#PoliceState #StateTerrorism #Court
Firefighter Charged with Illegal Assembly Remains in Custody in Hong Kong

During the police-civilian stand-off in one of the "shop with you" campaign Mongkok on 10 November 2019, a firefighter aged 33 and a banking employee aged 25 were arrested by the police. They were charged with assaulting the police, resisting arrest and possessing offensive weapons (including gas bomb). The two cases were mentioned in the court for the second time on 8 April, 2020.

The prosecution revised their terms of charges and added a count of illegal assembly. The prosecution requested the adjournment of hearing till 22 April and these two cases to be handled together with another case at the District Court.

For the moment, the firefighter and the banking employee are still in custody.

Source: InMedia #Apr8
#Fireman

#PoliceState
Corpse Discovery Cases Increased by 300 Cases Compared with the Previous Year

Since the start of the anti-extradition bill movement in June 2019, the Hong Kong Police have repeatedly classified body discovery cases as "not suspicious", raising the alarm of the public.

In response to the inquiry made by the Legislative Council's Finance Committee, the police revealed that although the number of missing persons reported last year was slightly lower than in 2018, the number of corpses discovered has increased.

Police said that there were 2,643 missing persons reported last year, which is about 400 fewer than the 3,046 cases in 2018, compared to 3,113 in 2017 and 3,519 in 2016.

However, the number of corpses discovered last year has increased. Among them, there were 8,148 "deaths before hospitalization, deaths during transport, and corpse discovery", an increase of more than 300 cases from 2018. There were also 713 cases of "falling from a height", an increase of about 40 cases compared to 2018.

The police also pointed out that the case may be reclassified after the investigation is completed, including as a suicide case. As for many Members who asked the police to provide the number of cases classified as "undoubted", the police only stated that the relevant sub-items were not kept.

Source: Apple Daily #Apr8
#Death

#Newspaper

U.S. Allows Google Internet Project to Advance Only if Hong Kong Is Cut Out

//U.S. officials granted Google permission to turn on a high-speed internet link to Taiwan but not to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, citing national-security concerns in a ruling that underscores fraying ties between Washington and Beijing.

//Chinese authorities have blocked U.S. companies like Facebook and Google from operating on the mainland, but the semiautonomous territory of Hong Kong has unfiltered access to the web and has served as a stopping-off point for global companies seeking connections to the region.

//But U.S. officials are souring on the territory as Beijing uses a heavier hand there. Hong Kongers have spent months resisting Beijing’s efforts to integrate the territory more closely with mainland China.

//Washington is turning to the self-ruling island of Taiwan

//U.S. officials are also considering alternatives.... “diversification of interconnection points in Asia, including but not limited to Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.”

//Major international data projects are subject to review by Team Telecom, a coalition of federal agencies with national-security oversight. The panel has taken a hard line against China in recent years.

Full Article: Wall Street Journal, (08-Apr)
https://on.wsj.com/34ohcWE

Further reading:
Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16998

#Google #Taiwan #US #HongKong

#OpinionArticle

Over Half Of Brazil's Coronavirus Cases Arrived From Italy - And That Is WHO's Fault

//The number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent if China had been transparent about the virus three weeks earlier - and if the World Health Organisation had not once again been willing dupes for dictators and believed what they said months ago.

//They believed director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus when he said he had "absolutely no doubt about China’s commitment to transparency” and have paid the price.

//Brazil has found itself with 14,000 cases that they know about and nowhere near the needed infrastructure to manage it.

//Brazilians researchers calculated how coronavirus arrived using genome sequencing of patients: 55 percent came from Italy while 9 percent came from China and 8 percent from France. All by March 5th, five weeks after the US imposed travel restrictions and a week before WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic.

//At the time I had thought perhaps WHO was being reasonable and not panicking but it turns out they were just as timid as they always are when it comes to demanding the truth from dictatorships.

Full Article: Science20, (09-Apr)
https://bit.ly/34oq5Q6

#WHO #Brazil #US #China #Coronavirus #Dictatorship

#DailyUpdate #Apr10 #COVID19

COVID-19 Updates (10/4)

At the time of writing, 1,623,187 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed with 97,237 deaths in 210 countries and territories worldwide. The US, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France continue to be the worst affected countries by this pandemic.

China reports 42 new cases and one new death.

There are 16 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong. 15 of them have travel record, and among them 8 persons are overseas students.

The State of New York has reported 161,807 cases of the virus making it the highest in the world.

Spain's cases and deaths are slowing down, but "not yet in de-escalation phase," health minister warns.

War-torn Yemen reports its first coronavirus case.

South Korea virus hotspot of Daegu sees no new cases.

