#ProvisionalCouncil
Hong Kong's Pro-democracy Legislators Refused to Have their Term Extended by Beijing
Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators Chu Hoi-dick and Ray Chan filed an official letter to the Legislative Council's Secretariat that they refuse to have their current tern be extended into the new legislative year without an election.
Editor's note: After the HKSAR government cancelled the legislative election originally scheduled in Sept 2020, the authorities in Beijing has asked the current legislature to be extended until the next election will take place in at least one year.
Source: InMedia #Sept28
https://bit.ly/3jaZnBa
#RayChan #ChuHoiDick #Legco #LegcoElection #boycott
Hong Kong's Pro-democracy Legislators Refused to Have their Term Extended by Beijing
Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators Chu Hoi-dick and Ray Chan filed an official letter to the Legislative Council's Secretariat that they refuse to have their current tern be extended into the new legislative year without an election.
Editor's note: After the HKSAR government cancelled the legislative election originally scheduled in Sept 2020, the authorities in Beijing has asked the current legislature to be extended until the next election will take place in at least one year.
Source: InMedia #Sept28
https://bit.ly/3jaZnBa
#RayChan #ChuHoiDick #Legco #LegcoElection #boycott
#FirstHand
Citizens Gather to Commemorate Umbrella Movement Amidst Heavy Police Presence
1945 | Admiralty
Today is the 6-year mark of the beginning of Umbrella Movement. Citizens have gathered in Pacific Place to commemorate the date. Police stopped and searched journalists on floor 1 and 2 of the mall. Uniformed police are positioned on multiple floors. A police officer with a warning flag was standby. Plainclothes officers were recording with cameras on the ground floor.
The widespread movement six years ago was triggered by the decision of China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the election of the Chief Executive of HKSAR. Hongkongers were angered by the decision, which was widely seen as denying Hong Kong of a fair, true universal suffrage. In response, a large number of citizens occupied Harcourt Road on September 28, 2014, and was confronted with riot police, who fired the first round of tear gas at 5:58pm. They would go on to fire a total of 87 tear gas rounds that day.
The months-long movement was seen as the beginning of political awareness for many Hongkongers, who began to pay closer attention to government policies, as well as the escalating police brutality.
#Sept28 #UmbrellaMovement #ShopWithYou
Citizens Gather to Commemorate Umbrella Movement Amidst Heavy Police Presence
1945 | Admiralty
Today is the 6-year mark of the beginning of Umbrella Movement. Citizens have gathered in Pacific Place to commemorate the date. Police stopped and searched journalists on floor 1 and 2 of the mall. Uniformed police are positioned on multiple floors. A police officer with a warning flag was standby. Plainclothes officers were recording with cameras on the ground floor.
The widespread movement six years ago was triggered by the decision of China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the election of the Chief Executive of HKSAR. Hongkongers were angered by the decision, which was widely seen as denying Hong Kong of a fair, true universal suffrage. In response, a large number of citizens occupied Harcourt Road on September 28, 2014, and was confronted with riot police, who fired the first round of tear gas at 5:58pm. They would go on to fire a total of 87 tear gas rounds that day.
The months-long movement was seen as the beginning of political awareness for many Hongkongers, who began to pay closer attention to government policies, as well as the escalating police brutality.
#Sept28 #UmbrellaMovement #ShopWithYou
#NeverForget #HongKongChronicles #TodayinHistory
The #UmbrellaMovement Started Six Years Ago
It has been six years since Hong Kongers held up their umbrellas in the mist of tear gas.
In the afternoon of 9 September 2014, Hong Kongers who refused the CCP's 831 electoral reform and demanded for universal suffrage occupied Harcourt Road and confronted with the Police.
Source: Stand News #Sept28
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The #UmbrellaMovement Started Six Years Ago
It has been six years since Hong Kongers held up their umbrellas in the mist of tear gas.
In the afternoon of 9 September 2014, Hong Kongers who refused the CCP's 831 electoral reform and demanded for universal suffrage occupied Harcourt Road and confronted with the Police.
Source: Stand News #Sept28
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25593
#NeverForget
The #UmbrellaMovement Started Six Years Ago
With the press release by the Hong Kong Police Force on 5:35 pm, they urged protestors to stop charging Police cordon line and to leave peacefully and orderly, threatening them with using a higher level of force to restore public order and safeguard public safety. The Police then fired the first tear gas to the masses on 5:57 pm. Protesters on Harcourt Road retreated but returned soon.
