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A trusted source revealed that at least 150 detainees have died in a Xinjiang re-education camp located in Aksu

Editor’s Note: Update on internment camps in Xinjiang, China reported by Shohret Hoshur for Radio Free Asia

(29 Oct) At least 150 people have died from June to December 2018 while detained at an internment camp for mainly ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), as revealed by a local police officer. According to sources that are not verified, the number of deaths can be up to 200.

The massacre happened in the No. 1 re-education camp in Aksu, which is about 10 kilometers from Kuchar city center. A local police officer from the Kuchar County Police Department has verified that at least 150 Uyghurs have died in 6 months, and all their bodies have been buried. The burial process was strictly monitored by police and the victims’ families have been warned to keep quiet about the deaths.

Established two years ago in Xinjiang, this re-education camp has detained millions of Uyghurs. This is however the biggest massacre since. Rumour says that the death toll was over 200, but the police officer disagreed. He could only provide the number of deaths in the camp from the moment he started stationing there, as he had no information before and after he left.

A judicial officer from Kuchar refused to provide the actual number of deaths in the camp and refused to reveal if the number included any government officials.

The camp involved in the incident is the No. 1 re-education camp, one of the four major re-education camps in Xinjiang. The World Uyghur Congress spokesperson Dilxat Raxit condemned Xinjiang for blocking related information.

Dilxat Raxit stated, “The actual data is very hard to verify, as the Chinese government used all means to block related information. A lot of people are detained in the re-education camps and are tortured inhumanely. The torture is not limited to physical torture, but also emotional torture. Under such intolerable circumstances, they suffer mysterious or unnatural deaths.”

Other than the No.1 Re-Education Camp, Kuchar has at least three other re-education camps. Each one has detained thousands of Uyghurs.

Dilxat Raxit continued, “These unnatural deaths do not only happen in Aksu. As the forcefully detained have exceeded 3 million, this number of deaths seems like the tip of the iceberg.”

The CCP (Communist Party of China) government has regarded the massacre as “Top Secret” based on national security standards. It was revealed in a private gathering in early 2019. The police officer who revealed the incident is now detained for investigation.

Source: Radio Free Asia
https://bit.ly/35fGdCV

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In the photo there's Peng Liyuan, wife of chairman Xi JinPing. After the Tienanmen Square Massacre, she went to the square and sang for the PLA soldiers who shot the civilians.

2 years ago she also became the Goodwill Ambassador of WHO.

Source: Facebook (4 Jun)

#TiananmenSquare #Massacre #China
Tiananmen Square Massacre After 31 Years

June 4 in 1989, it is an unforgettable date for all people having conscience. Yet, it is one of the days buried by the Chinese government.

For 31 years, the CCP has buried the truth about Tiananmen Square massacre. The messages given to the Chinese people are: the mass movement never took place; those peaceful protesters were thugs; and only the party can maintain social order and make you rich.

The party keeps using the laws about subversion of state power to deny citizens their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and of demonstration. Dissidents have been silenced, killed or, like me, forced into exile. Given dictators always put their political interests above justice and human rights, they are not ashamed to distort the truth and obliterate any dissent.

We Hong Kongers have persistently mourned June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre for 31 years. It is because we believe that our future generations deserve to know the truth, and we bear the responsibility to redress the grievance.

The truth is that, as people all over the world saw what exactly happened that midnight: tanks crushed and soldiers gunned down unarmed civilians in the streets. Many Hong Kongers emigrated before 1997 out of the fear brought by that massacre.

After 31 years, the same thing happens, but in Hong Kong this time. Following the passing of the new national security law, the mass gathered in Victoria Park, the symbol of the territory’s autonomy. But the assembly has been banned for the first time.

The CCP interferes with the affairs of Hong Kong to the extent that the principle of “One Country, Two Systems” is de facto abolished. Will another massacre like that in Tiananmen Square take place in Hong Kong? The fact is that the CCP has not learnt anything from Tiananmen Square massacre, what it is planning to do is to suppress dissent.

Nowadays in 2020, people could keep eyes on global critical news through Internet. Would the world just ignore the insane crack down in Hong Kong? The world shall pay attention on that and understand the character of the CCP. Otherwise, the world would suffer from the outcome caused by the CCP, Covid-19 is the latest example of that. If you do not want it happens again, please voice for Hong Kong and voice for freedom to make them understand that they cannot control everyone’s mind. This is a good chance for the world to gather together and stop another #massacre that may well happen this century.

#HongKong #CCP #FreedomOfSpeech #FightForFreedom
#TiananmenSquareMassacre

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/04/china-crush-dissent-in-hong-kong-tiananmen-square#maincontent

Further reading:
https://amp.dw.com/en/opinion-tiananmen-has-always-served-as-a-moral-to-learn-from/a-53672193?__twitter_impression=true
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Authorities Ban Tiananmen Massacre Vigil for the Second Year in Hong Kong

Since 1990, Hongkongers have been organizing a candlelight vigil annually on June 4th to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Sqaure massacre and condemn the Chinese Communist Party for the brutal crackdown of pro-democracy citizens in 1989.

For the second year in a row, the Hong Kong police banned the June 4 vigil at Victoria Park, citing the pandemic as a reason. The authorities also banned the "lest we forget" protest planned on May 30, 2021.

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the vigil convenor, pointed out that commemorating June 4 is part of Hongkongers' collective memory in the past 31 years. The Alliance said that they would file an appeal.

Meanwhile, the Secretary for Security John Ka-chiu Lee insisted that any person who join, promote and announce the two events can be sentenced to jail for up to 5 years.

