#ChinaPneumonia
A Standard is Needed for the Revision, HK Government Should Get More Information From Wuhan, Says Kwok Ka-ki
Hong Kong government announced that the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance will be revised as soon as possible to include the "Severe Respiratory Disease associated with a Novel Infectious Agent" as a notifiable infectious disease. This update will be published in the gazette in this week (7 Jan). Civic Party lawmaker Kwok Ka-ki suggested that, revising the ordinance because identifying the pathogen would cause execution difficulties without a clear standard on whether a patient and his family should be isolated or not.
Kwok stated in RTHK radio programme "Talkabout" that, he, as a doctor, wished the government will revise the ordinance, but a standard must be set. He hoped that the Hong Kong can gather more information from Wu Hang authorities.
Concerning a 45-year-old female patient wanting to be discharged from hospital to take care of her daughter, Kwok criticized this was not favourable when dealing with a contagious disease. He suggested the Department of Health to take care of her daughter, or arrange an isolation ward for her as well. He thought that this issue was not handled humanely. He also stated that, other governments had already conducted tests and required health declaration forms targeting flights from Wuhan, yet the Hong Kong government did not follow up on this.
Source: RTHK
#Jan7 #Health #Plague
A Standard is Needed for the Revision, HK Government Should Get More Information From Wuhan, Says Kwok Ka-ki
Hong Kong government announced that the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance will be revised as soon as possible to include the "Severe Respiratory Disease associated with a Novel Infectious Agent" as a notifiable infectious disease. This update will be published in the gazette in this week (7 Jan). Civic Party lawmaker Kwok Ka-ki suggested that, revising the ordinance because identifying the pathogen would cause execution difficulties without a clear standard on whether a patient and his family should be isolated or not.
Kwok stated in RTHK radio programme "Talkabout" that, he, as a doctor, wished the government will revise the ordinance, but a standard must be set. He hoped that the Hong Kong can gather more information from Wu Hang authorities.
Concerning a 45-year-old female patient wanting to be discharged from hospital to take care of her daughter, Kwok criticized this was not favourable when dealing with a contagious disease. He suggested the Department of Health to take care of her daughter, or arrange an isolation ward for her as well. He thought that this issue was not handled humanely. He also stated that, other governments had already conducted tests and required health declaration forms targeting flights from Wuhan, yet the Hong Kong government did not follow up on this.
Source: RTHK
#Jan7 #Health #Plague
Yuen Long District Council Forms Group to Urge Investigation into Police Brutality
Yesterday (7th January 2020), the Yuen Long District Council took a vote in its first meeting of the new term to set up a working group to probe into the 721-mob-attack incident, and also to demand for answers from the police.
The attacks took place at the West Rail Station, late in the evening of the 21 July 2019. About a hundred white-clad assailants, with suspected triad background, attacked commuters at the concourse of the station indiscriminately. The police force faces accusations that it colluded with the assailants, after they took almost 40 minutes before any officers arrived at the scene.
After a landslide victory in District Council election last November, the council is now dominated by pro-democracy members. They are demanding that the government set up an independent inquiry to investigate and look into the the police brutality.
Source: RTHK
#Jan7 #721YuenLongAttack #PoliceBrutality #PoliceState
Yesterday (7th January 2020), the Yuen Long District Council took a vote in its first meeting of the new term to set up a working group to probe into the 721-mob-attack incident, and also to demand for answers from the police.
The attacks took place at the West Rail Station, late in the evening of the 21 July 2019. About a hundred white-clad assailants, with suspected triad background, attacked commuters at the concourse of the station indiscriminately. The police force faces accusations that it colluded with the assailants, after they took almost 40 minutes before any officers arrived at the scene.
After a landslide victory in District Council election last November, the council is now dominated by pro-democracy members. They are demanding that the government set up an independent inquiry to investigate and look into the the police brutality.
Source: RTHK
#Jan7 #721YuenLongAttack #PoliceBrutality #PoliceState
#MassArrest #106Crackdown
#EddieChu: “If We Were To Be Prosecuted, It Would Be As If Putting ‘Democracy’ Under Trial”
As former lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Eddie Chu Hoi-dick walked out of the police station on the night of January 7, 2021, he was welcomed with cheers from Yuen Long District Council members Eddie Chan Shu-fai, Samuel Lai Kwok-Wing, Au Kwok-Kuen and Leung Tak-Ming. They handed him cane juice and tea eggs. Chu was released on HKD30,000 bail.
Chu said if he is to be accused, it would be like putting the word "democracy” on trial in court, “If participating in a democratic election will result in being prosecuted, there will not be anything else left to say."
