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HK Government Censors Fai-Chun by Pro-democracy District Councillors
One year ago, the pro-democracy camp had a landslide victory in the District Council Election, which is the only direct election in Hong Kong. Since then, the government has been suppressing the operation of the District Councils in different ways.
Recently, Wong Tai Sin District Council member Mok Yee-ha said that the District Council planned to print Fai Chun, a traditional decoration with greeting for the Lunar New Year, which reads “Wish the Good a Peaceful Life”.
The government, however, rejected the proposal by claiming that the greeting “Wish the Good a Peaceful Life” implies political meaning and that it is "not a commonly seen new years greeting".
Some Hongkongers described it as "Literary Inquisition" by the government.
Source: Apple Daily #Nov21
#WishtheGoodAPeacefulLife #TheGoodTheBadAndtheUgly
#Censorship #FaiChun #LiteraryInquisition #LunarNewYear #DistrictCouncil
HK Government Censors Fai-Chun by Pro-democracy District Councillors
One year ago, the pro-democracy camp had a landslide victory in the District Council Election, which is the only direct election in Hong Kong. Since then, the government has been suppressing the operation of the District Councils in different ways.
Recently, Wong Tai Sin District Council member Mok Yee-ha said that the District Council planned to print Fai Chun, a traditional decoration with greeting for the Lunar New Year, which reads “Wish the Good a Peaceful Life”.
The government, however, rejected the proposal by claiming that the greeting “Wish the Good a Peaceful Life” implies political meaning and that it is "not a commonly seen new years greeting".
Some Hongkongers described it as "Literary Inquisition" by the government.
Source: Apple Daily #Nov21
#WishtheGoodAPeacefulLife #TheGoodTheBadAndtheUgly
#Censorship #FaiChun #LiteraryInquisition #LunarNewYear #DistrictCouncil
Arrest of Grandma Wong in Hong Kong.
64-year-old Grandma Wong is an inspiration to generations of pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. She will be nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong and a Parton of human rights group Hong Kong Watch say,
“We send a clear signal to the brutal Chinese Communist Party and its puppet regime in Hong Kong that we will not shield our eyes from their denial of the most basic human rights and their undermining of the rule of law.”
“Grandma Wong and Hong Kong’s grandchildren represent the future, not Tiananmen tanks, coercion , and repression.”
Source: David Alton Lord Alton of Liverpool #Nov21
https://www.davidalton.net/2020/11/21/arrest-of-grandma-wong-in-hong-kong/
#HongKong #HongKongProtest #NobelPrize
64-year-old Grandma Wong is an inspiration to generations of pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. She will be nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong and a Parton of human rights group Hong Kong Watch say,
“We send a clear signal to the brutal Chinese Communist Party and its puppet regime in Hong Kong that we will not shield our eyes from their denial of the most basic human rights and their undermining of the rule of law.”
“Grandma Wong and Hong Kong’s grandchildren represent the future, not Tiananmen tanks, coercion , and repression.”
Source: David Alton Lord Alton of Liverpool #Nov21
https://www.davidalton.net/2020/11/21/arrest-of-grandma-wong-in-hong-kong/
#HongKong #HongKongProtest #NobelPrize
China Will Not Listen to Calls from Australian Officials if Australia Sees Beijing as a Threat
Source: RTHK #Nov21
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Source: RTHK #Nov21
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China Will Not Listen to Calls from Australian Officials if Australia Sees Beijing as a Threat
China has reportedly warned the Australian government that it will not take calls from Australian ministers unless Canberra stops viewing Beijing as a strategic threat.
The Guardian Australia quoted a senior official at the Chinese Embassy in Australia as saying that China urged the Morrison government to make a clear decision on whether Canberra sees Beijing as a "threat" or an "opportunity". Beijing sees this as a key prerequisite for resuming the ministerial dialogue that has been suspended since early this year.
Chinese officials believe that it is up to Australia to reflect on how to prevent regression in the bilateral relationship and to create a good atmosphere for the dialogue. Chinese officials also think that Australia should abandon its Cold War mentality, and they criticize the current problems as being entirely caused by Australia.
Source: RTHK #Nov21
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1561196-20201121.htm
#China #Australia #ChinaAustralianRelations #Canberra #Beijing #GuardianAustralia #AustralianGovernment
China has reportedly warned the Australian government that it will not take calls from Australian ministers unless Canberra stops viewing Beijing as a strategic threat.
