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#Save12 Concern Group Worries CCP-assigned Lawyers Are "Sumissive to the Authorities" Instead of Defending the 12 Detained HongKongers
[Editor's note: As of Christmas 2020, the 12 pro-democracy Hong Kong have been detained in China for over 120 days.]
Dec 16, 2020 marks the 116th day into the CCP government's jailing of 12 pro-democracy HongKongers after captivating them at sea in August.
China charged 10 of them with "Organizing Other Persons to Croos Borders Illegally" and "Crossing Borders Illegally" on 10 of them, while the 2 juveniles detainees would be put into a "closed hearing".
The #Save12HKYouths Concern Group critized the Chinese authorities for refusing the families' request for meeting and defense. The group did not believe that the "offically assigned lawyers" by the Chinese government would prioritize the interests of the litigants, and worried that they would be submissive to the authorities, making the defense unfavourable to the 12 HongKongers.
The Concern Group also said that the family members intended to go to Shenzhen to attend the hearing, but were worried that they could not make it in view of the 14- day quarantine policy while the date for the hearing was yet to be confirmed.
The Concern Group demanded the Chinese authorities to provide indictment to the families, and allow their own entrusted lawyers to meet and represent the 12 Hongkongers and to participate in their Defense.
They also demanded an open hearing, an early notification of the hearing date, as well as exemption of quarantine when they enter Shenzhen borders for the hearing.
Source: Stand News #Dec16
#CCPControl #ChineseCourt
#Save12 Concern Group Worries CCP-assigned Lawyers Are "Sumissive to the Authorities" Instead of Defending the 12 Detained HongKongers
[Editor's note: As of Christmas 2020, the 12 pro-democracy Hong Kong have been detained in China for over 120 days.]
Dec 16, 2020 marks the 116th day into the CCP government's jailing of 12 pro-democracy HongKongers after captivating them at sea in August.
China charged 10 of them with "Organizing Other Persons to Croos Borders Illegally" and "Crossing Borders Illegally" on 10 of them, while the 2 juveniles detainees would be put into a "closed hearing".
The #Save12HKYouths Concern Group critized the Chinese authorities for refusing the families' request for meeting and defense. The group did not believe that the "offically assigned lawyers" by the Chinese government would prioritize the interests of the litigants, and worried that they would be submissive to the authorities, making the defense unfavourable to the 12 HongKongers.
The Concern Group also said that the family members intended to go to Shenzhen to attend the hearing, but were worried that they could not make it in view of the 14- day quarantine policy while the date for the hearing was yet to be confirmed.
The Concern Group demanded the Chinese authorities to provide indictment to the families, and allow their own entrusted lawyers to meet and represent the 12 Hongkongers and to participate in their Defense.
They also demanded an open hearing, an early notification of the hearing date, as well as exemption of quarantine when they enter Shenzhen borders for the hearing.
Source: Stand News #Dec16
#CCPControl #ChineseCourt
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China Informs 12 Hong Kong Youths' Families of Their Trial Only 3 Days Prior on Christmas Day
On the Christmas Day of 2020, the families of the 12 pro-democracy Hongkongers detained in China not only could not see their loved ones; seven families also received a last-minute notice from the lawyers appointed by the Chinese Government that the trial of ten of the 12 Hongkongers would take place on Dec 28, 2020, which was in less than 3 days including the public holidays.
Among the 12 Hongkongers detained by the Chinese authorities since August 2020, ten of them will face trial on Dec 28, 2020 at the Yantian Court in China, but only seven families received such a notice.
The Chinese court told the media that it belonged to a "secret case" and no public and media would be allowed to audit. The trial is also not listed in the timetable of the Yantian People's Court.
The #Save12HKYouths Concern Group released a statement on Dec 25, 2020, demanding the delivery of confirmed, open and clear information of the trials of the 12 Hongkongers. They also demanded the presence of their families, the lawyers hired by their families, Hong Kong and international media and diplomats from different countries to be allowed in court.
The families also demanded the Chinese authorities to allow them to pay the prison a visit, were the detained Hongkongers to be sentenced; and the HKSAR government to send representatives to make sure the civil rights of the Hongkongers could be protected.
Source: Save 12 HK Youths Concern Group #Dec25
#HumanitarianCrisis #ChineseCourt #RulebyLaw #Christmas2020
China Informs 12 Hong Kong Youths' Families of Their Trial Only 3 Days Prior on Christmas Day
On the Christmas Day of 2020, the families of the 12 pro-democracy Hongkongers detained in China not only could not see their loved ones; seven families also received a last-minute notice from the lawyers appointed by the Chinese Government that the trial of ten of the 12 Hongkongers would take place on Dec 28, 2020, which was in less than 3 days including the public holidays.
