#FirstHand #Jun12 #PressConference #Video
#StudentPoliticism Calls On Citizens to Stay True to the Original Cause on Protest Anniversary
Video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30063
On June 11, 2021, the Hong Kong police arrested the convenor of the pro-democracy group #StudentPoliticism, #WongYatChin and the spokeperson #WongYuenLam. The police claimed that their plan to set up a street booth in Mongkok the next day was an "intent to incite or promote unauthorized assembly". The police also accused them of "inciting violence".
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30053
On June 12, 2021, the two pro-democracy youth were still detained by the police. Their fellow group members held a press meeting to reiterate their stance and express their determination.
The group clarified that in the past, when they mentioned the 2019 #AntiELAB movement, the use of force in protests was recounted as events but never promoted as a strategy. Their goal is to take part in civic education.
The group said the authorities has forced Hong Kong to enter an era of #WhiteTerror.
On June 12, the two year-mark of the first police-civilian clash in the 2019 pro-democracy movement, the group will not take any collective action, but every individual can speak up in defense of freedom and stay true to the original cause of the 2019 ptotests.
#HongKongProtests #Freedom
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Student Politicism Convenor Wong Yat-chin:
"No matter how many obstacles are there in front of us, we should continue to forge forward and stand by our beliefs"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30066
#StudentPoliticism Calls On Citizens to Stay True to the Original Cause on Protest Anniversary
Video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30063
On June 11, 2021, the Hong Kong police arrested the convenor of the pro-democracy group #StudentPoliticism, #WongYatChin and the spokeperson #WongYuenLam. The police claimed that their plan to set up a street booth in Mongkok the next day was an "intent to incite or promote unauthorized assembly". The police also accused them of "inciting violence".
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30053
On June 12, 2021, the two pro-democracy youth were still detained by the police. Their fellow group members held a press meeting to reiterate their stance and express their determination.
The group clarified that in the past, when they mentioned the 2019 #AntiELAB movement, the use of force in protests was recounted as events but never promoted as a strategy. Their goal is to take part in civic education.
The group said the authorities has forced Hong Kong to enter an era of #WhiteTerror.
On June 12, the two year-mark of the first police-civilian clash in the 2019 pro-democracy movement, the group will not take any collective action, but every individual can speak up in defense of freedom and stay true to the original cause of the 2019 ptotests.
#HongKongProtests #Freedom
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Student Politicism Convenor Wong Yat-chin:
"No matter how many obstacles are there in front of us, we should continue to forge forward and stand by our beliefs"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30066
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Hong Kong National Security Law has been implemented for a year. Until May 23, 2021, 77% of National Security Law defendants have already lost their freedom without a conviction.
#NationalSecurityLaw #Freedom #GoHKgraphics
#NationalSecurityLaw #Freedom #GoHKgraphics
Red lines must be drawn more clearly to reaffirm press freedom in Hong Kong
Life in Hong Kong under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law is not quite a year old. But it has reached a watershed with the national security raids on Apple Daily’s office and the arrests of its executives. The most frequently cited cornerstone of Hong Kong’s success is “the rule of law”.
Another value often coupled with it is “a free flow of information”. So fundamental is this to the city’s way of life that it is safeguarded in the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, with guarantees of freedom of speech, of the press and of publication.
Source: SCMP #Jun19
https://t.co/iIbjJs7KSp
#RedLine #Beijing #NationalSecurityLaw #Press #Freedom #HongKong
Life in Hong Kong under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law is not quite a year old. But it has reached a watershed with the national security raids on Apple Daily’s office and the arrests of its executives. The most frequently cited cornerstone of Hong Kong’s success is “the rule of law”.
Another value often coupled with it is “a free flow of information”. So fundamental is this to the city’s way of life that it is safeguarded in the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, with guarantees of freedom of speech, of the press and of publication.
Source: SCMP #Jun19
https://t.co/iIbjJs7KSp
#RedLine #Beijing #NationalSecurityLaw #Press #Freedom #HongKong
Hong Kong has lost so much thing in the previous month. The highlighted are the June 4th Assembly, Apple Daily, and the July 1st March.
