#DailyUpdate #Jun17 #COVID19
COVID-19 Updates (Jun 17)
At the time of writing, 8,217,627 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed with 445,012 deaths.
Panama extends suspension of international flights for 30 more days due to COVID-19.
New York City expected to allow outdoor dining next week.
German meat processing plant hit with coronavirus outbreak.
Pharmaceutical company begins phase 3 trial of arthritis drug for COVID-19 patients.
European Union unveils plan to bulk buy possible COVID-19 vaccine.
New Zealand coronavirus cases were due to an "unacceptable failure of the system," the prime minister says.
Beijing has tested around 356,000 people linked to the Xinfadi market cluster.
Hundreds of households quarantined in Berlin after COVID-19 spike.
British health minister says new study on steroid drug is "brilliant news" but “is no cure”.
Human trials expected to start next month for COVID-19 treatment derived from cows' blood.
Judge denies bid to stop Trump's Tulsa campaign rally due to coronavirus fears.
President of Honduras says he and his wife have contracted coronavirus.
Beijing cancels nearly 70% of incoming and outbound commercial flights amid new outbreak.
US FDA pulls authorization of one of the first COVID-19 antibody tests it approved.
DC will enter phase 2 of reopening Monday if current trends continue, mayor says.
Source: CNN, John Hopkins University
COVID-19 Updates (Jun 17)
At the time of writing, 8,217,627 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed with 445,012 deaths.
Panama extends suspension of international flights for 30 more days due to COVID-19.
New York City expected to allow outdoor dining next week.
German meat processing plant hit with coronavirus outbreak.
Pharmaceutical company begins phase 3 trial of arthritis drug for COVID-19 patients.
European Union unveils plan to bulk buy possible COVID-19 vaccine.
New Zealand coronavirus cases were due to an "unacceptable failure of the system," the prime minister says.
Beijing has tested around 356,000 people linked to the Xinfadi market cluster.
Hundreds of households quarantined in Berlin after COVID-19 spike.
British health minister says new study on steroid drug is "brilliant news" but “is no cure”.
Human trials expected to start next month for COVID-19 treatment derived from cows' blood.
Judge denies bid to stop Trump's Tulsa campaign rally due to coronavirus fears.
President of Honduras says he and his wife have contracted coronavirus.
Beijing cancels nearly 70% of incoming and outbound commercial flights amid new outbreak.
US FDA pulls authorization of one of the first COVID-19 antibody tests it approved.
DC will enter phase 2 of reopening Monday if current trends continue, mayor says.
Source: CNN, John Hopkins University
#Court #IndiscriminateArrests
Another case of indiscriminate arrests: 17-year-old protester acquitted in trial
On 2 November last year, netizens called a rally against extradition bill in Victoria Park. A 19-year-old male student was arrested and charged for traffic obstruction with a traffic cone. He pleaded not guilty in a trial on Wednesday (June 17). Police officers who were in charged of the case made several amendments to his statement in the court, including allegations that the black-clad protester hurled traffic cones onto westbound line of Leighton Road, causing traffic obstruction. However, after viewing video footages recorded on that day, he admitted that the traffic was not obstructing the traffic.
Not only that the officer failed to recognize the defendant in the court, he also agreed with the defending lawyer’s that his observation on the day was inaccurate. The prosecution subsequently ended up with a decision to not provide further evidences, and the Magistrate ruled the case not substantiated.
Source: Stand News
#Jun17 #FailedState #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #HKProtest
Another case of indiscriminate arrests: 17-year-old protester acquitted in trial
On 2 November last year, netizens called a rally against extradition bill in Victoria Park. A 19-year-old male student was arrested and charged for traffic obstruction with a traffic cone. He pleaded not guilty in a trial on Wednesday (June 17). Police officers who were in charged of the case made several amendments to his statement in the court, including allegations that the black-clad protester hurled traffic cones onto westbound line of Leighton Road, causing traffic obstruction. However, after viewing video footages recorded on that day, he admitted that the traffic was not obstructing the traffic.
Not only that the officer failed to recognize the defendant in the court, he also agreed with the defending lawyer’s that his observation on the day was inaccurate. The prosecution subsequently ended up with a decision to not provide further evidences, and the Magistrate ruled the case not substantiated.
Source: Stand News
#Jun17 #FailedState #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #HKProtest
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Latest pro-democracy initiative crushed in retail sector
On Wednesday (June 16), a retail chain of kids’ wear erected a 2-meter tall Lady Liberty Hong Kong statue in its shop located in Discovery Park shopping mall, which was owned by New World Development, one of the pro-China megacorporations in Hong Kong.
