#ChineseCommunistParty
Guangdong province grants rights of angary to local governments to take private properties for use in epidemic

PRC's Standing Committee of Guangdong People’s Congress called for an emergency meeting, and immediately authorised the municipal governments of Guanagzhou and Shenzhen to, when deemed necessary, take housing, facilities, goods, etc., for use in emergency epidemic responses according to laws.

This is the first time since the Open Reform of China and also since the Property Rights Laws of 2007 that the government was granted the rights of angary.

The Standing Committee of Guangdong People’s Congress called for an emergency meeting in the morning, and passed Standing Committee of Guangdong People’s Congress on Decisions about Controlling the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic according to Full Force of Laws.

Municipal and district governments, as well as command centres of works related to controlling the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic, are empowered to, according to the needs of controlling the epidemic, implement emergency administrative measures or announce decisions on medical and public health, capital security, transportations, market management, wild life management, and other areas.

They can temporarily take housing units or private houses, venues, transportation vehicles, and related facilities, for use in epidemic control. They can also compel relevant firms and organisations to provide epidemic control goods and commodities of life.

Source: RTHK #Feb11
#Angary #PrivateProperty #WuhanPneumonia

#Newspaper #ChinaEconomy
Xi warned officials that efforts to stop virus could hurt China's economy

Previously,
Guangdong province grants rights of angary to local governments to take private properties for use in epidemic
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17058

With growth at its slowest in nearly three decades, China's leaders seem eager to strike a balance between protecting an already-slowing economy and stamping out an epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people and infected more than 40,000.

Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far and urged party committees and governments of all levels to achieve the targets of economic and social development this year.

Excerpt: Reuters #Feb12
https://reut.rs/2OR3qFs

#Xi #PrivateProperties #CoronavirusOutbreak
#ChineseCommunistParty

#Propaganda #CensorshipKills
An Anti-Epidemic Story Told By Media in China: 20-day-old Babies Ask For the Whereabouts of Their Mother

As the Wuhan Pneumonia outbreak continues, media in China have been publishing many articles based on 'heart-warming' 'real life' events to cheer up people in China.

In a recent news story released by “Hua Shang Bao” (華商報), it praised a frontline nurse for leaving her family to combat against the Wuhan Pneumonia in Xijing Hospital, just 20 days after she gave birth to her twins. According to the article, her twins boys asked their father “Where’s mum?” after she left home for work.

The article triggered discussion online, as people have been commenting and questioning how come the 20-day-old babies would be able to talk. The newspaper later apologised and promised that they would be careful next time.

#RealLifeStoryByCCP #20_day_old_twins #ChinesePneumonia
#HuaShangBao #ChineseCommunistParty #CCP

#PoliceState #Regime
Hong Kong Police Arrests a #June4 #Vigil Organizer After Banning Commemorative Activity

Hong Kong police arrested
#ChowHangTung, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, on the morning of June 4, 2021.

The 36-year-old Chow is a lawyer by profession. The group has been the organizer of June 4th candlelight vigil in Hong Kong since 1990, to commemorate the victims of the 1989 #TiananmenMassacre in Beijing and comdemn the #ChineseCommunistParty for the brutal crackdown.

The event was banned by the police for the second year. On the eve of June 4, the Hong Kong police claimed that they would send 7,000 officers to different parts of the city to curb any form of memorial.

Police claimed that Chow was arrested for allegedly advertising or publicizing an unauthorized assembly.

According to Apple Daily, a 20-year-old food delivery man was also arrested for the same reason.

Source: Stand News #Jun4
https://bit.ly/3vOPr6A

#PoliceState #June4 #TiananmenMassacre
Hong Kong Police Blocks #VictoriaPark to Silence Already-Banned Candlelight Vigil

Video: Stand News

Source: Stand News; Now News; Apple Daily #Jun4

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29901

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Hong Kong Police Blocks #VictoriaPark to Silence Already-Banned Candlelight Vigil

Video:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29900

June 4, 2021 marks 32 years since the #ChineseCommunistParty government ordered the military to crack down on the pro-democracy civilians, mainly students, on Beijing's #TiananmenSquare in 1989.

The annual #CandlelightVigil held since 1990 in Hong Kong's Victoria Park has been banned for the second year by the Hong Kong Police.

At around 14:45 on June 4, 2021, the Hong Kong police cited the #PublicSecurityOrdinance and blocked six football fields, one basketball court, the central lawn and the running trail in Victoria Park.

The video captured how the police cordonned off the park's foodball field as early as at 14:00. More than 20 police vehicles and over 100 officers were also sighted near the park.

On the same day, the police has arrested two civilians, including the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Chow Hang-tung, for allegedly promoting the commemorative event in social media.

Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29899

Video: Stand News

Source: Stand News; Now News; Apple Daily #Jun4

https://bit.ly/2T0z4pe

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29898

Hong Kong Authorities Accuse June 4th Museum of being "Unlicensed", days before Annual Commemoration of Tiananmen Massacre

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29894

#AsiasFinest #PoliceState
Hong Kong Police blow out the mourners' candles for June 4th #TiananmenMassacre Victims

June 4, 2021 marks 32 years after the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing.

