Off-Duty Police Carries Baton While Departing Hong Kong and Let Go Immediately
Apple Daily reported that an off-duty police officer was caught carrying a telescopic baton when he was going through customs at the departure hall at the airport.
However, the officer was then let go immediately without any repercussion. When answering Stand News' inquiry, the officials said the Airport Police Station was notified by the airport security at 9.27am, that a baton was found in a carry-on baggage during security check. It was then realised that the passenger was an off-duty officer who was carrying the baton lawfully, and further investigations will be conducted.
The police also emphasised that all officers are under strict regulations on equipment storage and usage.
It was confirmed in this September that off-duty officers were given extendable batons. Due to the escalation of violence in recent protests, said the official, officers are required to acquire equipment . The exact figures were however not revealed. The official also emphasised that officers have always been well-trained and strictly regulated on the use of force, and that the public has "absolutely nothing to worry about".
Source: Stand News
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Apple Daily reported that an off-duty police officer was caught carrying a telescopic baton when he was going through customs at the departure hall at the airport.
However, the officer was then let go immediately without any repercussion. When answering Stand News' inquiry, the officials said the Airport Police Station was notified by the airport security at 9.27am, that a baton was found in a carry-on baggage during security check. It was then realised that the passenger was an off-duty officer who was carrying the baton lawfully, and further investigations will be conducted.
The police also emphasised that all officers are under strict regulations on equipment storage and usage.
It was confirmed in this September that off-duty officers were given extendable batons. Due to the escalation of violence in recent protests, said the official, officers are required to acquire equipment . The exact figures were however not revealed. The official also emphasised that officers have always been well-trained and strictly regulated on the use of force, and that the public has "absolutely nothing to worry about".
Source: Stand News
#Dec9
Police Make Sexual Verbal Abuse
2117 | Tai Po Mega Mall Bridge B, Tai Wo Road, Tai Po
Riot Police formed a cordon line and were seen on standby. A police reportedly told a elderly bystander to "see whether your daughter is providing free sex to protesters".
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A pepper-spray projectile was fired, after which the orange flag was raised.
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Police continued on firing more pepper-spray projectiles. The atmosphere could be seen getting tense at the scene.
Source: CUHK Campus Radio #Dec9
2117 | Tai Po Mega Mall Bridge B, Tai Wo Road, Tai Po
Riot Police formed a cordon line and were seen on standby. A police reportedly told a elderly bystander to "see whether your daughter is providing free sex to protesters".
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A pepper-spray projectile was fired, after which the orange flag was raised.
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Police continued on firing more pepper-spray projectiles. The atmosphere could be seen getting tense at the scene.
Source: CUHK Campus Radio #Dec9
Hostile Police Threaten Reporters and Civilians in Mongkok
2319 | Mongkok
Riot police arrived for the second time to remove the road blocks. They yelled at the bystanders, threatening them with arrest: “You will be arrested immediately if you do not leave!”
2323 | Sai Yeung Choi Street
Riot police set up cordon and conduct searches on civilians.
2329 | Nathan Road
Riot police shooed reporters off rudely and aggressively.
2332 | Nathan Road
Riot police kept yelling at reporters, “you are not allowed to stand in the middle of the pedestrian road. Move to the side, don’t you understand Chinese?”
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Riot Police pointed pepper spray at civilians, and yelled “Leave, or I will use the pepper spray on you!”
After that, riot police that advanced to Sai Yeung Choi Street retreated back to Shan Tung Street.
Source: Apple Daily; RTHK #Dec9
2319 | Mongkok
Riot police arrived for the second time to remove the road blocks. They yelled at the bystanders, threatening them with arrest: “You will be arrested immediately if you do not leave!”
2323 | Sai Yeung Choi Street
Riot police set up cordon and conduct searches on civilians.
2329 | Nathan Road
Riot police shooed reporters off rudely and aggressively.
2332 | Nathan Road
Riot police kept yelling at reporters, “you are not allowed to stand in the middle of the pedestrian road. Move to the side, don’t you understand Chinese?”
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Riot Police pointed pepper spray at civilians, and yelled “Leave, or I will use the pepper spray on you!”
After that, riot police that advanced to Sai Yeung Choi Street retreated back to Shan Tung Street.
