#FirstHand #Apr26
Police Extend Cordon to Outside of Shopping Mall

19:40 | Cityplaza, Tai Koo Shing

Police Push Reporters and Civilians Away and Empty a Shopping Mall on Sunday
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Police Threatens Reporters With Fines and Pepper Spray in Shopping Mall
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#FirstHand #Apr26
Police Push Away Reporters and Civilians and Empty a Shopping Mall on Sunday

19:43 | Tai Koo Shing

Earlier in the shopping mall, over a hundred of citizens voiced their discontent over the recent arrest of 15 heavy-weight pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong.

Over a hundred police stormed in the mall, turing the peaceful event into a chaos.

According to sources, at least one civilian was arrested. Police have emptied the shopping mall.

Police Storm in Shopping Mall, Further Subdueing Consumer Activity During Coronavirus Crisis
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#PoliceState #Taikoo #HongKongProtest #Economy

#FirstHand #Apr26
Police Threaten District Councillor in Private Residential Area

20:30 | Tai Koo Shing
Police shoved away district councillor Andrew Chiu violently and held pepper spray at close distance to his face.

#PoliceState #Taikoo #HongKongProtest

Police Mock Injured District Councillor: "He doesn't have an ear, he can't hear"
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"Crybully" - Police accused councillors for assaults after shoving him
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"Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market" T-shirt worn to stop police from approaching

1937 | Tai Koo Shing
Some civilians initiated “Sing With You” in Cityplaza today in Tai Koo, resulting in a large number of riot police storming into the mall to disperse all civilians on spot indiscriminately. A civilian wore a “Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market - Made in Wuhan” t-shirt, and yelled that he is coming from Wuhan, which is believed to prevent police from approaching him.

Source: Stand News #Apr26
#SingWithYou #TaiKoo #HongKongProtest #Wuhan

#FirstHand #Video #PoliceState
"Crybully" - Police accused councillors of assault after shoving him

2027 | #Taikoo

As Councillor Andrew Chiu was being helped to leave the frontline area, a riot police officer inexplicably rushed towards him, forcing him away from his assistant on whom he had been leaning on. The officer then began accusing Chiu for assaulting an officer, with his glasses fogged over and his voice apparently breaking from rage.

As Chiu began to protest that the officer had in fact shoved his assistant first, the officer immediately aimed his pepper spray at Chiu's face to silence him.

Watch Video: Police Threaten District Councillor in Private Residential Area
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#Apr26 #HongKongProtest #PoliceBrutality #AndrewChiu

#PoliceState #PoliceBrutality
Police Allegedly Push District Councillor Assistant to the Ground

Video: Heng Sang University SU Editorial Board #Apr26

Police Surround Fallen District Councillor Assistant and Obstruct First-aiders From Approaching
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#PoliceState #PoliceBrutality
Assistant to District Coucillor Collapses After Suspected Police Assault: "Could only blink his eyes"

District Councillor Andrew Chiu spoke to the press regarding the incident of his assistant being slammed by police. Chiu turned emotionally for not being able to save his assistant.

“He [Chiu’s assistant] could not speak, but only blink his eyes” said Chiu.

Source: Stand News

#Apr26 #TaiKoo
#SingWithYou #AndrewChiu #HongKongProtest

Police Allegedly Push District Councilor Assistant to the Ground
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Police Surround Fallen District Councillor Assistant and Obstruct First-aiders From Approaching
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#FirstHand #Apr26
"He could only blink his eyes, but he could not speak" - Councilor Chiu tearfully recounts police slamming his assistant headfirst into the ground

Councilor Andrew Chiu spoke to the press after the events at Taikoo Shing earlier.

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#FirstHand #Apr26
"He could only blink his eyes, but cannot speak" - Councilor Chiu tearfully recounts police slamming his assistant headfirst into the ground

Councilor Andrew Chiu spoke to the press after the events at Taikoo Shing earlier.

As police arrived in Chiu spoke to the district commander, who said they came to investigate a report of an anti-gathering violation. At that time, Chiu already made a solemn request to the commander to not let the frontline officers to get out of control or aggravate the residents.

As the police aggressively pushed into the mall and residential area, Chiu noted that many reporters and civilians had no time to leave, many were arrested, though ultimately all have only been searched and released.

At riot police arrived at Taikoo Phase 4, they began to try to agitate Chiu's assistant with aggressive language, looking for an excuse to arrest him. Chiu immediately held onto his assistant and tried to leave the scene, he was wrestled away by multiple officers and, as Chiu watched, slammed him headfirst into the ground.

The attending first-aiders reported that he could only blink his eyes, but could not speak. In tears, Chiu apologized profusely to his assistant's parents that he was unable to hold onto him and keep him safe from the police.

Chiu noted the area of police investigation should have been in Cityplaza, and not the adjacent Taikoo Shing residential estate, where the altercation took place. The officers he spoke to was also unable to tell him under which law they conducted this clearance operation. He strongly condemned the police presence there, and demanded the police to leave Taikoo Shing as soon as possible.