Among the 12 Hongkongers detained by the Chinese authorities since August 2020, ten of them will face trial on Dec 28, 2020 at the Yantian Court in China, but only seven families received such a notice.
The Chinese court told the media that it belonged to a "secret case" and no public and media would be allowed to audit. The trial is also not listed in the timetable of the Yantian People's Court.
The #Save12HKYouths Concern Group released a statement on Dec 25, 2020, demanding the delivery of confirmed, open and clear information of the trials of the 12 Hongkongers. They also demanded the presence of their families, the lawyers hired by their families, Hong Kong and international media and diplomats from different countries to be allowed in court.
The families also demanded the Chinese authorities to allow them to pay the prison a visit, were the detained Hongkongers to be sentenced; and the HKSAR government to send representatives to make sure the civil rights of the Hongkongers could be protected.
Source: Save 12 HK Youths Concern Group #Dec25
#HumanitarianCrisis #ChineseCourt #RulebyLaw #Christmas2020
#Save12HKYouths #BringThemBack
Pompeo demands China to Unconditionally Release of 12 pro-democracy HK activists: They deserve a hero’s welcome abroad
US Secretary of State #MikePompeo called for the immediate release of 10 Hong Kong activists who were sentenced to between seven months and three years in jail by a Chinese court.
The ten Hongkongers were arrested by the Chinese authorities arrested at sea as they reportedly fled the city and tried to reach Taiwan by speedboat in August 2020.
On December 30, 3020, the Chinese court in Shenzhen sentenced eight of the Hongkongers to seven months in jail, one to two years and one to three years. Two underage Hongkongers were handed over to Hong Kong police, since they have been detained in China in August 2020.
Pompeo said, "The ‘Hong Kong 12’ who tried to flee this tyranny deserved a hero’s welcome abroad, not capture, a secret trial and prison sentences."
The United States strongly condemns the Shenzhen court’s actions and calls for the 10 members of the group who were sentenced to jail terms to be immediately and unconditionally released.”
“The CCP’s persecution of the Hong Kong 12 – two of whom were juveniles at the time of their arrest – exposes once again Beijing’s brutality, blatant disregard for the international treaties it has signed, and its disdain for the rights of the Hong Kong people,” Pompeo added.
Pompeo further expressed in the statement, " A regime that prevents its own people from leaving can lay no claim to greatness or global leadership. It is simply a fragile dictatorship, afraid of its own people."
Source: Stand News; Reuters #Jan1
#ChineseCourt #CCPLaw
Pompeo demands China to Unconditionally Release of 12 pro-democracy HK activists: They deserve a hero’s welcome abroad
US Secretary of State #MikePompeo called for the immediate release of 10 Hong Kong activists who were sentenced to between seven months and three years in jail by a Chinese court.
The ten Hongkongers were arrested by the Chinese authorities arrested at sea as they reportedly fled the city and tried to reach Taiwan by speedboat in August 2020.
On December 30, 3020, the Chinese court in Shenzhen sentenced eight of the Hongkongers to seven months in jail, one to two years and one to three years. Two underage Hongkongers were handed over to Hong Kong police, since they have been detained in China in August 2020.
Pompeo said, "The ‘Hong Kong 12’ who tried to flee this tyranny deserved a hero’s welcome abroad, not capture, a secret trial and prison sentences."
The United States strongly condemns the Shenzhen court’s actions and calls for the 10 members of the group who were sentenced to jail terms to be immediately and unconditionally released.”
“The CCP’s persecution of the Hong Kong 12 – two of whom were juveniles at the time of their arrest – exposes once again Beijing’s brutality, blatant disregard for the international treaties it has signed, and its disdain for the rights of the Hong Kong people,” Pompeo added.
Pompeo further expressed in the statement, " A regime that prevents its own people from leaving can lay no claim to greatness or global leadership. It is simply a fragile dictatorship, afraid of its own people."
Source: Stand News; Reuters #Jan1
#ChineseCourt #CCPLaw
#Totalitarianism
Daughter-in-law of Former CCP's Senior Leader Asks Xi Jiping to Let her Return to the United States
On Christmas eve of 2020, an open letter was sent on Twitter to the Communist Chinese Party (#CCP) leader Xi Jiping, hoping that "the top leader of the country" could "help" the owner of the account and her daughter to leave China, so that she can reunite with her parents in the United States.
