Australia increasingly reliant on China’s demand for iron ore
Escalating political tensions between Canberra and Beijing have done little to dampen the value of exports, with China accounting for more than 40 per cent of goods shipped in May, on the back of record demand for iron ore.
The latest economic chart pack from the Reserve Bank shows a striking lack of diversity in Australia’s trade ties and highlights an increasing dependence on iron ore sales to China.
China made up about 10 per cent of goods and services exports in 2005, well behind Japan, before spiking to 25 per cent at the height of the last mining boom and continuing to climb above 35 per cent this year.
Source: Australian Financial Review #Jul11
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/australia-increasingly-reliant-on-china-s-demand-for-iron-ore-20210711-p588n5
#China #Australia #Iron #Ore #Export
Escalating political tensions between Canberra and Beijing have done little to dampen the value of exports, with China accounting for more than 40 per cent of goods shipped in May, on the back of record demand for iron ore.
The latest economic chart pack from the Reserve Bank shows a striking lack of diversity in Australia’s trade ties and highlights an increasing dependence on iron ore sales to China.
China made up about 10 per cent of goods and services exports in 2005, well behind Japan, before spiking to 25 per cent at the height of the last mining boom and continuing to climb above 35 per cent this year.
Source: Australian Financial Review #Jul11
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/australia-increasingly-reliant-on-china-s-demand-for-iron-ore-20210711-p588n5
#China #Australia #Iron #Ore #Export
#WhiteTerror #Education
The University of Hong Kong Expel Students from Campus
The council of the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) announced on August 4, 2021 that all students who attended the July 7 meeting of the students' union council would be banned from the campus.
On that da, the students’ union council passed a motion expressing condolenced over a 50-year-old man called #LeungKinFai who passed away after stabbing himself and knifing a police officer on July 1, 2021, the 24th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR.
Following the attack of the pro-China camp and the governmemt, the students' union has withdrawn the motion and made an official apology.
The latest decision of the University has been perceived as a crackdown on its pro-democracy students.
Source: InMedia #Aug4
https://bit.ly/3ilASD7
The University of Hong Kong Expel Students from Campus
The council of the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) announced on August 4, 2021 that all students who attended the July 7 meeting of the students' union council would be banned from the campus.
On that da, the students’ union council passed a motion expressing condolenced over a 50-year-old man called #LeungKinFai who passed away after stabbing himself and knifing a police officer on July 1, 2021, the 24th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR.
Following the attack of the pro-China camp and the governmemt, the students' union has withdrawn the motion and made an official apology.
The latest decision of the University has been perceived as a crackdown on its pro-democracy students.
Source: InMedia #Aug4
https://bit.ly/3ilASD7
#Solidarity #HongKongProtest
Detained Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Receives a Marriage Proposal from Activist Boyfriend
Source: Stand News #Jul25
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Detained Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Receives a Marriage Proposal from Activist Boyfriend
Source: Stand News #Jul25
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#Solidarity #HongKongProtest
Detained Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Receives a Marriage Proposal from Activist Boyfriend
The vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Tonyee Chow Hang-tung, who is a barrister, was refused bail and was remanded.
She was accused of "inciting others to participate in an unapproved assembly" for promoting the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre commemorative event in 2021.
Chow's partner Ye Du, a Chinese human rights activist and writer, sent his marriage proposal in a letter.
He expressed his feelings of longing. He saying the darkest time before the dawn can be more remarkable in their hearts. Hw also mentioned that this big wave of time disrupted their original imagination to the future, bringing an expected development.
The proposal letter by Ye Du was published in MingPao today.
The letter was written on July 13th, the anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Ye Du proposed marriage by letter to Tonyee, mentioning, "You said you want to have a romantic proposal. There always has a strange way to propose. But what is compatible with you being in a small jail and me being in a large jail... What is compatible with having a mutual memory on a special date, the anniversary of the death of Liu Xiaobo? What is compatible and more remarkable to the romantic moment under this darkness before the dawn? Tung, would you marry me?"
Ye Du indicated, "For my soul singing songs as a testimony, for those friends sending you this letter as a testimony, for the prison censors of this letter as a testimony, for whoever reading this letter and caring your situation as a testimony", proposing marriage to Tonyee. "Since now, you are the wind and snow, Spring and Summer. You are the world. Only hope to hold your hands for a lifetime".
