#Arrest #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Police Cracks Down Pro-democracy Group; Activists:
Do not kneel before a life that forces you to lie and suffer humiliation
The Hong Kong police arrested 4 key members of The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, including its vice-chairwoman, Chow Hang-tung, at their homes and offices on the morning of September 8, 2021.
The arrests were made after the Alliance explained why they declined to turn in the financial information requested by the National Security Police, as they
refused spread the white terror instigated by the authorities.
The police has been accusing the pro-democracy group as "foreign agent".
One day ago on September 7, The group's vice-chairwoman and barrister, Chow Hang-tung, spoke to the media, when she filed a letter to the police explaining why the Alliance declineD to reveal information.
Chow said, "We want to tell Hongkongers that we need to fight on. Do not bow down to the regime. Do not kneel before a life that asks you to lie and makes you suffer humiliation. Try your best to live by your conscience in the space you can find."
Source: Stand News; RTHK; InMedia #Sept8
https://thestandnews.page.link/mRkoTujov4KU2VeP7
https://t.me/inmediahknet/14212
#ChowHangTung #Conscience #Integrity #PoliticalProsecution #NationalSecurityLaw #TheAlliance #ForeignCollusion #Regime
Hong Kong Police Cracks Down Pro-democracy Group; Activists:
Do not kneel before a life that forces you to lie and suffer humiliation
The Hong Kong police arrested 4 key members of The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, including its vice-chairwoman, Chow Hang-tung, at their homes and offices on the morning of September 8, 2021.
The arrests were made after the Alliance explained why they declined to turn in the financial information requested by the National Security Police, as they
refused spread the white terror instigated by the authorities.
The police has been accusing the pro-democracy group as "foreign agent".
One day ago on September 7, The group's vice-chairwoman and barrister, Chow Hang-tung, spoke to the media, when she filed a letter to the police explaining why the Alliance declineD to reveal information.
Chow said, "We want to tell Hongkongers that we need to fight on. Do not bow down to the regime. Do not kneel before a life that asks you to lie and makes you suffer humiliation. Try your best to live by your conscience in the space you can find."
Source: Stand News; RTHK; InMedia #Sept8
https://thestandnews.page.link/mRkoTujov4KU2VeP7
https://t.me/inmediahknet/14212
#ChowHangTung #Conscience #Integrity #PoliticalProsecution #NationalSecurityLaw #TheAlliance #ForeignCollusion #Regime
Act to My Conscience
Below is the statement of defence of barrister and pro-democracy activist Tonyee Chow Hang-tung presented in court on October 25, 2021. The original statement in Chinese was published on Citizen News website.
"Your honour, I am the only defendant of this court case.
I am charged over an assembly that never happened. I am a barrister by profession. Towards the end of 2015, I became the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance hereafter) until its announcement on September 25 to disband. I do not have any criminal records..."
Read the fully translated statement here:
https://telegra.ph/Act-to-My-Conscience-11-11
Source: Hong Kong Citizen News #Oct25
#TonyeeChow #June4Vigil #TheAlliance #VictoriaPark
https://bit.ly/2Yy7IKc
Below is the statement of defence of barrister and pro-democracy activist Tonyee Chow Hang-tung presented in court on October 25, 2021. The original statement in Chinese was published on Citizen News website.
"Your honour, I am the only defendant of this court case.
I am charged over an assembly that never happened. I am a barrister by profession. Towards the end of 2015, I became the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance hereafter) until its announcement on September 25 to disband. I do not have any criminal records..."
Read the fully translated statement here:
https://telegra.ph/Act-to-My-Conscience-11-11
Source: Hong Kong Citizen News #Oct25
#TonyeeChow #June4Vigil #TheAlliance #VictoriaPark
https://bit.ly/2Yy7IKc