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Breaking: Hong Kong Journalists Association deeply concerned that National Security Department detained a journalist and withheld travel documents to assist in investigation

On July 27, 2021, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) released a statement, condemning the National Security Police for confiscating the travel document of a reporter, who is assisting the police in investigation.

The case involved a man called #LeungKinFai who died after stabbing himself and knifing a policeman in Causeway Bay on July 1, 2021.

#PressFreedom

Source: Hong Kong Journalists Association #Jul27

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#WhiteTerror #Education
The University of Hong Kong Expel Students from Campus

The council of the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) announced on August 4, 2021 that all students who attended the July 7 meeting of the students' union council would be banned from the campus.

On that da, the students’ union council passed a motion expressing condolenced over a 50-year-old man called #LeungKinFai who passed away after stabbing himself and knifing a police officer on July 1, 2021, the 24th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR.

Following the attack of the pro-China camp and the governmemt, the students' union has withdrawn the motion and made an official apology.

The latest decision of the University has been perceived as a crackdown on its pro-democracy students.

Source: InMedia #Aug4

https://bit.ly/3ilASD7

#PoliticalSuppression #Education #HKU
Council Members Ask HKU Council to Revoke the Ban against Students Entering Campus

The Council of the Hong Kong University Students' Union (#HKUSU) passed a motion on July 7, in which it expressed sadness over the death of #LeungKinFai, who knifed a police officer on July 1 before he stabbed himself. It thanked the man for his "sacrifice" for Hong Kong. The HKUSU council has then apologised, with several executive committee members resigning from their posts.

However, the university’s governing body, the HKU Council, announced a ban to the students who attended the meeting on August 4 from entering the campus and using the campus facilities because of “serious legal and reputational risks".

In a joint open letter, 7 Council members of the HKU Council revoke the ban. The letter stated that the student's actions were not contrary to the University of Hong Kong Ordinance provisions.

“As members of the council, we believe this decision is improper according to legal principles. By not hearing from the students themselves, it runs contrary to the principles of due process and natural justice.” The letter read. "The university used the excuse of 'risk containment' to arbitrarily deprive the learning opportunities of the students".

However, one of the Council members, Chiu Kit-yee, said the university has yet to contact the respective directors on this matter.

Separately, as at midnight on August 5, over 590 University of HKU graduates have signed a petition demanding the university to revoke the ban on students.

Among the signatories are some high-profile scholars and activists, including the former president of the student union, Althea Suen Hiu-Nam; former Spokesperson of the International Affairs Delegation of the Hong Kong Tertiary Community, Sunny Cheung Kwan-yang; Music composer, Chow Pok-yin; HK Baptist University professor Law Kwai-Cheung; former member of the Progressive Teachers' Alliance, Chik Bon-Shing; former President of HKUSU, Cheung Yiui-Fai; and former Deputy Secretary-General of the Federation of Students, Yeung Chen-yin, etc.

#FreedomofAcademy #HKUSU

Source: Stand News #Aug6
https://bit.ly/3fZzchg

#PoliceState #Arrest #NSL
Hong Kong Police Arrest 3 University Students under #NationalSecurityLaw

At 9:40am on August 18, 2021, Hong Kong police arrested at least three members of the students' union of the University of Hong Kong under the National Security Law.

They include the elected president of the Students' Union #KwokWingHo; the Faculty of Arts Student's Union representative #YungChungHei ; and the president of the students' union council #CheungKingSun.

The police accused the three university students of "promoting terrorism".

According to sources, it is related to a withdrawn motion of the students' union council in July 2021. The Union has passed a motion to extend condolences to the 50-year-old Hong Kong man #LeungKinFai who passed away after stabbing himself and knifing one policeman.

Image: #FirstHand
Source: Now News; Stand News #Aug18

https://thestandnews.page.link/6fuSBWh3LsdKkm178

#StateTerrorism #StudentsUnion #HKU

55 people received penalty tickets, for 599G and littering, and 4 people were arrested due to incitement in the remembrance of Leung Kin-Fai, who attacked a police officer on July 1.