Source: Stand News #Jul25
https://bit.ly/3zMwOlz
#TonyeeChow #ChowHangTung #YeDu #MarriageProposal #LiuXiaobo #June4th
Detained Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Receives a Marriage Proposal from Activist Boyfriend
The vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Tonyee Chow Hang-tung, who is a barrister, was refused bail and was remanded.
She was accused of "inciting others to participate in an unapproved assembly" for promoting the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre commemorative event in 2021.
Chow's partner Ye Du, a Chinese human rights activist and writer, sent his marriage proposal in a letter.
He expressed his feelings of longing. He saying the darkest time before the dawn can be more remarkable in their hearts. Hw also mentioned that this big wave of time disrupted their original imagination to the future, bringing an expected development.
The proposal letter by Ye Du was published in MingPao today.
The letter was written on July 13th, the anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Ye Du proposed marriage by letter to Tonyee, mentioning, "You said you want to have a romantic proposal. There always has a strange way to propose. But what is compatible with you being in a small jail and me being in a large jail... What is compatible with having a mutual memory on a special date, the anniversary of the death of Liu Xiaobo? What is compatible and more remarkable to the romantic moment under this darkness before the dawn? Tung, would you marry me?"
Ye Du indicated, "For my soul singing songs as a testimony, for those friends sending you this letter as a testimony, for the prison censors of this letter as a testimony, for whoever reading this letter and caring your situation as a testimony", proposing marriage to Tonyee. "Since now, you are the wind and snow, Spring and Summer. You are the world. Only hope to hold your hands for a lifetime".
Source: Stand News #Jul25
https://bit.ly/3zMwOlz
#TonyeeChow #ChowHangTung #YeDu #MarriageProposal #LiuXiaobo #June4th
#Harrassement
China-funded Media Journalist Caught Photographing #InMedia Journalist's Computer in Court, Claims She Was Not Aware It's Prohibited
Source: InMedia #Jul27
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China-funded Media Journalist Caught Photographing #InMedia Journalist's Computer in Court, Claims She Was Not Aware It's Prohibited
Source: InMedia #Jul27
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China-funded Media Caught Photographing #InMedia Journalist's Computer in Court: "Not Aware It's Prohibited"
The ruling of the first case under Hong Kong's #NationalSecurityLaw was handed down on the 27th of July, 2021 at the High Court. Over 80 journalists were in attendance to hear the verdict.
Afterwards, an In-Media HK reporter was told by another attendee that a woman in a blue shirt sitting in the row behind them was photographing their computer screen during the hearing. The woman also opened her #WeChat application at one point, and it was unclear whether she had sent out the photo.
The In-Media reporter immediately confronted the woman and informed the security guard about her actions. The woman was asked to show her cell phone photos, and it appeared that she had taken two photos in court, one of which had captured the In-Media reporter’s conversation with a colleague.
The woman claimed that it was her first time in court, and was not aware that photography was prohibited. She insisted that she had not sent out the photos through WeChat, and had deleted the photos on the spot.
Security later told the In-Media reporter that the woman in question is a "reporter" from Dot Dot News, and she claimed that she took the photo to confirm whether the In-Media reporter was her colleague from #WenWeiPo, a China-funded media, who was also in attendance.
According to available information, Dot Dot News is a subsidiary of China-funded Wen Wei Po, and was granted interviewing privileges by the government in July 2019 as an online news media. However, there had been allegations that they had spread false rumors and fake news; Facebook had shut down Dot Dot News' page after investigations.
As for photography in court, the judiciary stated in a media response that photography by anyone, journalists included, is prohibited by law inside the court and attached facilities. There are also multiple signs in the court building stating so.
Source: In-Media HK #Jul27
https://bit.ly/3l2V9PM
#Doxxing #Court #CCP
China-funded Media Caught Photographing #InMedia Journalist's Computer in Court: "Not Aware It's Prohibited"
The ruling of the first case under Hong Kong's #NationalSecurityLaw was handed down on the 27th of July, 2021 at the High Court. Over 80 journalists were in attendance to hear the verdict.
Afterwards, an In-Media HK reporter was told by another attendee that a woman in a blue shirt sitting in the row behind them was photographing their computer screen during the hearing. The woman also opened her #WeChat application at one point, and it was unclear whether she had sent out the photo.
The In-Media reporter immediately confronted the woman and informed the security guard about her actions. The woman was asked to show her cell phone photos, and it appeared that she had taken two photos in court, one of which had captured the In-Media reporter’s conversation with a colleague.
The woman claimed that it was her first time in court, and was not aware that photography was prohibited. She insisted that she had not sent out the photos through WeChat, and had deleted the photos on the spot.