The Guardian Australia quoted a senior official at the Chinese Embassy in Australia as saying that China urged the Morrison government to make a clear decision on whether Canberra sees Beijing as a "threat" or an "opportunity". Beijing sees this as a key prerequisite for resuming the ministerial dialogue that has been suspended since early this year.
Chinese officials believe that it is up to Australia to reflect on how to prevent regression in the bilateral relationship and to create a good atmosphere for the dialogue. Chinese officials also think that Australia should abandon its Cold War mentality, and they criticize the current problems as being entirely caused by Australia.
Source: RTHK #Nov21
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1561196-20201121.htm
#China #Australia #ChinaAustralianRelations #Canberra #Beijing #GuardianAustralia #AustralianGovernment
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中方據報警告若澳洲視北京為威脅 將不聽澳方官員電話
中國據報警告澳洲政府，除非坎培拉停止將北京視為戰略威脅，否則中方政府部長不會接聽澳方部長的電話。 澳洲《衛報》引述中國駐澳洲大使館高級官員表示，中方敦促澳洲莫里森政府，就坎培拉視北京為「威脅」抑或「機遇」，作出清晰決定，北京會視此為重啟自年初中斷的部長級對話的關鍵前提。 中方官員認為，應該由澳方反思如何防止雙邊關係倒退，並為對話營造良好氣氛，又認為澳方應該摒棄冷戰思維，批評現時的問題，完全是由澳方造成。 中國與澳洲的關係，自莫里森政府在4月時，要求就新型冠狀病毒源頭，展開國際調查後惡化，澳洲貿易部長伯明…
Citizens Increase Calls for Canada to Stand Up to China
Source: Ottawa Citizens #Nov21
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Citizens Increase Calls for Canada to Stand Up to China
Canadian citizens want continued, harsher treatment towards China.
In response to the appointment of Catroina Le May Doan as head of the Canadian 2022 Olympic delegation, an Ottawa citizen calls for Canada to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics entirely.
“How can we possibly be thinking of sending Canadians under our flag to a country that is holding two of our citizens hostage; that has threatened Canadians in Hong Kong; and that continues to use trade as a weapon against us?”
Citing Canada’s precedence of boycotting the Moscow Games in 1980, he added that the repression of the Uyghurs and democracy in Hong Kong “should be enough for fair-minded countries to withdraw.”
His opinion towards the Chinese government regarding Chinese human rights abuses is echoed by another citizen, who applauds Bob Rae, the Canadian UN Ambassador, for mentioning the alleged genocide in the Xinjiang Province during a UN conference.
He adds that “Like-minded nations must stand up to the CCP and show our support for the Chinese people by supporting Taiwan and Hong Kong.”
Source: Ottawa Citizens #Nov21
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/todays-letters-boycott-the-beijing-winter-olympics-over-chinas-abuses
#China #Canada #humanitariancrisis #Beijing2022 #BoycottBeijing2022
Canadian citizens want continued, harsher treatment towards China.
In response to the appointment of Catroina Le May Doan as head of the Canadian 2022 Olympic delegation, an Ottawa citizen calls for Canada to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics entirely.
“How can we possibly be thinking of sending Canadians under our flag to a country that is holding two of our citizens hostage; that has threatened Canadians in Hong Kong; and that continues to use trade as a weapon against us?”
Citing Canada’s precedence of boycotting the Moscow Games in 1980, he added that the repression of the Uyghurs and democracy in Hong Kong “should be enough for fair-minded countries to withdraw.”
His opinion towards the Chinese government regarding Chinese human rights abuses is echoed by another citizen, who applauds Bob Rae, the Canadian UN Ambassador, for mentioning the alleged genocide in the Xinjiang Province during a UN conference.
He adds that “Like-minded nations must stand up to the CCP and show our support for the Chinese people by supporting Taiwan and Hong Kong.”
Source: Ottawa Citizens #Nov21
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/todays-letters-boycott-the-beijing-winter-olympics-over-chinas-abuses
#China #Canada #humanitariancrisis #Beijing2022 #BoycottBeijing2022
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Today's letters: Boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics over China's abuses
Saturday, Nov. 21: On China and human rights, Lansdowne Park, nuclear power and a historic Ottawa bridge. You can write to us too, at: letters@ottawacitizen.com
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Hong Kong public libraries purge 29 titles about the Tiananmen Massacre from the shelves
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Nov21
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Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Nov21
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Hong Kong public libraries purge 29 titles about the Tiananmen Massacre from the shelves
Hong Kong's libraries now have 392 fewer copies of books about the June 4, 1989 massacre than they did in 2009, an HKFP review has found.
