#HongKongChronicles #May27

Beijing breaches the Sino-British Joint Declaration, After Bypassing HK's legislature to impose the National Security Law

The Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed between Britain and China in 1984, has been effective since May 27, 1985.

The declaration not only set the date of Hong Kong's handover in 1997, but also promised the practice of "One Country Two Systems", the maintenance of a status quo for 50 years, and Hong Kong's high level of autonomy.

The declaration clearly states that: "The current social and economic systems in Hong Kong will remain unchanged, and so will the lifestyle. Rights and freedoms, including those of the person, of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of travel, of movement, of correspondence, of strike, of choice of occupation, of academic research and of religious belief will be ensured by law in the [HKSAR]. Private property, ownership of enterprises, legitimate right of inheritance and foreign investment will be protected by law".

#Court #Drug
Chief Justice Orders Judge to Drop Charges for a Woman Living in Police Quarters

The Justice Department withdrew drug trafficking charges for a woman living in Police residence. Judge approved despite frustration.

A woman living in Tsing Yi Police Married Quarters allegedly received a parcel containing narcotics valued up to 2 million HK. She was then charged with drug trafficking.

On May 27, the Justice Department dropped the charges. The case judge was dissatisfied with the decision but ultimately approved. The judge expressed that the case originally has a high chance to be convicted.

In another case on May 28, the police, however, added one more charge of "drug trafficking" to a 26-year-old woman arrested in relation to Spark Alliance, a legal aid fund that provides pro-democracy protesters with legal assistance. The police has been targetting the group by accusing it of "money laundering" since December 2019.

Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #May27
#ChiefJustice #SparkAlliance

#NationalSecurityLaw
Once the National Security Law is enacted, would this man be sent straight to mainland China, instead of the police station in Hong Kong?

Video taken in Hong Kong on May 27, 2020, one day before Beijing passed the plan to impose the National Security Law in Hong Kong.

Source: Internet #May27
#PoliceBrutality #PoliceState

#PoliticalSuppression #Regime
Authorities Ban Tiananmen Massacre Vigil for the Second Year in Hong Kong

Source: Stand News #May27

Read more
⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29795

#PoliticalSuppression #Regime
Authorities Ban Tiananmen Massacre Vigil for the Second Year in Hong Kong

Since 1990, Hongkongers have been organizing a candlelight vigil annually on June 4th to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Sqaure massacre and condemn the Chinese Communist Party for the brutal crackdown of pro-democracy citizens in 1989.

For the second year in a row, the Hong Kong police banned the June 4 vigil at Victoria Park, citing the pandemic as a reason. The authorities also banned the "lest we forget" protest planned on May 30, 2021.

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the vigil convenor, pointed out that commemorating June 4 is part of Hongkongers' collective memory in the past 31 years. The Alliance said that they would file an appeal.

Meanwhile, the Secretary for Security John Ka-chiu Lee insisted that any person who join, promote and announce the two events can be sentenced to jail for up to 5 years.

Source: Stand News #May27
https://bit.ly/3bZIzeW

#June4 #TiananmenSquare #Massacre #FailedState #LetterofObjection #VictoriaPark #CandlelightVigil #CollectiveMemory

#Censorship #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Authorities Warn Medical Workers' Union Over Film Screenings Related to Tiananmen Massacre

The Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA) has been warned by the government's Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (#OFNAA), when they organized screenings for the film "Conjugation" and the documentary "I Have Graduated".

Both films are related to the Chinese Communist Party's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy citizens at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, in Beijing.

The Union recounted that their office was visited by the film censors without prior notice on the evening of May 27, 2021. The authorities demanded the Union to answer whether approval has been sought to show the films. Responding to media's inquiry, the film censors claimed that they received "inquiry" whether the screenings had followed the Film Censorship Ordinance.

The Union condemned the film censors for not showing their identification cards and taking photos of the office.

