#PoliceState
Hong Kong Police Targets Pro-democracy Restaurants under the #Pandemic
Several pro-democracy restaurants in Hong Kong have reportedly become the targets of police inspection as soon as the government rolled out mandatory contact-tracing app at the premises on December 9, 2021.
These pro-democracy "yellow" restaurant were ordered by the authorities to halt dinner dine-in services for two weeks after some customers allegedly failed to scan the #LeaveHomeSafe app.
On December 18, 2021, the police and the staff from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (#FEHD) inspected the Kwong Wing Catering branch in Mong Kok. They claimed that one male customer did not scan the, a defecto tracing app, as required by the government.
It was the third Kwong Wing Catering branch to be penalised within a week for similar alleged violations. The inspection was “suspicious,” the eatery wrote on Facebook, saying police arrived less than 20 minutes after the customer concerned sat down.
After reviewing the security footage, Kwong Wing Catering said the male customer came in with another person, who did scan the app. That person then put the device in the man’s backpack while he appeared to be searching for his phone. He eventually presented his companion’s phone to the restaurant staff.
Other affected pro-democracy restaurants included Kabo Burger, Dine Inn, Explorer Fusion Restaurant, Thai Cool, DK Pizza Cafe, WE TIME CAFE, Santgria Kitchen and more.
Source: #FirstHand; #Dec18
#COVID #Discrimination #Planting #Regime
Hong Kong Police Targets Pro-democracy Restaurants under the #Pandemic
Several pro-democracy restaurants in Hong Kong have reportedly become the targets of police inspection as soon as the government rolled out mandatory contact-tracing app at the premises on December 9, 2021.
These pro-democracy "yellow" restaurant were ordered by the authorities to halt dinner dine-in services for two weeks after some customers allegedly failed to scan the #LeaveHomeSafe app.
On December 18, 2021, the police and the staff from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (#FEHD) inspected the Kwong Wing Catering branch in Mong Kok. They claimed that one male customer did not scan the, a defecto tracing app, as required by the government.
It was the third Kwong Wing Catering branch to be penalised within a week for similar alleged violations. The inspection was “suspicious,” the eatery wrote on Facebook, saying police arrived less than 20 minutes after the customer concerned sat down.
After reviewing the security footage, Kwong Wing Catering said the male customer came in with another person, who did scan the app. That person then put the device in the man’s backpack while he appeared to be searching for his phone. He eventually presented his companion’s phone to the restaurant staff.
Other affected pro-democracy restaurants included Kabo Burger, Dine Inn, Explorer Fusion Restaurant, Thai Cool, DK Pizza Cafe, WE TIME CAFE, Santgria Kitchen and more.
Source: #FirstHand; #Dec18
#COVID #Discrimination #Planting #Regime
#PoliceState
Hong Kong Customs officers suspected of framing an Indian youth
On January 14, 2022, an Instagram user, named “azmat_karavan,” claimed he witnessed how officers from the Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department (C&ED) “framed an ethnic minority youth” in Hong Kong.
According to the post, the witness saw an “undercover agent”, who was carrying a cardboard box, approach an individual, whom he described as a South Asian man and asked him to sign for the items.
The witness said the man — reportedly named Ashuk Kumar — responded by saying the goods did not belong to him and said he did not want to receive the parcel.
But he eventually signed for the box after the parcel holder kept asking for his signature — shortly afterwards, a group of customs officers emerged and arrested the man.
In a nine-minute video, a group of plainclothes officers, who said they were from Customs, appeared to surround an ethnic-minority man on Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po.
In a statement from the C&ED released a day later, Customs “immediately conducted a surveillance operation on the delivery and arrested a 34-year-old male consignee under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance” “to combat the sale of counterfeit goods”, stressing that “all operations are conducted with fairness, impartiality and professionalism based on facts and evidence” and denouncing “any such irresponsible remarks regarding the allegation of so-called "planting of evidence" by Customs posted on social media platform”.
Sources: InMediaHK; HK Free Press; Statement from Customs #Jan15
https://bit.ly/324uJWK
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/17/hong-kong-customs-condemn-unfounded-rumours-over-planting-of-evidence-on-southeast-asian-man/
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202201/15/P2022011500452.htm
#Framing #Plotting #Customs #Discrimination #EthnicMinorities
Hong Kong Customs officers suspected of framing an Indian youth
On January 14, 2022, an Instagram user, named “azmat_karavan,” claimed he witnessed how officers from the Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department (C&ED) “framed an ethnic minority youth” in Hong Kong.
According to the post, the witness saw an “undercover agent”, who was carrying a cardboard box, approach an individual, whom he described as a South Asian man and asked him to sign for the items.
The witness said the man — reportedly named Ashuk Kumar — responded by saying the goods did not belong to him and said he did not want to receive the parcel.
But he eventually signed for the box after the parcel holder kept asking for his signature — shortly afterwards, a group of customs officers emerged and arrested the man.
In a nine-minute video, a group of plainclothes officers, who said they were from Customs, appeared to surround an ethnic-minority man on Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po.
In a statement from the C&ED released a day later, Customs “immediately conducted a surveillance operation on the delivery and arrested a 34-year-old male consignee under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance” “to combat the sale of counterfeit goods”, stressing that “all operations are conducted with fairness, impartiality and professionalism based on facts and evidence” and denouncing “any such irresponsible remarks regarding the allegation of so-called "planting of evidence" by Customs posted on social media platform”.
Sources: InMediaHK; HK Free Press; Statement from Customs #Jan15
https://bit.ly/324uJWK
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/17/hong-kong-customs-condemn-unfounded-rumours-over-planting-of-evidence-on-southeast-asian-man/
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202201/15/P2022011500452.htm
#Framing #Plotting #Customs #Discrimination #EthnicMinorities
#CCPinfluence #Discrimination
Hong Kong Lawmaker: Legalizing same sex marriage destroys social value and violates national security law
In a reply to Legislative Council member Regina Ip, chairperson of the New People Party, about the legislation schedule of the Sex Discrimination Ordinance (#SDO), the Equal Opportunities Commission (#EOC) chairperson Chu Man-kin said that there was no timetable for the ordinance at the moment and should not have a rigid one.
But he said that an internal study has reached a consensus on some of the issues.
However, another legislator Junius Ho Kwan-yiu said that legalising homosexual marriage is a matter of right and wrong, and will directly destroy the composition of society and families.
He claims that the dissemination of undesirable ideologies like this was prohibited under Article 23 of the National Security Law of the People's Republic of China.
Source: Inmediahk, #May16
#SDO #LegislativeCouncil #EOC
https://bit.ly/3LnlWjg
Hong Kong Lawmaker: Legalizing same sex marriage destroys social value and violates national security law
In a reply to Legislative Council member Regina Ip, chairperson of the New People Party, about the legislation schedule of the Sex Discrimination Ordinance (#SDO), the Equal Opportunities Commission (#EOC) chairperson Chu Man-kin said that there was no timetable for the ordinance at the moment and should not have a rigid one.
But he said that an internal study has reached a consensus on some of the issues.
However, another legislator Junius Ho Kwan-yiu said that legalising homosexual marriage is a matter of right and wrong, and will directly destroy the composition of society and families.
He claims that the dissemination of undesirable ideologies like this was prohibited under Article 23 of the National Security Law of the People's Republic of China.
Source: Inmediahk, #May16
#SDO #LegislativeCouncil #EOC
https://bit.ly/3LnlWjg