In June 2009, the Home Affairs Bureau made public a spreadsheet of 149 titles about the 1989 June 4 massacre that were in Hong Kong’s public libraries at the time, with a total of 1,162 copies available for lending or reference. By inputting each title into the current online catalogue for public libraries, HKFP found that 29 of the titles — 26 in Chinese and three in English — were no longer available as of November 9.
Twelve years on, the number of June 4 titles that can be borrowed — including those that must be retrieved from reserves or requested from library staff — has dropped to 34 per cent, or 41 titles.
Readers must make an enquiry with a librarian and wait for over 30 minutes to retrieve a title from on-site reserves, library staff told HKFP. For a HK$3.3 fee, readers may place requests for the titles in advance, but would have to wait about a week for delivery.
Among the June 4 titles now purged from public libraries are ones published by the Hong Kong Alliance, as well as works by a former leader of the group who was handed a suspended jail sentence for his role in last year’s unauthorised vigil, and by former leaders of the 1989 protests now in exile overseas.
The Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 1989 ended months of student-led demonstrations in China calling for democracy and other reforms. It is estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people died when the People’s Liberation Army was deployed to crack down on protesters in Beijing.
Information on the event has in the past three decades been heavily censored in mainland China, both on and off the internet. Hong Kong’s freedom to commemorate the event, report on it or read books about it is seen as a litmus test of whether the city can safeguard its freedoms after the handover from Britain to China in 1997.//
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http://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/21/hong-kong-public-libraries-purge-29-titles-about-the-tiananmen-massacre-from-their-shelves/
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Nov21
#TianamenMassacre #PublicLibrary #MemoryWar #June4 #Alliance #Erasure #Books
Hong Kong public libraries purge 29 titles about the Tiananmen Massacre from the shelves
Hong Kong's libraries now have 392 fewer copies of books about the June 4, 1989 massacre than they did in 2009, an HKFP review has found.
In June 2009, the Home Affairs Bureau made public a spreadsheet of 149 titles about the 1989 June 4 massacre that were in Hong Kong’s public libraries at the time, with a total of 1,162 copies available for lending or reference. By inputting each title into the current online catalogue for public libraries, HKFP found that 29 of the titles — 26 in Chinese and three in English — were no longer available as of November 9.
Twelve years on, the number of June 4 titles that can be borrowed — including those that must be retrieved from reserves or requested from library staff — has dropped to 34 per cent, or 41 titles.
Readers must make an enquiry with a librarian and wait for over 30 minutes to retrieve a title from on-site reserves, library staff told HKFP. For a HK$3.3 fee, readers may place requests for the titles in advance, but would have to wait about a week for delivery.
Among the June 4 titles now purged from public libraries are ones published by the Hong Kong Alliance, as well as works by a former leader of the group who was handed a suspended jail sentence for his role in last year’s unauthorised vigil, and by former leaders of the 1989 protests now in exile overseas.
The Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 1989 ended months of student-led demonstrations in China calling for democracy and other reforms. It is estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people died when the People’s Liberation Army was deployed to crack down on protesters in Beijing.
Information on the event has in the past three decades been heavily censored in mainland China, both on and off the internet. Hong Kong’s freedom to commemorate the event, report on it or read books about it is seen as a litmus test of whether the city can safeguard its freedoms after the handover from Britain to China in 1997.//
Read the full article:
http://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/21/hong-kong-public-libraries-purge-29-titles-about-the-tiananmen-massacre-from-their-shelves/
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Nov21
#TianamenMassacre #PublicLibrary #MemoryWar #June4 #Alliance #Erasure #Books
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Exclusive: Hong Kong public libraries purge 29 titles about the Tiananmen Massacre from the shelves
Hong Kong public libraries over the past 12 years have removed 29 out of 149 books about the Tiananmen Massacre from their shelves, a total of 263 individual copies, a review by HKFP has found. Of …
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Hong Kong Film Censorship Authorities reject two student movies citing national security violations
Source: Stand News, #Nov21
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Hong Kong Film Censorship Authorities reject two student movies citing national security violations
Source: Stand News, #Nov21
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Hong Kong Film Censorship Authorities reject two student movies citing national security violations
Two movie screenings in the 4th Ground Up Student Film Festival have been cancelled after the films failed to obtain a Certificate of Approval from Hong Kong’s Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (#OFNAA).
