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Benedict Rogers calls for urgent internationally coordinated rescue programme for HK pro-democracy protesters
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily #Oct29
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Benedict Rogers calls for urgent internationally coordinated rescue programme for HK pro-democracy protesters
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Benedict Rogers calls for urgent internationally coordinated rescue programme for HK pro-democracy protesters
On his way to seek asylum at the United States Consulate in Hong Kong, former Convener of Student Localism Tony Chung Hon-lam, aged 19, was arrested by Hong Kong Police on October 27, 2020. He was charged with one count of secession, two counts of dealing with money laundering and one count of conspiracy to publish inflammatory publications.
The incident came just two days after a global movement of solidarity calling on China to release the 12 pro-democracy Hongkongers who have been jailed in China since August without any trial and without being represented by lawyers appointed by their family.
Benedict Rogers, a human rights activist from Hong Kong Watch, wrote in an opinion article:
“As I said in my speech last Saturday, we must keep campaigning for the release of the 12 – and at least, in the meantime, for them to have access to lawyers of their choice, medical care and family contact. It is outrageous that the lawyers chosen by the families of the 12 were earlier this week ordered by the Chinese authorities to drop the case. That brought home once again to us all what we of course have always known: in mainland China there’s no rule of law whatsoever – it’s rule by law, and the law can mean whatever the Chinese Communist Party regime wants it to mean.
The plight of the 12 – and now of Tony Chung and his colleagues – is not only about them. It is about all of us. If they are left to their fate and the world moves on, if they are allowed to languish in jail unheard and unknown, then no one – absolutely no one – is safe.
If the 12 are forgotten, if Tony Chung is allowed to disappear, the CCP won’t stop there. Our own freedoms around the world will increasingly be in the firing line. So it’s not only morally right, it’s not only compassionate, but it is in the interests of every freedom-loving person everywhere in the world to defend the 12, to speak up for Tony and his friends, to ensure they’re not forgotten. Don’t let Tony, his friends or any of us become the 13th.
That’s why an international lifeboat rescue programme is so urgently needed. Instead of activists risking their lives fleeing on speedboats or rushing into the consulates, let the free world open its doors in a clear, co-ordinated way."
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily #Oct29
https://hk.appledaily.com/opinion/20201030/47PUA2NCUFG7DBMP2WJHTAGIYE/
#NationalSecurityLaw #TonyChung #StudentLocalism #Save12HKYouths #HKLivesMatter
Benedict Rogers calls for urgent internationally coordinated rescue programme for HK pro-democracy protesters
On his way to seek asylum at the United States Consulate in Hong Kong, former Convener of Student Localism Tony Chung Hon-lam, aged 19, was arrested by Hong Kong Police on October 27, 2020. He was charged with one count of secession, two counts of dealing with money laundering and one count of conspiracy to publish inflammatory publications.
The incident came just two days after a global movement of solidarity calling on China to release the 12 pro-democracy Hongkongers who have been jailed in China since August without any trial and without being represented by lawyers appointed by their family.
Benedict Rogers, a human rights activist from Hong Kong Watch, wrote in an opinion article:
“As I said in my speech last Saturday, we must keep campaigning for the release of the 12 – and at least, in the meantime, for them to have access to lawyers of their choice, medical care and family contact. It is outrageous that the lawyers chosen by the families of the 12 were earlier this week ordered by the Chinese authorities to drop the case. That brought home once again to us all what we of course have always known: in mainland China there’s no rule of law whatsoever – it’s rule by law, and the law can mean whatever the Chinese Communist Party regime wants it to mean.
The plight of the 12 – and now of Tony Chung and his colleagues – is not only about them. It is about all of us. If they are left to their fate and the world moves on, if they are allowed to languish in jail unheard and unknown, then no one – absolutely no one – is safe.
If the 12 are forgotten, if Tony Chung is allowed to disappear, the CCP won’t stop there. Our own freedoms around the world will increasingly be in the firing line. So it’s not only morally right, it’s not only compassionate, but it is in the interests of every freedom-loving person everywhere in the world to defend the 12, to speak up for Tony and his friends, to ensure they’re not forgotten. Don’t let Tony, his friends or any of us become the 13th.
