#PressFreedom #BaoChoy
News programme screened in publicly in support of journalist addressing Police-Triad Alleged Collusion during Yuen Long 7.21 Triad Attack
Choy Yuk-Ling, producer of an episode of RTHK’s “Hong Kong Connection”, disclosed relevant information of car owners by using car license plate records.
Choy was arrested for making false statements for collecting a certificate of registered vehicle owner or holder of a driving license under the Road Traffic Ordinance. Choy is due to appear in Fanling Magistrates’ Courts on 10 November.
“721 Who Owns the Truth” was shown tonight in MongKok in support of journalists and their right to gather infomation for reporting the truth.
Source: Firsthand #Nov7
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News programme screened in publicly in support of journalist addressing Police-Triad Alleged Collusion during Yuen Long 7.21 Triad Attack
Choy Yuk-Ling, producer of an episode of RTHK’s “Hong Kong Connection”, disclosed relevant information of car owners by using car license plate records.
Choy was arrested for making false statements for collecting a certificate of registered vehicle owner or holder of a driving license under the Road Traffic Ordinance. Choy is due to appear in Fanling Magistrates’ Courts on 10 November.
“721 Who Owns the Truth” was shown tonight in MongKok in support of journalists and their right to gather infomation for reporting the truth.
Source: Firsthand #Nov7
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26378
#CCPControl #PRCAnthem
HK Government Requires All Radio Stations to Play PRC's National Anthem Everyday
Radio Television Hong Kong (#RTHK) confirmed that their seven channels would air the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China, “March of the Volunteers”, every day before the morning news report at 8am.
On November 7, 2020, Commercial Radio Hong Kong confirmed that they will also broadcast PRC's national anthem before their 8am news everyday starting from mid-November.
Metro Broadcast Corporation also revealed that their tentative plan was to play the PRC's national anthem before the 8am newscast, but the date of enforcement was not yet set.
The Hong Kong government spokesman replied to Stand News' inquiry that licensed broadcasters have to play the national anthem under the government’s “announcement in the public interest” (API) mechanism after the National Anthem Law was enacted in Hong Kong in June 2020.
Source: Stand News #Nov7
https://bit.ly/2U3vfNa
#NationalAnthem #AnthemLaw #CCP
HK Government Requires All Radio Stations to Play PRC's National Anthem Everyday
Radio Television Hong Kong (#RTHK) confirmed that their seven channels would air the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China, “March of the Volunteers”, every day before the morning news report at 8am.
On November 7, 2020, Commercial Radio Hong Kong confirmed that they will also broadcast PRC's national anthem before their 8am news everyday starting from mid-November.
Metro Broadcast Corporation also revealed that their tentative plan was to play the PRC's national anthem before the 8am newscast, but the date of enforcement was not yet set.
The Hong Kong government spokesman replied to Stand News' inquiry that licensed broadcasters have to play the national anthem under the government’s “announcement in the public interest” (API) mechanism after the National Anthem Law was enacted in Hong Kong in June 2020.
Source: Stand News #Nov7
https://bit.ly/2U3vfNa
#NationalAnthem #AnthemLaw #CCP
#MassSurveillance
CCP Uses Health Code as a Surveillance Tool - Dissidents Query
#HumanRights #CivilRightLawyer #CitizenJournalist
Source: Stand news; #Nov7
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CCP Uses Health Code as a Surveillance Tool - Dissidents Query
#HumanRights #CivilRightLawyer #CitizenJournalist
Source: Stand news; #Nov7
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#MassSurveillance
CCP Uses Health Code as a Surveillance Tool - Dissidents Query
Epidemic prevention has given the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) an easy excuse to impose #HealthCode in Chinese cities.
In recent days, the health codes of a number of social activists in China have been switched to red or experienced unusual app errors for no apparent reasons. They question whether the Health code has become a tool for CCP to tighten their fist over dissidents, curbing their freedom to travel and move around cities.
#XiYan, one of the civil rights lawyers involved in the 709 crackdowns, wanted to visit the mother of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist and a former lawyer in Shanghai.
Ignoring local police's disapproval, Xi went ahead with his plan, only to find that his health code switched to red.
Xi shared a photograph of himself in the airport and his health code in red on social media.
#WangYu, another human rights lawyer, posted on Twitter on November 7 that she was strained in Tianjin as she failed to update her health code on her way back to Beijing.
Wang's husband, #BaoLongJun who is also a human rights lawyer, also could not generate a health code on his phone on his way from Suzhou back to Beijing.
Source: Stand news; #Nov7 https://thestandnews.page.link/QTWPSNx4Xn6KFAjx5
#HumanRights #CivilRightLawyer #CitizenJournalist
CCP Uses Health Code as a Surveillance Tool - Dissidents Query
Epidemic prevention has given the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) an easy excuse to impose #HealthCode in Chinese cities.
In recent days, the health codes of a number of social activists in China have been switched to red or experienced unusual app errors for no apparent reasons. They question whether the Health code has become a tool for CCP to tighten their fist over dissidents, curbing their freedom to travel and move around cities.
#XiYan, one of the civil rights lawyers involved in the 709 crackdowns, wanted to visit the mother of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist and a former lawyer in Shanghai.
Ignoring local police's disapproval, Xi went ahead with his plan, only to find that his health code switched to red.
Xi shared a photograph of himself in the airport and his health code in red on social media.
#WangYu, another human rights lawyer, posted on Twitter on November 7 that she was strained in Tianjin as she failed to update her health code on her way back to Beijing.
Wang's husband, #BaoLongJun who is also a human rights lawyer, also could not generate a health code on his phone on his way from Suzhou back to Beijing.