#July1 #LeungKinFai #Remembrance #599G #LitteringNotice #GoHKgraphics

#PressFreedom #MediaLandscape
Another Talk Show Host Replaced after Pro-China Management Takes Over #NowTV in Hong Kong

Now TV News has seen yet another personnel change since Bill Chan Tit-piu, former managing editor of the pro-China TVB News, took over as the head of Now News last June. The latest change involved Max Wong, host of the current affairs programme “News Magazine”.

Jacqueline Pang, a co-host of the programme, posted a photo of Wong and herself on her Facebook page, confirming that Wong will no longer host the programme.

Sources claimed that the newly-arrived Bill Chan once tried to persuade a guest host, Jacky Fung Chi-chen, to reprimand the Council of HKU for tabling a motion to mourn #LeungKinFai who knifed himself after stabbing a police officer on 1 July this year.

Fung refused to comply with Chan's demand, and was soon replaced by Dr Xu Jin of HK University Centre for Asian Studies.

Source: Stand News; #Aug20

https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/a-now-%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E6%99%82%E4%BA%8B%E5%85%A8%E6%96%B9%E4%BD%8D%E5%86%8D%E6%8F%9B%E4%B8%BB%E6%8C%81-%E6%99%82%E4%BA%8B%E8%A9%95%E8%AB%96%E5%93%A1%E7%8E%8B%E6%85%A7%E9%BA%9F%E9%9B%A2%E4%BB%BB

#WhiteTerror
#Vitasoy requests personal info of staff's family and affiliations in order to pay their wages

On July 1, 2021, a 50-year-old Hong Kong man #LeungKinFai killed himself after stabbing a policeman. It later came to public attention that Leung was an employee at the beverage maker Vitasoy.

In August 2021, a union group expressed concern over reports that Vitasoy is asking its staff to declare any links they and their relatives have with various organisations.

Vitasoy has reportedly asked its workers in mid-August 2021 to sign an agreement to allow the company to collect their personal information as well as that of their family members, including any membership of associations or affiliation with different organisations.

According to the reports, the manufacturer also stated that it might not be able to pay workers if they decline to submit the information, and that such data would be handed over to law enforcement departments if required.

A worker who spoke to Stand News says he could not understand why the company
would want to collect information on their family members. "I'm the one working here, not my family. I feel like they're stripping me naked." Another worker said that it put him in a dilemma: "if I agree, I'd worry my personal information would be leaked. If I don't, I might not be able to feed my family."

According to RTHK reports, Confederation of Trade Unions' chief executive Mung Siu-tat said it is rare for companies to require information that is irrelevant to a person's job. "It's not just collecting the staff members' information, but also their families’. It makes people question if the practice has violated the privacy ordinance because it'd be collecting excessive data," he told an RTHK programme.

Mung said he was not convinced by Vitasoy's explanation that it was merely digitalising its human resources system. "Whether it's for salary payment or for signing them up for medical plans, it should already have got sufficient information to do so," he said. "It's not just updating [its system], it has changed the scope of the personal data it collects. It's collecting more private information that is irrelevant to the employment."

Mung said that it is not difficult to imagine that the move was linked to the stabbing incident on July 1.

Source: RTHK; Stand News #Aug28
https://thestandnews.page.link/isaoEeDhpy8KDmxs6

#PoliticalSuppression #Privacy #Censorship

The Hong Kong University Student Union passed a resolution of mourning the death of Leung Kin-Fai, who stabbed a police officer on 1/7. Afterwards, the institution council banned members involved from entering the campus.

