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Anson Chan might still be charged once the Hong Kong National Security Law take effect, CCTV implied

(27 Jun) Former Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration (CSA), Anson Chan, announced on 26 Jun that she will retire from citizen affairs and political work. China controly media China Centra Television (CCTV) responds it with criticism at the same evening: “can the leader of gang who cause unrest in Hong Kong evade from punishment after saying “quit from political platform”?” The media implied that Anson Chan might still be charged once the “Hong Kong National Security Law” take effect.

//The article stated that Anson Chan... Jimmy Lai... Martin Lee... Albert Ho; are “4-persons gang to destroy Hong Kong”... the Four were exposed many times to have colluded with opposites, western politicians , anti-Chinese organisations, and published speeches about “sell our Chinese nation for glory”.

//CCTV Hot stated “the legislation of National Security Law in Hong Kong leads to defectots and western slaves feel scared, and they are all planning to quit and leave Hong Kong; which proves the necessary and timely legislation of this Law.”

//The government has the same view as the netizens commented on the social media: “ Dare to leave? Not that easy! It never ends good with Chinese traitors!"

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Source: United Daily News
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#nationalsecuritylaw #ansonchan #JimmyLai #MartinLee #AlbertHo #traitors #colludedwithoverseasparties

#PoliticalPrisoners #PoliceState
Hong Kong #Court Jails Heavyweight Pro-Democracy Figures: 14 months for Jimmy Lai and 18 months for 'Long Hair'

On April 16, 2021, Hong Kong court jailed some heavy-weight pro-democracy figures for "organising and participating in unauthorized assembly" during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (#AntiELAB) Movement in 2019.

August 18, 2019 marks one of the largest protests during the movement where pro-democracy Hongkongers walked peacefully in the heavy rain from Victoria Park to Central to express their voice.

The following are the jail terms announced by the distrct judge Amanda Woodcock :

#Longhair #Leung KwokHung: 18 months (the longest term)

#AppleDaily founder #JimmyLai: 14 months (*combinig with another case involving a protest on August 31, 2019)

Former lawmaker #LeeCheukYan: 14 months
(*combinig with another case involving a protest on August 31, 2019)

Former lawmaker #AuNokHin: 10 months

Former lawmaker #CydHo: 8 months.

Former lawmakers #MartinLee,
#MargaretNg, #AlbertHo and #YeungSum: suspended jail terms

Source: Stand News #Apr16
Photo: Nasha Chan

https://bit.ly/3tuIDKs

https://bit.ly/3dnoxMn

https://bit.ly/3e9lgiS

#HKProtests #PoliticalSuppression #JailTerm

#Censorship #FailedState
"A Pleasure to Burn": #Books disappeared from Hong Kong O
Public Libraries

After removing books written by prominent democracy activists in Hong Kong in July 2020, the Leisure and Cultural Department has once again suspended the lending of 9 books on grounds of “avoiding the violations of #NationalSecurityLaw”.

These books include "#Chinazi" by #YuJie; "Hong Kong Nationalism" publisged by Undergrad, #HKUSU; "Tanya's Sensitive Spots" by former pro-democracy legislator #TanyaCHAN; and "I Declare War on Tyranny" by former Chairman of the Democratic Party #AlbertHO.

Source: Stand News #May8
https://bit.ly/3h9q233

#BookBurnings #RightToRead #RighttoKnowledge
#Censorship #PublicLibrary

#Court #PoliticalPrisoners
10 veteran pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong plead guilty over 'National Mourning Day' Protest in 2019; 'Long Hair' Appears in Court with Short Hair

In Hong Kong court on May 17, 2021, ten heavy-weight pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty to "organising an unauthorised protest" on October 1, 2019.

They are former legislators 'long hair' #LeungKwokHung, #AlbertHo, #LeeCheukYan, #YeungSum, #CydHo and #SinChungKai; #AppleDaily founder #JimmyLai; and activists #FigoChan, #AveryNg and #RichardTsoi. That day marked the 'National Mourning Day' protest on the establishment day of the PRC during the Anti-ELAB movement

Among the defendants, convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front (#CHRF) Figo Chan, 'long hair' Leung Kwok-hung, Albert Ho, and Lee Cheuk-yan also pleaded guilty to "inciting" others on September 30, 2019 to take part in the protest.

