#BREAKING #MassArrest
Pro-democracy lawyer and 10 more arrested by HK National Security Officer, suspected of assisting 12 Hongkongers fleeing for Taiwan

Source: Apple Daily, Cupid News; #Jan14

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#BREAKING #MassArrest
Pro-democracy lawyer and 10 more arrested by HK National Security Officer, suspected of assisting 12 Hongkongers fleeing for Taiwan

This morning (January 14), another pro-democracy lawyer and founder of Aegis, a diner in Taipei, Daniel Wong Kwok-tung was arrested and taken away from his home by National Security police officers. Sources revealed that Wong and other 10 civilians, aged 18 to 42 were arrested for assisting the 12 youth fleeing Hong Kong for Taiwan last August.

Hong Kong police has not provided reasons of the arrest.

At around 6am, Daniel Wong, currently a district councilor of Kowloon City, wrote on his facebook that “the National Security Police will arrive at my home at around 6:10. Don’t know which police station I will be taken to. More details to come.”

Wong is known for his persistent in providing legal assistance to anti-ELAB protesters. He also founded #Aegis, a restaurant in Taiwan which employs Hong Kong residents seeking shelter in Taiwan.

Another vocal social activist, Willis Ho, former vice secretary general of Hong Kong Federation of Students, also wrote on her Facebook this morning, stating that her mother has been arrested and being taken to Tsuen Wan Police Station for investigation.

On January 6, Hong Kong Police deployed more than 1,000 officers and arrested more than 50 civilians in one day, including former legislators, district councilors and political activists involved in LegCo primaries last year. They were suspected of violating the National Security Law, although most of them were released on bail on the next day.

Read what happened on Jan 6, 2021 in Hong Kong:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/27822

Source: Apple Daily, Cupid News; #Jan14
https://hk.appledaily.com/breaking/20210114/GSYWSZWLWREXFP3QLRJQLNIXQA/

#Breaking #Sanction
US announces new sanctions against 6 linked to Mass Arrest of pro-democracy activists in HK

The US announced sanctions against six Hong Kong or Chinese officials connected to the mass arrests of pro-democracy activists on January 6.
 
The six people targeted for new sanctions include Frederic Choi, director of the national security division of the Hong Kong police; Sun Qingye, a deputy to Zheng Yanxiong, who was appointed in July to head a new national security office in Hong Kong.

Also named were pro-Beijing legislator Tam Yiu-chung, You Quan of China’s United Front Work Department, and Assistant Commissioners of Police for National Security, Kelvin Kong Hok-lai and Andrew Kan Kai-yan.

Source: Apple Daily, Reuters; #Jan16

#Breaking
#PoliceState #WuhanPneumonia
Hong Kong Government Imposes Last-minute Compulsory Lockdown in Jordan District; Police Order Reporters to Leave

Video: InMedia
Source: InMedia; RTHK #Jan23

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/28098

#Breaking #PoliceState #WuhanPneumonia
Hong Kong Government Imposes Last-minute Compulsory Lockdown in Jordan District; Police Order Reporters to Leave

At 4am on Jan 23, 2021, the Hong Kong government cited the chapter 599J of the Regulations on Disease Prevention and Control and announced a compulsory lockdown of an area in the Jordan district.

The government refused to respond to any decision made on Jan 22, while police started to station in the area on Friday evening. Not until the early morning of Jan 23, the government issued a press release about the sudden lockdown.

Watch the video:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/28097

The ''restricted'' area is encircled by Woosung Street in the east, Nanking Street in the south, Battery Street in the west, and Kansu Street in the north.

Civilians are not allowed to leave the area until everyone in the area has taken a test and the results have been confirmed. the government has also issued mandatory inspection notices for all premises in the "restricted area". Anyone who has been in the "restricted area" for more than two hours in the past 14 days is also mandated to undergo testing before midnight on Jan 23.

The authorities claimed that they aim to complete all the tests within 48 hours, so that civilians can go to work on Monday.

According to InMedia, police ordered reporters on site to leave and the communication was confusing.

Video: InMedia
Source: InMedia; RTHK #Jan23

http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1571933-20210123.htmn

#Lockdown #Covid19 #CoronavirusPandemic

#Breaking #PoliceState
HK Police raid university twice in a fortnight and arrest Chairman of Student Association

On January 11, 2021, several civilians wearing black reportedly charged the security barrier at the guard post of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK), calling on students entering the campus not to show their student ID cards. One of them threw unknown white powder over a guard before fleeing the scene. After a brief chase, one was arrested.

On the evening of January 25, 2021, police officers raided three student dormitories at the university. Sources revealed that police arrested three more students in connection with the case. The arrestees include the Chairman of the Interim Administrative Committee of the Chinese University Students' Association, Au Cheuk-hei, who is then detained in Shatin Police Station for investigation.

Source: Apple Daily, #Jan25
https://hk.appledaily.com/breaking/20210125/TJ6EZMDAVNCNHBSDVCDQHMIC7Q/

#Arrest #University