#WhiteTerror #Nikkei #NationalSecurityLaw
Hong Kong Police investigates a 2019 Advertisement on Japan's Nikkei for Contravening National Security Law
On August 10, 2020, Hong Kong police raided Apple Daily with a court warrant to investigate "crimes endangering national security", arresting the newspaper founder Jimmy Lai and Next Media's top management including the CEO.
On the same day, pro-democracy activists including Agnes Chow, Andy Li and Wilson Li were also arrested for "colluding with foreign forces".
According to AFP, Hong Kong police also went to Nikkei Asian Review’s office in Hong Kong. The police were reportedly armed with a court order to investigate an advert placed on the newspaper a year ago calling for international support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests and featuring the name of now-disbanded pro-democracy party Demosistō.
Similar newspaper advertisement ran in papers around the world and were paid by crowd-funding.
The AFP report pointed out that the Hong Kong police are using past words and deeds of the government critics to bolster investigations under the new security law, despite the fact that the legislation should not be applied retroactively.
Source: Stand News #Aug28
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/法新社-警搜查-蘋果-同日-3-警持手令搜-日經新聞-香港辦公室-涉去年眾志一則廣告/
#PoliticalOppression #Retroactive #FreedomofPress
#Japan
Hong Kong Police investigates a 2019 Advertisement on Japan's Nikkei for Contravening National Security Law
On August 10, 2020, Hong Kong police raided Apple Daily with a court warrant to investigate "crimes endangering national security", arresting the newspaper founder Jimmy Lai and Next Media's top management including the CEO.
On the same day, pro-democracy activists including Agnes Chow, Andy Li and Wilson Li were also arrested for "colluding with foreign forces".
According to AFP, Hong Kong police also went to Nikkei Asian Review’s office in Hong Kong. The police were reportedly armed with a court order to investigate an advert placed on the newspaper a year ago calling for international support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests and featuring the name of now-disbanded pro-democracy party Demosistō.
Similar newspaper advertisement ran in papers around the world and were paid by crowd-funding.
The AFP report pointed out that the Hong Kong police are using past words and deeds of the government critics to bolster investigations under the new security law, despite the fact that the legislation should not be applied retroactively.
Source: Stand News #Aug28
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/法新社-警搜查-蘋果-同日-3-警持手令搜-日經新聞-香港辦公室-涉去年眾志一則廣告/
#PoliticalOppression #Retroactive #FreedomofPress
#Japan
Japanese Minister Criticises China's Attempts to Change the Status Quo. It hopes to join Five Eyes intelligence Alliance to Counter Chinese Threat.
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Administrative Reform, attended a U.S.-Japan symposium on Friday (23 October). He stated that China's growing military power and making attempts to alter the status quo unilaterally, including East and South China sea, China-India border and Hong Kong, have led Japan interested in joining Five Eyes.
Nikkei, alongside Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C. think tank, co-hosted the 17th symposium on "The era of growing U.S.-China rivalry and new administrations in the U.S. and Japan" in Tokyo. Former Japan Defense Minister Taro Kono participated in the meeting through video.
"China's military spending has increased 44 times in the last 30 years... Number of fighter jets, submarines, cruise and missile there's a wide gap between Japan and China," he said. With China's increasingly security load over Hong Kong, "the one country two systems, which had been the current state in Hong Kong, has been brutally destroyed... the international community has to get united and face with this issue.". Kono further said, "although Japan is not an Anglo Saxon nation, and yet Japan shares values with these nations 100%. Therefore Japan should work with the Five Eyes and I hope it will become the Sixth Eye in due course."
#Japan #FiveEyes #TaroKono #CSIS #Nikkei #ChinaThreat
Source: Apple Daily #Oct24
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201024/JQL4RHEV75DLTFNE6YW4MWZOVM/
[Note: Some wordings modified according to the speech of Taro Kono. For details please refer to:
https://channel.nikkei.co.jp/d/?p=csis2020e&s=2468
]
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Administrative Reform, attended a U.S.-Japan symposium on Friday (23 October). He stated that China's growing military power and making attempts to alter the status quo unilaterally, including East and South China sea, China-India border and Hong Kong, have led Japan interested in joining Five Eyes.
Nikkei, alongside Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C. think tank, co-hosted the 17th symposium on "The era of growing U.S.-China rivalry and new administrations in the U.S. and Japan" in Tokyo. Former Japan Defense Minister Taro Kono participated in the meeting through video.
"China's military spending has increased 44 times in the last 30 years... Number of fighter jets, submarines, cruise and missile there's a wide gap between Japan and China," he said. With China's increasingly security load over Hong Kong, "the one country two systems, which had been the current state in Hong Kong, has been brutally destroyed... the international community has to get united and face with this issue.". Kono further said, "although Japan is not an Anglo Saxon nation, and yet Japan shares values with these nations 100%. Therefore Japan should work with the Five Eyes and I hope it will become the Sixth Eye in due course."
#Japan #FiveEyes #TaroKono #CSIS #Nikkei #ChinaThreat
Source: Apple Daily #Oct24
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201024/JQL4RHEV75DLTFNE6YW4MWZOVM/
[Note: Some wordings modified according to the speech of Taro Kono. For details please refer to:
https://channel.nikkei.co.jp/d/?p=csis2020e&s=2468
]