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The Hong Kong High Court’s recent ruling that the anti-mask law is incompatible with the Basic Law has infuriated Beijing who claimed that the compliance of Hong Kong’s laws with the Basic Law governing relations between Hong Kong and China could only be judged and decided by China’s National People’s Congress. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, called on the British government to speak out to express its concern at the Chinese remarks. Patten said in a letter to the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab: “The Chinese statement was in complete breach of the Sino-British joint declaration, which states that: ‘The Hong Kong special administrative region will be vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power, including that of final adjudication.’” He warns if the rule of law and autonomy are threatened, Hong Kong’s viability to remain a thriving financial and trading centre will be at risk.

Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/21/china-threatening-autonomy-of-hong-kong-says-chris-patten
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83-year-old Li Yi: I don’t have long to live, but I believe Hong Kong young people have wisdom beyond imagination 1/6

Li Yi is 83 years old. According to him, he takes several medicines a day, for diabetes, for whatever ... and sleeping pills. He often said that he couldn't sleep well since he was young, but he still wrote five newspaper columns a week and did "one-minute reading" for RTHK. Li Yi reads all kinds of news online, and he is no less enthusiastic than younger people. There is a Thai helper who cooks and serves him. Other than that, his home is only a house full of books.

Li Yi's family is all in foreign countries and his late wife was buried in Canada, but he is still struggling in Hong Kong alone. Li Yi said that at this stage, he probably should be with family and write his own autobiography. "Of course I can still write if I leave Hong Kong." However, Li Yi cannot not let go of Hong Kong and leave. He states that ever since Hong Kong’s future problems in 1981, he has been "love Hong Kong" and since then "the feelings for China have been very weak."

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/83-year-old-Li-Yi-I-dont-have-long-to-live-but-I-believe-Hong-Kong-young-people-have-wisdom-beyond-imagination-16-03-07

To be continued

Source: Stand News, (25-Feb)
https://bit.ly/3aARccx

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UK parliamentarians launch probe into Hong Kong police over rights violations

//A cross-party parliamentary group in the United Kingdom has launched an inquiry into possible violations of rights and humanitarian principles against medical workers and activists by the Hong Kong police.

//The findings and recommendations will be presented to Downing Street as evidence of whether or not police actions have violated rights guaranteed under international law.

//it will look into whether police actions have constituted a breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Basic Law.

//“This inquiry marks an important shift in the British government’s approach to addressing human rights abuses in Hong Kong and to defending the city’s rights and freedoms that are guaranteed under the Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration.”

Full Article: HKFP, (11-Mar)
https://bit.ly/3d5dUM4

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