAider on the scene, was found guilty and handed a four-year sentence in 2021. He has now been incarcerated for over two years.

Citing the Lo Kin-man case, the appellate judge Derek Pang said on 28 July that a first aider can still be considered to have had a part in the riot.

“[Let’s say] you show up in a battle in a certain country’s military uniform. You have a red cross on your arm, and you’re a medic. Does that mean you’re not part of the frontline fighting? Isn’t that still a kind of support or encouragement?” Mr Pang said.

He added that helping someone of the same side in a riot to wash tear gas out their eyes is also a form of support. The appellant, he said, must have acted with the same purpose in mind as the rest of his camp.

“Why is it that you can’t possibly be one of the rioters if you’re a first aider? It’s not like you were with St John [Ambulance], is it?” Mr Pang said.

The prosecutor said it is for the court to decide if the appellant was a genuine first aider.

“A mere claim of having been a first aider [on the scene] doesn’t give one immunity,” she said.

Source: InMedia #Jul28
https://bit.ly/3S4TFTh

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