Source: Apple Daily; RTHK #Dec9
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Police Fire Pepper Ball Shots at a Man and Order the Victim to “Stop Pretending“
During the disperse operation by the Police at the dawn of December 9, a man was shot in the head by the police’s pepper ball shots. Reporters at the scene witnessed that the man was passing out and tried to cry for help. The police, however, yelled at the man and asked him to “stop pretending”.
Paramedics arrived at the scene to assist and said the man’s vitals were so low that he could not feel his hands and feet.
Source: EduHK Student Union Editorial Board #Dec9
https://www.facebook.com/EdUHKSUEB/videos/426731394882705/
During the disperse operation by the Police at the dawn of December 9, a man was shot in the head by the police’s pepper ball shots. Reporters at the scene witnessed that the man was passing out and tried to cry for help. The police, however, yelled at the man and asked him to “stop pretending”.
Paramedics arrived at the scene to assist and said the man’s vitals were so low that he could not feel his hands and feet.
Source: EduHK Student Union Editorial Board #Dec9
https://www.facebook.com/EdUHKSUEB/videos/426731394882705/
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China Detains Human Rights Lawyers and Familes On the Eve of World's Human Rights Day
Source: Radio Free Asia; Stand News #Dec9
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Source: Radio Free Asia; Stand News #Dec9
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China Detains Human Rights Lawyers and Familes On the Eve of World's Human Rights Day
The UN Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 since 1948. On the eve of this year's Human Rights Day, human rights lawyers in China and their families were barred from making public appearance and leaving their homes between December 9 and 10.
The National Security Police sent by the Chinese Communist Party government said blatantly that the aim was to prevent them from joining Human Rights Day activities.
The targets are human rights lawyers such as Yu Wensheng, Huang Quanzhang and Li Heping and their families. Not only that their homes were blocked or monitored by a group of unidentified agents, but they were also barred from bringing their kids to school or visiting hospitalized parent.
In Taiwan, 18 organizations petitioned and called on the international community to monitor China's human rights oppression.
Source: Stand News; Radio Free Asia #Dec9
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-rally-12092020060157.html
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#HumanRightsLawyer
#YuWensheng #HuangQuanzhang #LiHeping
China Detains Human Rights Lawyers and Familes On the Eve of World's Human Rights Day
The UN Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 since 1948. On the eve of this year's Human Rights Day, human rights lawyers in China and their families were barred from making public appearance and leaving their homes between December 9 and 10.
The National Security Police sent by the Chinese Communist Party government said blatantly that the aim was to prevent them from joining Human Rights Day activities.
The targets are human rights lawyers such as Yu Wensheng, Huang Quanzhang and Li Heping and their families. Not only that their homes were blocked or monitored by a group of unidentified agents, but they were also barred from bringing their kids to school or visiting hospitalized parent.
In Taiwan, 18 organizations petitioned and called on the international community to monitor China's human rights oppression.
Source: Stand News; Radio Free Asia #Dec9
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-rally-12092020060157.html
#HumanRightsDay
#HumanRightsLawyer
#YuWensheng #HuangQuanzhang #LiHeping
#PoliticalProsecution #AssetFreezing
HK Police raid homeless hostels and freeze the bank account of a grassroot charity church
Source: Stand News #Dec9
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HK Police raid homeless hostels and freeze the bank account of a grassroot charity church
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HK Police raid homeless hostels and freeze the bank account of a grassroot charity church
On December 9, 2020, the Hong Kong police raided the Good Neighbour North District church, a registered charity, in its Kwun Tong branch and searched its Fanling church.
Police officers arrested two staff members on the site and issued a wanted order to the Church’s pastor, Ray Chan Hoi-hing and his wife.
Hours later pastor Chan said #HSBC had frozen the bank accounts of him, his wife and the church.
While the Hong Kong police did not respond to a request for comment on the church incident, HSBC said it was unable to comment on matters related to specific accounts.
The church, known for actively providing humanitarian aid to pro-democracy protesters, posted on its Facebook that the freezing of their account was an “act of political retaliation”.
Pastor Chan said HSBC had become “a tool for the regime’s attempt to take political revenge via economic oppression”.
In an open letter to HSBC, the church urged the bank to unfreeze the accounts saying the HSBC accounts were their only accounts, and their freezing would lead to the termination of its hostel services for homeless people in Hong Kong.
Chan and other members of grassroots church groups were frequent attendees at Hong Kong’s mass protests, acting as peacekeepers to protect the young protesters from police violence, as well as intervening any protest violence.
