#NeverForget #2Years Ago: Pro-democracy Hongkongers Sing Hallelujah to the Lord Overnight
Two years ago, after June 9, 2019, Hong Kong citizens continued to voice their discontent towards the government's indifference to the 1-million-peopled march --the authorities not only refused to withdraw the plan to implement extradition to China, but also set up the second reading of the bill on June 12, 2019.
On the evening of June 11, 2019, just as pro-democracy Hongkongers surrounded the Legislative Building, the police deployed 5,000 officers at the scene.
As tension built up, religious groups held a mass prayer gathering near Tamar Park, leading the crowd to sing
"Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" in front of the police for over ten hours until dawn.
However, this did not prevent the police from clashing with the civilians on the next day, marking the first case of large-scale police violence in the #AntiELAB movement.
Photo: Kenji Wong
Source: Stand News #Jun11
https://bit.ly/3gnAJgA
#TodayInHistory #Sing
Two years ago, after June 9, 2019, Hong Kong citizens continued to voice their discontent towards the government's indifference to the 1-million-peopled march --the authorities not only refused to withdraw the plan to implement extradition to China, but also set up the second reading of the bill on June 12, 2019.
On the evening of June 11, 2019, just as pro-democracy Hongkongers surrounded the Legislative Building, the police deployed 5,000 officers at the scene.
As tension built up, religious groups held a mass prayer gathering near Tamar Park, leading the crowd to sing
"Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" in front of the police for over ten hours until dawn.
However, this did not prevent the police from clashing with the civilians on the next day, marking the first case of large-scale police violence in the #AntiELAB movement.
Photo: Kenji Wong
Source: Stand News #Jun11
https://bit.ly/3gnAJgA
#TodayInHistory #Sing
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Agnes Chow Released After Being Jailed for 10 Months
On June 12, 2021, pro-democracy activist #AgnesChow, member of the now-dissolved #Demosisto, will be able to leave the prison Tai Lam Centre for Women.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30062
Chow has been jailed for 10 months after the court convicted her of surrounding the Police Headquarters on June 21, 2019 during the #AntiELAB movement.
Despite her young age, Chow's long time engagement with Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and her courageous behaviour in defense of rights and freedom have earned her the title of #RealMulan among the supporting netizens.
Source: Internet #Jun11
#PoliticalPrisoner #NeverForget #NeverForgive #HongKongYouth
Agnes Chow Released After Being Jailed for 10 Months
On June 12, 2021, pro-democracy activist #AgnesChow, member of the now-dissolved #Demosisto, will be able to leave the prison Tai Lam Centre for Women.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30062
Chow has been jailed for 10 months after the court convicted her of surrounding the Police Headquarters on June 21, 2019 during the #AntiELAB movement.
Despite her young age, Chow's long time engagement with Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and her courageous behaviour in defense of rights and freedom have earned her the title of #RealMulan among the supporting netizens.
Source: Internet #Jun11
#PoliticalPrisoner #NeverForget #NeverForgive #HongKongYouth
Hong Kong Watch: 3 public pension funds in Canada involved in investment and human rights violations by Chinese companies
Source: Stand News #Jun11
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Hong Kong Watch: 3 public pension funds in Canada involved in investment and human rights violations by Chinese companies
Hong Kong Watch, the organisation which concern about Hong Kong human rights, published a report on Thursday. It discovered that there are 3 public pension funds in Canada invest in the Chinese companies which involve in Chinese military and human rights violations. The investigation discovered, two of the funds have been invested into the Chinese companies such as China Communications Construction, which have been blacklisted by United States. The investment involved amounts to $373 million Canadian dollars (approximately $2.39 billion HKD)
Hong Kong Watch suggested the Canada Members of the Parliament of Canada urge the government, ban pension funds from investing in companies that involve persecuting Uyghurs and Tibetans and suppressing Hong Kong. Furthermore, it also encourages the government to include companies involved in human rights violations on the “Entity List” and requires the Financial Consumer Council of Canada to pass legislation to restrict investment in companies involved in human rights violations.
