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Hong Kong #DemocraticParty's Vice Chairman Leaves the City for UK
On August 7, 2021, Wen Wei Po, a newspaper controlled by China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, claimed that the Vice Chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong #LEEWingTat were seen in the airport boarding a Cathay Pacific flight to London on August 6. The pro-China newspaper said Lee "will not return shortly".
LEE's wife #CHANShuYing confirmed the news but didn't give more details. CHAN said Lee would speak for himself, when necessary, "I won't speak on his behalf, even though I am his family". Chan is currently in Hong Kong..
LEE, aged 65, is a former legislative and district councilor in Hong Kong. He was also a co-founder of the United Democrats of Hong Kong, an initial body of Democratic Party, in 1991, together with SZETO Wah and HO Chun-yan Albert,
Lee was a legislative councilor until 2012, when he lost in the election repesenting the New Territories West. The defeat marked his step-down from his previous prominent position.
In April 2019, LEE was convicted for one count of "Incitement to Public Nuisance" during the Occupy Central Movement in 2014. He was sentenced to a 8-month imprisonment, with a 2-year suspension.
In June 2021, LEE "returned" yo the political scene by taking up the Vice Chairman role of the Democracy Party. He said he wanted to stablize the Party and its members.
Lee opposed the Democratic Party to organize candidates to participate in the coming Legco election in December 2021. In the political sphere, it was rumoured that Lee's return aims at barring the few young members of the Party from candidating themselves in the election.
Source: Stand News #Aug7
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/a-%E6%93%9A%E5%A0%B1%E6%9D%8E%E6%B0%B8%E9%81%94%E9%9B%A2%E6%B8%AF%E8%B5%B4%E8%8B%B1-%E5%A6%BB%E5%AD%90%E9%99%B3%E6%A8%B9%E8%8B%B1%E5%90%91%E9%BB%A8%E5%8F%8B%E8%AD%89%E5%AF%A6%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF
#LegCo #LegCoElection #Migration #Exile #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong #DemocraticParty's Vice Chairman Leaves the City for UK
On August 7, 2021, Wen Wei Po, a newspaper controlled by China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, claimed that the Vice Chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong #LEEWingTat were seen in the airport boarding a Cathay Pacific flight to London on August 6. The pro-China newspaper said Lee "will not return shortly".
LEE's wife #CHANShuYing confirmed the news but didn't give more details. CHAN said Lee would speak for himself, when necessary, "I won't speak on his behalf, even though I am his family". Chan is currently in Hong Kong..
LEE, aged 65, is a former legislative and district councilor in Hong Kong. He was also a co-founder of the United Democrats of Hong Kong, an initial body of Democratic Party, in 1991, together with SZETO Wah and HO Chun-yan Albert,
Lee was a legislative councilor until 2012, when he lost in the election repesenting the New Territories West. The defeat marked his step-down from his previous prominent position.
In April 2019, LEE was convicted for one count of "Incitement to Public Nuisance" during the Occupy Central Movement in 2014. He was sentenced to a 8-month imprisonment, with a 2-year suspension.
In June 2021, LEE "returned" yo the political scene by taking up the Vice Chairman role of the Democracy Party. He said he wanted to stablize the Party and its members.
Lee opposed the Democratic Party to organize candidates to participate in the coming Legco election in December 2021. In the political sphere, it was rumoured that Lee's return aims at barring the few young members of the Party from candidating themselves in the election.
Source: Stand News #Aug7
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/a-%E6%93%9A%E5%A0%B1%E6%9D%8E%E6%B0%B8%E9%81%94%E9%9B%A2%E6%B8%AF%E8%B5%B4%E8%8B%B1-%E5%A6%BB%E5%AD%90%E9%99%B3%E6%A8%B9%E8%8B%B1%E5%90%91%E9%BB%A8%E5%8F%8B%E8%AD%89%E5%AF%A6%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF
#LegCo #LegCoElection #Migration #Exile #WhiteTerror
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#Hongkongers, #Tibetans and #EastTurkestans Join Assembly Outside of ChineseEmbassy in #London
On June 4, 2022, more than 200 people gather outside the Chinese Embassy in London for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the victims of the #TiananmenMassacre back in 1989.