US Defense secretary says another 300 military personnel will deploy to help NYC hospitals.

Tokyo announces tighter restrictions as the city confirms 189 new cases of the virus bring the total to 1708 citywide.

Singapore suspends the use of Zoom for online schooling after security concerns.

Singapore government to move foreign workers into alternative living arrangements.

Boris Johnson "just beginning his recovery" from coronavirus, he has left ICU.

Spain working on introducing a universal basic income.

France's flagship aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle has 50 confirmed coronavirus cases on board.

Hungary slows spread of coronavirus but "real test" has yet to come, says PM Orban.

Taiwan accuses China of impersonating its citizens after WHO chief criticizes the country's 'racist campaign'.

Malaysia extends nationwide movement restrictions until April 28.

Italian PM expected to extend lockdown into May.

Australia closes beaches amid coronavirus lockdown.

Chinese government reveals a draft list of animals that can be farmed for meat.

We don't know how effective homemade masks are, researchers warn.

Source: CNN, Worldometer, John Hopkins University

#Death
Man Falls From Building at Midnight, Police: No Suspicion

In the early morning of April 11, a man fell down from Hing Wo Court in Po Nga Estate in Tai Po. Paramedics arrived to perform resuscitation but the man was certified. Police cordoned the area and said there was nothing suspicious about the case. The police will proceed to look for the identity of the man and the cause of his fall.

Source: Oncc #Apr10

Corpse Discovery Cases Increased by 300 Cases Compared with the Previous Year
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19408

Body Found On the Street with no testament on Apr 8
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19380

#ProtestorStory

Be a Role Model of Perseverance – the Tears and Rewards of Yuen Long Lennon Wall comrades (Part 1)

“Good Evening all Yuen Long Fellows! Here’s the latest update on the Yuen Long Lennon Wall……” At Yuen Long station Exit G of the MTR West Rail line, a tall and muscular youngster stands at a corner of the transit terminus making his speech to anyone who would listen.

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/Be-a-Role-Model-of-Perseverance--Yuen-Long-Lennon-Wall-comrades-and-their-Tears-and-Rewards-Part-1-04-10

Source: InMedia HK

#LennonWall #YuenLong

#PoliceState #Triad
Police Ends Investigation on Fujian Triad Attack of RTHK Reporter and Arrests No One

On 11 Aug 2019, a RTHK English News reporter was assaulted by a man with baton, who allegedly belonged to the Fujian triad. The reporter was reporting on the attacks targeting pro-democracy protesters by the ‘Fujian triad’ in North Point, when he was beaten and left with bruises in his arm.

The reporter recently received a letter from the police, saying that the investigation was completed and no one was arrested.

When legislator Raymond Chan inquired the incident in the Legislative Council, Christopher Cheung from a pro-Beijing party called BPA, was displeased, criticizing Chan for being "racist" for saying “Fujian triad”.

In his reply, police chief Chris Tang only pointed out that each case is investigated based on evidence, and he would not comment on individual cases.

Source: Apple News; Stand News #Apr9
#Fujian

#PoliceState
Police Video-Tape and Demand Female Passenger to Take Dress Off, Victim was Asked to Pay 50-100 thousands for “Pixelation Fee”

In recent years, the Police Force has purchased thousands of body-worn and hand-held cameras for frontline officers to record the law enforcement process. Last year during AntiELAB protests, they were also a “great tool” in collecting evidence.

On #Oct6 last year, the second day after the Anti-mask law was in effect, large scale protests took place in multiple districts. The police started searching bus passengers since the evening to arrest the fugitives. Ms. Chan, who was on her way home, was requested by the police to alight for a search. She stated that a female police officer conducted a full-body search on her without reasonable doubt and evidence. She was demanded to take off her white one-piece dress and be video-taped with only her black underwear on, in front of the public and a group of male officers. On the next day, she filed a complaint to the Complaint Against Police Office, but waited for 6 months for a reply.

According to the news report by RTHK, Ms. Chan applied to retrieve the video involving her personal data by citing the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, but the police rejected her application by saying that the video contained information of others. Chan told the Deputy Inspector that she could accept a “pixelated” version of the video, but was in return demanded to subsidise the Police Force to purchase needed computer softwares. “They said the whole Police Force had no software that could perform pixelating function, and I have to pay for all cost of software purchase.” She questioned why the Police could release pixelated videos on their Facebook page, and the Inspector explained those videos were handled by officers’ personal computers. Later, the police verbally notified Ms. Chan, that the installation of related softwares costed 20-30 thousand dollars, but she also needed to pay for wages of the officers who handled the pixelating procedures, so the total cost would be from 50-100 thousands.