Security later told the In-Media reporter that the woman in question is a "reporter" from Dot Dot News, and she claimed that she took the photo to confirm whether the In-Media reporter was her colleague from #WenWeiPo, a China-funded media, who was also in attendance.
According to available information, Dot Dot News is a subsidiary of China-funded Wen Wei Po, and was granted interviewing privileges by the government in July 2019 as an online news media. However, there had been allegations that they had spread false rumors and fake news; Facebook had shut down Dot Dot News' page after investigations.
As for photography in court, the judiciary stated in a media response that photography by anyone, journalists included, is prohibited by law inside the court and attached facilities. There are also multiple signs in the court building stating so.
Source: In-Media HK #Jul27
https://bit.ly/3l2V9PM
#Doxxing #Court #CCP
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《點新聞》女記者庭上拍攝《獨媒》記者電腦 稱首次到法庭不知不准攝影 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
（獨媒報導）首宗《國安法》案件今日（27日）裁決，逾80名記者於高等法院報道裁決結果。惟散庭以後，《獨媒》記者獲一名旁聽市民告知，一名坐在記者後一排、身穿藍衫的女士於聆訊期間拍攝記者的電腦，其後一度打開微信軟件，不肯定有否發出。《獨媒》記者隨即上前交涉，並通知保安，該名女士應要求展示手機相片，可見她於庭上拍攝了兩張相片，其中一張拍到記者與同事通訊的
A research found out that 1 dose of BioNTech vaccine has already had a higher antibodies level than 2 doses of Sinovac.
#COVID19 #BioNTech #Sinovac #GoHKgraphics
#COVID19 #BioNTech #Sinovac #GoHKgraphics
China vows retaliation after US blacklists companies
China on Sunday said it will take “necessary measures” to respond to the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities.
The Commerce Ministry said the U.S. move constituted an “unreasonable suppression of Chinese enterprises and a serious breach of international economic and trade rules.”
China will “take necessary measures to firmly safeguard Chinese companies’ legitimate rights and interests,” the ministry’s statement said.
Source: AP News #Jul12
https://t.co/IRJxGbf6se
#China #US #Blacklist #Uyghur #Muslim
China on Sunday said it will take “necessary measures” to respond to the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities.
The Commerce Ministry said the U.S. move constituted an “unreasonable suppression of Chinese enterprises and a serious breach of international economic and trade rules.”
China will “take necessary measures to firmly safeguard Chinese companies’ legitimate rights and interests,” the ministry’s statement said.
Source: AP News #Jul12
https://t.co/IRJxGbf6se
#China #US #Blacklist #Uyghur #Muslim
#TokyoOlympics #Medal
Hong Kong Women's Team win Bronze in Table tennis
On August 5, 2021, Hong Kong local athletes Doo Hoi-kem, So Wai-yam and Lee Ho-ching on August 5, 2021 won a bronze medal in the women's table tennis team event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
This marks the city's fourth medal in this year's Olympics, following the Gold Medal of Cheung Kar-long in foil fencing and the double Silver Medals of Siobhan Haughey in swimming.
Source: Stand News #Aug5
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images
#Hongkongers #TableTennis #Sports
Hong Kong Women's Team win Bronze in Table tennis
On August 5, 2021, Hong Kong local athletes Doo Hoi-kem, So Wai-yam and Lee Ho-ching on August 5, 2021 won a bronze medal in the women's table tennis team event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
This marks the city's fourth medal in this year's Olympics, following the Gold Medal of Cheung Kar-long in foil fencing and the double Silver Medals of Siobhan Haughey in swimming.
Source: Stand News #Aug5
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images
#Hongkongers #TableTennis #Sports
#Medal
Hong Kong Athlete #GraceLau Wins Bronze in #TokyoOlymoics' Kata Competition
Grace Lau Mo-seung won a Brozen Medal in the "Kata" event for her home Hong Kong in the Tokyo Olympics on August 5, 2021.
It is the first and the last time for the Karate competition to be included in the Olympics. 29-yearm-old Lau said in tears after the match that this medal means a lot to her in her athlete career and entering the Olympic games is itself an achievement.
She recalled a few years ago when she first learnt that karate would become an event in the Olympics. She did not think of having a chance to enter the comprtition, but she still did all her best.
On the day of her competition in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she was exhausted after the morning's session. She said to herself before the medal match, "no matter how tired I am, I have to squeeze the last bit of my energy out. I cannot let myself regret later."