He mentioned that he is especially worried about the elderly arrestees. Chu said that Dr. Robert Chung Ting-yiu, director of Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, is under a lot of stress right now. He hopes that “he and his family will be able to stay strong.”
Source: InMedia #Jan7
https://bit.ly/35ieJPn
#EddieChu: “If We Were To Be Prosecuted, It Would Be As If Putting ‘Democracy’ Under Trial”
As former lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Eddie Chu Hoi-dick walked out of the police station on the night of January 7, 2021, he was welcomed with cheers from Yuen Long District Council members Eddie Chan Shu-fai, Samuel Lai Kwok-Wing, Au Kwok-Kuen and Leung Tak-Ming. They handed him cane juice and tea eggs. Chu was released on HKD30,000 bail.
Chu said if he is to be accused, it would be like putting the word "democracy” on trial in court, “If participating in a democratic election will result in being prosecuted, there will not be anything else left to say."
He mentioned that he is especially worried about the elderly arrestees. Chu said that Dr. Robert Chung Ting-yiu, director of Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, is under a lot of stress right now. He hopes that “he and his family will be able to stay strong.”
Source: InMedia #Jan7
https://bit.ly/35ieJPn
#HumanitarianCrisis #106Crackdown
#UN Condemns the HK Gov't for Abusing Human Rights and Freedom with #NationalSecurityLaw
Following the mass arrests of 53 political activists, academics, former legislators, current district councillors, and lawyers on Jan 6, 2021, the police arrested pro-democrscy activists #JoshuaWong and #TamTakChi for the breach of national secutity law on Jan 7, despite they were already detained. Wong was questioned without any lawyer.
The United Nations Human Rights Office expressed deep concern and said the "arrests indicate that – as had been feared – the offence of subversion under the National Security Law is indeed being used to detain individuals for exercising legitimate rights to participate in political and public life."
The Office reiterated that "offences such as subversion under the National Security Law are vague and overly broad, facilitating abusive or arbitrary implementation."
Source: #UNHRO; RTHK #Jan7
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1569156-20210107.htm
#UN Condemns the HK Gov't for Abusing Human Rights and Freedom with #NationalSecurityLaw
Following the mass arrests of 53 political activists, academics, former legislators, current district councillors, and lawyers on Jan 6, 2021, the police arrested pro-democrscy activists #JoshuaWong and #TamTakChi for the breach of national secutity law on Jan 7, despite they were already detained. Wong was questioned without any lawyer.
The United Nations Human Rights Office expressed deep concern and said the "arrests indicate that – as had been feared – the offence of subversion under the National Security Law is indeed being used to detain individuals for exercising legitimate rights to participate in political and public life."
The Office reiterated that "offences such as subversion under the National Security Law are vague and overly broad, facilitating abusive or arbitrary implementation."
Source: #UNHRO; RTHK #Jan7
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1569156-20210107.htm
#Statement
#EU Condemns Govt's Crackdown in HK
The EU defends the legislative primaries partaken by the pro-democratic population in Hong Kong as "political activity that should be entirely legitimate in any political system that respects basic democratic principles".
The EU condemns the Hong Kong and the Chinese authorities for using the #NationalSecurityLaw to "stifle political pluralism ... and the exercise of human rights and political freedoms".
The EU calls for the release of the arrestees and urges the authorities to "respect Hong Kong’s rule of law, human rights, democratic principles and high degree of autonomy under the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ principle, as enshrined in the Hong Kong Basic Law and in line with domestic and international obligations".
Source: European Union #Jan7
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/01/07/hong-kong-declaration-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-the-mass-arrest-of-people-involved-in-the-july-2020-pro-democracy-primary-elections/
#EU Condemns Govt's Crackdown in HK
The EU defends the legislative primaries partaken by the pro-democratic population in Hong Kong as "political activity that should be entirely legitimate in any political system that respects basic democratic principles".
The EU condemns the Hong Kong and the Chinese authorities for using the #NationalSecurityLaw to "stifle political pluralism ... and the exercise of human rights and political freedoms".
The EU calls for the release of the arrestees and urges the authorities to "respect Hong Kong’s rule of law, human rights, democratic principles and high degree of autonomy under the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ principle, as enshrined in the Hong Kong Basic Law and in line with domestic and international obligations".
