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Arrested after taking photos of Shenzhen Armed Police force
In the second half of "Focus interview", the program said Lee went to Shenzhen to film military vehicles and people armed police (PAP) training, then sent the videos back to Taiwan. He was arrested at a ferry terminal while preparing to leave the country. The program said that the state security authorities arrested Lee, and the 16 videos and 48 photos taken were a Chinese state secret. If a professional intelligence agency analyzed the data, they would be able to reveal the number of personnel, the main combat equipment, as well as the intention and the scale of operations of the entire army. Therefore, this action endangered China's national security.
It's breaching due process of law and violating of judicial human rights, said Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan
According to the Taiwan media ETtoday and SET News, the MAC said that the Chinese government required the involving persons to interview at the official media, admitting their crime, and repent in front of the camera, which does not comply with due process of law. The international community has unanimously condemned this kind of inappropriate accusation of violating judicial human rights. The council also expressed their opposition, calling on the mainland authorities to stop practicing these as soon as possible.
The Mainland Affairs Council emphasizes that it has been in contact with Lee's family since the incident to keep abreast of the case and to provide the necessary assistance.
#China #Taiwan #CCTV #MorrisonLee #ArcherChen #NationalSecurity #AntiExtraditionBill #NationalSecurityAgency #MainlandAffarisCouncil #AntiELAB
Source: The Stand News #Oct11
https://bit.ly/37IRjof
In the second half of "Focus interview", the program said Lee went to Shenzhen to film military vehicles and people armed police (PAP) training, then sent the videos back to Taiwan. He was arrested at a ferry terminal while preparing to leave the country. The program said that the state security authorities arrested Lee, and the 16 videos and 48 photos taken were a Chinese state secret. If a professional intelligence agency analyzed the data, they would be able to reveal the number of personnel, the main combat equipment, as well as the intention and the scale of operations of the entire army. Therefore, this action endangered China's national security.
It's breaching due process of law and violating of judicial human rights, said Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan
According to the Taiwan media ETtoday and SET News, the MAC said that the Chinese government required the involving persons to interview at the official media, admitting their crime, and repent in front of the camera, which does not comply with due process of law. The international community has unanimously condemned this kind of inappropriate accusation of violating judicial human rights. The council also expressed their opposition, calling on the mainland authorities to stop practicing these as soon as possible.
The Mainland Affairs Council emphasizes that it has been in contact with Lee's family since the incident to keep abreast of the case and to provide the necessary assistance.
#China #Taiwan #CCTV #MorrisonLee #ArcherChen #NationalSecurity #AntiExtraditionBill #NationalSecurityAgency #MainlandAffarisCouncil #AntiELAB
Source: The Stand News #Oct11
https://bit.ly/37IRjof
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Exiled bookseller: “if they can take Hong Kong back, the next is Taiwan”
The Causeway Bay Book owner Lam Wing-kee fled Hong Kong to Taiwan because he feared he was high on the watered list after enacting government proposed extradition bill.
He was grabbed by agents while crossing the Chinese boarder at Shenzhen. He speaks the ordeal for his detention in China and relates to the Hong Kong 12 young activists languishing in mainland prisons after they were arrested trying to reach Taiwan by boat.
Lam says that the political climate change is reason for all sudden change in Hong Kong thought “one-country-two-systems” still has 27 years. He continued that 67-year-old Xi Jinping is an empire holding power and can’t waits another 27 years for Hong Kong to return.
Lam moved to Taiwan because of its thriving democracy, where free speech and pollical difference are allowed, and recreated Causeway Books with the blessing of the Taiwan president. He looks now at the threat to his new home.
“For Taiwan, it depends on the people here, how they defy it,” said Lam. “We have guns and cannons What did Hong Kong have?”
Source: The Guardian #Nov30
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/29/lam-wing-kee-if-they-can-take-hong-kong-back-the-next-place-i-feel-is-taiwan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#HongKong #Taiwan #CausewayBayBook #AntiELAB #Democracy
The Causeway Bay Book owner Lam Wing-kee fled Hong Kong to Taiwan because he feared he was high on the watered list after enacting government proposed extradition bill.