For "the safety of participants and the interest of Hong Kong", the Government called the organizer to end the Occupying Central movement as they had promised, as they had once promised that once the movement should be stopped and disassembled the movement became chaotic. "No one can stop it now unless CY Leung stepped down," said Benny Tai Yiu-ting.
The Police raised up the orange flag with the phrase "disperse or we will fire" again but protests still kept their hands up in front of the cordon line. A group of riot police, armed with riot guns and shields, kept pushing their line towards Admiralty along Gloucester Road. In front of the Former Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters on Connaught Road Central, they continuously fired several tear gas towards multiple protesters who raised their empty hands at close range. Protesters dispersed and shouted "shame on you" when the riot police kept pushing and firing tear gas until they arrived at Admiralty Centre.
The Hong Kong Police Force later announced that they had fired 87 tear gas grenades which shocked the city.
Neither one at that time could imagine the police would fire over thousands of tear gas within a few months into the anti-extradition law movement after five years. They fired the most number of tear gas canisters on 18 November 2019 during the siege of Polytechnic University, where over 3,200 tear gas canisters were used.
Photo Source: Kenji Wong
Source: Stand News #Sept28
The #UmbrellaMovement Started Six Years Ago
With the press release by the Hong Kong Police Force on 5:35 pm, they urged protestors to stop charging Police cordon line and to leave peacefully and orderly, threatening them with using a higher level of force to restore public order and safeguard public safety. The Police then fired the first tear gas to the masses on 5:57 pm. Protesters on Harcourt Road retreated but returned soon.
For "the safety of participants and the interest of Hong Kong", the Government called the organizer to end the Occupying Central movement as they had promised, as they had once promised that once the movement should be stopped and disassembled the movement became chaotic. "No one can stop it now unless CY Leung stepped down," said Benny Tai Yiu-ting.
The Police raised up the orange flag with the phrase "disperse or we will fire" again but protests still kept their hands up in front of the cordon line. A group of riot police, armed with riot guns and shields, kept pushing their line towards Admiralty along Gloucester Road. In front of the Former Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters on Connaught Road Central, they continuously fired several tear gas towards multiple protesters who raised their empty hands at close range. Protesters dispersed and shouted "shame on you" when the riot police kept pushing and firing tear gas until they arrived at Admiralty Centre.
The Hong Kong Police Force later announced that they had fired 87 tear gas grenades which shocked the city.
Neither one at that time could imagine the police would fire over thousands of tear gas within a few months into the anti-extradition law movement after five years. They fired the most number of tear gas canisters on 18 November 2019 during the siege of Polytechnic University, where over 3,200 tear gas canisters were used.
Photo Source: Kenji Wong
Source: Stand News #Sept28
#BenedictRogers of #HongKongWatch pledges to #StandwithHongKong
//#HongKongers: Today (Sept 28) as I begin my new full-time role as Chief Executive of the organisation I envisioned and co-founded less than 3 yrs ago, Hong Kong Watch, I write this personally as a pledge to you
I'm in this fight for freedom with you—for #HongKong and the world
All the way//
Source: Benedict Rogers's Facebook #Sept28
#FightForFreedom #UAreNotAlone #GlobalSupport
//#HongKongers: Today (Sept 28) as I begin my new full-time role as Chief Executive of the organisation I envisioned and co-founded less than 3 yrs ago, Hong Kong Watch, I write this personally as a pledge to you
I'm in this fight for freedom with you—for #HongKong and the world
All the way//
Source: Benedict Rogers's Facebook #Sept28
#FightForFreedom #UAreNotAlone #GlobalSupport
#MediaControl #Censorship
More Former Management of Pro-China Channel Join NOW TV Newsroom, Inviting Beijing Loyalists to Host Program and Allegedly Censoring News Reports
After rounds of major personnel change since June 2020, 4 former management staff of TVB, a pro-Beijing free-to-air channel in Hong Kong, have already landed in NOW TV Newsroom.
They are Bill Chan Tit-piu, Lee Wai-leung, Queenie Ng Yee-Ting and most recently, Yip Wai-man, who has retired for more than 7 years.
Moreover, on September 27, 2020, NOW TV's news and finance information chief Bill Chan confirmed that pro-Beijing political party leader Starry Lee Wai-king, of DAB, will co-host the "Now Forum", a 30-minute interview programme aired on NOW News twice a week. As a prominent Beijing loyalist, Lee will be accompanied by former Chairman of Hospital Authority, and Chairman of Sunrise Diagnostic Center, Anthony Wu Ting-yuk in the show.
Sparking heavy criticism from the staff and the public, concerning, it is worried that Lee's political stance might undermine the credibility of the programme. Chan, former TVB, now Now News chief, defended that Lee could bring "political heavy-weights and other guests that only she can contact and invite" to the station.
