mollyfamwatThe political crisis in Hong Kong continues and as a result, more people are being detained by the Hong Kong police. Earlier this week, a group of Hong Kong citizens were released after being arrested for using their mobile phones to record police activities.
A local Hong Kong newspaper has been fined $12,000 for publishing a report on an activist’s private text messages. The man in question was originally arrested for photographing officers from the Occupy Central protest group. The police maintained that his phone had been seized to find out who had sent him the messages. His claim that he wasn’t the sender was dismissed by the police.
The Chinese government’s recent crackdown on journalists covering protests in Hong Kong has been widely condemned across the world. While all journalists have the right to take photos or videos of protests, it is unacceptable that they are being told to delete them, and that they are being told to surrender their mobile phones and notebooks. The Chinese government has shown itself to be increasingly arbitrary and oppressive—how long before those who dare to expose the truth are silenced?. Read more about hong kong country and let us know what you think.
Pro-democracy legislator, Claudia Mo in Hong Kong, November 2020
Photo:
May James/Zuma Press
China wants to silence the people of Hong Kong, including by taking action against them. A ruling released Friday shows that a judge has punished the former lawmaker and pro-democracy journalist
Claudia Mo.
for interviews with Western journalists, including our own.
Jillian Melchior.
In January, police arrested Ms. Moe, as they have done with almost the entire opposition movement. She and 46 others are charged with conspiracy to commit subversive activities under the National Security Act for organizing or participating in an unofficial pro-democracy primary in July last year. Judges
Esther Toh.
Ms. Moe bailed in April, and on Friday the world learned why.
The National Security Act prohibits collusion with vaguely defined foreign powers and provides that defendants may be released on bail only if a judge has reasonable grounds to believe that they will not continue to commit acts that threaten national security. As a reason to keep Ms. Mo behind bars, the prosecutor gave
Maggie Young.
described Ms. Moe’s WhatsApp correspondence with these sites, The New York Times, Bloomberg and .
In a court document explaining the denial of bail, Judge Toh quotes a conversation between Ms. Mo and Ms. Melchior from 1. October 2020 about 12 men from Hong Kong who were captured after trying to escape by boat to Taiwan.
Ma’am. Moe said to Miss. Melchior: The arrest and treatment of 12 Hong Kong protesters is a final warning and threat to Hong Kongers, who know what can happen if they are caught. The new security law and series of arrests have scared people, perhaps successfully, and sent a lingering political chill through the city. It’s all true, and it was far from a secret.
As a legislator, Ms Mo fought for the freedoms that China guaranteed Hong Kong in the 1984 treaty with Britain. Her office in the Legislative Council overlooked the garrison of the People’s Liberation Army of Hong Kong, and she decorated her windows with pro-democracy posters. Under the National Security Act, Ms. Moe now faces a life sentence.
The Communist Party is wary of Ms Mo as the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong won the district council elections in November 2019. The Hong Kong Government then used Covid as an excuse to cancel the Legislative Council elections.
Justice Toh wrote in a statement Friday that the Hong Kong government claims that if the election had not been postponed, the opposition’s plan would have been implemented. Go get it: Free elections are a conspiracy theory in Hong Kong. It is a tacit admission that if Hong Kongers were free to choose their representatives, they would elect MPs like Mrs Mo. Instead, the Communist Party locks up the opposition and refuses to release them for the crime of speaking to the press. Living and working in Hong Kong is at your own risk.
As we said, the captured editor…
Jimmy Lai.
and other brave Hong Kong democrats deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Main Street: If the billionaire becomes a dissident, the takeover of Hong Kong will be complete. Image: Apple Daily
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