He was grabbed by agents while crossing the Chinese boarder at Shenzhen. He speaks the ordeal for his detention in China and relates to the Hong Kong 12 young activists languishing in mainland prisons after they were arrested trying to reach Taiwan by boat.
Lam says that the political climate change is reason for all sudden change in Hong Kong thought “one-country-two-systems” still has 27 years. He continued that 67-year-old Xi Jinping is an empire holding power and can’t waits another 27 years for Hong Kong to return.
Lam moved to Taiwan because of its thriving democracy, where free speech and pollical difference are allowed, and recreated Causeway Books with the blessing of the Taiwan president. He looks now at the threat to his new home.
“For Taiwan, it depends on the people here, how they defy it,” said Lam. “We have guns and cannons What did Hong Kong have?”
Source: The Guardian #Nov30
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/29/lam-wing-kee-if-they-can-take-hong-kong-back-the-next-place-i-feel-is-taiwan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#HongKong #Taiwan #CausewayBayBook #AntiELAB #Democracy
the Guardian
Exiled bookseller: 'If they can take Hong Kong back, the next place is Taiwan'
After fleeing Hong Kong for Taiwan, Lam Wing-kee speaks of the danger the island faces and the ordeal of his detention in China
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#NeverForget #NeverGiveUp
#June9 2019: One Million Hongkongers Protest Against Extradition to China
Two years ago, at least one million Hongkongers took it to the street, opposing the government's plan to implement extradition to China.
The worst fear of the local population has been the loss of right, freedom and the rule of law in the growing presence of China.
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (#AntiELAB) Movement thereby began.
Two years on, freedom-loving Hongkongers have been facing unprecedented challenges upon the authorities' crackdown on #CivilSociety and #protest activities, in addition to the forceful imposition of the #NationalSecurityLaw.
Just on #June4, 2021, the Hong Kong police banned the #CandlelightVigil in commemoration of the victims of the 1989 #TiananmenMassacre for the second time. In face of suppression, Hongkongers showed the world their perseverance, creativity and solidarity to make their voice heard.
Photo taken on June 9, 2019 in Hong Kong by Philip Fong/AFP
#June9 2019: One Million Hongkongers Protest Against Extradition to China
Two years ago, at least one million Hongkongers took it to the street, opposing the government's plan to implement extradition to China.
The worst fear of the local population has been the loss of right, freedom and the rule of law in the growing presence of China.
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (#AntiELAB) Movement thereby began.
Two years on, freedom-loving Hongkongers have been facing unprecedented challenges upon the authorities' crackdown on #CivilSociety and #protest activities, in addition to the forceful imposition of the #NationalSecurityLaw.
Just on #June4, 2021, the Hong Kong police banned the #CandlelightVigil in commemoration of the victims of the 1989 #TiananmenMassacre for the second time. In face of suppression, Hongkongers showed the world their perseverance, creativity and solidarity to make their voice heard.
Photo taken on June 9, 2019 in Hong Kong by Philip Fong/AFP
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#Censorship
#Facebook Deletes Pro-democracy Content Posted by #Bookshop Without Explanation
On November 16, 2021, the Moom Bookshop revealed that their page has been completely removed by Facebook for no apparent reasons. The bookshop, a popular online store based in Taiwan, specializes in photography and photobooks.
The bookshop has 130,000 supporters and they could no longer browse the Facebook page of bookshop. The store also failed to log on to their account.
The owner of the bookshop, Chang Hok-tun, wrote on his Facebook that its hard to understand the rationale for Facebook to remove the bookshop from its platform.
In his statement, Chang recalled the items being warned and deleted by Facebook in the past. These included the photo albums of Hong Kong's Anti-ELAB movement in 2019. The stated reason for removal was images involving blood and violence.
#Meta #Moom #FreedomOfPublication #AntiELAB
Source: Stand News; #Nov16
https://thestandnews.page.link/gNYQZGRvRLY1XQvP6
#Facebook Deletes Pro-democracy Content Posted by #Bookshop Without Explanation
On November 16, 2021, the Moom Bookshop revealed that their page has been completely removed by Facebook for no apparent reasons. The bookshop, a popular online store based in Taiwan, specializes in photography and photobooks.