Chan also mentioned that, all news headlines and news concerning constitutional, political and other 'sensitive' issues should go through the new Editorial chief, Yip Wai-ming, who used to work in pro-China TVB.
All materials are supposed to be vetted by respective assignment editors. Chan claimed that the additional vetting could "minimize potential error, despite foreseeable delay in news release."
Source: Citizens News #Sept27
Stand News #Sept28
#NOWTV #PoliticalOppression
#NewsControl #CCTVB
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24221
More Former Management of Pro-China Channel Join NOW TV Newsroom, Inviting Beijing Loyalists to Host Program and Allegedly Censoring News Reports
After rounds of major personnel change since June 2020, 4 former management staff of TVB, a pro-Beijing free-to-air channel in Hong Kong, have already landed in NOW TV Newsroom.
They are Bill Chan Tit-piu, Lee Wai-leung, Queenie Ng Yee-Ting and most recently, Yip Wai-man, who has retired for more than 7 years.
Moreover, on September 27, 2020, NOW TV's news and finance information chief Bill Chan confirmed that pro-Beijing political party leader Starry Lee Wai-king, of DAB, will co-host the "Now Forum", a 30-minute interview programme aired on NOW News twice a week. As a prominent Beijing loyalist, Lee will be accompanied by former Chairman of Hospital Authority, and Chairman of Sunrise Diagnostic Center, Anthony Wu Ting-yuk in the show.
Sparking heavy criticism from the staff and the public, concerning, it is worried that Lee's political stance might undermine the credibility of the programme. Chan, former TVB, now Now News chief, defended that Lee could bring "political heavy-weights and other guests that only she can contact and invite" to the station.
Chan also mentioned that, all news headlines and news concerning constitutional, political and other 'sensitive' issues should go through the new Editorial chief, Yip Wai-ming, who used to work in pro-China TVB.
All materials are supposed to be vetted by respective assignment editors. Chan claimed that the additional vetting could "minimize potential error, despite foreseeable delay in news release."
Source: Citizens News #Sept27
Stand News #Sept28
#NOWTV #PoliticalOppression
#NewsControl #CCTVB
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200+ employees petition for i-Cable management to reveal reasons behind dismissal of engineering team heads
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24432
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24221
眾新聞
再有無綫舊人執掌Now TV管理層 李慧琼取代記者主持《大鳴大放》遭質疑削弱公信力
有Now TV員工向眾新聞表示，距離明年立法會選舉不足一年，電視台提供平台予李慧琼曝光，非常擔心「新聞台中立形象蕩然無存」，亦不相信高層無考慮到這點，質疑為何明知會削延公信力仍「夾硬去馬」。
#PressFreedom suppressed: journalist denied of work visa after 6-month wait
An incoming editor of HK Free Press Aaron Mc Nicholas has been denied a work visa following an almost six-month wait. The Immigration Department was reportedly handed down their rejection without any official reason.
//Editor-in-chief Tom Grundy said that many other news outlets remain in limbo amid unprecedented visa delays, and a pattern had now emerged: “We are a local news outlet and our prospective editor was a journalist originally from Ireland, so this is not another tit-for-tat measure under the US-China trade dispute. It appears we have been targeted under the climate of the new security law and because of our impartial, fact-based coverage.”//
Source: HK Free Press #Sept28
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/27/visas-weaponised-govt-denies-hong-kong-free-press-editor-a-work-visa-without-explanation-after-6-month-wait/
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HK Authorities Deny Reporters' Visas
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24580
#MediaFreedom #Visa
An incoming editor of HK Free Press Aaron Mc Nicholas has been denied a work visa following an almost six-month wait. The Immigration Department was reportedly handed down their rejection without any official reason.
//Editor-in-chief Tom Grundy said that many other news outlets remain in limbo amid unprecedented visa delays, and a pattern had now emerged: “We are a local news outlet and our prospective editor was a journalist originally from Ireland, so this is not another tit-for-tat measure under the US-China trade dispute. It appears we have been targeted under the climate of the new security law and because of our impartial, fact-based coverage.”//
Source: HK Free Press #Sept28
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/27/visas-weaponised-govt-denies-hong-kong-free-press-editor-a-work-visa-without-explanation-after-6-month-wait/
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HK Authorities Deny Reporters' Visas
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24580
#MediaFreedom #Visa
#FailedState
#LegCo Approves HK$24 billion Government's Anti-Pandemic Relief Fund Despite Heavy Criticism and Challenges Over Use of Expenditure
The Legislative Council approved the third round of the Anti-Pandemic Fund, amounted HK$24 billion on September 28, 2020, although legislators across different political affiliations unilaterally criticized the measures being unable to assist the needy, and a waste of public money.