She said she had to "thank many people", especially her family, "if there is no support from my family, it is very hard to be a full time athlete [in Hong Kong]."
Lau helped Hong Kong to win the second Bronze medal of the day, after the women's table tennis team.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30721
Source: InMedia #Aug5
https://bit.ly/3joxUgv
#Hongkongers #HongKongAthlete #Sport #Training
Hong Kong Athlete #GraceLau Wins Bronze in #TokyoOlymoics' Kata Competition
Grace Lau Mo-seung won a Brozen Medal in the "Kata" event for her home Hong Kong in the Tokyo Olympics on August 5, 2021.
It is the first and the last time for the Karate competition to be included in the Olympics. 29-yearm-old Lau said in tears after the match that this medal means a lot to her in her athlete career and entering the Olympic games is itself an achievement.
She recalled a few years ago when she first learnt that karate would become an event in the Olympics. She did not think of having a chance to enter the comprtition, but she still did all her best.
On the day of her competition in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she was exhausted after the morning's session. She said to herself before the medal match, "no matter how tired I am, I have to squeeze the last bit of my energy out. I cannot let myself regret later."
She said she had to "thank many people", especially her family, "if there is no support from my family, it is very hard to be a full time athlete [in Hong Kong]."
Lau helped Hong Kong to win the second Bronze medal of the day, after the women's table tennis team.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30721
Source: InMedia #Aug5
https://bit.ly/3joxUgv
#Hongkongers #HongKongAthlete #Sport #Training
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#TokyoOlympics #Medal
Hong Kong Women's Team win Bronze in Table tennis
On August 5, 2021, Hong Kong local athletes Doo Hoi-kem, So Wai-yam and Lee Ho-ching on August 5, 2021 won a bronze medal in the women's table tennis team event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.…
Hong Kong Women's Team win Bronze in Table tennis
On August 5, 2021, Hong Kong local athletes Doo Hoi-kem, So Wai-yam and Lee Ho-ching on August 5, 2021 won a bronze medal in the women's table tennis team event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.…
Some Uyghurs recall the layout of a Xinjiang detention centre, before being sent to a reeducation camp.
#Xinjiang #Humanrights #Reeducationcamp #GoHKgraphics
#Xinjiang #Humanrights #Reeducationcamp #GoHKgraphics
Chinese embassy in UK 'firmly opposes' BBC's reporting on 'Chinese Taipei' Olympic team -statement
The Chinese embassy in the UK "firmly opposes" the BBC's reporting on the participation of Taiwan's "Chinese Taipei" team in the Olympics, it said in a statement on Monday.
"There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China," the embassy said.
Source: Reuters #Aug05
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-embassy-uk-firmly-opposes-bbcs-reporting-chinese-taipei-olympic-team-2021-08-03/
#China #Taiwan #BBC #Olympics
The Chinese embassy in the UK "firmly opposes" the BBC's reporting on the participation of Taiwan's "Chinese Taipei" team in the Olympics, it said in a statement on Monday.
"There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China," the embassy said.
Source: Reuters #Aug05
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-embassy-uk-firmly-opposes-bbcs-reporting-chinese-taipei-olympic-team-2021-08-03/
#China #Taiwan #BBC #Olympics
One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
On long car trips, we usually passed the time with conversation. But it was hard to talk about anything besides what was happening.
The Chinese government’s mass internment of Uyghurs was in full swing. This campaign had begun in Kashgar, Khotan, and other predominantly Uyghur parts of southern Xinjiang. Now it had reached Urumqi, the regional capital, where our acquaintances were regularly disappearing. Every day, hundreds of Uyghurs who had moved here over the decades—finding work, starting families, buying houses, coming to consider themselves locals—had been shipped out to concentration camps known as “study centers.” Nearly everyone I knew from the labor camp where I’d been imprisoned two decades earlier had already been rearrested. My turn would clearly come soon.
Source: The Atlantic #Jul14
https://t.co/Vr27Od8fHX
#China #Uyghur #Kashgar #Khotan
On long car trips, we usually passed the time with conversation. But it was hard to talk about anything besides what was happening.
The Chinese government’s mass internment of Uyghurs was in full swing. This campaign had begun in Kashgar, Khotan, and other predominantly Uyghur parts of southern Xinjiang. Now it had reached Urumqi, the regional capital, where our acquaintances were regularly disappearing. Every day, hundreds of Uyghurs who had moved here over the decades—finding work, starting families, buying houses, coming to consider themselves locals—had been shipped out to concentration camps known as “study centers.” Nearly everyone I knew from the labor camp where I’d been imprisoned two decades earlier had already been rearrested. My turn would clearly come soon.