Source: Stand news; #Nov7 https://thestandnews.page.link/QTWPSNx4Xn6KFAjx5
#HumanRights #CivilRightLawyer #CitizenJournalist
#StreetPerformance #Art
London Artists: Salute to those suffered under totalitarianism
In the face of injustice, people fight back with different ways and find ways to make their voices heard. While performing in London, a group of artists said they are fortunate to live on a free land where they can still follow their hearts to pursuit justice.
On November 6, 2021, a social movement art platform #Artvocate carried out a mobile exhibition. Some artists were blind folded, representing the citizens being ripped off freedom. Without fear, they took to the street to show their defiance and strong will.
Saluting Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors, the artists showed lines of umbrella in their performance. Tribute was also paid to those fought against the authoritarian rule in Myanmar.
#Mayanmar #FightForHongKong #Authoritarianism #PerformanceArt #ProtestArt #GlobalSolidarity
Source: Fight for Hong Kong; #Nov7
https://t.me/Fight_for_HK/55
London Artists: Salute to those suffered under totalitarianism
In the face of injustice, people fight back with different ways and find ways to make their voices heard. While performing in London, a group of artists said they are fortunate to live on a free land where they can still follow their hearts to pursuit justice.
On November 6, 2021, a social movement art platform #Artvocate carried out a mobile exhibition. Some artists were blind folded, representing the citizens being ripped off freedom. Without fear, they took to the street to show their defiance and strong will.
Saluting Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors, the artists showed lines of umbrella in their performance. Tribute was also paid to those fought against the authoritarian rule in Myanmar.
#Mayanmar #FightForHongKong #Authoritarianism #PerformanceArt #ProtestArt #GlobalSolidarity
Source: Fight for Hong Kong; #Nov7
https://t.me/Fight_for_HK/55
#OpinionArticle
Hong Kong’s Stage-Managed Election Is Fooling Nobody
Source: Bloomberg #Nov7
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Hong Kong’s Stage-Managed Election Is Fooling Nobody
//Arrangements for Hong Kong’s first legislative election under a revamped system are leaving little to chance. There must be competition — but not too much, and of the right kind. Meanwhile, the anti-corruption agency has warned against calls to cast blank ballots or abstain from voting — two of the few ways left for people to register disapproval of a Beijing-designed process from which political opposition has been excluded.
As of Nov. 3, five days after nominations opened, only 48 had been received for the 90 seats in the Legislative Council. The nomination period runs until Friday.
Hong Kong’s electoral system was always designed to favor pro-establishment interests. In the last LegCo election in 2016, when turnout reached a record 58%, only half the seats in a 70-member council were directly elected. After Beijing’s changes, just 20 seats, or less than a quarter of the expanded chamber, will be chosen by the full electorate of 4.5 million. Even if opposition candidates somehow got past new vetting procedures and achieved a clean sweep, they would still be in a minority. With the result not in doubt, such micro-management should be unnecessary. Why bother?
In practice, most authoritarian regimes attach a high significance to elections because they are seen as conferring legitimacy. Feigning conformity to established rules carries a ritual and symbolic power, as Lee Morgenbesser, who studies authoritarian systems at Australia’s Griffith University, has observed. Dictators from Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus to Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad have proclaimed a democratic mandate after elections that were clearly far from free and fair.
Autocracies have three, mutually reinforcing pillars of stability, according to the German political scientist Johannes Gerschewski: repression, co-optation and legitimation. After the instability of the 2019 pro-democracy protests, Hong Kong has relied primarily on the first, aided by a national security law that China imposed in mid-2020. Opposition candidates have been arrested, civil society has been hollowed out, and the media environment has become more constricted.//
Source: Bloomberg #Nov7
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-07/hong-kong-s-stage-managed-election-process-will-be-tested-by-turnout
#LegCo #Election #FailedState
Hong Kong’s Stage-Managed Election Is Fooling Nobody
//Arrangements for Hong Kong’s first legislative election under a revamped system are leaving little to chance. There must be competition — but not too much, and of the right kind. Meanwhile, the anti-corruption agency has warned against calls to cast blank ballots or abstain from voting — two of the few ways left for people to register disapproval of a Beijing-designed process from which political opposition has been excluded.
As of Nov. 3, five days after nominations opened, only 48 had been received for the 90 seats in the Legislative Council. The nomination period runs until Friday.
Hong Kong’s electoral system was always designed to favor pro-establishment interests. In the last LegCo election in 2016, when turnout reached a record 58%, only half the seats in a 70-member council were directly elected. After Beijing’s changes, just 20 seats, or less than a quarter of the expanded chamber, will be chosen by the full electorate of 4.5 million. Even if opposition candidates somehow got past new vetting procedures and achieved a clean sweep, they would still be in a minority. With the result not in doubt, such micro-management should be unnecessary. Why bother?
In practice, most authoritarian regimes attach a high significance to elections because they are seen as conferring legitimacy. Feigning conformity to established rules carries a ritual and symbolic power, as Lee Morgenbesser, who studies authoritarian systems at Australia’s Griffith University, has observed. Dictators from Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus to Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad have proclaimed a democratic mandate after elections that were clearly far from free and fair.
Autocracies have three, mutually reinforcing pillars of stability, according to the German political scientist Johannes Gerschewski: repression, co-optation and legitimation. After the instability of the 2019 pro-democracy protests, Hong Kong has relied primarily on the first, aided by a national security law that China imposed in mid-2020. Opposition candidates have been arrested, civil society has been hollowed out, and the media environment has become more constricted.//
Source: Bloomberg #Nov7
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-07/hong-kong-s-stage-managed-election-process-will-be-tested-by-turnout
#LegCo #Election #FailedState
Bloomberg.com
Hong Kong’s Stage-Managed Election Is Fooling Nobody
The trappings of democracy are important to an authoritarian system. Getting people to go to the polls may be the biggest challenge.