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Hong Kong Police Reject Bail for Veteran Activist with Cancer Who Hoists China's Flag Upside Down
15 figures in the pro-democracy camp being charged with unlawful assembly appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts on July 15.
Before the court session, Koo Sze Yiu, a veteran activist, hoisted the PRC's national flag upside down with the words "white terror", "black terror" and "facist terror" written on it.
Police arrested Koo on the spot
between Buildings A and B at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts and charged Koo for insulting the national flag.
A hearing was originally planned at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, but was moved to the Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts on July 16.
Koo acted in person and applied for bail, but the judge refused his application. Koo would be held in custody until the hearing on 27 August.
74-year-old Koo Sze Yiu, a technician, was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer.
During the hearing on July 16, Koo Sze Yi stated in the hearing, "I did it on purpose but I plead not guilty." Koo Sze Yi believed that the result would be the same with or without an official solicitor in the case of insulting a national flag. Thus, he chose to act in person. He disclosed Albert Ho Chun-yan came with two lawyers to assist him, but he refused.
Koo has applied for bail because he needed medical treatment for cancer every day, but his application was rejected. Principal Magistrate
Ada Yim Shun-yee cited the reason that Koo might relapse into crime wheb on bail. As a result, the medical treatment for Koo needs to be arranged by the Correctional Services Department.
Source: InMedia #Jul16
#VeteranActivist #KooSzeYiu
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Hong Kong Police Reject Bail for Veteran Activist with Cancer Who Hoists China's Flag Upside Down
15 figures in the pro-democracy camp being charged with unlawful assembly appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts on July 15.
Before the court session, Koo Sze Yiu, a veteran activist, hoisted the PRC's national flag upside down with the words "white terror", "black terror" and "facist terror" written on it.
Police arrested Koo on the spot
between Buildings A and B at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts and charged Koo for insulting the national flag.
A hearing was originally planned at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, but was moved to the Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts on July 16.
Koo acted in person and applied for bail, but the judge refused his application. Koo would be held in custody until the hearing on 27 August.
74-year-old Koo Sze Yiu, a technician, was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer.
During the hearing on July 16, Koo Sze Yi stated in the hearing, "I did it on purpose but I plead not guilty." Koo Sze Yi believed that the result would be the same with or without an official solicitor in the case of insulting a national flag. Thus, he chose to act in person. He disclosed Albert Ho Chun-yan came with two lawyers to assist him, but he refused.
Koo has applied for bail because he needed medical treatment for cancer every day, but his application was rejected. Principal Magistrate
Ada Yim Shun-yee cited the reason that Koo might relapse into crime wheb on bail. As a result, the medical treatment for Koo needs to be arranged by the Correctional Services Department.
Source: InMedia #Jul16
#VeteranActivist #KooSzeYiu
#Flag
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17th Day of Hunger Strike
"Cannot survive over there." This was the only thing a former detainee of Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC) could recall at the first time he was contacted.
An indefinite hunger strike. Just because we want to survive, we want to leave the hellish environment, we want freedom. "The food no good. The food inside like Jelly. No medicine. Only one male doctor there." Being detained indefinitely at CIC is worse than in prison: sleeping with mice, drinking water by scooping it up from dirty buckets, getting Paracetamol only if you get sick or injured, and nothing akin to proper medical treatment... Living in an inhumane prison for months to years, , the detainees can only despair, to the point of self-harming to find a chance for release.
Through hunger strike to show their determination, many protesters have been very weak after a dozen days without food. By the 17th day, many people had written their suicide note: "Today, a detainee was sent to the hospital, and one here has been detained for 4 years. They have prepared for sacrification." Give me freedom, or give me death.
There is no way to know when [the detainees] will be released, it will be several years at least. Moreover, some of them are innocent and have no criminal record. Some even think that coming to Hong Kong, they will be protected by law from inhumane treatment. "At least in India, we can do farming. I miss chapati (Indian scone)." He told me about the good things in his hometown, but when the conversation came back to the situation of CIC again, it was really terrible.
Hunger strikes are not new. "Before many, but Nobody listen". Perhaps we all have too much to take care of in our lives, but some things are more pressing than the rest. A hunger strike every day represents every life's desire for freedom.
"Set them free" We can choose to ignore, but their hunger strike will continue.
For more information, please follow CIC detainees right concern group.
Source: Facebook我不閱讀 #Jul16
#HumanRights #HongKongProtests
17th Day of Hunger Strike
"Cannot survive over there." This was the only thing a former detainee of Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC) could recall at the first time he was contacted.
An indefinite hunger strike. Just because we want to survive, we want to leave the hellish environment, we want freedom. "The food no good. The food inside like Jelly. No medicine. Only one male doctor there." Being detained indefinitely at CIC is worse than in prison: sleeping with mice, drinking water by scooping it up from dirty buckets, getting Paracetamol only if you get sick or injured, and nothing akin to proper medical treatment... Living in an inhumane prison for months to years, , the detainees can only despair, to the point of self-harming to find a chance for release.
Through hunger strike to show their determination, many protesters have been very weak after a dozen days without food. By the 17th day, many people had written their suicide note: "Today, a detainee was sent to the hospital, and one here has been detained for 4 years. They have prepared for sacrification." Give me freedom, or give me death.
There is no way to know when [the detainees] will be released, it will be several years at least. Moreover, some of them are innocent and have no criminal record. Some even think that coming to Hong Kong, they will be protected by law from inhumane treatment. "At least in India, we can do farming. I miss chapati (Indian scone)." He told me about the good things in his hometown, but when the conversation came back to the situation of CIC again, it was really terrible.
Hunger strikes are not new. "Before many, but Nobody listen". Perhaps we all have too much to take care of in our lives, but some things are more pressing than the rest. A hunger strike every day represents every life's desire for freedom.
"Set them free" We can choose to ignore, but their hunger strike will continue.
For more information, please follow CIC detainees right concern group.
Source: Facebook我不閱讀 #Jul16
#HumanRights #HongKongProtests