Source: The Atlantic #Jul14
https://t.co/Vr27Od8fHX
#China #Uyghur #Kashgar #Khotan
#Covid19 #Pandemic
#US Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from #Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt
//US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus -- as soon as they can decipher it.
This giant catalog of information contains genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied at the lab in Wuhan, China which some officials believe may have been the source of the Covid-19 outbreak, multiple people familiar with the matter tell CNN...
Officials conducting the 90-day review hope this information will help answer the question of how the virus jumped from animals to humans. Unlocking that mystery is essential to ultimately determining whether Covid-19 leaked from the lab or was transmitted to humans from animals in the wild...
Investigators both inside and outside the government have long sought genetic data from 22,000 virus samples that were being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That data was removed from the internet by Chinese officials in September 2019, and China has since refused to turn over this and other raw data on early coronavirus cases to the World Health Organization and the US.
The question for investigators is whether the WIV or other labs in China possessed virus samples or other contextual information that could help them trace the coronavirus' evolutionary history.
For now, senior intelligence officials still say that they are genuinely split between the two prevailing theories on the pandemic's origins, or some combination of both scenarios. CNN reported last month that senior Biden administration officials overseeing the 90-day review now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild -- a dramatic shift from a year ago, when Democrats publicly downplayed the so-called lab leak theory.//
Source: CNN #Aug5
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/covid-origins-genetic-data-wuhan-lab/index.html
#CovidOrigin #MadeinChina #Investigation #WuhanPneumonia #WuhanLab
#US Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from #Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt
//US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus -- as soon as they can decipher it.
This giant catalog of information contains genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied at the lab in Wuhan, China which some officials believe may have been the source of the Covid-19 outbreak, multiple people familiar with the matter tell CNN...
Officials conducting the 90-day review hope this information will help answer the question of how the virus jumped from animals to humans. Unlocking that mystery is essential to ultimately determining whether Covid-19 leaked from the lab or was transmitted to humans from animals in the wild...
Investigators both inside and outside the government have long sought genetic data from 22,000 virus samples that were being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That data was removed from the internet by Chinese officials in September 2019, and China has since refused to turn over this and other raw data on early coronavirus cases to the World Health Organization and the US.
The question for investigators is whether the WIV or other labs in China possessed virus samples or other contextual information that could help them trace the coronavirus' evolutionary history.
For now, senior intelligence officials still say that they are genuinely split between the two prevailing theories on the pandemic's origins, or some combination of both scenarios. CNN reported last month that senior Biden administration officials overseeing the 90-day review now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild -- a dramatic shift from a year ago, when Democrats publicly downplayed the so-called lab leak theory.//
Source: CNN #Aug5
Read full article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/covid-origins-genetic-data-wuhan-lab/index.html
#CovidOrigin #MadeinChina #Investigation #WuhanPneumonia #WuhanLab
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Exclusive: Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt | CNN Politics
US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus – as soon as they can decipher it.
#Court #PoliceState
HK Police Forbids Civilians from Seeing Sentenced Pro-democracy Protester Off
Source: InMedia #Jul31
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HK Police Forbids Civilians from Seeing Sentenced Pro-democracy Protester Off
Source: InMedia #Jul31
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HK Police Forbids Civilians from Seeing Sentenced Pro-democracy Protester Off
Hong Kong's first trial under #NationalSecurityLaw was concluded on July 30, 2021 without jury.
The Court found pro-democracy protester #TongYingKit guilty for “inciting secession” and “terrorism”.
Tong was arrested on July 1, 2020, after he drove his motorcycle around a Hong Kong neighborhood with a banner that bore the prominent protest slogan, “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times”. The motorcycle later collided with police officers who tried to stop him, injuring three.
Tong was the first person charged under the national security law and he was sentenced for 9-year imprisonment.
Around 50 of Tong’s supporters waited outside the High Court where Tong was being trialed and nearby shopping mall in a bid to show appreciation to Tong and see him off.
Without compassion, the police, dispersed citizens at the scene, saying “we won’t let you see him off. Piss off.” Pushing citizens to leave the scene, some shouted, “move forward and leave.”
Soon afterwards, the police cordon was set up forbidding citizens to gather and take photograph. In the end, around six pieces of handbills were left on the ground that wrote, “24-year-old Tong Yin-kit. God bless good man. Wish you peace and be safe.”
