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Students from Shue Yan University (SYU) Rally to Support Schoolmate Severely Injured by Police Tear Gas

Watch video: https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/9707

Last Saturday (Nov 2), a first-aider from SYU was hit by a Chinese-made tear gas canister and suffered a third degree burn on his back and two fingers.

This morning (Nov 5), students of SYU gathered to show support for the injured first-aider and condemned police brutality. Around 100 people joined in with masks and wrote supportive slogans.

Source: Stand News, Nov 5

Read more about the danger of Chinese made tear gas grenades:
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/9708

#HKSYU #PoliceBrutality #PoliceState #FightForFreedom #HongKongProtests #Nov5
#Part2 #WitnessAccount
Police Pointed Guns at First Aiders and Ambulance Radio Mentioned Police Obstruction, Says First Aider

[Editor's note: UST student Chow is severely injured after falling in a carpark during police mass arrest operation in the night of Nov 4. Suspicions are raised towards the case. Read the full story: https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/9903]

This is a witness account of a first-aider called Hins who provided care for the 22-year-old boy at the scene:

It was around 1am on Nov 5 when volunteer first-aider Hins and his colleague heard a bystander said a young person Chow, aged 22, fell from the 3rd floor of a car park at Sheung Tak Estate. There were already 8 to 10 paramedics from the Fire Services Department providing basic first aid service when Hins arrived at the scene. Hins asked if the paramedics knew what happened, they said they had no idea but they heard the onlookers saying that the police were chasing after Chow earlier then somehow Chow fell.

Hins said, Chow’s situation seems very serious even though there was no apparent injuries because there was a significant loss of blood. Hins described the scene as frightening as Chow vomited blood. He then asked if the paramedics had called the ambulance and they said they already did.

Hins got extremely worried and kept asking the firemen when the ambulance was going to arrive as Chow’s pulse rate was dropping constantly. “We then heard from the radio that the ambulance could not get to the scene because it was stopped by the police”. Hins added, “I was very shocked because based on the patient’s situation, he needed to be sent to the Resuscitation Room right away.”

Hins also recalled the arrival of a large group of riot police 5 to 10 minutes after he and his colleague got to the scene. They pointed guns at them and demanded them to leave immediately as the scene is very dangerous. The paramedics did not agree. They then handed over Chow to Hins and his colleague and negotiated with the police. “We are trying to save someone’s life here”, the paramedic said, “There is no danger here. We don’t need you. Please leave”.

Source: Apple Daily, Nov 6

Read Part 1: Witness Account of an Onlooker who Discovered Chow:
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/9958


#Hongkongprotests #Nov5 #Hongkongpolice #UST
US calls on China to stop crushing press freedom in Hong Kong following arrest of a RTHK investigative journalist

In the statement, deputy spokesman of the Department of State Cale Brown said "the US is deeply concerned about the arrest”. "The Chinese Communist Party and their Hong Kong proxies must cease their efforts to crush press freedom,”

Journalist #BaoChoy had worked on RTHK documentaries on the Yuen Long mob attack last year, which revealed how police officers were present at the scene well ahead of the violence but did not intervene. She was arrested and charged on Tuesday in relation to searches carried out on owners of vehicles that appeared to have transported some of the attackers to the town on the night in question.

On her social media account, Choy wrote that she is grateful to everyone who supports press freedom. “Words can't express my gratitude for the help and blessing from my friends, fellows, and everyone who supports #PressFreedom,” she wrote.

Source: Stand News, RTHK #Nov5 https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E6%B8%AF%E5%8F%B0%E7%B7%A8%E5%B0%8E%E8%A2%AB%E6%8D%95-%E7%BE%8E%E5%9C%8B%E5%8B%99%E9%99%A2-%E6%B7%B1%E5%88%87%E9%97%9C%E6%B3%A8-%E4%BF%83%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%B1%E5%81%9C%E6%AD%A2%E8%A1%9D%E6%93%8A%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1/
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Hong Kong Police Arrests Web Media Reporter

The reporter was also arrested on this year's Mother's Day, May 10, 2020, when reporting police's operation in Mongkok. She witnessed five to six riot police tying up two girls, when she entered a public women's toilet. She held her camera, but was immediately suppressed by the police. She was wearing a reflective vest and a press card, when the police violently took away her camera, pressed her against the wall, and pepper-sprayed her face at a close distance. The police humiliated her by calling her a "corrupt reporter" and "cockroach".

Inside the toilet, the police brutally pinned the female reporter, whose body was covered with pepperspray on the ground, stepped on her back, pressed on her neck with their knee and pressured her head with a baton, who then suffered involuntary urination.

The police later on claimed that they suppressed a 26-year-old woman with an "appropriate use of force". The reporter was detained for 48 hours after the arrest on Mother's Day.

Source: Stand News #Nov5
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