Wong Ting-kwong, a member of pro-Beijing party, DAB, slammed at government official’s request for additional staff recruitment in support of application review. Despite that, he eventually voted in favour of the proposal.
Several pro-democracy lawmakers moved provisional motions in the meeting, such as the addition of unemployment assistance to the Fund and release of more cash to citizens. None of which has been approved.
Source: Stand News #Sept28
#ReliefFund
#LegCo Approves HK$24 billion Government's Anti-Pandemic Relief Fund Despite Heavy Criticism and Challenges Over Use of Expenditure
The Legislative Council approved the third round of the Anti-Pandemic Fund, amounted HK$24 billion on September 28, 2020, although legislators across different political affiliations unilaterally criticized the measures being unable to assist the needy, and a waste of public money.
Wong Ting-kwong, a member of pro-Beijing party, DAB, slammed at government official’s request for additional staff recruitment in support of application review. Despite that, he eventually voted in favour of the proposal.
Several pro-democracy lawmakers moved provisional motions in the meeting, such as the addition of unemployment assistance to the Fund and release of more cash to citizens. None of which has been approved.
Source: Stand News #Sept28
#ReliefFund
#Court
‘Heaviest sentence yet’ in Hong Kong #doxxing case, but site targeting democrats, journalists still online
//Despite a crackdown on the sharing of personal data, a huge doxxing website targeting over 2,000 Hong Kong democrats and journalists remains online despite HKFP's enquiries seven weeks ago.
Hung Wing-sum was sentenced to 45 months behind bars on Monday after admitting to publicly divulging the personal details of government officials, judges, celebrities, police officers and their family members over the Telegram messaging app.
“This is the heaviest sentence imposed by a court in a doxxing case so far,” Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung said in a statement.
Monday’s sentencing comes as a website targeting democrats and journalists remains online almost two months after HKFP alerted the authorities with media enquires. Since 2019, the “HK Leaks” website has openly maintained an online database of personal data belonging to over 2,000 Hong Kong democrats, protesters and journalists.
ID card numbers, headshots, home addresses and phone numbers are often included. Historically, the site has been hosted on Russian servers and promoted by groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
When asked in early August if any action would be take against the domain, or whether the site violated existing laws, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data refused to comment on individual cases...
Responding to HKFP, the police also refused to comment on individual cases last month, and did not say whether any action would be taken...//
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Sept28
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/28/privacy-chief-welcomes-heaviest-sentence-yet-for-doxxing-case-but-a-site-targeting-democrats-journalists-still-online/
#CCP #Privacy #PoliticalOppression #Discrimination
‘Heaviest sentence yet’ in Hong Kong #doxxing case, but site targeting democrats, journalists still online
//Despite a crackdown on the sharing of personal data, a huge doxxing website targeting over 2,000 Hong Kong democrats and journalists remains online despite HKFP's enquiries seven weeks ago.
Hung Wing-sum was sentenced to 45 months behind bars on Monday after admitting to publicly divulging the personal details of government officials, judges, celebrities, police officers and their family members over the Telegram messaging app.
“This is the heaviest sentence imposed by a court in a doxxing case so far,” Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung said in a statement.
Monday’s sentencing comes as a website targeting democrats and journalists remains online almost two months after HKFP alerted the authorities with media enquires. Since 2019, the “HK Leaks” website has openly maintained an online database of personal data belonging to over 2,000 Hong Kong democrats, protesters and journalists.
ID card numbers, headshots, home addresses and phone numbers are often included. Historically, the site has been hosted on Russian servers and promoted by groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
When asked in early August if any action would be take against the domain, or whether the site violated existing laws, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data refused to comment on individual cases...
Responding to HKFP, the police also refused to comment on individual cases last month, and did not say whether any action would be taken...//
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Sept28
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/28/privacy-chief-welcomes-heaviest-sentence-yet-for-doxxing-case-but-a-site-targeting-democrats-journalists-still-online/
#CCP #Privacy #PoliticalOppression #Discrimination
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
‘Heaviest sentence yet’ in Hong Kong doxxing case, but site targeting democrats, journalists still online
Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner has welcomed the tough sentencing of an ex-clerical assistant who pleaded guilty to “misconduct in public office” after publishing the personal data of 215 public officers. Hung Wing-sum was sentenced to 45 months behind bars…