When '#LongHair' Leung Kwok-hung appeared in court on May 17, 2021, his signature long hair has been cut short. Leung is currently serving his sentence in Stanley Prison for organizing and participating in an 'unauthorized' assembly on August 18, 2019.

The last time he was seen in short hair was in 2014 when serving a 4-week sentence after being convicted of 'causing chaos' in the Legislative Council in 2011. Then, Leung was forced to cut away his long hair due to the appearance policy of the correctional services.

Leung later filed a legal review, pointing out that it is discriminatory when female inmates are allowed to keep long hair while male inmates are not. In November 2020, the Court of Final Appeal approved Leung's review.

Nevertheless, on February 1, 2021, the Department of Correctional Services implemented a new policy where inmates, regardless of their gender, cannot keep their hair beyond their shoulder's length.

Source: InMedia #May17
https://bit.ly/3waOe9r

#PoliticalSuppression #HumanitarianCrisis #CorrectionalServices #NationalMourning

#PoliticalProsecution #Injustice
Hong Kong #Court Sends More Pro-demoracy Activists to Jail: At Least 20 Months for Jimmy Lai and 22 Months for '#LongHair'

Ten Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians and activists were sentenced to jail for 14 to 18 months on May 28, 2021, after the court convicted them of organizing and joining an "unauthorised protest" on October 1, 2019, which was the national day of the People's Republic of China. Back then, the participating pro-democracy ptotesters described the day as the "#NationalMourningDay".

District Court judge Amanda Woodcock claimed that the defendants' wish for a peaceful protest is "naive" and "unrealistic".

Former legislators #AlbertHo, #LeeCheukYan and 'Long Hair' #LeungKwokHung and Civil Human Rights Front (#CHRF) convenor #FigoChan received a 18-month jail term.

AppleDaily founder #JimmyLai, former legislators #CydHo and #YeungSum, and former League of Social Democrats (#LSD) chairman #AveryNg were sentenced to 14 months in jail.

Only former legislator #SinChungKai and activist #RichardTsoi received suspended jail terms.

With their existing prison terms from other cases, Jimmy Lai and Lee Cheuk-yan are currently serving 20 months in prison in total while that of Leung Kwok-hung has accumulated to 22 months at the moment.

In the courtroom, some pro-democracy supporters chanted "fight on". From the defendants' seats, Leung Kwok-hung called out "Remember June 4th [Tiananmen Massacre]", while Figo Chan shout "mourn on June 4, speak out on July 1".

Source: Stand News #May26
https://bit.ly/3yL3FqT

#PoliticalPrisoner #Sentence #PoliceState #June4 #TiananmenMassacre #NationalDay

#PoliticalPrisoner #Family
Remanded Former Lawmaker #AlbertHo Receives Letter from Grandson: "Come Home Soon and We Love You"

Source: Stand News #May23

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Remanded Former Lawmaker #AlbertHo Receives Letter from Grandson: "Come Home Soon and We Love You"

Albert Ho, vice-chairman of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, with 9 other members of the Democratic Party were accused of organising and knowingly taking part in an unauthorized assembly and other charges on October 1, 2019.

All 10 pro-democracy figures pleaded guilty before the hearing. They were then remanded and the sentencing was set to be announced on May 28, 2021.

Ho’s former assistant and currently Tuen Mun District Councillor, Beatrice Chu, posted on her Facebook page that Ho was unwell when she visited him.

Ho said that he has been lacking sleep because he was put in an individual cell that was poorly ventilated.

On May 23, 2021, Chu posted an update on her page that Ho had been moved to a cell with better ventilation, but he still had poor appetite and looked depressed.

She mentioned that Ho’s grandchild wrote a letter to cheer up Ho on May 22, 2021. His grandson said he missed Ho much and that he understood Ho’s life in the cell is “bored and hot, but you have to stay strong! We all love you!"

Ho's grandson also told Ho that he would take good care of Grandma and not to worry.