The next day, management office of the shopping mall issued a letter to the shop requesting the removal of the statue, claiming that decoration for a “first class shopping center” should fulfill certain requirements and the statue is apparently not related to the shop’s retail business. While the pro-Beijing camp leaders called for their supporters to lodge complaints against the retail chain.
Source: Stand News #Jun17
#FailedState #FreedomofExpression #LadyLiberty
On Wednesday (June 16), a retail chain of kids’ wear erected a 2-meter tall Lady Liberty Hong Kong statue in its shop located in Discovery Park shopping mall, which was owned by New World Development, one of the pro-China megacorporations in Hong Kong.
The next day, management office of the shopping mall issued a letter to the shop requesting the removal of the statue, claiming that decoration for a “first class shopping center” should fulfill certain requirements and the statue is apparently not related to the shop’s retail business. While the pro-Beijing camp leaders called for their supporters to lodge complaints against the retail chain.
Source: Stand News #Jun17
#FailedState #FreedomofExpression #LadyLiberty
#PoliticalProsecution #PoliceState
HK Police Raids #AppleDaily Again: 3 Editors and 2 Executives Arrested for Breaching National Security Law
Photo: #FirstHand
Text: RTHK; Stand News; Apple Daily #Jun17
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HK Police Raids #AppleDaily Again: 3 Editors and 2 Executives Arrested for Breaching National Security Law
Photo: #FirstHand
Text: RTHK; Stand News; Apple Daily #Jun17
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HK Police Raids #AppleDaily Again: 3 Editors and 2 Executives Arrested for Breaching National Security Law
Apple Daily, the only pro-democracy newspaper in print in Hong Kong, has been the target of the national security police since the forced implementation of the national security law in the city in June 2020.
Even though founder #JimmyLai had already been arrested and remains in custody, the Hong Kong police continues to raid the headquarters of the newspaper and its parent company; seizing documents, computers and journalistic materials; and making arrests.
In the raid on June 17, 2021, the police deployed 500 officers and arrested five executives including editor-in-chief #RyanLaw.
The other four are deputy editor #ChanPuiMan, chief executive editor #CheungChiWai, chief executive #NextDigital #CheungKimHung, and the chief operating officer #ChowTatKuen.
Authorities claimed that the newspaper published articles allegedly calling for "foreign sanctions" and had been "colluding with foreign forces", thus has violated the national security law.
Some of the articles cited date back to 2019, before the law's implementation. The government had previously promised that the new law would not be applied to offences before the law had come into effect.
Meanwhile, Secretary for Security #JohnLee ordered freezing HK$18 million worth of assets from Apple Daily Limited, Apple Daily Printing Limited and AD Internet Limited, all under Jimmy Lai's Next Digital Limited. Li openly asked the public and the media to cut ties with the executives of Apple Daily.
When asked, Li admitted the government's intention to prevent the pro-democracy newspaper from being printed before July 1, 2021, the anniversary of the Hong Kong SAR's establishment, when large-scale protest takes place every year.
Photo: #FirstHand
Text: RTHK; Stand News; Apple Daily #Jun17
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#Censorship #WhiteTerror #Intimidation #Smearing #Regime
HK Police Raids #AppleDaily Again: 3 Editors and 2 Executives Arrested for Breaching National Security Law
Apple Daily, the only pro-democracy newspaper in print in Hong Kong, has been the target of the national security police since the forced implementation of the national security law in the city in June 2020.
Even though founder #JimmyLai had already been arrested and remains in custody, the Hong Kong police continues to raid the headquarters of the newspaper and its parent company; seizing documents, computers and journalistic materials; and making arrests.
In the raid on June 17, 2021, the police deployed 500 officers and arrested five executives including editor-in-chief #RyanLaw.
The other four are deputy editor #ChanPuiMan, chief executive editor #CheungChiWai, chief executive #NextDigital #CheungKimHung, and the chief operating officer #ChowTatKuen.
Authorities claimed that the newspaper published articles allegedly calling for "foreign sanctions" and had been "colluding with foreign forces", thus has violated the national security law.
Some of the articles cited date back to 2019, before the law's implementation. The government had previously promised that the new law would not be applied to offences before the law had come into effect.
Meanwhile, Secretary for Security #JohnLee ordered freezing HK$18 million worth of assets from Apple Daily Limited, Apple Daily Printing Limited and AD Internet Limited, all under Jimmy Lai's Next Digital Limited. Li openly asked the public and the media to cut ties with the executives of Apple Daily.
When asked, Li admitted the government's intention to prevent the pro-democracy newspaper from being printed before July 1, 2021, the anniversary of the Hong Kong SAR's establishment, when large-scale protest takes place every year.