For the second year, the Hong Kong police banned the annual candlelight vigil that had been taking place since 1990 in the city.

At around 8 pm on June 4, 2021, Hong Kong citizens lit candles to mourn the casaulties of the #ChineseCommunistParty government's brutal crackdown outside Victoria Park.

Some police rushed to hoist a yellow warning flag. Some officers even removed their masks and blew out the mourners' candles.

At 20:49 in Jardine's Cresent, Apple Daily journalist reported that police hoisted an orange warning flag that read "Disperse or Shoot", before changing to another relatively less aggressive flag.

Source: Stand News; Apple Daily #Jun4

#NeverForget #NeverGiveUp
Hong Kong Pro-democracy Trade Unions Commemorate CCP-'Suicided' #LiWangYang for Fighting Against Totalitarian Power

Video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29988

On June 6, 2021, the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (#HKCTU), a pro-democracy labour rights group, held a memorial for Chinese dissident Li Wangyang (1950-2012) who passed away on the day 9 years ago in 2012.

After being jailed by the Chinese authorities for 21 years, Li who had become blind and nearly deaf by then was found dead in a hospital room. The #ChineseCommunistParty (#CCP) government initially claimed that Li had "committed suicide".

Li's sudden death -- which took place just a few days after he in an interview called for the vindication of the 1989 June 4th #TiananmenMassacre -- had stirred up outcry in Hong Kong and abroad. The real cause of his death remained in the shadow.

The HKCTU organized a commemorative event to pay tribute to Li's perseverance in fighting against the regime.

#ChowHangTung, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China who was arrested by the Hong Kong police on the morning of June 4, 2021, joined the memorial on bail.

Chow said, "The regime does not win even by imprisoning us. As long as we manage to reinforce the movement during the process, we are not losing."

Source: HKCTU; InMedia;
#FirstHand #Jun6
https://bit.ly/3ghbIDu

#Dissent #Death #Suicide #StateTerrorism #Memorial
#Video

#Propaganda #CCPRules
China State Media Enlists Overseas #KOL and University Students to Promote the Chinese Communist Party

//China’s state TV station has been targeting British university campuses and offering students the chance to win thousands of pounds by becoming pro-Beijing social media influencers, The Times can reveal.

#CGTN had its broadcasting licence revokedand was taken off the air in Britain in February after an investigation by Ofcom, the media regulator, found that it was editorially controlled by the #ChineseCommunistParty.

The network has since launched a “#MediaChallengers” campaign to recruit internet influencers and vloggers globally, some of whom will promote China and counter western narratives that damage its image.

Successful applicants can win up to $10,000 and secure part-time or full-time jobs at CGTN, according to promotional documents.

At least six students at the University of Leeds and one at the University of Manchester have signed up to the campaign, The Times has found...

Hannah Bailey, an expert on Chinese digital disinformation at the Oxford Internet Institute, said: “If we have western social media influencers reading out China’s official line on particular issues, then domestic audiences might believe the Chinese Communist Party is admired by international audiences.” She said the CGTN campaign was “part of a broader trend that we’ve seen of China trying to increase its influence among university campuses”.//

Read full article:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-state-tv-channel-cgtn-enlists-uk-student-influencers-dw9v5sbnc

Source: The Times #June12

#Brainwashing #Disinformation

#Interview
#ChrisPatten on How #CCP Changed #HongKong: "They’ve broken their word, as I’m afraid they do regularly"

The last UK governor of Hong Kong, #lChris Patten, blames the #ChineseCommunistParty for the city's malaise.

Patten, 78, who holds the title Baron Patten of Barnes and serves as chancellor of the #UniversityofOxford, spoke the Amelia Loi of RFA Cantonese about the changes in Hong Kong as the July 1 25th anniversary of the #handover approaches.

In the interview, Patten was asked to assess the changes in Hong Kong in the 25 years since the handove. Patten said, "Hong Kong was an exceptionally successful community ––the eighth largest trading community in the world and we never had the sort of demonstrations which have affected Hong Kong in the last few years. I had very much hoped it would continue as long as possible and the Chinese had promised that it would continue for 50 years. They’ve broken their word, as I’m afraid they do regularly. They break their word. They break international treaties whenever it suits them. And I think that’s happening again this time."

Patten also said, "the fact that the independence movement has grown in Hong Kong is an indication of how badly China has behaved and how little people actually trust China today. It’s an extraordinary thing that so few people are actually proud of Hong Kong being part of China now. There’s a great sense of Hong Kong citizenship, and there’s a great sense that people are Hong Kongers but only a small number think of themselves as Chinese."

Read the full interview:
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hongkong-patten-06262022085742.html

Source: RFA #Jun26
Illustration: #RebelPepper