#Freedom #FreedomofPress #FreedomofSpeech #AppleDaily #July1 #June4 #GoHKgraphics
#Freedom #FreedomofPress #FreedomofSpeech #AppleDaily #July1 #June4 #GoHKgraphics
DN Debatt. ”To the People’s Republic of China”
Four leading newspapers from the Nordic countries join in a protest against China’s violation of freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The protest follows the closure of the newspaper Apple Daily and is published on the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party.
It has been too much for a long time. Now, enough is enough. The world can no longer stand idly by as China gradually sucks the air out of freedom of the press in Hong Kong. Our hope that China would live up to its assurances and promises that basic democratic civil liberties would be defended and protected in Hong Kong has been dwindling lately, while our fear and disdain has been growing.
Source: DN SE #Jul01
https://www.dn.se/debatt/to-the-people-s-republic-of-china/
#PRC #Freedom #Press #Newspaper #AppleDaily
Four leading newspapers from the Nordic countries join in a protest against China’s violation of freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The protest follows the closure of the newspaper Apple Daily and is published on the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party.
It has been too much for a long time. Now, enough is enough. The world can no longer stand idly by as China gradually sucks the air out of freedom of the press in Hong Kong. Our hope that China would live up to its assurances and promises that basic democratic civil liberties would be defended and protected in Hong Kong has been dwindling lately, while our fear and disdain has been growing.
Source: DN SE #Jul01
https://www.dn.se/debatt/to-the-people-s-republic-of-china/
#PRC #Freedom #Press #Newspaper #AppleDaily
How Press Freedom Is Being Eroded in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s raucous and politically diverse news media, though free from the constraints placed on journalism next door in mainland China, has contended with various threats over the years. But after a draconian national security law went into effect a year ago, those challenges have multiplied dramatically.
The growing pressure on the media was underscored on Wednesday when Apple Daily, a pro-democracy tabloid that is often critical of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments, said it had no choice but to close. The newspaper, which had been one of the most widely read in Hong Kong, is the subject of a national security investigation that has also imprisoned its founder, Jimmy Lai.
Source: NY Times #Jun24
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/world/asia/hong-kong-press-freedom.amp.html
#Press #Freedom #HongKong #AppleDaily #JimmyLai #China
Hong Kong’s raucous and politically diverse news media, though free from the constraints placed on journalism next door in mainland China, has contended with various threats over the years. But after a draconian national security law went into effect a year ago, those challenges have multiplied dramatically.
The growing pressure on the media was underscored on Wednesday when Apple Daily, a pro-democracy tabloid that is often critical of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments, said it had no choice but to close. The newspaper, which had been one of the most widely read in Hong Kong, is the subject of a national security investigation that has also imprisoned its founder, Jimmy Lai.
Source: NY Times #Jun24
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/world/asia/hong-kong-press-freedom.amp.html
#Press #Freedom #HongKong #AppleDaily #JimmyLai #China
In a Muffled Hong Kong, Bookstores Offer Freedom of Thought
When Hong Kong public libraries pulled books about dissent from circulation last month, Pong Yat Ming made an offer to his customers: They could read some of the same books, free, at his store.
Mr. Pong, 47, founded the shop, Book Punch, in 2020, after Beijing imposed a national security law in response to the antigovernment protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019. The law broadly defined acts of subversion and secession against China, making much political speech potentially illegal, and it threatened severe punishment, including life imprisonment, for offenders.
Source: NY Times #Jun29
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstores-nsl.amp.html#click=https://t.co/hqZaQ5zmT2
#HongKong #Bookstore #Freedom
When Hong Kong public libraries pulled books about dissent from circulation last month, Pong Yat Ming made an offer to his customers: They could read some of the same books, free, at his store.
Mr. Pong, 47, founded the shop, Book Punch, in 2020, after Beijing imposed a national security law in response to the antigovernment protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019. The law broadly defined acts of subversion and secession against China, making much political speech potentially illegal, and it threatened severe punishment, including life imprisonment, for offenders.