Photo: #FirstHand
Text: RTHK; Stand News; Apple Daily #Jun17
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https://bit.ly/3zxfpOa
#Censorship #WhiteTerror #Intimidation #Smearing #Regime
#Solidarity
"We Will Press On": #AppleDaily Prints 500,000 Copies Despite Police Raid
The headline of Apple Daily on June 18, 2021 reads "Let us hang on", a message sent by
#CheungKimHung, the CEO of #NextDigital that owns the pro-democracy newspaper.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30130
Despite the police raid and the arrest of 5 one day before, the newspaper vowed to its readers that their journalists and editors would carry out their duty continuously and unafraid.The newspaper even increased the prints to 500,000 copies.
"the staff of Apple Daily is standing firm. We will continue to persist as Hongkongers and live up to the expectations so that we have no regrets to our readers and the times we are in."
Source: Stand News; InMedia #Jun17
Read Apple Daily's Letter to the Readers:
https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20210617/XENTLS4QLZF55NV2GAPD7USUXI/
"We Will Press On": #AppleDaily Prints 500,000 Copies Despite Police Raid
The headline of Apple Daily on June 18, 2021 reads "Let us hang on", a message sent by
#CheungKimHung, the CEO of #NextDigital that owns the pro-democracy newspaper.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30130
Despite the police raid and the arrest of 5 one day before, the newspaper vowed to its readers that their journalists and editors would carry out their duty continuously and unafraid.The newspaper even increased the prints to 500,000 copies.
"the staff of Apple Daily is standing firm. We will continue to persist as Hongkongers and live up to the expectations so that we have no regrets to our readers and the times we are in."
Source: Stand News; InMedia #Jun17
Read Apple Daily's Letter to the Readers:
https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20210617/XENTLS4QLZF55NV2GAPD7USUXI/
#Newspaper
#AppleDaily Arrests Make Headlines Across the World: "Blatant Attack on Journalism", "Silencing All Dissent"
Source: BBC; AFP; Associated Press; #Jun17
Image: Stand News
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#AppleDaily Arrests Make Headlines Across the World: "Blatant Attack on Journalism", "Silencing All Dissent"
Source: BBC; AFP; Associated Press; #Jun17
Image: Stand News
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#NationalSecurityLaw Charges Over #AppleDaily Editors and Executives Raise Concern Over Hongkongers' Situation Across the World
Source: Bloomberg; Reuter; The Guardian; CNN #Jun17
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#NationalSecurityLaw Charges Over #AppleDaily Editors and Executives Raise Concern Over Hongkongers' Situation Across the World
Source: Bloomberg; Reuter; The Guardian; CNN #Jun17
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U.S. Bans Seafood From Chinese Fishing Fleet Over Forced Labor and Crew Mistreatment
The Indonesia government last year accused a Chinese fishing company of treating Indonesian fishermen inhumanly, with labors forced to work 18 hours a day, and body of fishermen who die from illnesses are casted overboard into the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday that it will impose an import ban to the company's seafood, alleging that its fleet of 32 vessels was involved in forced labor, the first time the U.S. imposed such a ban on an entire fleet of vessels.
The Customs and Border Protection said it will immediately detain tuna, swordfish and other products from Dalian Ocean Fishing Co Ltd. The "withhold release order" also ban other end-use products containing seafood from the company, such as canned tuna and pet food.
Source: Stand News #Jun17
https://bit.ly/3zGvMbl
#ForcedLabor #CustomsAndBorderProtection #US #China #Indonesia #DalianOceanFishing
The Indonesia government last year accused a Chinese fishing company of treating Indonesian fishermen inhumanly, with labors forced to work 18 hours a day, and body of fishermen who die from illnesses are casted overboard into the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday that it will impose an import ban to the company's seafood, alleging that its fleet of 32 vessels was involved in forced labor, the first time the U.S. imposed such a ban on an entire fleet of vessels.
The Customs and Border Protection said it will immediately detain tuna, swordfish and other products from Dalian Ocean Fishing Co Ltd. The "withhold release order" also ban other end-use products containing seafood from the company, such as canned tuna and pet food.
Source: Stand News #Jun17
https://bit.ly/3zGvMbl
#ForcedLabor #CustomsAndBorderProtection #US #China #Indonesia #DalianOceanFishing
#PoliceState #Journalism
#AppleDaily Journalists Confused by Hidden Message Reportedly Sent From the Hong Kong Police with a Book About WWII Spies
Source: Hong Kong Citizen News #Jun17
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#AppleDaily Journalists Confused by Hidden Message Reportedly Sent From the Hong Kong Police with a Book About WWII Spies
Source: Hong Kong Citizen News #Jun17
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#AppleDaily Journalists Confused by Hidden Message Reportedly Sent From the Hong Kong Police with a Book About WWII Spies
On June 17, 2021, the Hong Konv police raided the pro-democracy newspaper #AppleDaily and arrested 3 editors and 2 exeuctives on the charge of #NationalSecurityLaw.
