Why are HongKongers Protesting? How difficult has it become?:
Death threats to Protestors
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[Editor's Note: In addition to the threat of personal safety, nowadays the Hong Kong police rarely issue approval for demonstrations, hence depriving of the population's right to express opinion and increasing the cost of protesting in Hong Kong]
Zoey Leung, vice president of Hong Kong Baptist University student union and an activist in the ongoing pro-democracy protests, has received threatening phone call and seen insulting leaflets in her neighbourhood since August. Other student leaders have also received similar threats even they are abroad.
Leung was questioned and searched for 30 minutes when she entered Australia to coordinate a protest supporting Hong Kong.
#WhiteTerror #DeathThreat
Abstract: http://tyr.jour.hkbu.edu.hk/2019/10/08/in-a-leaderless-movement-hong-kongs-student-activists-face-local-and-international-threats/
Death threats to Protestors
1/3
[Editor's Note: In addition to the threat of personal safety, nowadays the Hong Kong police rarely issue approval for demonstrations, hence depriving of the population's right to express opinion and increasing the cost of protesting in Hong Kong]
Zoey Leung, vice president of Hong Kong Baptist University student union and an activist in the ongoing pro-democracy protests, has received threatening phone call and seen insulting leaflets in her neighbourhood since August. Other student leaders have also received similar threats even they are abroad.
Leung was questioned and searched for 30 minutes when she entered Australia to coordinate a protest supporting Hong Kong.
#WhiteTerror #DeathThreat
Abstract: http://tyr.jour.hkbu.edu.hk/2019/10/08/in-a-leaderless-movement-hong-kongs-student-activists-face-local-and-international-threats/
Why are HongKongers Protesting? How difficult has it become?:
Death threats to Protestors
2/3
[Editor's Note: Pro-China groups have launched website, Facebook pages, Telegram channels and so on to disclose massive information of the protesters. This is not only an infringement of personal privacy, but also increases the price protesters pay for the movement]
The Facebook page “Hong Kong citizen Mr. Wong” owner, who had taken down his Facebook page, had contacted me and explained why his page is closed.
“There are people keep on calling and threatening me since the last 2 weeks”, Mr. Wong knew that his personal information had been leaked. He even received death threats, “people told me to be careful when I go out and threaten to kill my whole family…”, he said helplessly. The reasons behind all the threats was because he wrote complaint letters to the government. He complained over the police force violence, and the government departments, “I had to bear so much pressure just because of writing a letter, the situation would be even worse to the frontline(protesters on the street).”
“I am already too afraid to speak up”, after all those threatening, Mr. Wong had decided to hide the Facebook page. He wants to tell everyone, “no need to worry about me, I will not commit suicide.” (rumor that the government would murder people and make it look like suicide)
Today, Mr. Wong is silenced.
Tomorrow, would be Ga Ming (a common male name in Hong Kong).
The day after tomorrow, all of us will be silenced.
**the very last word from Mr. Wong #GodBlessOurCity
#WhiteTerror #DeathThreat #FreedomOfSpeech
Source: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=139158784099994&id=108970510452155
Death threats to Protestors
2/3
[Editor's Note: Pro-China groups have launched website, Facebook pages, Telegram channels and so on to disclose massive information of the protesters. This is not only an infringement of personal privacy, but also increases the price protesters pay for the movement]
The Facebook page “Hong Kong citizen Mr. Wong” owner, who had taken down his Facebook page, had contacted me and explained why his page is closed.
“There are people keep on calling and threatening me since the last 2 weeks”, Mr. Wong knew that his personal information had been leaked. He even received death threats, “people told me to be careful when I go out and threaten to kill my whole family…”, he said helplessly. The reasons behind all the threats was because he wrote complaint letters to the government. He complained over the police force violence, and the government departments, “I had to bear so much pressure just because of writing a letter, the situation would be even worse to the frontline(protesters on the street).”
“I am already too afraid to speak up”, after all those threatening, Mr. Wong had decided to hide the Facebook page. He wants to tell everyone, “no need to worry about me, I will not commit suicide.” (rumor that the government would murder people and make it look like suicide)
Today, Mr. Wong is silenced.
Tomorrow, would be Ga Ming (a common male name in Hong Kong).
The day after tomorrow, all of us will be silenced.
**the very last word from Mr. Wong #GodBlessOurCity
#WhiteTerror #DeathThreat #FreedomOfSpeech
Source: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=139158784099994&id=108970510452155
#Newspaper
When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out
//I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements… I never even worked for Bloomberg.
//the Bloomberg machine will go to in order to avoid offending Beijing… so dependent on the vast China market for its business that its lawyers threatened to devastate my family financially if I didn’t sign an NDA silencing me about how Bloomberg News killed a story critical of Chinese Communist Party leaders.
//Soon after Bloomberg published the article on Xi’s family wealth in June 2012, my husband received death threats conveyed by a woman who told him she represented a relative of Xi… “Something will happen. It will look like an accident. Nobody will know what happened. He’ll just be found dead.”
//I desperately wanted to speak publicly about the death threats, feeling it would give us stronger protection, but Bloomberg News wanted us not to say anything about it… I stayed silent until October 26, 2012, when another (unrelated) story was published in defiance of the Chinese government. I decided to tweet that we had received death threats after the Bloomberg story on Xi Jinping.
//a Bloomberg manager called my husband and said, “Get your wife to delete her tweets.”
//“If we run the story, we’ll be kicked out of China,” Winkler reportedly said on a company call.
//Mike Bloomberg… his company had self-censored out of fear of offending the Chinese government
//I was also infuriated that they had kept us in harm’s way after we received threats… and now were trying to take away my freedom of speech forever.
//Even now, I am nervous about the consequences of speaking out. But the more of us speak out, the stronger we are.
Full Article: The Intercept, (22-Jan)
https://bit.ly/32Ug8Jp
#Xi #Bloomberg #FreedomOfSpeech #DeathThreat
When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out
//I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements… I never even worked for Bloomberg.
//the Bloomberg machine will go to in order to avoid offending Beijing… so dependent on the vast China market for its business that its lawyers threatened to devastate my family financially if I didn’t sign an NDA silencing me about how Bloomberg News killed a story critical of Chinese Communist Party leaders.
//Soon after Bloomberg published the article on Xi’s family wealth in June 2012, my husband received death threats conveyed by a woman who told him she represented a relative of Xi… “Something will happen. It will look like an accident. Nobody will know what happened. He’ll just be found dead.”
//I desperately wanted to speak publicly about the death threats, feeling it would give us stronger protection, but Bloomberg News wanted us not to say anything about it… I stayed silent until October 26, 2012, when another (unrelated) story was published in defiance of the Chinese government. I decided to tweet that we had received death threats after the Bloomberg story on Xi Jinping.
//a Bloomberg manager called my husband and said, “Get your wife to delete her tweets.”
//“If we run the story, we’ll be kicked out of China,” Winkler reportedly said on a company call.
//Mike Bloomberg… his company had self-censored out of fear of offending the Chinese government
//I was also infuriated that they had kept us in harm’s way after we received threats… and now were trying to take away my freedom of speech forever.
//Even now, I am nervous about the consequences of speaking out. But the more of us speak out, the stronger we are.
Full Article: The Intercept, (22-Jan)
https://bit.ly/32Ug8Jp
#Xi #Bloomberg #FreedomOfSpeech #DeathThreat
The Intercept
Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out on China Reporting
Bloomberg lawyers in Hong Kong threatened to devastate my family financially and take me to court if I did not sign an NDA — even though I had never been a Bloomberg employee.