#HKU #StudentUnion #July1 #LeungKinFai #GoHKgraphics

Flowers Offered to #LeungKinFai on anniversary of Knife Attack; Offering May Violate National Security Law, Police Warned

On July 1 one year ago, local man Leung Kin-fai stabbed a police officer with a knife outside in Causeway Bay, then took his own life. The attack, which took place on the first anniversary of the #NationalSecurityLaw, was labeled as a "lone wolf-style localist terror attack" by Secretary of Security Chris Tang, who added that the authorities will prosecute any actions that incite and glorify violence.

On July 1 this year, police deployed nearly 20 officers in armored vests to guard the scene of the attack. After finding a small bouquet of white flowers on the ground, the nearby officers quickly went on high alert, cordoning off the area and detaining a nearby young man in black. The man was searched and released after about 10 minutes, and the bouquet was taken away.

The young man told reporters that the flowers were not his; he told the officers that they could verify it by CCTV. One of the officers told him that he could offer flowers on normal days, but that day was a "special day", and the National Security police will follow up on the person making the flower offering.

The act of offering flowers may be a violation of the national security law, the officer said.

Nevertheless, other citizens also laid flowers at the scene despite increased police presence. Their flowers were also quickly cleared away by plainclothes officers.

source: In-Media HK #FirstHand #Jul01

https://bit.ly/3ntDDEk

see also: Mourning activities and police response the day after the attack

Police Cordon Off Sogo Department Store to Prevent Hongkongers from Mourning Fellow Citizen
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30367

Defiant #Hongkongers continue to show respect despite tightened police grip
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30396

Police disrespectfully take away flowers for Deceased Civilian from the altar
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/30395

#LeungKinFai #Remembrance #PoliceState

Police Took Down Identities of Journalists who Reported on Mourning for #LeungKinFai

A typhoon 8 warning was declared around 7pm on July 1. Large number of police vehicles and officers had been deployed to the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay, the site of Leung Kin-Fai's knife attack on a policce officer last year. The store itself had closed its doors by 7:30 due to the approaching typhoon.

Around 8:30, a large group of officers suddenly rushed at nearby journalists and surrounded them with cordons. The journalists were warned to stop taking photos and stop all live videos. Even journalists posted across the street were not spared; all who had been reporting and photographing the scene of mourning will be detained and had their identity taken down, an officer said. Any who did not cooperate would be considered to be "obstructing police", he added.

Earlier, a wheelchair-bound citizen who passed by was stopped and searched by more than 10 officers. Police extended their cordon to include the crosswalk outside Sogo.

source: #FirstHand #Jul01

see also:
Flowers Offered to #LeungKinFai on anniversary of Knife Attack; Offering May Violate National Security Law, Police Warned

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/32960

#PoliceState #PressFreedom

3 Years of #August31Incident, HKers in Britain not to Give Up

HKers gathered at no less than 12 British cities for the three years of the August 31 incident. Participants condemned the Hong Kong police for helping the regime to suppress citizens. They continue to ask for the truth and request the authority and the MTR company to make the CCTV recording public.

Around a thousand participants mourned the incident in front of Parliament Square in London. The host read out the names who gave their lives to the #AntiELAB movement. Names include Leung Ling Kit, the first to jump off from Pacific Place after hanging the slogan next to the building, Leung Kin-Fai, who stabbed a police officer on #Jul01 last year, Chan Yin-lam and Chow Chi-Lok, who still have an unknown cause of death up til now.

On the night of Aug 31, 2019, a group of protesters had arguments with the passengers who opposed the protests inside Prince Edward Station. Many riot police and Special Tactical Squad members then rushed into the station and had an indiscriminate attack on citizens with batons, guns and pepper spray both on the platform and in the train.

The police force even locked the station for more than 30 hours afterwards, obstructing journalists' interviews and rescue work. No one can understand the factual situation inside the station, nor can hold Hong Kong police accountable for using excessive force.

#PrinceEdward #LeungLingKit #LeungKinFai #ChanYinLam #ChowTszLok #ParliamentSquare

Source: RFA #Sep01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/uk-831-09012022095619.html