Source: Stand News #May27
https://bit.ly/3bZIzeW

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8 Pro-democracy Hongkongers jailed for 4.5 months to 14 months for inciting June 4 rallies

The Hong Kong police banned the June 4 rally in Victoria Park in 2020 on the grounds of pandemic prevention, and a number of members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC; the Alliance) and pan-democrats were later charged with inciting, holding and participating in an unauthorised rally.

Among them, five pleaded guilty before the trial, while three pleaded not guilty and were convicted after the trial, and were jailed for four months and two weeks to 14 months on 13 December, 2021.

#TonyeeChow Hang-tung made her own plea, stressing that the collapse of political space struck a harder blow to Hongkongers than the epidemic, and that the court dismissed the political suppression of Hongkongers in the name of epidemic prevention.

#JimmyLai Chee-ying also wrote a letter of plea, saying, “If commemorating those who died because of injustice is a crime, then inflict on me that crime and let me suffer the punishment of this crime”.

However, Judge Amanda Jane Woodcock criticised the defendants for ignoring the risks posed by the pandemic and for their arrogance and misconception of believing that the right to assembly was more important than safeguarding public health.

Among them, Lee Cheuk-yan, Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong and Leung Yiu-chung, who committed the offences while on bail then, had their sentences were increased by three months.

Lee Cheuk-yan, who had a leading role in inciting, organising and participating in the rally, received the heaviest sentence of 14 months. For incitement and participation, Richard Tsoi, Leung Yiu-chung and Leung Kam-wai were sentenced to 12 months, 9 months and 9 months of imprisonment respectively. Wu Chi-wai was sentenced to four months and two weeks of imprisonment for his participation.

Of the three who pleaded not guilty, Jimmy Lai was sentenced to an additional three months for offences committed while on bail, totaling out to 13 months in imprisonment for incitement. Tonyee Chow was sentenced to 12 months of imprisonment for incitement and participation, while Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam was sentenced to six months of imprisonment for participating.

Lee Cheuk-yan and Jimmy Lai’s sentences were to be served concurrently with the other assembly cases and no additional prison time was required, leaving the total sentence for all cases at 20 months for the time being.

Source: HK Citizens' News #Jan13

https://www.hkcnews.com/article/49003/%E9%BB%8E%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%B1-%E9%84%92%E5%B9%B8%E5%BD%A4-%E4%BD%95%E6%A1%82%E8%97%8D-49015/%E3%80%90%E7%85%BD%E6%83%91%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E9%9B%86%E6%9C%83%E6%A1%88%E3%80%918%E8%A2%AB%E5%91%8A%E5%9B%9A4%E5%80%8B%E5%8D%8A%E6%9C%88%E8%87%B314%E6%9C%88-%E5%AE%98%E6%96%A5%E8%87%AA%E5%A4%A7%E5%8F%AA%E9%87%8D%E9%9B%86%E6%9C%83%E6%AC%8A%E5%88%A9%E6%BC%A0%E8%A6%96%E7%96%AB%E6%83%85-%E9%BB%8E%E6%99%BA%E8%8B%B1%EF%BC%9A%E8%8B%A5%E6%82%BC%E5%BF%B5%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E6%98%AF%E7%BD%AA-%E5%B0%B1%E8%AE%93%E6%88%91%E8%83%8C%E8%B2%A0

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#Court
8 Pro-democracy Hongkongers jailed for 4.5 months to 14 months for inciting June 4 rallies

The Hong Kong police banned the June 4 rally in Victoria Park in 2020 on the grounds of pandemic prevention, and a number of members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC; the Alliance) and pan-democrats were later charged with inciting, holding and participating in an unauthorised rally.

Among them, five pleaded guilty before the trial, while three pleaded not guilty and were convicted after the trial, and were jailed for four months and two weeks to 14 months on 13 December, 2021.

#TonyeeChow Hang-tung made her own plea, stressing that the collapse of political space struck a harder blow to Hongkongers than the epidemic, and that the court dismissed the political suppression of Hongkongers in the name of epidemic prevention.

#JimmyLai Chee-ying also wrote a letter of plea, saying, “If commemorating those who died because of injustice is a crime, then inflict on me that crime and let me suffer the punishment of this crime”.

However, Judge Amanda Jane Woodcock criticised the defendants for ignoring the risks posed by the pandemic and for their arrogance and misconception of believing that the right to assembly was more important than safeguarding public health.

Among them, Lee Cheuk-yan, Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong and Leung Yiu-chung, who committed the offences while on bail then, had their sentences were increased by three months.

Lee Cheuk-yan, who had a leading role in inciting, organising and participating in the rally, received the heaviest sentence of 14 months. For incitement and participation, Richard Tsoi, Leung Yiu-chung and Leung Kam-wai were sentenced to 12 months, 9 months and 9 months of imprisonment respectively. Wu Chi-wai was sentenced to four months and two weeks of imprisonment for his participation.

Of the three who pleaded not guilty, Jimmy Lai was sentenced to an additional three months for offences committed while on bail, totaling out to 13 months in imprisonment for incitement. Tonyee Chow was sentenced to 12 months of imprisonment for incitement and participation, while Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam was sentenced to six months of imprisonment for participating.

Lee Cheuk-yan and Jimmy Lai’s sentences were to be served concurrently with the other assembly cases and no additional prison time was required, leaving the total sentence for all cases at 20 months for the time being.

Source: HK Citizens' News #Jan13

https://bit.ly/3A6Xj6n

#June4 #Massacre #Vigil #PoliticalProsecution