First-Hand Video:
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#AndrewChiu #PoliceBrutality

#DailyUpdate #Apr26 #COVID19

COVID-19 Updates (26/4)

At the time of writing, 2,940,712 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed with 203,814 deaths. The US, Spain, Italy, and France continue to be the worst affected countries by this pandemic.

More than 7,000 coronavirus deaths reported in Belgium.

Germany's daily confirmed cases drops for the third straight day.

India has reported 1,990 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest single-day jump so far, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 26,496.

Moscow is "not halfway through" the pandemic as Russia surpasses 80,000 coronavirus cases.

China says all hospitalized coronavirus patients in Wuhan have been discharged as the country reports 11 new cases of coronavirus.

No new coronavirus cases recorded in Hong Kong. But there was another recovered person who tested positive after discharging from hospital.

Republican senator proposes a $500 billion bailout for state and local governments.

Children in Spain are allowed out of the house as coronavirus deaths continue to decline.

NBA to open some practice facilities, ESPN reports.

Lebanon to relax some coronavirus restrictions from Monday.

New Delhi hospital closed after a nurse tests positive for coronavirus.

Source: CNN, Worldometer

#PoliceState #AntiEpidemic
Police Look In Vain For Civilians to Hand Out Gathering Ban Tickets

A police officer was holding a pile of 'gathering ban' tickets when yelling "where do you have four? Where do you have four?".

However, no civilians were gathering around him.

[Editor's note: According to the gathering ban in Hong Kong, any 'gathering' with more than 4 persons could be fined for HKD2,000. However, the police's selective enforcement of the anti-epidemic measures has stirred up a lot of controversies.]

Source: L @ DB Channel #Apr26 #Taikoo #SingwithYou #GatheringBan

Police Push Away Reporters and Civilians and Empty a Shopping Mall on Sunday
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Hong Kong Police Storm in Shopping Mall, Obstruct Journalists' Work and Allegedly Assault Assistant to District Councillor

Over hundreds of citizens at Citiplaza sang protest anthem and chanted protest slogans. The scene was peaceful until more than a hundred police storrmed in the shopping mall to disperse civilans and reporters and intercept first aiders. Stores shut down quickly.

Police flashed strong light at Stand News reporter who was filming police conducting stop and search. Two security guards of the private housing estate Taikoo Shing intervened but were accused by the police of obstructing justice. Police demanded the guards to disperse the reporter and turn non-residents away, otherwise the police would enter private premise to enforce order.

Source: Stand News #Apr26
#Cityplaza #TaiKooShing

"He could only blink his eyes, but he could not speak"
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Police Mock Injured District Councilor: "He doesn't have a ear, he can't hear"

#Education
Beijing Loyalist criticizes Hong Kong students for being disrespectful and urges for 'moral education'

MTR Corporation chairman and former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Frederick Ma was again appointed to be the chairman of the governing council of the Education University of Hong Kong again. Due to personal reasons, his term will end on 31 Dec 2020.

In his interview with Commercial Radio Hong Kong, Ma criticized that some teachers used liberal studies as a tool to express their discontent, which reflected the problem of this subjet. He hoped that the government can develop moral education because one "cannot be perfect with only wisdom but no integrity". "If you were a top student without any moral standard, how can you contribute to the society?", said Ma.

Source: Stand News
#Apr26 #FrederickMa #LiberalStudies

#PoliceState #PoliticalPersecution
HK Police Accuses Pro-Democracy Group of Breaching Societies Ordinance

The Hong Kong police have accused the Civil Human Rights Front (#CHRF), a pro-democracy group which organizes protests including the annual July 1 rally and many large-scale protests duting the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement, of breaching the Societies Ordinance.

In a Facebook post on April 26, 2021, CHRF convenor Figo Chan said they received aletter sent from the police. The police claimed that the group had been "de-registered" under the Societies Ordinance in 2006, two months after its application was approved. The police thereby accused the group of violating the Societies Ordinance.

The police demanded information including financial records and activity details since the group's establishment in 2006.

Source: InMedia #Apr26
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#Exodus #Oppression
Pro-democracy political cartoonist announces departure from Hong Kong citing ‘great mental stress’

The comic artist, #AhTo, who has drawn satirical cartoons about local politics for 11 years, made the announcement on social media.

He shared a drawing of one of his iconic characters standing in front of what appeared to be the London cityscape and said he left because he “wanted to continue creating for HK.”

"Staying in HK to produce political cartoon [causes] great mental stress. [I] have no alternative but to leave,” the artist wrote on Facebook, without stating his destination.

Ah To said he had considered giving up on political cartoons in 2017 when HK’s social movement was “at low tide.” He also thought about changing the theme of his work last year.

But he deemed that HK “needed political cartoons,” and said he wanted to “persist” by remotely creating cartoons for his home city.

#WhiteTerror #NationalSecurityLaw

Source: Inmediahk, HKFP; #Apr26
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