That’s why an international lifeboat rescue programme is so urgently needed. Instead of activists risking their lives fleeing on speedboats or rushing into the consulates, let the free world open its doors in a clear, co-ordinated way."
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily #Oct29
https://hk.appledaily.com/opinion/20201030/47PUA2NCUFG7DBMP2WJHTAGIYE/
#NationalSecurityLaw #TonyChung #StudentLocalism #Save12HKYouths #HKLivesMatter
#Education #CCPControl
Newly appointed HKU Vice-president vowed to defend PRC's national diginity following Chairman Xi's doctrine
On October 27, 2020, the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) appointed two Chinese cholars, Max Shen and Peng Gong as Vice Presidents.
According to Hong Kong Citizens News, Peng Gong is currently Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Tsinghua University in China.
Peng said in a seminar organised by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) and Zhongyangshe Huizhuyi College that, “as a new generation of scholars, we have to defend national dignity, not only in words but action.”
Source: Stand News #Oct29
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%80%99%E4%BB%BB%E6%B8%AF%E5%A4%A7%E5%89%AF%E6%A0%A1%E5%AE%AE%E9%B5%AC%E6%9B%BE%E5%8F%83%E5%8A%A0%E7%B5%B1%E6%88%B0%E9%83%A8%E7%90%86%E8%AB%96%E7%8F%AD-%E5%AD%B8%E7%BF%92%E7%BF%92%E8%BF%91%E5%B9%B3%E7%B2%BE%E7%A5%9E-%E7%A8%B1-%E5%85%A8%E9%9D%A2%E6%8D%8D%E8%A1%9B%E5%9C%8B%E5%AE%B6%E5%B0%8A%E5%9A%B4/
Newly appointed HKU Vice-president vowed to defend PRC's national diginity following Chairman Xi's doctrine
On October 27, 2020, the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) appointed two Chinese cholars, Max Shen and Peng Gong as Vice Presidents.
According to Hong Kong Citizens News, Peng Gong is currently Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Tsinghua University in China.
Peng said in a seminar organised by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) and Zhongyangshe Huizhuyi College that, “as a new generation of scholars, we have to defend national dignity, not only in words but action.”
Source: Stand News #Oct29
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%80%99%E4%BB%BB%E6%B8%AF%E5%A4%A7%E5%89%AF%E6%A0%A1%E5%AE%AE%E9%B5%AC%E6%9B%BE%E5%8F%83%E5%8A%A0%E7%B5%B1%E6%88%B0%E9%83%A8%E7%90%86%E8%AB%96%E7%8F%AD-%E5%AD%B8%E7%BF%92%E7%BF%92%E8%BF%91%E5%B9%B3%E7%B2%BE%E7%A5%9E-%E7%A8%B1-%E5%85%A8%E9%9D%A2%E6%8D%8D%E8%A1%9B%E5%9C%8B%E5%AE%B6%E5%B0%8A%E5%9A%B4/
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China-owned #Dahua Sees Human Rights Sanction as Proof of Technology
On October 15, less than a week after the US sanctioned Dahua and #Hikvision for human rights abuses, Dahua VP Zhu Jiangming told the PRC's National Business Daily:
"The fact that we are under the US control list shows that we indeed have a strong technological capability."
Zhu is executive VP of Dahua, a co-founder of the firm and the executive director of Leap Motor, a PRC electric car startup founded and run by Dahua executives.
Dahua has by far the largest documented presence of any surveillance provider in Xinjiang, having directly won almost $1 billion of surveillance projects with authorities there - significantly higher than Hikvision's ~$300m.
All these massive projects began as the PRC government began building up a "total surveillance state" in the region while detaining one million minorities in re-education camps.
Source: IPVM #Oct29
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https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction
China-owned #Dahua Sees Human Rights Sanction as Proof of Technology
On October 15, less than a week after the US sanctioned Dahua and #Hikvision for human rights abuses, Dahua VP Zhu Jiangming told the PRC's National Business Daily:
"The fact that we are under the US control list shows that we indeed have a strong technological capability."
Zhu is executive VP of Dahua, a co-founder of the firm and the executive director of Leap Motor, a PRC electric car startup founded and run by Dahua executives.