The bookshop has 130,000 supporters and they could no longer browse the Facebook page of bookshop. The store also failed to log on to their account.
The owner of the bookshop, Chang Hok-tun, wrote on his Facebook that its hard to understand the rationale for Facebook to remove the bookshop from its platform.
In his statement, Chang recalled the items being warned and deleted by Facebook in the past. These included the photo albums of Hong Kong's Anti-ELAB movement in 2019. The stated reason for removal was images involving blood and violence.
#Meta #Moom #FreedomOfPublication #AntiELAB
Source: Stand News; #Nov16
https://thestandnews.page.link/gNYQZGRvRLY1XQvP6
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#Taiwan's June 4 Vigil Attendance at 10-year high; Hongkonger: "I felt like I was in #VictoriaPark"
In 2022, the June 4 candlelight vigil in Taiwan drew 2000 attendees, reaching a 10-year high.
Tsang Chi-ho, former host of RTHK's satire show Headliners, was in attendance. The Hong Kong media personality said that the vigil felt both sad and dreamy: "For a moment, I felt like I was in Victoria Park."
Lam Wing-kee, owner of Causeway Bay Books in Taipei, said that there was a lot more people this year. "A lot of Hongkongers came over [to Taiwan]; half the people here are Hongkongers."
The vigil's organizer is Zeng Jianyuan, president of the New School for Democracy Association.
Speaking to Chaser News, he said that they had prepared 1000 electronic candles, and they were all handed out that evening. "So at least 1000 people attending, 2000 at the peak. It should be the biggest turnout in the last dozen years or so."
He said that during Ma Ying-jeou's presidency, the Kuomintang had cancelled Taiwan's June 4 vigil. Since then, the vigil at Taipei's Liberty Square was revived thanks to the efforts of Hongkongers.
"Early on, it was Hong Kong students; now there's huge numbers of Hongkongers, as well as artists and scholars from Hong Kong. Their participation here in Taiwan built up the whole event. In the past few years, after the universal suffrage movement and #AntiELAB protests, a lot of Hongkongers came to Taiwan. This is why today's theme is very clear. It's about Hong Kong."
"I think today's event is successful," he said of the candlelight vigil, "but now that Taiwan is hosting it alone, it also makes me feel a little sad."
Source: Chaser News #Jun4
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67342536
#June4 #TiananmenMassacre #CandelightVigil #TsangChiHo #LamWingKee
In 2022, the June 4 candlelight vigil in Taiwan drew 2000 attendees, reaching a 10-year high.
Tsang Chi-ho, former host of RTHK's satire show Headliners, was in attendance. The Hong Kong media personality said that the vigil felt both sad and dreamy: "For a moment, I felt like I was in Victoria Park."
Lam Wing-kee, owner of Causeway Bay Books in Taipei, said that there was a lot more people this year. "A lot of Hongkongers came over [to Taiwan]; half the people here are Hongkongers."
The vigil's organizer is Zeng Jianyuan, president of the New School for Democracy Association.
Speaking to Chaser News, he said that they had prepared 1000 electronic candles, and they were all handed out that evening. "So at least 1000 people attending, 2000 at the peak. It should be the biggest turnout in the last dozen years or so."
He said that during Ma Ying-jeou's presidency, the Kuomintang had cancelled Taiwan's June 4 vigil. Since then, the vigil at Taipei's Liberty Square was revived thanks to the efforts of Hongkongers.
"Early on, it was Hong Kong students; now there's huge numbers of Hongkongers, as well as artists and scholars from Hong Kong. Their participation here in Taiwan built up the whole event. In the past few years, after the universal suffrage movement and #AntiELAB protests, a lot of Hongkongers came to Taiwan. This is why today's theme is very clear. It's about Hong Kong."
"I think today's event is successful," he said of the candlelight vigil, "but now that Taiwan is hosting it alone, it also makes me feel a little sad."