Ms. Chan then demanded the police to list out the items of payment in black and white, and to provide a quotation of the software. However, there had been no response from the police who, a month later, denied Chan’s application claiming that the video involved inspection of criminal activities. “(The Police) rejected my request each time with different reasons, which obviously were not the true ones. They hold me responsible for purchasing software and officers’ working hours. It doesn’t make any sense. They have their salary.”

Source: Apple Daily #Apr10
#PoliceBrutality #SexualHarassment #SexualAssualt #HongKongPolice
#MeToo

#PoliceBrutality #PoliceState
Detainee assaulted at the police station now suffers from depression

At 9 pm, 31 March 2020, Hung encountered a squad of riot police near Prince Edward Station. While the police were dispersing dozens of onlookers towards Lai Chi Kok Road, Hung followed the direction of the crowd. Not long, more riot police all of a sudden showed up and closed in on the crowd Hung was in. “The police were insane. Out of the blue they jumped out of their vehicles, rushed towards us, pushed us around with force. It was chaotic.”

https://telegra.ph/Detainee-assaulted-at-the-police-station-now-suffers-from-depression-04-10

#ArrestedProtester #Depression

#PoliticalRetribution #Strike #CultturalRevolution
Pro-Bejing Lawmaker urges retribution for striking doctors and nurses, CE Carrie Lam Refuses to Say No

Shorter version:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19418

The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council held special meetings for four consecutive days to discuss the "Budget" and the government's fiscal expenditure for the next year. At the meeting on 8 Mar 2020, Regina Ip, a former security chief who now heads the pro-Beijing New People's Party, proposed to settle accounts with the strikers: She advised the Hospital Authority (HA) not to issue specialist qualifications to doctors who had participated in the strike.

The remarks drew the ire of pro democracy legislators, who criticized Ip for using "Cultural Revolution-style denunciation" by advocating retribution and smearing of medical staff. They emphasized that the medical workers’ strike was called to request for a comprehensive border closure so as to avoid a collapse of the medical system.

On the same day, Carrie Lam announced relief measures including the waiver of licence and registration fees for medical workers for three years. A reporter pointed out that medical workers are not asking for a waiver of registration fees. Rather, they are asking for a stable and viable medical system in Hong Kong; and also the assurance that they will not be reprimanded for participating in the strikes. Lam responded saying that these are issues to be resolved by the Hospital Authority and medical staff, and that the government cannot get involved. Carrie Lam refuses to promise that retribution would not be sought.

Source: InMedia #Apr8
https://bit.ly/3c1bHzN
https://bit.ly/2yGT1Hf

#ReginaIp

Read more about Cultural revolution-style Political Suppression in China:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19373

Namewee, Malaysian singer tells us why the name "Wuhan virus" should be used

Namewee, a popular singer in South East Asia, said in a video that many diseases are named after the place where the outbreak occurred. For example, Ebola is the name of a river in Africa. Other famous examples are Hong Kong feet, German measles, and Japanese encephalitis. This way of naming has been a tradition in the medical world. The purpose is to allow us to commemorate the place where the plague broke out, to reflect, and to draw lessons from history. There is no discrimination at all.

Namewee also emphasized that he respects the Chinese government's calling Wuhan virus as Coronavirus, and people who go to China have to abide by Chinese regulations, the same as one must abide by any other countries' regulations when he is there.

Having said that, Namewee argued that given Malaysia is not ruled by the Beijing government, why should they do things according to what Chinese government stipulates?

#Wuhanvirus #Malaysia #NameOfVirus #Namewee #CoronaVirusOutbreak

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCnJNHNGMRk

Further reading:
Apologize for saying the term “Wuhan Pneumonia”
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19397

#Newspaper
Renaming German cockroaches as it may be discrimination?

Did you know?

Germany has a agency specializing in handling verbal racism. Its mission is to look into wordings that might contain discrimination in terms of race or sex, and suggest amendments. According to the latest report from this agency, “German cockroaches” should be renamed as “South Pole cockroaches” in order not to offend any Germans, even though there are no cockroaches in South Pole.

Source: German Institute Taipei Facebook

#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

Darwinism in the Pandemic

//And Europe, including Switzerland, crammed full of elites, is a complete mess under this pandemic.
 
//Wuhan Pneumonia is a major reshuffle of global intelligence. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are ranked the top four respectively in terms of community response. The people from those areas did not have any convoluted arguments. They just acted quickly to protect themselves once they encountered the virus.
 
//Taiwan is not part of the WHO, or in other words, the Triad [organised crime syndicate]. The Taiwanese people, including President Tsai Ing-wen, knew from the beginning that the African Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was a liar.
 