Source: European Union #Jan7
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/01/07/hong-kong-declaration-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-the-mass-arrest-of-people-involved-in-the-july-2020-pro-democracy-primary-elections/
#FailedBankingSystem
#HangSengBank Cancels Pro-democracy Writer's Accounts Without Explanation
Canny Leung Tsz-Shan, a Hong Kong writer, wrote on Facebook on Jan 7, 2021 that two business accounts under the name her company have suddenly been cancelled by Hang Seng Bank, without any explanation. Leung said the accounts have no outstanding balanxe nor debts and maintained transactions everyday.
Leung condemned the Hang Seng Bank for failing Hongkongers as a Hong Kong-based bank, "The bank is no longer a bank. Our home is no longer a home. Is Hong Kong still an international city?"
Leung was a board member of Hong Kong Football Association. She is also outspoken on democratic values.
Source: Stand News #Jan7
#CannyLeung #Bank #FailedState
#HangSengBank Cancels Pro-democracy Writer's Accounts Without Explanation
Canny Leung Tsz-Shan, a Hong Kong writer, wrote on Facebook on Jan 7, 2021 that two business accounts under the name her company have suddenly been cancelled by Hang Seng Bank, without any explanation. Leung said the accounts have no outstanding balanxe nor debts and maintained transactions everyday.
Leung condemned the Hang Seng Bank for failing Hongkongers as a Hong Kong-based bank, "The bank is no longer a bank. Our home is no longer a home. Is Hong Kong still an international city?"
Leung was a board member of Hong Kong Football Association. She is also outspoken on democratic values.
Source: Stand News #Jan7
#CannyLeung #Bank #FailedState
#106Crackdown #PrimaryElection
#LesterShum: "hilarious" of the regime to accuse primaries candidates of "subversion of the state power”
Source: InMedia #Jan7
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#LesterShum: "hilarious" of the regime to accuse primaries candidates of "subversion of the state power”
Source: InMedia #Jan7
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#106Crackdown #PrimaryElection
#LesterShum: "hilarious" of the regime to accuse primaries candidates of "subversion of the state power”
On 6 Jan, 2022, the Hong Kong police arrested 53 people, including pro-democracy candidates of “+35 primary election” in 2019, with accusations of subversion of the state power under the National Security Law (#NSL).
Lester Shum, who won in the primary election in July 2019, was released on bail on the evening of 7 Jan, 2021. While leaving a police station, Shum gave a thumbs up gesture.
He criticised the police force for the mass arrest, which mobilised more than a thousand police officers, with the intention of accusing the pro-democracy candidates of subverting the state power.
"It’s ridiculous. Why am I being accused of subverting by participating in the primary election?”
Shum said that the police met him three times for making his statement, with all of them being recorded. He said that the 53 arrestees had the intention to participate in the elections that they deserved, and that the regime is blurring the lines between what is right and what is wrong daily.
“While making my statement, the officer told me that I violated the national security law and was facing the accusation of subverting of the state power because of my participation in the primary election."
Shum told the Inmedia HK that the police station had to wait for a bail and release document issued by National Security Department. Hence, his release was delayed.
“Police officers wanted me to leave as soon as possible,” he said.
Source: InMedia #Jan7
https://bit.ly/3hPVZf7
#NationalSecurityLaw #MassArrest
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Read what happened on Jan 6, 2021 in Hong Kong:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/27822
#LesterShum: "hilarious" of the regime to accuse primaries candidates of "subversion of the state power”
On 6 Jan, 2022, the Hong Kong police arrested 53 people, including pro-democracy candidates of “+35 primary election” in 2019, with accusations of subversion of the state power under the National Security Law (#NSL).
Lester Shum, who won in the primary election in July 2019, was released on bail on the evening of 7 Jan, 2021. While leaving a police station, Shum gave a thumbs up gesture.
He criticised the police force for the mass arrest, which mobilised more than a thousand police officers, with the intention of accusing the pro-democracy candidates of subverting the state power.
"It’s ridiculous. Why am I being accused of subverting by participating in the primary election?”
Shum said that the police met him three times for making his statement, with all of them being recorded. He said that the 53 arrestees had the intention to participate in the elections that they deserved, and that the regime is blurring the lines between what is right and what is wrong daily.
“While making my statement, the officer told me that I violated the national security law and was facing the accusation of subverting of the state power because of my participation in the primary election."
Shum told the Inmedia HK that the police station had to wait for a bail and release document issued by National Security Department. Hence, his release was delayed.
“Police officers wanted me to leave as soon as possible,” he said.
Source: InMedia #Jan7
https://bit.ly/3hPVZf7
#NationalSecurityLaw #MassArrest
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Read what happened on Jan 6, 2021 in Hong Kong:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/27822