Global Support For Hong Kong [4/5]

Human chains for freedom have blossomed all over the city. There have been human chains in different districts of HK Island, Kowloon and New Territories. Tonight, residents of Sha Tin organized the Sept 16 Kwong Yuen Human Chain. At around 8pm, more than a hundred residents of the neighbourhood gathered outside Kwong Yuen Estate. It was known that a crew from a Korean TV channel had also come to film the event. The 53-year old Korean Actor Kim Eui-Sung, who had shown his concern for the anti-ELAB movement, also came to support.

Excerpt: https://hk.news.appledaily.com/breaking/realtime/article/20190916/60052000

Kim Eui-Sung continued to film Hong Kong protest this morning. Through live broadcast via IG Story, he showed how Tiu Keng Leng student groups formed a human chain. He started shooting from the “dragon head” of the human chain and recorded the face of each student along the way. It took more than 5 minutes to reach and film the ”dragon Tail”. It was filmed to let the Korean audience understand the real and current situation of the civil movement in Hong Kong.

Excerpt: https://m.mingpao.com/ldy/showbiz/latest/20190916/1568615024711/【逃犯條例】金義聖今早直播香港學生築人鏈

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Man Attacking Students and Injuring Their Teacher Sentenced to Two Months in Prison, Despite Past Record of Violence

On September 9, secondary school students across Hong Kong formed human chains in protest of the government.

Outside Cognitions College, a 65-year-old man brandished a box-cutter and attacked some students verbally. In the process, the man injured a teacher, leaving a wound that required 6 stitches on her hand.

The man was arrested and pled guilty to assault charges in
Kwun Tong court today (Oct 11). The judge sentenced the nan to two months in prison. The charge is a slap on the wrist, given the man’s colourful criminal history - 26 criminal records, 9 of which were violent in nature.

Source: RTHK

[Case for Comparison]
13-year-old detained for 27 days; no charge was made
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/8132

#CourtCase #HumanChain #Attack

300-strong Human Chain formed by youngsters at Taipo, Elderly moved to Tears

On December 31, around 300 people held hands outside Taipo Market railway station and formed a human chain. Many elderly passers-by thanked youngsters on the scene, among them, one white-haired lady started to shed tears.

Source: United Social Press

#NewYearEve #Taipo #HumanChain #Dec31

Belarusians Build 13-Kilometer Human Chain. Protesters Say Lukashenko Continues Stalin's Tyranny

Belarusian anti-government demonstrations continue. Tens of thousands of people formed a 13-kilometre-long human chain in the capital, Minsk, on Friday (Aug 21) local time, demanding that Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko cease the use of violence against the people, conduct a search for missing protesters and step down.

During the human chain event, many people on the streets held the victory sign and the flag of Belarus.

The Human Chain Begins at a Former Soviet Purge Site

The human chain began in Kurapaty, an area in the outskirts of Minsk with much historical significance. In the 1930s, the former Soviet secret police persecuted as many as 300,000 people in the area. The event was revealed in the late 1980s and became one of causes for the popular uprising against the communist regime.

At the other end of the human chain was Akrescina, where the Lukashenko regime imprisoned protestors. According to the organizers, the choice of Kurapaty and Akrescina as the beginning and the end of the human chain was to show that Stalin's and Lukashenko's crimes were one and the same.

Source: Stand News #Aug22

#Belarus #Minsk #HumanChain #Lukashenko #Kurapaty #Akrescina

#PoliceState
Police Charge 10 Hong Kong students for Forming Human Chain in Support of the Anti-ELAB Movement One Year Later

A year ago on September 7, citizens in Hong Kong built a long human chain around Tai Po Market train station, exhibiting solidarity against and defiance of police brutality, among them, many were students in school uniform.

As riot police stormed onto the scene, fired tear gas, the peaceful crowd of pro-democracy protesters was forced to disperse. More than 20 protesters were arrested during the clash on that day.

A year later, HK police charged 11 of them for attending an illegal assembly. Their age ranges from 15 to 49. 10 of them are students and the remaining one is the father of one of the students.

Sources: Inmedia; Stand News #Sept23
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1077614

#Students #HumanChain #Injustice #School
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Read more about human chain activity in Taipo on 7 Sept 2019 and victims of #PoliceBrutality

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/14349

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Second Anniversary of Pro-democracy #HumanChain in Hong Kong; Commemorative Exhibitions Open in Estonia and Luthunia

Source: Stand News #Aug23

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Second Anniversary of Pro-democracy #HumanChain in Hong Kong; Commemorative Exhibitions Open in Estonia and Luthuania

Two years ago on August 23, 2019, around 210,000 pro-democracy Hongkongers formed a 60km human chain across the city, going through different districts and even up on Lion Rock. In addition to voice pro-democractic demands, the event also commemorated the 30th anniversary of the #BalticWay, where a 675km human chain was formed by over 2 million people across three countries occupied by Russia, namely, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. One year after the human chain event to raise international concern, Russia acknowledged the independent status of the three countries.