They have also assisted young people going through the court system on protest-related charges.
Source: Stand News #Dec9
#NationalSecurityLaw
#GoodNeighbourNorthDistrictChurch #SafeguardOurGeneration
HK Police raid homeless hostels and freeze the bank account of a grassroot charity church
On December 9, 2020, the Hong Kong police raided the Good Neighbour North District church, a registered charity, in its Kwun Tong branch and searched its Fanling church.
Police officers arrested two staff members on the site and issued a wanted order to the Church’s pastor, Ray Chan Hoi-hing and his wife.
Hours later pastor Chan said #HSBC had frozen the bank accounts of him, his wife and the church.
While the Hong Kong police did not respond to a request for comment on the church incident, HSBC said it was unable to comment on matters related to specific accounts.
The church, known for actively providing humanitarian aid to pro-democracy protesters, posted on its Facebook that the freezing of their account was an “act of political retaliation”.
Pastor Chan said HSBC had become “a tool for the regime’s attempt to take political revenge via economic oppression”.
In an open letter to HSBC, the church urged the bank to unfreeze the accounts saying the HSBC accounts were their only accounts, and their freezing would lead to the termination of its hostel services for homeless people in Hong Kong.
Chan and other members of grassroots church groups were frequent attendees at Hong Kong’s mass protests, acting as peacekeepers to protect the young protesters from police violence, as well as intervening any protest violence.
They have also assisted young people going through the court system on protest-related charges.
Source: Stand News #Dec9
#NationalSecurityLaw
#GoodNeighbourNorthDistrictChurch #SafeguardOurGeneration
#PoliceState
68-year-old retired policewoman forced a kiss on youngster, #Court rules not guilty for indecent assault
Source: Ming Pao, #Dec9
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68-year-old retired policewoman forced a kiss on youngster, #Court rules not guilty for indecent assault
Source: Ming Pao, #Dec9
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68-year-old retired policewoman forced a kiss on youngster, #Court rules not guilty for indecent assault
Last September, two groups of citizens with opposing political stance came into a spat at a park in Sham Shui Po, at which point a youngster started to record the incident on video with his mobile phone. Upset at being recorded, a 68-year-old woman charged at the youngster and forced a kiss on his lips. Although shocked, the youngster wiped his lips and carried on recording.
The woman, a retired police sergeant, then slapped the youngster’s phone and threatened to kiss him again.
On December 8, 2020, the West Kowloon Magistrates Court ruled against the offence of indecent assault, and convicted for three counts of common assault. The judge said in the ruling that the woman's behavior was “constrained”; therefore she was only subject to a fine of HK$4,500.
Source: Ming Pao, #Dec9
#PoliceState #RuleofLaw #HKProtest
68-year-old retired policewoman forced a kiss on youngster, #Court rules not guilty for indecent assault
Last September, two groups of citizens with opposing political stance came into a spat at a park in Sham Shui Po, at which point a youngster started to record the incident on video with his mobile phone. Upset at being recorded, a 68-year-old woman charged at the youngster and forced a kiss on his lips. Although shocked, the youngster wiped his lips and carried on recording.
The woman, a retired police sergeant, then slapped the youngster’s phone and threatened to kiss him again.
On December 8, 2020, the West Kowloon Magistrates Court ruled against the offence of indecent assault, and convicted for three counts of common assault. The judge said in the ruling that the woman's behavior was “constrained”; therefore she was only subject to a fine of HK$4,500.
Source: Ming Pao, #Dec9
#PoliceState #RuleofLaw #HKProtest
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#Court #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Court Rules Pro-democracy Activists Guilty of Inciting and Joining "Unauthorized Assembly" Based on Social Media Posts
#June4 #TiananmenMassacre #Regime #SocialMedia
Source: Stand News; #Dec9
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Hong Kong Court Rules Pro-democracy Activists Guilty of Inciting and Joining "Unauthorized Assembly" Based on Social Media Posts
#June4 #TiananmenMassacre #Regime #SocialMedia
Source: Stand News; #Dec9
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Hong Kong Court Rules Pro-democracy Activists Guilty of Inciting and Joining "Unauthorized Assembly" Based on Social Media Posts
In Hong Kong court on December 8, 2021, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, barrister Chow Hang-tung and former Stand News reporter Gywneth Ho were found guilty of "inciting people" to join the annual June 4 candlelight vigil, commemorating the victims of the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Massacre, in 2020.