Source: Stand News #May23

#Letter #HeartWarming #Love #BringThemBack #ComeHome #PoliticalSuppression #Jail

[Special] Inside the court room of ‘8.18’ case: a group of defendants with grey hair, a startlingly severe sentence

It was 16 April 2021 afternoon in Court number one of West Kowloon Magistracy. Judge Amanda WOODCOCK pronounced that the nine defendants’ acts to lead the procession on ‘8.18’ (18 August 2019) were an obvious challenge to police power, law and discipline. Imprisonment was the only appropriate choice. She sentenced Jimmy LAI Chee Ying, Martin LEE Chu Ming, Margaret NG Oi Yee, LEUNG Kwok Hung, LEE Cheuk Yan, Cyd HO Sau Lan, Albert HO Chun Yan, AU Nok Hin and LEUNG Yiu Chung to be imprisoned for periods varying from 8 to 18 months. Among the group only 4 were granted suspensions while the other 5 had to be sent to jail immediately.

Source: Stand News #Apr16

#MargaretNg #MartinLee #JimmyLai #AlbertHo #Assembly #Courtnews #AmandaWoodcock

https://telegra.ph/Special-Inside-the-court-room-of-818-case-a-group-of-defendants-with-grey-hair-a-startlingly-severe-sentence-06-21

#PoliceState
Hong Kong Alliance Chairpersons Charged with "Inciting Subversion of State"

Source: NowTV; Stand News; Hong Kong Free Press #Sept10

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Hong Kong Alliance Chairpersons Charged with "Inciting Subversion of State"

On September 10, 2021, the Department of Justice (#DoJ) in Hong Kong laid charges of "Inciting subversion of state power" against the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, as well as its chairperson #LeeCheukYan, and co-chairs #AlbertHo and #ChowHangTung.

The Alliance was informed of the charges via the Hong Kong police, whose National Security department had yesterday carried off a large number of items from the Alliance's June 4 museum as evidence.

The case was brought to court on September 10, 2021. The court denied Chow's application for bail, while Lee and Ho have been detained for long under other charges relating to the pro-democracy movement.

[Editor's note: The same charge of "inciting subversion" were used by China against activists of the 1989 Tiananmen protests, which the Alliance commemorated in a candlelight vigil every year. It had not been applicable to Hong Kong until the introduction of the #NationalSecurityLaw in 2020.]

Source: NowTV; Stand News; Hong Kong Free Press #Sept10

https://thestandnews.page.link/zWbkF1EKaJhzPZJh6

https://www.facebook.com/hongkongfp/posts/4345088285578263

#June4 #Museum #WhiteTerror #WhiteWash #PoliticalSuppression #Intimidation #Regime #Tiananmen

Hong Kong Authorities to Delist Pro-democracy NGO from Registry

According to sources on September 10, 2021, the Secretary for Security #ChrisTang, who is the former police commissioner, is removing the pro-democracy group, The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, from its company registration.

The Hong Kong authorities have launched a crackdown on the 31-year-old pro-democracy group, which is the key organizer of the annual candle vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park, commemorating the victims of the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing.

Also on September 10, 2021, the Department of Justice (#DoJ) has charged the chairpersons of the group, including #LeeCheukYan, #AlbertHo and #ChowHangTung, of "state subversion" under the #NationalSecurityLaw.

One day ago, the police raided the already-closed June 4 Museum, previously run by the group.

Source: MingPao #Sept10

https://news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20210910/s00001/1631252317345/%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af-%e4%bf%9d%e5%ae%89%e5%b1%80%e9%95%b7%e9%81%8b%e7%94%a8%e6%ac%8a%e5%8a%9b-%e6%8a%8a%e6%94%af%e8%81%af%e6%9c%83%e5%89%94%e5%87%ba%e8%a8%bb%e5%86%8a%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%e5%90%8d%e5%86%8a

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National Security Police Raids #June4 Museum in Hong Kong, Damaging Exhibits and Locking Out Owner

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31004

#HongKongAlliance Chairpersons Charged with "Inciting Subversion of State"

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31008