In a nearby tram station, police were seen intercepting tens of citizens, who were searched without apparent reasons and their ID being recorded.
#PoliticalSuppression #Injustice
Source: InMedia; #Jul30
https://bit.ly/3j7OdOV
HK Police Forbids Civilians from Seeing Sentenced Pro-democracy Protester Off
Hong Kong's first trial under #NationalSecurityLaw was concluded on July 30, 2021 without jury.
The Court found pro-democracy protester #TongYingKit guilty for “inciting secession” and “terrorism”.
Tong was arrested on July 1, 2020, after he drove his motorcycle around a Hong Kong neighborhood with a banner that bore the prominent protest slogan, “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times”. The motorcycle later collided with police officers who tried to stop him, injuring three.
Tong was the first person charged under the national security law and he was sentenced for 9-year imprisonment.
Around 50 of Tong’s supporters waited outside the High Court where Tong was being trialed and nearby shopping mall in a bid to show appreciation to Tong and see him off.
Without compassion, the police, dispersed citizens at the scene, saying “we won’t let you see him off. Piss off.” Pushing citizens to leave the scene, some shouted, “move forward and leave.”
Soon afterwards, the police cordon was set up forbidding citizens to gather and take photograph. In the end, around six pieces of handbills were left on the ground that wrote, “24-year-old Tong Yin-kit. God bless good man. Wish you peace and be safe.”
In a nearby tram station, police were seen intercepting tens of citizens, who were searched without apparent reasons and their ID being recorded.
#PoliticalSuppression #Injustice
Source: InMedia; #Jul30
https://bit.ly/3j7OdOV
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【國安法首案】百警遍佈金鐘趕人兼截查：我哋唔會俾你哋送車㗎啦 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
（獨媒報導）首宗國安法案件，被告唐英傑裁定「煽動他人分裂國家罪」及「恐怖活動罪」
The U.S. Recognizes China Conducting Genocide in Xinjiang
U.S. State Department published a new report on genocide and assaulted prevention, recognizing China conducts genocide in Xinjiang.
The report first detailly elaborates the assault in six countries (China, Myanmar, Iraq, Ethiopia, Syria and South Sudan). The report then indicates China continuously conducting genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities, including prison, torture and forced sterilization. The U.S. has taken multiple measures to respond, including sanctions of relevant officials and parties, limitation of visa issuance and exporting products involved in forced labour. And the Biden government expanded the sanctions against China of the late Trump government.
Source: I-Cable #Jul13
https://youtu.be/lSdCOuJwOL4
#USA #US #China #Biden #Uyghur #genocide #sanctions #minorities
U.S. State Department published a new report on genocide and assaulted prevention, recognizing China conducts genocide in Xinjiang.
The report first detailly elaborates the assault in six countries (China, Myanmar, Iraq, Ethiopia, Syria and South Sudan). The report then indicates China continuously conducting genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities, including prison, torture and forced sterilization. The U.S. has taken multiple measures to respond, including sanctions of relevant officials and parties, limitation of visa issuance and exporting products involved in forced labour. And the Biden government expanded the sanctions against China of the late Trump government.
Source: I-Cable #Jul13
https://youtu.be/lSdCOuJwOL4
#USA #US #China #Biden #Uyghur #genocide #sanctions #minorities
Canada's ex-chief justice renews job on top Hong Kong court despite Beijing's tightening grip
After her first stint as a foreign judge on Hong Kong’s highest court, Beverley McLachlin was adamant the city’s judiciary remained independent, despite mounting pressure from Beijing.
That was late 2019. A lot has happened in the enclave since the former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice finished her first assignment there.
China imposed a draconian new national security law, ushering in a more repressive era that has seen authorities effectively shut down a pro-democracy newspaper, arrest opposition politicians and even seize children’s books they considered seditious.
Source: National Post #Aug02
https://t.co/zSM86cYwA6
#Canada #HongKong #Beijing #BeverleyMcLachlin #Justice
After her first stint as a foreign judge on Hong Kong’s highest court, Beverley McLachlin was adamant the city’s judiciary remained independent, despite mounting pressure from Beijing.
That was late 2019. A lot has happened in the enclave since the former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice finished her first assignment there.
China imposed a draconian new national security law, ushering in a more repressive era that has seen authorities effectively shut down a pro-democracy newspaper, arrest opposition politicians and even seize children’s books they considered seditious.
Source: National Post #Aug02
https://t.co/zSM86cYwA6
#Canada #HongKong #Beijing #BeverleyMcLachlin #Justice