Dahua has by far the largest documented presence of any surveillance provider in Xinjiang, having directly won almost $1 billion of surveillance projects with authorities there - significantly higher than Hikvision's ~$300m.
All these massive projects began as the PRC government began building up a "total surveillance state" in the region while detaining one million minorities in re-education camps.
Source: IPVM #Oct29
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https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction
8 Chinese agents were charged by the United States for coercing dissidents to return to the mainland.
Source: Stand News #Oct29
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8 Chinese agents were charged by the United States for coercing dissidents to return to the mainland.
The US Justice Department announced today (29th October) that 8 Chinese agents, including 7 Chinese and 1 non-Chinese, were charged with conspiring to work on China’s behalf to find Chinese dissidents in the US, and use threats, harassment, surveillance, and intimidation to force them returning to China. 5 of them were under arrested and 3 others are still remain at large.
An online press conference by the US Justice Department was held on Wednesday morning in local time, disclosing the details of this operation. All eight defendants are charged with conspiring to act as illegal agents for a foreign government. Among these 8 persons 5 has been arrested, but still 3 of them are on the loose and believed to be in China now.
John Demers, Assistant Secretary for National Security Affairs of the US Department of Justice, stated that those defendants are Chinese agents, they carried out the so-called "Operation Fox Hunt" in the US, those goal was to target Chinese nationals living in foreign countries and intimidate them into returning to China for imprisonment or worse. The US Department of Justice described the "Operation Fox Hunt" to be a part of Chinese government’s global campaign and is illegal.
Acting U.S. Attorney Seth D. DuCharme stated that the defendants assisted PRC officials in a scheme to coerce targeted individuals to return to the PRC against their will. "The United States will not tolerate the conduct of PRC carrying out state-authorized actions on U.S. soil without notice to, and coordination with, the appropriate U.S. authorities. Nor will we tolerate the unlawful harassment and stalking of U.S. residents to further PRC objectives", he said.
Source: Stand News #Oct29
#China #OperationFoxHunt #US #USJusticeDepartment #JohnDemers #SethDDuCharme
The US Justice Department announced today (29th October) that 8 Chinese agents, including 7 Chinese and 1 non-Chinese, were charged with conspiring to work on China’s behalf to find Chinese dissidents in the US, and use threats, harassment, surveillance, and intimidation to force them returning to China. 5 of them were under arrested and 3 others are still remain at large.
An online press conference by the US Justice Department was held on Wednesday morning in local time, disclosing the details of this operation. All eight defendants are charged with conspiring to act as illegal agents for a foreign government. Among these 8 persons 5 has been arrested, but still 3 of them are on the loose and believed to be in China now.
John Demers, Assistant Secretary for National Security Affairs of the US Department of Justice, stated that those defendants are Chinese agents, they carried out the so-called "Operation Fox Hunt" in the US, those goal was to target Chinese nationals living in foreign countries and intimidate them into returning to China for imprisonment or worse. The US Department of Justice described the "Operation Fox Hunt" to be a part of Chinese government’s global campaign and is illegal.
Acting U.S. Attorney Seth D. DuCharme stated that the defendants assisted PRC officials in a scheme to coerce targeted individuals to return to the PRC against their will. "The United States will not tolerate the conduct of PRC carrying out state-authorized actions on U.S. soil without notice to, and coordination with, the appropriate U.S. authorities. Nor will we tolerate the unlawful harassment and stalking of U.S. residents to further PRC objectives", he said.
Source: Stand News #Oct29
#China #OperationFoxHunt #US #USJusticeDepartment #JohnDemers #SethDDuCharme
China to impose sanctions on US firms for weapons sale to Taiwan, including Lockheed Martin and Boeing
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China to impose sanctions on US firms for weapons sale to Taiwan, including Lockheed Martin and Boeing
US indicated that the State Council has already approved the sales of three weapons systems that worth 18 billion USD to Taiwan on last Wednesday (21st October). The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced countermeasures today (26th October) against US companies that sell weapons to Taiwan, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon.
Lijian Zhao, the spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a regular press conference today, that to safeguard national interests, China has decided to take necessary measures to impose sanctions on American companies involved in arms sales to Taiwan, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defence and Raytheon, as well as American individuals and entities that “play a egregious role” in arms sales to Taiwan.