Source: Stand News #Jun11
https://bit.ly/3wMg2ln
#HongKongWatch #Canada #China #HumanRights #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #Tibetans #HongKong #Suppression #EntityList #Legislation
Hong Kong Watch, the organisation which concern about Hong Kong human rights, published a report on Thursday. It discovered that there are 3 public pension funds in Canada invest in the Chinese companies which involve in Chinese military and human rights violations. The investigation discovered, two of the funds have been invested into the Chinese companies such as China Communications Construction, which have been blacklisted by United States. The investment involved amounts to $373 million Canadian dollars (approximately $2.39 billion HKD)
Hong Kong Watch suggested the Canada Members of the Parliament of Canada urge the government, ban pension funds from investing in companies that involve persecuting Uyghurs and Tibetans and suppressing Hong Kong. Furthermore, it also encourages the government to include companies involved in human rights violations on the “Entity List” and requires the Financial Consumer Council of Canada to pass legislation to restrict investment in companies involved in human rights violations.
Source: Stand News #Jun11
https://bit.ly/3wMg2ln
#HongKongWatch #Canada #China #HumanRights #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #Tibetans #HongKong #Suppression #EntityList #Legislation
#Censorship #PoliceState
Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
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Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
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Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
The Hong Kong government amended and implemented the guideline for censors under the Film Censorship Ordinance on June 11, 2021.
The amendments are associated to the #NationalSecurityLaw that has been forcefully enacted in June 2020.
The government demands the Censors to check whether a film contains any content that portrays "activities that endanger national security", and any content that is “objectively and reasonably capable of being perceived as endorsing, supporting, promoting, glorifying, encouraging or inciting such act or activity”. The Ordinance allows censors to ban the film.
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
#HongKongCinema #FilmCensor #FreeSpeech #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Authotities Amend #FilmCensorshipOrdinance, Demanding Censors to Ban Films that “Endanger National Security”
The Hong Kong government amended and implemented the guideline for censors under the Film Censorship Ordinance on June 11, 2021.
The amendments are associated to the #NationalSecurityLaw that has been forcefully enacted in June 2020.
The government demands the Censors to check whether a film contains any content that portrays "activities that endanger national security", and any content that is “objectively and reasonably capable of being perceived as endorsing, supporting, promoting, glorifying, encouraging or inciting such act or activity”. The Ordinance allows censors to ban the film.
Source: InMedia #Jun11 https://bit.ly/3xeNoJy
#HongKongCinema #FilmCensor #FreeSpeech #WhiteTerror
China wants to control Indo-Pacific, Defense Secretary Austin says
China is set on controlling the Indo-Pacific, and without a direct line of communication between leaders in Washington and Beijing, a small incident can spark a crisis, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Thursday.
Austin described the lack of a hotline -- popularly called a red phone -- as a "critical" issue.
He was answering a question from Maine Sen. Angus King, who likened the situation to that portrayed in "The Guns of August," the late historian Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the lead-up to World War I. The June 1914 assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne quickly exploded into armed conflict, owing partly to the lack of a mechanism to de-escalate tensions.
Source: Nikkei Asia #Jun11
https://t.co/UOLhfsgjyR
#China #Pacific #Washington #Beijing
China is set on controlling the Indo-Pacific, and without a direct line of communication between leaders in Washington and Beijing, a small incident can spark a crisis, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Thursday.
Austin described the lack of a hotline -- popularly called a red phone -- as a "critical" issue.
He was answering a question from Maine Sen. Angus King, who likened the situation to that portrayed in "The Guns of August," the late historian Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the lead-up to World War I. The June 1914 assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne quickly exploded into armed conflict, owing partly to the lack of a mechanism to de-escalate tensions.
Source: Nikkei Asia #Jun11
https://t.co/UOLhfsgjyR
#China #Pacific #Washington #Beijing
Amnesty International Report Describes Xinjiang's Situation as a “Dystopian Hell Landscape"
Source: Stand News #Jun11
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Amnesty International Report Describes Xinjiang's Situation as a “Dystopian Hell Landscape"
Amnesty International characterized the Chinese government’s actions against the Turkic Muslim population as a “crime against humanity” on Thursday (10 June). They publish a 160-page report, stating Uyghurs and Muslim minorities in Xinjiang are facing systematic abuse, including the torture tool “tiger chair” that a slight move can lead to great pain to the person in the seat.
