#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
#ChowHangTungâs fiancé writes open letter: âWhen winter is here, spring is not too far awayâ
On January 4, 2022, Hong Kong court sentenced Barrister Chow Hang-tung, chairperson of the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, to 15 months in jail for âinciting others to join an unauthorized assemblyâ in 2020. Said assembly was the annual June 4th vigil held every year since 1989 in Victoria Park, Hong Kong in commemoration of the victims of the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing.
Yedu, Chow's fiancee and human rights activist in China, wrote a letter to Chow a few days prior to the court's ruling. The letter was slated to be released by Citizens News, but the news outlet was shut down on January 4, 2022. The letter was at last made public on Facebook.
In the letter, Yedu said a heavy sentence was expected and that rule of law has fallen in Hong Kong. Yedu wrote the letter when former and current management members of Stand News was arrested. "This is the beginning of a long winter," Yedu wrote.
"When winter is here, spring is not too far away,â Yedu also wrote.
Freedom is fragile. According to Yedu, freedom can be âtrampled by the regime in a short time,â even that âthe right to mourn would be silencedâ. A regime does not need citizen, only subjects.
However, seeing how Hongkongers sent letters to Chow and showed support inside and outside of the court, Yedu said, âI can see that people's hearts are not dead yet.â
At last, Yedu cited the lyrics of âFlower of Freedom,â a song dedicated to the pro-democracy protesters who were wounded by or died of the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing:
"However heavy the rain is, the flower of freedom will still bloom.â
On the same day, Chow's personal page was updated with the statement she gave in court on January 4, 2022:
"The only way to defend the freedom of speech is to keep talking."
Source: InmediaHK #Jan5
#Court #PoliticalProsecution
#Resistance #Yedu #Alliance #NeverGiveUp
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On January 4, 2022, Hong Kong court sentenced Barrister Chow Hang-tung, chairperson of the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, to 15 months in jail for âinciting others to join an unauthorized assemblyâ in 2020. Said assembly was the annual June 4th vigil held every year since 1989 in Victoria Park, Hong Kong in commemoration of the victims of the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing.
Yedu, Chow's fiancee and human rights activist in China, wrote a letter to Chow a few days prior to the court's ruling. The letter was slated to be released by Citizens News, but the news outlet was shut down on January 4, 2022. The letter was at last made public on Facebook.
In the letter, Yedu said a heavy sentence was expected and that rule of law has fallen in Hong Kong. Yedu wrote the letter when former and current management members of Stand News was arrested. "This is the beginning of a long winter," Yedu wrote.
"When winter is here, spring is not too far away,â Yedu also wrote.
Freedom is fragile. According to Yedu, freedom can be âtrampled by the regime in a short time,â even that âthe right to mourn would be silencedâ. A regime does not need citizen, only subjects.
However, seeing how Hongkongers sent letters to Chow and showed support inside and outside of the court, Yedu said, âI can see that people's hearts are not dead yet.â
At last, Yedu cited the lyrics of âFlower of Freedom,â a song dedicated to the pro-democracy protesters who were wounded by or died of the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing:
"However heavy the rain is, the flower of freedom will still bloom.â
On the same day, Chow's personal page was updated with the statement she gave in court on January 4, 2022:
"The only way to defend the freedom of speech is to keep talking."
Source: InmediaHK #Jan5
#Court #PoliticalProsecution
#Resistance #Yedu #Alliance #NeverGiveUp
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