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Kowloon Bay Yellow Shop to Close in Nov 2020

Agape Garden in Kowloon Bay might seem like just a simple yellow shop, but it is also a charity that gives out food to poor elderly citizens. On May 30, the restaurant owners were notified that the Housing Society will not renew their lease. It was suggested that the decision was made on political considerations.

Mr. Lam, owner of the shop, is very worried that his staff will be unemployed, and the elderly whom they take care of will starve.

Further Reading:
Pro-democracy Population Support 'Yellow' Shops on May 1; Singers Candy Lo, Sammy So And Lawmaker Jeffery Tam Volunteer As Shopkeepers
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20025

Source: Inmedia
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Sapientia - Exhibition of the protests (Part 2)

Receipt from a Yellow Shop

People find many ways to disseminate political messages. One of the creative means was found in these receipts where protest slogans were printed by shops that sympathise with protesters. Thsee receipts displayed were found at a bubble tea shop where customers wrote down messages on the back of their receipts and put them up the shop’s Lennon Wall. The difference between earlier and newer receipts reveals how the slogans and emotions of citizens evolved in the movement, from “Hongkongers, go for it” to “Hongkongers, resist” and “HongKongers, fight back".

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
— Marshall McLuhan

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http://timable.com/zh-hk/event/1940311

#Aegis #YellowShop #Attack
Chinese Man Pays Vandals to Attack Pro-Hong Kong Restaurant in Taiwan

On October 16, 2020, Aegis, a restaurant in Taiwan which has been providing work for pro-democracy Hongkongers in exile, was vandalized by four men with feces.

The suspects were arrested the following day by the Taiwanese police. The four men admitted they were paid 15,000TWD to carry out the vandalization.

Taiwanese authorities are tracking down a mainland Chinese man who instigated the four to carry out the attack.

According to Taiwan news outlets, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office has closed their investigation on the case in October 2020. The suspects were charged for public insult, and causing harms and damages.

The police pointed out that a man surnamed Chen funded the vandalization, and is currently in China. They are still investigating the identity of the man behind the scene and his motive.

Source: Stand News #Nov9
#WhiteTerror #Intimidation

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Police Arrests 2 Civilians from a Pro-democracy Restaurant and Another Civilian Wearing the “Liberate Hong Kong" Flag

At around 10 pm on Dec 4, 2020, a large number of police raided a pro-democracy "yellow" restaurant “Jie Genge” suddenly for three hours. After that, police officers took away some "evidence" and arrested two civilians.

According to different sources including Apple Daily and online media Benyuentertain, “PolyU cook” Sze King-hin, who was wearing the flag reading “Liberate Hong Kong Revolution of our times” was also arrested by the police at midnight outside the restaurant.

Yau Tsim Mong District Councillor Derek Chu Kong-Wai mentioned in his Facebook on this morning of December 5, 2020 that two civilians who were charged with "possession of an instrument fit for an unlawful purpose" were released on bail.

In the afternoon, police stated that police had anti-crime action between December 3 and 4 to patrol shops, restaurants and bars on the street and upstairs in Mong Kong.

During the patrol, in a restaurant located in Portland Street, police officers found one suspected extendable batons, fifteen helmets, one shield, fifteen gas masks, two reflective vests, three goggles and some banners.

After investigation, a 25-year-old man surnamed Shum and a 29-year-old man surnamed Wong were arrested with the suspicious of “possession of a banned weapon and an instrument fit for an unlawful purpose”.

The case is now investigated by Mong Kong District Investigation Sixth Team. Two of them are released on bail, and they are requested to report to the police in Jan 2021.

Source: Apple Daily #Dec5

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#PoliticalOppression
Pro-democracy retail shop decides to exit Hong Kong after months of harassment and nuisance by Pro-Beijing Force

Pro-democeacy retail chain, #CHICKEEDUCK, announced on November 18, 2021 that it will close down all retail shops in Hong Kong in June/July 2022.

Owner of the brand, #HerbertChow said that he is considering to turn one of the shops in Tin Hau into a museum to display artworks like statue of noble prize winner and Chinese dissident #LiuXiaobo and the Hong Kong's Lady Liberty statue.

Chow told reporters that his company suffered too many oppressions in the past 18 months. The NationalSecurityPolice has once stopped his production factory in China from shipping out orders.

Some staff member of the retail chain have been followed and tracked.

“This decision was not made for me, this decision was made for the company’s staff… considering the daily torture they endured,” said Chow.

The shop received hundreds of nuisance calls per month during peak hours, he added.

“It’s not related to my personal safety,” Chow said. “I took this step not because I was worried that I might get arrested, I never thought that I had violated the law.”

Chow said that he “could not stand injustice," reiterating that he can stop getting involved in other areas, “but when it comes to Hong Kong, our home, how can [I] shut up?”

Source: Stand News; #Nov18 https://thestandnews.page.link/GSZ8x2cUoJNjgFcBA

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