The news came shortly after the amended Film Censorship Ordinance came into effect on 5 November 2021. The amended ordinance sets out the need to put an end to acts and activities that may endanger national security and it also allows the Chief Secretary of Administration to withdraw already-issued screening permits.
On November 19, 2021, Hong Kong Film Censorship Authority first turned down approval for #TheCage, a short film directed by Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU) graduate Tsoi Wing-chau. The film depicts totalitarian rule, capitalism, freedom and resistance.
Two days later, another film Piglet Piglet that sets around Taiwan's Presidential election also failed to obtain an approval certificate. The screening of #PigletPiglet was cancelled just over five hours before it was set to be held.
Director of the film, Lin Tsung-yen, wrote on his Facebook page, saying that “local authorities expressed disapproval. They asked me to cut all scenes and information linked to Taiwanese Presidential election and Tsai Ing-wen.”
#GroundUp #FilmFestival #FilmCensorshipAmendment #NationalSecurityLaw #TsaiIngWen #Cinema
Source: Stand News, #Nov21
https://thestandnews.page.link/CgCJg1s5p4D1XvFF8
Hong Kong Film Censorship Authorities reject two student movies citing national security violations
Two movie screenings in the 4th Ground Up Student Film Festival have been cancelled after the films failed to obtain a Certificate of Approval from Hong Kong’s Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (#OFNAA).
The news came shortly after the amended Film Censorship Ordinance came into effect on 5 November 2021. The amended ordinance sets out the need to put an end to acts and activities that may endanger national security and it also allows the Chief Secretary of Administration to withdraw already-issued screening permits.
On November 19, 2021, Hong Kong Film Censorship Authority first turned down approval for #TheCage, a short film directed by Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU) graduate Tsoi Wing-chau. The film depicts totalitarian rule, capitalism, freedom and resistance.
Two days later, another film Piglet Piglet that sets around Taiwan's Presidential election also failed to obtain an approval certificate. The screening of #PigletPiglet was cancelled just over five hours before it was set to be held.
Director of the film, Lin Tsung-yen, wrote on his Facebook page, saying that “local authorities expressed disapproval. They asked me to cut all scenes and information linked to Taiwanese Presidential election and Tsai Ing-wen.”
#GroundUp #FilmFestival #FilmCensorshipAmendment #NationalSecurityLaw #TsaiIngWen #Cinema
Source: Stand News, #Nov21
https://thestandnews.page.link/CgCJg1s5p4D1XvFF8
Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe
Well, that was unexpected. After the cold, cold theatre of Qatar 2022’s opening game, elite sport reimagined as a despot’s light-show, something remarkable happened on Monday afternoon in Doha.
As night fell over the vast, swooping Khalifa International Stadium (all these World Cup structures are vast and swooping; unless specifically told otherwise, assume vast and swooping) England and Iran produced something that felt jarringly real, oddly warm, suspiciously authentic.
Source：The Guardian #Nov21
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/21/irans-brave-and-powerful-gesture-is-a-small-wonder-from-a-world-cup-of-woe?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR37cMHY1Xq_DUAD4Ilad_UwEn9R1CtbEkTdhaArEcFo1q72AfozPPfpqrE&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#Echobox=1669067544
#Iran #WorldCup #Qatar #Doha
Well, that was unexpected. After the cold, cold theatre of Qatar 2022’s opening game, elite sport reimagined as a despot’s light-show, something remarkable happened on Monday afternoon in Doha.
As night fell over the vast, swooping Khalifa International Stadium (all these World Cup structures are vast and swooping; unless specifically told otherwise, assume vast and swooping) England and Iran produced something that felt jarringly real, oddly warm, suspiciously authentic.
Source：The Guardian #Nov21
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/21/irans-brave-and-powerful-gesture-is-a-small-wonder-from-a-world-cup-of-woe?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR37cMHY1Xq_DUAD4Ilad_UwEn9R1CtbEkTdhaArEcFo1q72AfozPPfpqrE&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#Echobox=1669067544
#Iran #WorldCup #Qatar #Doha