In 2021, a Hongkonger residing in Estonia, Iverson Ng, curated a photo exhibition titled "1989 Baltics - 2019 Hong Kong". The exhibiting partners include the Institute of Historical Memory in Estonis, the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Lithuania and the Museum of the Occupation (#MOL) in Latvia. The exhibition opened on August 23, 2021, marking the second anniversary of the Hong Kong Way and the 32nd anniversary of the Baltic Way.

However, the Museum of the Occupation (MOL) of Latvia suddenly pulled out just one week prior to the opening. The vice director of the museum, Taiga Kokneviča, wrote to Ng on August 17, 2022, saying that "it is not a moment to discuss other issues in the museum".

Despite this, the museum director Solvita Vība has earlier promoted the exhibition when speaking to the local media LSM. In the interview, Vība praised the perseverance and solidarity of pro-democracy Hongkongers and pointed out the support for Hongkongers from the country's Minister of Foreign Affairrs, Edgars Rinkēvičs.

Since the vice premier Artis Pabriks tweeted the news in his twitter, Ng does not think the government has put any pressure on the museum. The real cause of the withdrawal remains unclear.

In any case, the Estonian section of the exhibition is available online: https://chainsoffreedom.communistcrimes.org/

Source: Stand News #Aug23
https://www.thestandnews.com/international/%E4%BA%BA%E9%8F%88%E5%85%A9%E5%91%A8%E5%B9%B4-%E6%B8%AF%E4%BA%BA%E6%B3%A2%E7%BE%85%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%89%E5%9C%8B%E8%BE%A6%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E4%B9%8B%E8%B7%AF%E5%B1%95%E8%A6%BD-%E6%8B%89%E8%84%AB%E7%B6%AD%E4%BA%9E%E5%B1%95%E9%A4%A8%E7%AA%81%E5%8F%96%E6%B6%88%E5%90%88%E4%BD%9C-%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%90%86%E4%BA%A6%E9%97%9C%E6%B3%A8

#Censorship #Photography #Exhibition #Latvia #Estonia #Lithuania

#2022NewYear #NeverGiveUp
#Hongkongers create human chain and cheer “May Glory to Hong Kong” amidst white terror and #CCP grip

In Hong Kong, on New Year's eve (December 31, 2021), many citizens went up to the #LionRock to count down to the year 2022. Among them, some brought neon light signs that read “GLORY HK” and “FREE HK”.

While some citizens on the site were occupied taking pictures, others lighted up their handphones to form a human chain. Just like the pro-democracy “Hong Kong Way” demonstration in 2019, a line of human chain was soon created, displaying the outline of Lion Rock with the light from the mobile phones.

Together Hongkongers counted down and cheered “May glory to Hong Kong” to welcome 2022.

Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/5iBypsfJaL8

On the hilltop, some elderly walked by and uttered words of encouragement to the youngsters, “hang on,” “don’t give up”, while others passed on drinks to them.

Down the hill, some citizens raised laser pointers and pointed towards the hill top to echo and show their support.

[Editors' notes: Inspired by the Baltic human chain in 1989, the “Hong Kong Way” was organized by pro-democracy HongKongers in August 2019 during the #AntiELAB Movement.

The human chain expresses Hongkongers' yearning for freedom and basic human rights. Tens of thousands of Hongkongers lined up on pavements, overpasses, waterfronts and parks, snaking a line of nearly 30 miles (50km) long through Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories.

Source: Boomhead; #Jan1

#FreeHK #GlorytoHongKong #HumanChain #HongKongWay #NewYear #Solidarity #Perseverance #Resistance

#Solidarity
Hundreds of Hongkongers in UK protest against clampdown of press freedom in Hong Kong

On January 8 and January 9, 2022 Hongkongers in the United Kingdom assembled in 7 cities to protest against Hong Kong authorities' crackdown on press freedom.

Clad in black, many Hongkongers were seen holding homemade handbills and banners calling for international community's attention over the deterioration of freedom in Hong Kong.

Holding hands and singing the protest song, "Glory to Hong Kong", long human chains were seen in Newcastle, Birmingham, Kingston, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh and Aberdeen to show solidarity and support for journalists arrested by national security police in Hong Kong.

Sources: Apple Daily HK, Whats News Media; Harbour of freedom, and Free HK; #Jan9

#PressFreedom #StandNews #CitizenNews #AppleDaily #UK
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