Recently, many governments and international organizations accuse China of human rights violations. Among them, Amnesty International has been investigating the Xinjiang issue for years. This report describes the Chinese government's intention to remove Muslim cultures and traditions within the territory by different means. The report also states the government regards Turkic Muslim in the region as “extremists”. The report alleges that since most Xinjiang people are afraid of being imprisoned or badly treated, they stop praying nor following any act of Islam observance, including clothing, retouching and speech. Some locals said to Amnesty International, “We cannot say 'let peace be with you (as-salamu-alaykum)'. The government even ban Koran, prayer mats and other religious products.
The report also quotes evidence from Turkic Muslim that they are detained in Chinese government-called “re-education camps", with abuse by the authority. Turkic Muslim women were even forced to accept the system of sterilization or birth control.
Source: Stand News #Jun11
https://bit.ly/3jmJOZQ
#AmnestyInternational #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Turkic #Islam #Muslim #China #HumanRights #Imprison #Extremist #ReeducationCamp #Genocide
Amnesty International characterized the Chinese government’s actions against the Turkic Muslim population as a “crime against humanity” on Thursday (10 June). They publish a 160-page report, stating Uyghurs and Muslim minorities in Xinjiang are facing systematic abuse, including the torture tool “tiger chair” that a slight move can lead to great pain to the person in the seat.
Recently, many governments and international organizations accuse China of human rights violations. Among them, Amnesty International has been investigating the Xinjiang issue for years. This report describes the Chinese government's intention to remove Muslim cultures and traditions within the territory by different means. The report also states the government regards Turkic Muslim in the region as “extremists”. The report alleges that since most Xinjiang people are afraid of being imprisoned or badly treated, they stop praying nor following any act of Islam observance, including clothing, retouching and speech. Some locals said to Amnesty International, “We cannot say 'let peace be with you (as-salamu-alaykum)'. The government even ban Koran, prayer mats and other religious products.
The report also quotes evidence from Turkic Muslim that they are detained in Chinese government-called “re-education camps", with abuse by the authority. Turkic Muslim women were even forced to accept the system of sterilization or birth control.
Source: Stand News #Jun11
https://bit.ly/3jmJOZQ
#AmnestyInternational #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Turkic #Islam #Muslim #China #HumanRights #Imprison #Extremist #ReeducationCamp #Genocide
China Still Buys American DNA Equipment for Xinjiang Despite Blocks
The police in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are still buying hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of American DNA equipment despite warnings from the U.S. government that the sale of such technologies could be used to enable human rights abuses in the region.
The U.S. government has tried to prevent the sale of DNA sequencers, test kits and other products made by American firms to the police in Xinjiang for years, amid concerns raised by scientists and human rights groups that the authorities could use the tools to build systems to track people. In 2019, the Trump administration banned the sale of American goods to most law enforcement agencies in Xinjiang unless the companies received a license. And in 2020, Washington warned that companies selling biometric technology and other products to Xinjiang should be aware of the “reputational, economic and legal risks.”
Source: NY Times #Jun11
https://t.co/lPb5atD3YL
#China #DNA #Xinjiang
The police in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are still buying hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of American DNA equipment despite warnings from the U.S. government that the sale of such technologies could be used to enable human rights abuses in the region.
The U.S. government has tried to prevent the sale of DNA sequencers, test kits and other products made by American firms to the police in Xinjiang for years, amid concerns raised by scientists and human rights groups that the authorities could use the tools to build systems to track people. In 2019, the Trump administration banned the sale of American goods to most law enforcement agencies in Xinjiang unless the companies received a license. And in 2020, Washington warned that companies selling biometric technology and other products to Xinjiang should be aware of the “reputational, economic and legal risks.”
Source: NY Times #Jun11
https://t.co/lPb5atD3YL
#China #DNA #Xinjiang