The police stayed in the Next Digital Ltd. building for at least 5 hours and the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force seized a large sum of items, including at least 38 computers that contain news materials.
A reporter recounted that, when he realised the building was being searched at 8 a.m., he took his laptop and worked in another area.
After the building was reopened in the afternoon, some reporters returned to their seats and found their desks in a mess: The police took away both their company’s computers and their hard disks.
Some of them even noticed a book that was originally shelved being placed in a prominent position on the table, after the police raid.
The book is called "Hong Kong Newspaper Company and Spies in the Occupational Period" and is written by Apple Daily’s former editor-in-chief Cheng Ming-yun.
Some journalists questioned whether the police was trying to send a message and criticize them in an obscured way.
However, it remains uncertain whether the police fully understood the content of the book. The book actually “studies how some Hong Kong newspapers appeared to be cooperative toward the authorities, while indirectly resisting the Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
Source: Hong Kong Citizen News #Jun17
https://youtu.be/iFAbXpZyxVc
#AsiasFinest #SaveAppleDaily #SupportAppleDaily
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Former Staff Bids Farewell to the Newspaper
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30179
#AppleDaily Journalists Confused by Hidden Message Reportedly Sent From the Hong Kong Police with a Book About WWII Spies
On June 17, 2021, the Hong Konv police raided the pro-democracy newspaper #AppleDaily and arrested 3 editors and 2 exeuctives on the charge of #NationalSecurityLaw.
The police stayed in the Next Digital Ltd. building for at least 5 hours and the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force seized a large sum of items, including at least 38 computers that contain news materials.
A reporter recounted that, when he realised the building was being searched at 8 a.m., he took his laptop and worked in another area.
After the building was reopened in the afternoon, some reporters returned to their seats and found their desks in a mess: The police took away both their company’s computers and their hard disks.
Some of them even noticed a book that was originally shelved being placed in a prominent position on the table, after the police raid.
The book is called "Hong Kong Newspaper Company and Spies in the Occupational Period" and is written by Apple Daily’s former editor-in-chief Cheng Ming-yun.
Some journalists questioned whether the police was trying to send a message and criticize them in an obscured way.
However, it remains uncertain whether the police fully understood the content of the book. The book actually “studies how some Hong Kong newspapers appeared to be cooperative toward the authorities, while indirectly resisting the Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
Source: Hong Kong Citizen News #Jun17
https://youtu.be/iFAbXpZyxVc
#AsiasFinest #SaveAppleDaily #SupportAppleDaily
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Arrests, National Security Charges and Frozen Assets: Apple Daily Might Shut Down in 5 Days
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30172
News Anchor Wishes Hongkongers Safe
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30177
Former Staff Bids Farewell to the Newspaper
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30179
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Chinese Official Media Globally Recruit Reporters and KOLs are “The Media Challengers”
Source: Stand News #Jun17
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Chinese Official Media Globally Recruit Reporters and KOLs are “The Media Challengers”
The Chinese official media CGTN, who has been fined and revoked license by England during the beginning of the year, recently held a “The Media Challengers” program. It is recruiting English-speaking reporters and KOLs. Those selected will receive a $10,000 bonus and get a full or part-time job in CGTN. Besides the Chinese international students, there are also some from Zimbabwe and Zambia. Some British experts believed that local audiences may think that the international community admired CCP if Western social media KOLs announce official Chinese messages on certain issues.
According to the official Weibo of CGTN, “The Media Challengers” is a “Recruitment of Global Host Reporters and KOLs” and is the first global event. It aims to “inject new power into international communication in a media-converged environment”, to recruit host, reporters, DJ and KOLs for English reports and creation. There are no limits for nationality.
Source: Stand News #Jun17
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#China #OfficialMedia #KOL #Reporter #MediaChallengers #CGTN #International #CCP #Nationality #Propaganda
The Chinese official media CGTN, who has been fined and revoked license by England during the beginning of the year, recently held a “The Media Challengers” program. It is recruiting English-speaking reporters and KOLs. Those selected will receive a $10,000 bonus and get a full or part-time job in CGTN. Besides the Chinese international students, there are also some from Zimbabwe and Zambia. Some British experts believed that local audiences may think that the international community admired CCP if Western social media KOLs announce official Chinese messages on certain issues.
According to the official Weibo of CGTN, “The Media Challengers” is a “Recruitment of Global Host Reporters and KOLs” and is the first global event. It aims to “inject new power into international communication in a media-converged environment”, to recruit host, reporters, DJ and KOLs for English reports and creation. There are no limits for nationality.
Source: Stand News #Jun17
https://bit.ly/3xZr0nP
#China #OfficialMedia #KOL #Reporter #MediaChallengers #CGTN #International #CCP #Nationality #Propaganda