The District Court based its ruling on a few assumptions: The court suspected Lai of participating in the conference outside Victoria Park held by the now-defunct Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, as Lai had chanted slogan with some members of the Alliance. The magistrate accused Lai of being a public figure as his appearance drew public attention to the unauthorized assembly. He needs not use words of incitement to intend to incite others.
The judge accused Chow, the then vice-chairperson of the Alliance, of writing a Facebook post "See you tonight" with “an implicit intention of asking people to join her in Victoria Park”.
The judge also presumed Ho that she had participated in so-called 'unauthorized assembly", as she uploaded a photo with a white flower and a white candle on her Facebook page.
#June4 #TiananmenMassacre #Regime #SocialMedia
Source: Stand News #Dec9
https://thestandnews.page.link/Hc5npuPa2ipPZ4g59
Hong Kong Court Rules Pro-democracy Activists Guilty of Inciting and Joining "Unauthorized Assembly" Based on Social Media Posts
In Hong Kong court on December 8, 2021, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, barrister Chow Hang-tung and former Stand News reporter Gywneth Ho were found guilty of "inciting people" to join the annual June 4 candlelight vigil, commemorating the victims of the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Massacre, in 2020.
The District Court based its ruling on a few assumptions: The court suspected Lai of participating in the conference outside Victoria Park held by the now-defunct Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, as Lai had chanted slogan with some members of the Alliance. The magistrate accused Lai of being a public figure as his appearance drew public attention to the unauthorized assembly. He needs not use words of incitement to intend to incite others.
The judge accused Chow, the then vice-chairperson of the Alliance, of writing a Facebook post "See you tonight" with “an implicit intention of asking people to join her in Victoria Park”.
The judge also presumed Ho that she had participated in so-called 'unauthorized assembly", as she uploaded a photo with a white flower and a white candle on her Facebook page.
#June4 #TiananmenMassacre #Regime #SocialMedia
Source: Stand News #Dec9
https://thestandnews.page.link/Hc5npuPa2ipPZ4g59
#PoliticalOppression #PressFreedom
2021 marks a sad milestone for Journalists in HK: Committee to Protect Journalists
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists; #Dec9
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2021 marks a sad milestone for Journalists in HK : Committee to Protect Journalists
In the Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) annual report 2021, it revealed that the number of journalists jailed around the world had set another record in 2021, with #China remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars.
As for Hong Kong, it said that 2021 "marked a sad milestone".
"For the first time journalists in the former British colony appear on CPJ’s annual survey of journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work. Eight. Zero to eight in one year."
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https://cpj.org/2021/12/hong-kongs-sad-media-milestone/
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https://cpj.org/2021/12/attacks-on-the-press-in-2021/
The number of reporters jailed for their work hit a new global record of 293 in CPJ’s 2021 prison census, up from a revised total of 280 in 2020. Also so far in 2021, at least 24 journalists were killed as a result of their coverage.
#NationalSecurityLaw #FreedomOfSpeech #PressFreedom #JimmyLai #AppleDaily
Source : Committee to Protect Journalists; #Dec9
2021 marks a sad milestone for Journalists in HK : Committee to Protect Journalists
In the Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) annual report 2021, it revealed that the number of journalists jailed around the world had set another record in 2021, with #China remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars.
As for Hong Kong, it said that 2021 "marked a sad milestone".
"For the first time journalists in the former British colony appear on CPJ’s annual survey of journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work. Eight. Zero to eight in one year."
READ FULL ARTICLE:
https://cpj.org/2021/12/hong-kongs-sad-media-milestone/
RELATED ARTICLE:
https://cpj.org/2021/12/attacks-on-the-press-in-2021/
The number of reporters jailed for their work hit a new global record of 293 in CPJ’s 2021 prison census, up from a revised total of 280 in 2020. Also so far in 2021, at least 24 journalists were killed as a result of their coverage.
#NationalSecurityLaw #FreedomOfSpeech #PressFreedom #JimmyLai #AppleDaily
Source : Committee to Protect Journalists; #Dec9
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‘Taken into a cage’: Hong Kong’s sad media milestone - Committee to Protect Journalists
The year 2021 marks a sad milestone in Hong Kong. For the first time journalists in the former British colony appear on CPJ’s annual survey of journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work. Eight. Zero to eight in one year. I first visited Hong Kong nearly…