Source: Chaser News #Jun4
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67342536
#June4 #TiananmenMassacre #CandelightVigil #TsangChiHo #LamWingKee
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Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan? #Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council: Refuse "One Country Two Systems"
[Editor note: July 1st is the Establishment Day of the Hong Kong SAR, noting the change in Hong Kong's sovereignty from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC since the 1997 handover.]
2022 marks 25 years since the sovereignty over Hong Kong was trasferred from Britain to the #PRC.
The Taiwan government reiterates their refusal of "#OneCountryTwoSystems". Since the #AntiELAB movement in Hong Kong in 2019, Taiwanese people has become more concerned about the happenings in Hong Kong.
How do Taiwanese people see the current situation in Hong Kong? How would they comment on the so-called "unchanging state" promised by the PRC to Hong Kong for 50 years? Are they worried?
#RFA interviewed a few Taiwanese on the 25th anniversary of the change of Hong Kong's sovereignty.
Many people analogise "Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan" in recent years. One of the interviewees mentioned the change in Hong Kong in these 25 years -- Hong Kong was very vigorous in the media and the publishing industries. She mentioned that Taiwanese sought Hong Kong publishers to produce their "blacklisted books" during the white terror era, but now it is the opposite. She said the so-called unchsnging state is a lie for the regime to deceive people.
Source: RFA #July01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-71reax-07012022062344.html
#EstablishmentDay #Taiwan #TransferralofSovereignty #Handover #censorship
[Editor note: July 1st is the Establishment Day of the Hong Kong SAR, noting the change in Hong Kong's sovereignty from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC since the 1997 handover.]
2022 marks 25 years since the sovereignty over Hong Kong was trasferred from Britain to the #PRC.
The Taiwan government reiterates their refusal of "#OneCountryTwoSystems". Since the #AntiELAB movement in Hong Kong in 2019, Taiwanese people has become more concerned about the happenings in Hong Kong.
How do Taiwanese people see the current situation in Hong Kong? How would they comment on the so-called "unchanging state" promised by the PRC to Hong Kong for 50 years? Are they worried?
#RFA interviewed a few Taiwanese on the 25th anniversary of the change of Hong Kong's sovereignty.
Many people analogise "Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan" in recent years. One of the interviewees mentioned the change in Hong Kong in these 25 years -- Hong Kong was very vigorous in the media and the publishing industries. She mentioned that Taiwanese sought Hong Kong publishers to produce their "blacklisted books" during the white terror era, but now it is the opposite. She said the so-called unchsnging state is a lie for the regime to deceive people.
Source: RFA #July01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-71reax-07012022062344.html
#EstablishmentDay #Taiwan #TransferralofSovereignty #Handover #censorship
Radio Free Asia
【主權移交25年】今日香港明日台灣？ 陸委會：拒「一國兩制」
香港主權移交25周年，台灣重申拒絕「一國兩制」。在民間，「反送中」後台灣人對香港的關注有所提升。他們是怎樣看待香港今天的情況？如何評價中共保證香港「50年不變」的承諾？會不會擔心台灣迎來同一命運？
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"7.21: The Unfinished Case": Video Report by #IndependentJournalists Reviews Records of #YuenLongAttack, Victims Speak Up as they Revisit the Scene
Part 1 of 3
The man walked around the Yuen Long MTR station with a tablet on his hand, which was replaying a video clip of the 7.21 attack. "It should be here .... No wait, a little further forward ... yes, this is the spot."
Galileo is one of the victims of the 7.21 Yuen Long Attack. 3 years ago, he saw former Stand News journalist Gwyneth Ho being assaulted, and rushed forward with several others to restrain the attackers. However, the attackers quickly turned on him; he was swarmed by 6 or 7 of them, and beaten with umbrellas, canes, and wooden sticks.
On the third anniversary of the attack, a group of independent journalists compiled a special video report titled "7.21: The Unfinished Case".
Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/smIWjWLYqq8
The group includes the award-winning former RTHK producer #BaoChoy; they interviewed several victims and witnesses of the attack, and revisited the scene of the attack at the MTR station, attempting to piece together the truth of the incident.
