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Screams and Pepper Spray in Ladies' Washroom: Male Police Enters and Arrests Citizens

0035 | Sai Yee Street Public Toilet, #MongKok
A group of male police officers were seen entering the ladies' washroom. Soon, cries from woman and pepper spray were heard emanating from the toilet. Women inside cried "Don't!" for several times.

Later, the ladies inside were seen escorted by police with hands tied at the back.

Source: PSHK #May11
#PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #FemaleToilet
#HumanitarianCrisis
Reporter Choked for 20 Seconds by Police, Entered Shock and Requires Hospitalization

One female reporters from Apple Daily was subdued by force and choked heavily on the neck for 20 seconds by the police while filming at the junction of Shantung Street and Fa Yuen Street. She was once under shock, and had to be sent to Kwong Wah Hospital by an ambulance while wearing a neck band.

Source: Stand News #May11
#PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #AppleDaily
#HumanitarianCrisis
Police Storm in Female Public Toilet and Remove Civilians from Leisure Park

01:55 | Mongkok
The police conducted a series of flanking operations in Mongkok, even entering the female public toilet in Sai Yee Street Park.

Read more: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20548

Reporters asked two homeless persons around the public toilet if they witnessed what the police did at the female public toilet. They said they heard multiple screams and exclamations of pain.

During the time, the police also swept the elderly and minorities away from the park.

Source: PPPNews; USP #May11
#SexualViolence #MothersDay #SexualAssault #HongKongPolice
#HumanitarianCrisis
Knocking Sound and Blood Stained Tissue: Police Violence in Female Public Toilet

0138 | Garden Street, Mongkok
Acording to PSHK reporter, an ambulances where 2 riot police rode on stopped outside the female public toilet.

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The public female toilet has been reopened, but police officers still guarded the outside. However, knocking sounds from the toilet persist.

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Reporters entered the female toilet and discovered massive amount of tissue filled with fresh red blood stain in the trash can in the 12th cubicle.

From the spotted blood, the tissues were believed to have been used to apply pressure on wounds. The amount of blood was estimated to be substantial in view of the large amount of blood-stained tissue.

Source: PSHK; Cohesion Media #May11 #MothersDay #PublicToilet #Blood

Police Storm in Female Public Toilet and Remove Civilians from Park
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20551
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Male Police Arrest At Least One Wounded Reporter at Female Public Toilers

According to a web media Ben Yu Entertainment, their female reporter went to the public toilet located in Sai Yee Street Park and lost contact afterwards.

The media group later learnt that male riot police had entered and cordoned off the public female toilets to prevent other press from filming. Paramedics later brought away one injured woman onto an ambulance.

At the hospital, the reporter from Ben Yu Entertainment was handcuffed and had an obvious wound in her head. She has been arrested by the police.

Source: Ben Yu Entertainment #May11
Image: Cupid News
#PublicToilets

Knocking Sound and Blood Stained Tissue: Police Violence in Female Public Toilet
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20554
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Press Freedom in HK at Record Low

Footage of last night's protest in #MongKok shows the police ordering journalists to kneel down as they were detained, forcing reporters to stop filming and hurling intimidating remarks, asking reporters who were crying out of fear to “cry louder”, sarcastically.

The police also ordered reporters to read out their ID numbers, full names and company in front of cameras. Some reporters and cameramen were pepper sprayed, they were then forced to not clean the stinging chemicals off by the very police officers who deployed it on them.

It has been a common occurrence for reporters to be arrested and taken away to police stations.

Other than getting arrested, reporters run an extremely high risk of getting intentionally hurt by police officers too. Veby, an Indonesia reporter, lost her right eye after being hit by a rubber bullet by the police.

Hong Kong Journalists Association expressed their displeasure at polices' insults yesterday (10 May). The Association also conducted a survey, showing that both the public and journalists think that the city’s press freedom has deteriorated to a record low, mainly due to “threatened personal safety of reporters when covering news” and “difficulties encountered when gathering information”. In fact, two-thirds of the interviewed journalists said that they had been treated violently by police or groups of people with “obvious political stands”.

Source: Ming Pao; Now News; RTHK News; Cable News
#May11 #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #HKPress #Veby
#DailyUpdate #May11 #COVID19

COVID-19 Updates (May 11th)

At the time of writing, 4,218,049 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed with 284,748 deaths. 1,506,743 have recovered.