Source: NY Times #Jun29
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstores-nsl.amp.html#click=https://t.co/hqZaQ5zmT2
#HongKong #Bookstore #Freedom
China links pose a threat to academic freedom in Britain
The writer is Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Cardiff University published a job advertisement last month with an unusual requirement: prospective applicants “must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin”. Perhaps not so unusual in a language school, but this was for the position of lecturer in music composition.
Britain’s universities have changed. Over the past decade, our higher education system has become increasingly reliant on China for a steady stream of students, research partnerships and funding.
Source: Financial Times #Jun20
https://t.co/tCXkY7Efac
#China #Academic #Freedom #Britain
The writer is Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Cardiff University published a job advertisement last month with an unusual requirement: prospective applicants “must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin”. Perhaps not so unusual in a language school, but this was for the position of lecturer in music composition.
Britain’s universities have changed. Over the past decade, our higher education system has become increasingly reliant on China for a steady stream of students, research partnerships and funding.
Source: Financial Times #Jun20
https://t.co/tCXkY7Efac
#China #Academic #Freedom #Britain
The break up with its student union reminds of changes of University of Hong Kong in 10 years
A lot can change in 10 years.
Ten years ago in 2011, I just became a student at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Like other students, we looked forward to the university life. We wanted to grow in knowledge and complete “the five things of university life”. To fully utilise the time in university to live another future might well be the hopes of many youngsters at the time.
Read our fully translated article here:
https://telegra.ph/The-break-up-with-its-student-union-reminds-of-changes-of-University-of-Hong-Kong-in-10-years-06-22
Source: Stand News #May02
#AlexChow #freedom #persevere #HKU #HKUSU
A lot can change in 10 years.
Ten years ago in 2011, I just became a student at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Like other students, we looked forward to the university life. We wanted to grow in knowledge and complete “the five things of university life”. To fully utilise the time in university to live another future might well be the hopes of many youngsters at the time.
Read our fully translated article here:
https://telegra.ph/The-break-up-with-its-student-union-reminds-of-changes-of-University-of-Hong-Kong-in-10-years-06-22
Source: Stand News #May02
#AlexChow #freedom #persevere #HKU #HKUSU
Honoring Jimmy Lai
The Committee to Protect Journalists was founded 40 years ago to fight for journalists who are “attacked, imprisoned or killed.” In this spirit, the CPJ on Monday announced it is honoring Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai with its 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Mr. Lai, the founder, owner and contributor to the Apple Daily newspaper, won’t be able to accept the award in person because he sits in prison in Hong Kong.
The CPJ honor comes after another police raid on the newsroom last week. Five Apple Daily execs were arrested, and two—editor-in-chief Ryan Law and chief executive officer Cheung Kim-hung—were charged under the new national security law and thus denied bail. The CPJ notes that Mr. Lai “fights for the right of his Apple News organization to publish freely, even as China and its backers in Hong Kong use every tool to quash them.”
Source: WSJ #Jun21
https://www.wsj.com/articles/honoring-jimmy-lai-11624248153
#JimmyLai #Journalist #Freedom #Award
The Committee to Protect Journalists was founded 40 years ago to fight for journalists who are “attacked, imprisoned or killed.” In this spirit, the CPJ on Monday announced it is honoring Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai with its 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Mr. Lai, the founder, owner and contributor to the Apple Daily newspaper, won’t be able to accept the award in person because he sits in prison in Hong Kong.
The CPJ honor comes after another police raid on the newsroom last week. Five Apple Daily execs were arrested, and two—editor-in-chief Ryan Law and chief executive officer Cheung Kim-hung—were charged under the new national security law and thus denied bail. The CPJ notes that Mr. Lai “fights for the right of his Apple News organization to publish freely, even as China and its backers in Hong Kong use every tool to quash them.”
Source: WSJ #Jun21
https://www.wsj.com/articles/honoring-jimmy-lai-11624248153
#JimmyLai #Journalist #Freedom #Award