//It became the world's most learned in the specialisation of tropical diseases. Hong Kong should have been the worst affected after the Handover. However, Hongkongers experienced over 20 years of political resistance. From the protests against Article 23 to the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-ELAB Movement, Hongkongers continually underwent rebirth in the wake of war and trauma, making them highly sensitive to distress.
 
//In terms of confronting the virus, the quality of awareness and response within the communities of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan is better than any European country. This is a completely new phenomenon.

Full Translation:
https://telegra.ph/Darwinism-in-the-Pandemic-04-10

Source: Apple Daily

#Taiwan #Korea #Japan #Epidemic #Italy #WHO #Tedros #SelfHelp #Darwin

Work from home during the Pandemic in South Korea

Robert Kelly is an American political science professor at Pusan National University. His most interesting achievement is not an impressive professor but his interview that went viral which was interrupted by his adorable family on BBC World News in 2017. This video captured hearts all over the world and make many netizens to understand how difficult it is to work from home, especially with young kids. Espacilly now, most employees are working from home due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the community.

Robert Kelly and his family have been interviewed by BBC World News online recently to discuss the daily lives in Busan with kids and the situation of working from home at the moment. Also, Robert pointed out the importance of understanding pandemic could lead to better anti-epidemic measurements.

As they are staying in Busan, South Korea, where the Government has been taken prevention action for the coronavirus outbreak since Janurary. Jung-a Kim, wife of Robert, mentioned that it was hard to stay home with kids for such a long period of time. Luckily, they could bring kids to countryside which is away from crowded and enjoy the natural environment.

As an employee, Robert agreed that working from home is a transformation of way to work and it is a tough time for employees with kids. He works about two hours a day because kids are always grabbing attention from their parents, which make parents cannot focus on their own work. It is getting better that they can bring kids out to use up some of their energy recently, but not at the three weeks time when the Government lockdown some of the cities. It is definitely a challenge for parents who have to work from home.

Besides, the South Korea Government adopts measures to prevent community outbreak which a lot of westerners would see as extreme, such as the Government can track everyone’s movement. Yet, Robert claimed that is a successful policy to control the number of risky carrier of virus, Moreover, South Korean are self-disciplined to keep distance in public rather than get involved in crowded places like American. Therefore, the cases have dropped sharply in South Korea like only hundreds of that recently.

Moreover, Robert agrees with the understanding of pandemic could affect how countries treat coronavirus. He thinks South Korea could respond to COVID-19 shortly because they have experienced MERS and SARS before. Many scenarios that the Government and citizens are expected to be happened again and they are alert with personal hygiene once COVID-19 occurred there. On the other hand, there are some infrastructures and anti-pandemic equipment left over from previous epidemic outbreak which could help in testing or control the infection of COVID-19. As a result, South Korea is able to slow down the rate of infection though there are still rising number of cases.

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Watch
https://youtu.be/5IuK-4rALSU

#Korea #WorkFromHome #Coronavirus

#WuhanPneumonia #CoronavirusPandemic
Swedish Former Representative to European Parliament: China Should Apologize to the World for Coronavirus

In an opinion article published by a Swedish newspaper on 19
March, 2020, Gunnar Hökmark, Chairman of Stockholm Free World Forum and Former member of the European parliament, asks the Chinese Communist Party government and its leader to apologize to the world for withholding information of the coronavirus and "using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism".

From China's imprisonment of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai (bookseller in Hong Kong) to Chinese tourists' behaviour, Hökmark wrote that:

"The aggressive Chinese attacks on Sweden for our handling of the Coronavirus should be seen against the fact that the Chinese Communist Party wants to escape all kind of responsibility for the spread of the epidemic. 

Lousy animal husbandry and poor food standards, along with fear of the dictatorship and its culture of silence, are the main reasons why the world is presently wrestling with a terrible global pandemic. Its background lies in the inability of a totalitarian system to take people's perceptions, security and life into account. It is not Sweden or Europe that is the problem in all this. It's China.

And it is China that, using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism.

On Radio Sweden, the Chinese propaganda attack was incomprehensibly described as something very sharp and because of that worth listening to. They neglected that this is how the Communist regime for a long time has acted against Sweden, among other democracies.

We saw the same pattern of denials and false accusations when Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane and when Russian air defense units in Ukraine shot down the airplane MH17."

Source: Expressen, (19-Mar)
https://www.expressen.se/debatt/china-should-apologize-to-the-world-for-corona/

Independent Journalist Condemns China’s misinformation and manipulation of data, calling the pandemic a “Jin-ping Coronavirus”
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19336

#Sweden #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #SharpPower #Censorship