Hong Kong has no new cases today. It has been 22 days since the last local case.

2.83 million Hong Kong residents have registered for the “Cumask”, the mask would start be distributed from today onwards.

Alfred Sit, Hong Kong Secretary for Innovation and Technology, refuses to disclose the vendor of raw materials due to worry about supplies.

Doctors found out that COVID-19 symptoms can present from head to toes.

Singapore labs have mistakenly treated 33 negative tests as positive.

In Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen’s inauguration on 20 May would center on “anti-epidemic”. There would be no celebration ceremony or banquets.

China has reported 10 local cases, with 5 of them located in Wuhan, the origin of the virus. It has been a month since last coronavirus case was reported in Wuhan. A local official in Wuhan was immediately fired due to mismanagement.

The Shanghai Disneyland Park has reopened.

35 new cases reported in South Korea, mostly from a nightclub infection group. 3 soldiers also contracted the virus.

With bounce back in Wuhan and South Korea, experts worry whether anti-epidemic measures should be loosen.

A press secretary of American Vice President Mike Pence has contracted the virus. However Pence would not self-isolate.

Staff members in elderly homes in state of New York are required to undergo virus inspection once in 2 weeks.

WHO director Tedros denied the say that he delayed the announcement of the virus’ ability to transmit among human and pandemic due to pressure from Chinese chairman Xi Jinping.

Entrants to the United Kingdom, except those from France, are required to self-quarantine.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced reopening the society conditionally and in stages. However regions outside England declared they may not follow the instructions.

With multiple countries in Europe have decreasing new death numbers per day, control measures are lightened.

Source: Now News, Worldometer, Apple Daily
#PoliceState #MassArrest
Hong Kong Police Randomly Arrest Over 200 Young People on Mother's Day, Families Wait Outside Police Station Overnight

Among the 230 people arrested by the Hong Kong police on May 10, most of them are in their teens; however, police had never disclosed the cause of the arrest.

Between 10 and 11 May, over 50 people waited overnight outside the Hung Hom Police Station, hoping to get news of their family members. A mother of a 14-year-old said her son was still getting his fingerprints recorded and the police said he would not be released shortly.

At 10:30 on May 11, some arrestees walked out of the station and said they were charged with "illegal assembly".

In the morning of May 11, a middle-aged woman prayed outside the station for the sake of the arrestees. According to sources, she had also prayed for 22-year-old Chow Tsz-lok outside the ICU of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in November 2019.

Source: Apple Daily #May11
#Mothersday #Pray #Family

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Legislative Councilor Roy Kwong: Never get numbed by Injustice

On Mother's Day, police arrested at least 230 people in Hong Kong. Among them was Roy Kwong Chun-yu, a pro-democracy legislator, who was violently pushed onto the ground with the riot police's knee pressing against his head.

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Police later claimed that Kwong had thrown a water bottle in the direction of an officer and was arrested for "public misconduct". Kwong was admitted to the hospital.

Kwong reiterated that he was monitoring police operations on the frontline and buffered the conflict between the police and the public. In a video filmed by Undergrad from HKU Student Union, Kwong in white was holding a loud speaker with his two hands, making it quite impossible to throw a water bottle.

Although Kwong was released unconditionally on May 11, the lawmaker reminded Hongkongers not to get numbed by injustice: "we have our rights to the street".

Source: Stand News; Inmedia; Undergrad #May11
#RoyKwong #MothersDay
#RuleofLaw #LegCo #Assault
Police Ignore Assault Case, Pro-democracy lawmaker: "Does the rule of law only serve Beijing loyalists?"

Pro-democracy lawmaker Ray Chan of People Power was pulled and dragged along the floor by Beijing loyalist Kwok Wai-keung of Federation of Trade Unions, during the Legislative Council's House Committee meeting on May 8. The clash has caused Chan's spinal disk to slip.

On May 11, Chan made a report to the police at the Police Headquarters. Chan condemned the police for taking no action, despite that the assault has been filmed and broadcast in the news. Chan said the police called him, but only to tell him "not to have more than 8 people [the gather ban]".

Chan plans to launch a private prosecution against Kwok, but has to crowdfund HK$1 million. Chan expressed his utmost disappoinment at the police and Department of Justice: "Is the rule of law only serving the Beijing loyalists?"

Source: InMedia; RTHK #May11
#RayChan

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