Source: InMediaHK.net #Jul21
https://bit.ly/3omtWYB
See Also:
3 year mark of the 7.21 Yuen Long attack: when all of Hong Kong watched in horror as police abandoned civilians and sided with the violent mobsters
https://publielectoral.lat/BeWaterHK/781
"Tracing the Source" - 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigative Report by Stand News (July 25, 2021)
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30599
2.5 years after #721YuenLong Mob Attack: Who Owns the Truth Now in 2022 Hong Kong? (Jan 21, 2022)
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/31957
#AntiELAB #BaoChoy #721YuenLong #YuenLongAttack #NeverForget
Part 1 of 3
The man walked around the Yuen Long MTR station with a tablet on his hand, which was replaying a video clip of the 7.21 attack. "It should be here .... No wait, a little further forward ... yes, this is the spot."
Galileo is one of the victims of the 7.21 Yuen Long Attack. 3 years ago, he saw former Stand News journalist Gwyneth Ho being assaulted, and rushed forward with several others to restrain the attackers. However, the attackers quickly turned on him; he was swarmed by 6 or 7 of them, and beaten with umbrellas, canes, and wooden sticks.
On the third anniversary of the attack, a group of independent journalists compiled a special video report titled "7.21: The Unfinished Case".
Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/smIWjWLYqq8
The group includes the award-winning former RTHK producer #BaoChoy; they interviewed several victims and witnesses of the attack, and revisited the scene of the attack at the MTR station, attempting to piece together the truth of the incident.
Source: InMediaHK.net #Jul21
https://bit.ly/3omtWYB
See Also:
3 year mark of the 7.21 Yuen Long attack: when all of Hong Kong watched in horror as police abandoned civilians and sided with the violent mobsters
https://publielectoral.lat/BeWaterHK/781
"Tracing the Source" - 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigative Report by Stand News (July 25, 2021)
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/30599
2.5 years after #721YuenLong Mob Attack: Who Owns the Truth Now in 2022 Hong Kong? (Jan 21, 2022)
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/31957
#AntiELAB #BaoChoy #721YuenLong #YuenLongAttack #NeverForget
YouTube
721 未完的案 I 721襲擊事件三周年 I 新聞專題
721元朗襲擊事件三周年，我們一班獨立記者製作了專題記錄《721 未完的案》，總結過去幾年間由民間社會搜集的線索，跟進幾個一直鍥而不捨希望追尋真相的當事人。我們不隸屬任何傳媒機構，沒有新聞平台，但由衷感激多個獨立媒體願意協力一起分享我們的製作，令更多讀者和觀眾能看到此記錄。我們作為獨立記者，團隊雖然沒有薪金和足夠...
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#EnesKanterFreedom is a #US basketball player who dares to criticise the #CCP on public platforms on Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang issues.
He recently published a post on #Twitter that China cannot affect the US externally but internally. He uses #NBA as an example -- he was a basketball player being sold to #HoustonRockets, then soon be a free agent. The whole process is only 10 minutes.
During the #AntiELAB movement in Hong Kong in 2019, the then-Houston Rockets manager once confessed before the CCP government due to showing support to HKers.
Source:
Twitter #Oct01
https://twitter.com/enesfreedom/status/1576312524072714240?s=46&t=1xJ7zlKs6C0AtJE4r7RZaA
Yahoo News #Feb11
https://bit.ly/3TaRgGS
He recently published a post on #Twitter that China cannot affect the US externally but internally. He uses #NBA as an example -- he was a basketball player being sold to #HoustonRockets, then soon be a free agent. The whole process is only 10 minutes.
During the #AntiELAB movement in Hong Kong in 2019, the then-Houston Rockets manager once confessed before the CCP government due to showing support to HKers.
Source:
Twitter #Oct01
https://twitter.com/enesfreedom/status/1576312524072714240?s=46&t=1xJ7zlKs6C0AtJE4r7RZaA
Yahoo News #Feb11
https://bit.ly/3TaRgGS