The US government announced the sale of weapons which worth 18 billion USD to Taiwan, including HIMARS rocket launcher system, SLAM-ER extended-range air-to-surface missile, F-16 jet external sensor pods.
The spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of National Defense, Tan Kefei, said earlier that the China firmly oppose the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, claiming it as a serious violation of the one-China principle and the three joint communiqués between U.S. and China, a serious interference in China’s internal affairs, undermining China’s sovereignty and security interest, and seriously undermining the relations between the two militaries and the peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Source from: Stand News #Oct29
#China #UnitedStates #Taiwan #LockheedMartin #BoeingDefence #Raytheon #Sanctions
US indicated that the State Council has already approved the sales of three weapons systems that worth 18 billion USD to Taiwan on last Wednesday (21st October). The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced countermeasures today (26th October) against US companies that sell weapons to Taiwan, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon.
Lijian Zhao, the spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a regular press conference today, that to safeguard national interests, China has decided to take necessary measures to impose sanctions on American companies involved in arms sales to Taiwan, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defence and Raytheon, as well as American individuals and entities that “play a egregious role” in arms sales to Taiwan.
The US government announced the sale of weapons which worth 18 billion USD to Taiwan, including HIMARS rocket launcher system, SLAM-ER extended-range air-to-surface missile, F-16 jet external sensor pods.
The spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of National Defense, Tan Kefei, said earlier that the China firmly oppose the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, claiming it as a serious violation of the one-China principle and the three joint communiqués between U.S. and China, a serious interference in China’s internal affairs, undermining China’s sovereignty and security interest, and seriously undermining the relations between the two militaries and the peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Source from: Stand News #Oct29
#China #UnitedStates #Taiwan #LockheedMartin #BoeingDefence #Raytheon #Sanctions
Chinese Agents Sued for Pursuing Dissidents in US, Beijing Mouthpiece Defends Hunt as Lawful Effort Against Corruption
Source: Stand News #Oct29
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Chinese Agents Sued for Pursuing Dissidents in US, Beijing Mouthpiece Defends Hunt as Lawful Effort Against Corruption
Eight individuals, including seven people of Chinese origin, were charged by the US Department of Justice on 28 October with pursuing and forcing the return of Chinese dissidents in America in an effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt.” According to the US authorities, the defendants were engaged in locating the homes and whereabouts of their targets and their families. In one case, the target’s elderly father was forcibly taken from China to the US as a threat. In another instance, a note was posted at the target’s residence, saying that the target’s wife and children would be fine as long as he was willing to return to China and serve 10 years in prison.
Following the announcement of the charges, the state-run Chinese tabloid Global Times and its editor-in-chief Hu Xijin claimed that the “foxes” in question were “economic criminals” and that the pursuit was an anti-corruption effort. They criticized the US for coveting the money these criminals had brought with them and having no wish for their return to China. They further claimed that those involved in the operation had always abided by the law and that the prosecution was a “political attack.”
Source: Stand News #Oct29
#US #China #GlobalTimes #HuXijin #Dissident #OperationFoxHunt #Espionage
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Eight individuals, including seven people of Chinese origin, were charged by the US Department of Justice on 28 October with pursuing and forcing the return of Chinese dissidents in America in an effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt.” According to the US authorities, the defendants were engaged in locating the homes and whereabouts of their targets and their families. In one case, the target’s elderly father was forcibly taken from China to the US as a threat. In another instance, a note was posted at the target’s residence, saying that the target’s wife and children would be fine as long as he was willing to return to China and serve 10 years in prison.
Following the announcement of the charges, the state-run Chinese tabloid Global Times and its editor-in-chief Hu Xijin claimed that the “foxes” in question were “economic criminals” and that the pursuit was an anti-corruption effort. They criticized the US for coveting the money these criminals had brought with them and having no wish for their return to China. They further claimed that those involved in the operation had always abided by the law and that the prosecution was a “political attack.”
Source: Stand News #Oct29
#US #China #GlobalTimes #HuXijin #Dissident #OperationFoxHunt #Espionage
https://bit.ly/36kfRS3