The account owner claimed to be the daughter-in-law of Zhou Yonghong, former state councillor and Party Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party who has been in jail for 5 years under accusations of bribery, abuse of power and intentionally disclosing state secrets.
Huang Wan, daughter-in-law of Zhou, said that in December 2013, her whole family was taken away. They then lived at home under surveillance for 10.5 months, and were held in the detention center for more than one year. She was “tortured and abused” by the Public Security system in Hubei, China. She was then sentenced to probation order and spent 3 years under the monitor of the judicial office until June 2019.
After that, she was restricted to leave the country by the Beijing Chaoyang People's Court due to a “civil complaint that has nothing to do with me [her]”. 18 months has already passed, and the case still has not been trialed. Huang suspected that the intention is to keep her in China.
Huang described that the past seven years “felt like hell”. Recently, she was ordered by the Chinese court to evict from her home in ten days.
Despite her US citizenship, she still could not go back to the US because of the Chinesecourt’s travel restriction. She said she felt totally helpless in China.
Source: Stand News #Dec26
#CCPRule #ChineseCourt #Xi #HumanitarianCrisis #Detention
#ZhouYongHong #OpenLetter
Daughter-in-law of Former CCP's Senior Leader Asks Xi Jiping to Let her Return to the United States
On Christmas eve of 2020, an open letter was sent on Twitter to the Communist Chinese Party (#CCP) leader Xi Jiping, hoping that "the top leader of the country" could "help" the owner of the account and her daughter to leave China, so that she can reunite with her parents in the United States.
The account owner claimed to be the daughter-in-law of Zhou Yonghong, former state councillor and Party Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party who has been in jail for 5 years under accusations of bribery, abuse of power and intentionally disclosing state secrets.
Huang Wan, daughter-in-law of Zhou, said that in December 2013, her whole family was taken away. They then lived at home under surveillance for 10.5 months, and were held in the detention center for more than one year. She was “tortured and abused” by the Public Security system in Hubei, China. She was then sentenced to probation order and spent 3 years under the monitor of the judicial office until June 2019.
After that, she was restricted to leave the country by the Beijing Chaoyang People's Court due to a “civil complaint that has nothing to do with me [her]”. 18 months has already passed, and the case still has not been trialed. Huang suspected that the intention is to keep her in China.
Huang described that the past seven years “felt like hell”. Recently, she was ordered by the Chinese court to evict from her home in ten days.
Despite her US citizenship, she still could not go back to the US because of the Chinesecourt’s travel restriction. She said she felt totally helpless in China.
Source: Stand News #Dec26
#CCPRule #ChineseCourt #Xi #HumanitarianCrisis #Detention
#ZhouYongHong #OpenLetter
#Interview #Save12 #HumanRights
“My law license has received its well deserved honour": Chinese civil rights lawyer representing the 12 pro-democracy HongKongers inside the high wall
Ren Quanniu has been a civil rights lawyer for 7 years in China. His appointees include members of Falun Gong, Zhao Wei, a legal assistant arrested in the 709 crackdown and Zhen Jianghua, a human rights activist accused of inciting subversion of state power.
Ren continued his work despite being arrested by police and his wife being beaten up. However, Ren never thought the case of the twelve Hong Kong pro-democracy youths would become the end of his career.
Continue reading our fully translated article here:
https://telegra.ph/Exclusive-Interview-with-Ren-Quanniu-the-mainland-Chinese-lawyer-representing-the-twelve-Hong-Kong-youths-inside-the-high-wall-M-04-01
Source：Stand News #Jan19
#RenQuanniu #HumanRightsLawyer #Honour #PoliticalOppression #ChineseCourt #Save12HKYouths
“My law license has received its well deserved honour": Chinese civil rights lawyer representing the 12 pro-democracy HongKongers inside the high wall
Ren Quanniu has been a civil rights lawyer for 7 years in China. His appointees include members of Falun Gong, Zhao Wei, a legal assistant arrested in the 709 crackdown and Zhen Jianghua, a human rights activist accused of inciting subversion of state power.
Ren continued his work despite being arrested by police and his wife being beaten up. However, Ren never thought the case of the twelve Hong Kong pro-democracy youths would become the end of his career.
Continue reading our fully translated article here:
https://telegra.ph/Exclusive-Interview-with-Ren-Quanniu-the-mainland-Chinese-lawyer-representing-the-twelve-Hong-Kong-youths-inside-the-high-wall-M-04-01
Source：Stand News #Jan19
#RenQuanniu #HumanRightsLawyer #Honour #PoliticalOppression #ChineseCourt #Save12HKYouths