Text: InMedia #May27
Image: HAEA

#PoliceState #PoliticalSuppression #PublicScreening #Conjugation #IHaveGraduated #June4 #Cinema #TiananmenMassacre #BannedFilms

#WolfWarrior #Disinformation
Chinese #ForeignMinister tells Germans ‘you know what #genocide looks like’

Source: Sydney Morning Herald #May27

Read more
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

#WolfWarrior #Disinformation
Chinese #ForeignMinister tells Germans ‘you know what #genocide looks like’

//It is estimated that 1 million Uighurs have been detained in so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang.

China’s Foreign Minister #WangYi rejected academic research detailing the abuses, including forced labour and forced sterilisations of women.

#Uighur women who have been detained in the camps have detailed systemic rape, abuse and torture. China has refused to allow independent investigators into the camps and denies any abuses are taking place.

“There is no forced labour in China,” Wang said. “There’s no such thing [as] concentration camps in #Xinjiang.”

“And there’s no such thing as genocide - our European friends know what is genocide,” he said, referring to the Holocaust when Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews during World War II.

#Buetikofer, who leads the European Parliament’s China delegation, was one of the politicians sanctioned.

Buetikofer described as reckless Wang’s attempts to use the Holocaust to dismiss claims of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.

“Wang Yi basically tells us ‘shut up, you shouldn’t talk’.

“The Holocaust should not be used as a diplomatic football for rhetorical gains,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

“The fact of the matter is that it has been precisely because of our wretched history that we have built our democracies and European Union on the basis of adherence to human rights and the rule of law. For us it is an historic obligation.

“If this People’s Republic of China had nothing to hide, they would open up and allow a full independent investigation; no amount of aggressive wolf-warrior diplomacy will obscure the fact that they still have not done so,” he said.//

Read the article:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/chinese-foreign-minister-tells-germans-you-know-what-genocide-looks-like-20210526-p57vdy.html

Source: Sydney Morning Herald #May27

BBC: Xinjiang Police test emotion-detecting AI on Uyghurs

Source : Stand News #May27

Read more
⬇️⬇️⬇️

BBC: Xinjiang Police test emotion-detecting AI on Uyghurs

It was revealed earlier that Alibaba’s facial recognition technology can be used to identify Uyghurs. Afterwards, Alibaba announced that they have eliminated any ethnic tag in their products. However, a Chinese software engineer showed to BBC's “Panorama” programme that, Xinjiang police are testing emotion-detecting AI. Some human rights activists described the incident as shocking.

AI to analyses facial expression and skin pores of the tied suspect

The software engineer who did not disclose his company showed 5 photographs to BBC, saying that China is testing emotional recognition system. He claims that his job is to install such systems in police stations in Xinjiang. “The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories”, he said, “We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."

Source : Stand News #May27

https://bit.ly/3zgHfyi

#Alibaba #EmotionRecognition #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Software #BBC #HumanRights #Panorama #China

Australian-Chinese writer who has been arrested for more than two years, was charged with espionage and tried in Beijing. His wife and Australian ambassador to China were refused to attend  
 
Source: Stand News #May27

Read more
⬇️⬇️⬇️

Australian-Chinese writer who has been arrested for more than two years, was charged with espionage and tried in Beijing. His wife and Australian ambassador to China were refused to attend 
 
Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun detained by the Chinese authority for more than two years and charged with espionage. The case was being heard in Beijing No.2 Intermediate People’s Court this morning, and it is expected that it will take at least one day for deliberation. Fu Guanhan, Australia ambassador to China attended but being refused to listen due to pandemic reason.  
 
Some reporters at the scene posted photos outside of court on the social platform Twitter before the trial, however there were multiple police being alerted. After Australia ambassador to China Fu Guanhan was refused to attend the court hearing, he told the out-of-court media, “Unfortunately, we have just been refused entry into the courtroom on the grounds of epidemic, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also stated that the case involves national security, so we are not allowed to listen”. Reuters quoted the friends of Yang and stated, Yang’s wife Yuan Ruijuan was also being refused to enter. 
 
Source: Stand News #May27

 https://bit.ly/2SdNhz3
 
#Australia #China #writer #Beijing #Espionage #Pandemic #Trial #NationalSecurity #Reuters