#IsaacCheng Ka-Long, the former Vice-Chairperson of #Demosisto, and #YauManChun, a former Shatin District Councillor, were the moderated the event. Speakers representing the #UK, #HongKong, #Tibet and #EastTurkestan took turn to speak. The pre-recorded speech of #ZhangXianLing, one of the "#TiananmenMothers", were played after a minute of silence was observed.
Zhang Xianling's son was massacred at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989. Her son was 19 years old when killed. Zhang sent blessing to Hongkongers. Despite the suppression of demonstration and commemorative events in Hong Kong, Zhang encouraged the people of Hong Kong not to give up.
#BenedictRoger, the founder of #HongKongWatch, brought a yellow umbrella to the event, saying the umbrella were only used in rainy weather but it also symbolised the sovereignty and the power of the people who suffer suppression. He hopes people would see the UK as a shelter.
#LeeWingTat, a former legislator from Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, also gave a speech, urging people not to give up. Under the National Security Law (#NSL) and other regulations, he foresaw the arrival of more and more Hong Kong immigrants to the UK. He encouraged those who arrived early to help others to settle and hoped to spread the situation in Hong Kong to the world.
#TserinPassang, a British-born Tibetan talked about how his parents went in exiled due to the high-pressure suppression in Tibel such as re-education camps and forced labour. He said that over hundred Tibetans conducted self-immolation to express their discontent, but the suppression by Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) regime does not cease. He expressed his will to go to his homeland hopefully in a not so distant future.
After that, a representative from East Turkestan spoke on the genocid and the need to raise people's awareness on all humanitarian crises.
Although it is no longer possible to continue the tradition of holding an annual candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's #VictoriaPark, the commemorarive event is carried out overseas and is joined by not just Hongkongers.
The assembly in London ended with three songs: "The Flower of Freedom" (自由花), "The Internationale", and "Glory to Hong Kong". The participants chanted pro-democracy slogans to voice their demands outside the Chinese Embassy.
#Remembrance #Solidarity #Overseas #Resistance #Diaspora #Hongkongers
#Hongkongers, #Tibetans and #EastTurkestans Join Assembly Outside of ChineseEmbassy in #London
On June 4, 2022, more than 200 people gather outside the Chinese Embassy in London for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the victims of the #TiananmenMassacre back in 1989.
#IsaacCheng Ka-Long, the former Vice-Chairperson of #Demosisto, and #YauManChun, a former Shatin District Councillor, were the moderated the event. Speakers representing the #UK, #HongKong, #Tibet and #EastTurkestan took turn to speak. The pre-recorded speech of #ZhangXianLing, one of the "#TiananmenMothers", were played after a minute of silence was observed.
Zhang Xianling's son was massacred at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989. Her son was 19 years old when killed. Zhang sent blessing to Hongkongers. Despite the suppression of demonstration and commemorative events in Hong Kong, Zhang encouraged the people of Hong Kong not to give up.
#BenedictRoger, the founder of #HongKongWatch, brought a yellow umbrella to the event, saying the umbrella were only used in rainy weather but it also symbolised the sovereignty and the power of the people who suffer suppression. He hopes people would see the UK as a shelter.
#LeeWingTat, a former legislator from Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, also gave a speech, urging people not to give up. Under the National Security Law (#NSL) and other regulations, he foresaw the arrival of more and more Hong Kong immigrants to the UK. He encouraged those who arrived early to help others to settle and hoped to spread the situation in Hong Kong to the world.
#TserinPassang, a British-born Tibetan talked about how his parents went in exiled due to the high-pressure suppression in Tibel such as re-education camps and forced labour. He said that over hundred Tibetans conducted self-immolation to express their discontent, but the suppression by Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) regime does not cease. He expressed his will to go to his homeland hopefully in a not so distant future.
After that, a representative from East Turkestan spoke on the genocid and the need to raise people's awareness on all humanitarian crises.
Although it is no longer possible to continue the tradition of holding an annual candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's #VictoriaPark, the commemorarive event is carried out overseas and is joined by not just Hongkongers.
The assembly in London ended with three songs: "The Flower of Freedom" (自由花), "The Internationale", and "Glory to Hong Kong". The participants chanted pro-democracy slogans to voice their demands outside the Chinese Embassy.
#Remembrance #Solidarity #Overseas #Resistance #Diaspora #Hongkongers