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#Nov10
Riot police indiscriminately hit shoppers in the head with batons on a running escalator in Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong.
#policebrutality #hongkongpolice
Riot police indiscriminately hit shoppers in the head with batons on a running escalator in Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong.
#policebrutality #hongkongpolice
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#Sanction
HK Officials sanctioned by the US hold properties with mortgage from two Chinese-owned banks
The US slapped sanctions on four more Chinese-Hong Kong officials on November 9, 2020, including Deputy Commissioner of Police (National Security), Lau Chi-wai and Senior Superintendent of the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force, Li Kwai-wah.
According to Stand News, information obtained from the Land Registry shows that Lau and Li each wholly owns a residential property with mortgages from two different Chinese-owned banks, Chong Hing Bank Limited and Bank of China (Hong Kong). Their mortgages are not paid off.
The two banks have not responded to whether they would comply with the sanctions.
The Stand News reached out to the Police Public Relations Branch (#PPRB) for comments but there was no official response. The Stand News are awaiting response from the said banks on whether they would follow U.S. sanctions measures and if Lau and Li’s mortgages would be affected.
The Financial Times reported days ago the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission made a private promise to international banks in Hong Kong that by complying with US sanctions they are unlikely to violate the National Security Law.
The Securities Regulatory Commission responded to the Stand New’s inquiries, saying they did not wish to comment on the content of the report.
Source: Stand News #Nov10
https://bit.ly/35ge1lX
#NationalSecurityLaw #SecuritiesRegulatoryCommission #LauChiWai #LiKwaiWah #Property
HK Officials sanctioned by the US hold properties with mortgage from two Chinese-owned banks
The US slapped sanctions on four more Chinese-Hong Kong officials on November 9, 2020, including Deputy Commissioner of Police (National Security), Lau Chi-wai and Senior Superintendent of the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force, Li Kwai-wah.
According to Stand News, information obtained from the Land Registry shows that Lau and Li each wholly owns a residential property with mortgages from two different Chinese-owned banks, Chong Hing Bank Limited and Bank of China (Hong Kong). Their mortgages are not paid off.
The two banks have not responded to whether they would comply with the sanctions.
The Stand News reached out to the Police Public Relations Branch (#PPRB) for comments but there was no official response. The Stand News are awaiting response from the said banks on whether they would follow U.S. sanctions measures and if Lau and Li’s mortgages would be affected.
The Financial Times reported days ago the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission made a private promise to international banks in Hong Kong that by complying with US sanctions they are unlikely to violate the National Security Law.
The Securities Regulatory Commission responded to the Stand New’s inquiries, saying they did not wish to comment on the content of the report.
Source: Stand News #Nov10
https://bit.ly/35ge1lX
#NationalSecurityLaw #SecuritiesRegulatoryCommission #LauChiWai #LiKwaiWah #Property
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#Censorship #Suppression
Hong Kong Students Organize Exhibition to Commemorate #CUHKSiege; Authorities: University has the Right to Refuse Visits
At the one-year mark of the police siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK), the Students' Union (#CUSU) organizes events including photo exhibition to commemorate the pro-democracy Hongkongers' defense of the campus.
The university's security office, however, placed a notice at the campus' entrance, stating 'Depending on overall risk assessment and pandemic control, the university has the right to decline entry of non-CUHK identity holders or individual visitors into the campus."
Jacky So Tsun-fung, a member of the Students' Union, said the notice was placed by the university management probably in the afternoon. He believed that the university authorities saw the anniversary of the "CUHK Battle" a "sensitive period".
Earlier, the authorities censored the commemorative events:
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/26440
Source: Stand News #Nov10
Hong Kong Students Organize Exhibition to Commemorate #CUHKSiege; Authorities: University has the Right to Refuse Visits
At the one-year mark of the police siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK), the Students' Union (#CUSU) organizes events including photo exhibition to commemorate the pro-democracy Hongkongers' defense of the campus.
The university's security office, however, placed a notice at the campus' entrance, stating 'Depending on overall risk assessment and pandemic control, the university has the right to decline entry of non-CUHK identity holders or individual visitors into the campus."
Jacky So Tsun-fung, a member of the Students' Union, said the notice was placed by the university management probably in the afternoon. He believed that the university authorities saw the anniversary of the "CUHK Battle" a "sensitive period".
Earlier, the authorities censored the commemorative events:
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/26440
Source: Stand News #Nov10
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Lithuania’s Ruling Coalition Expresses Its Support for Taiwan to Fight for Their Freedom
Lithuania’s new ruling coalition published its policy outline and expressed their support for Taiwan to fight for their freedom.
After two rounds of parliamentary elections in Lithuania, three political parties formed a centre-right ruling coalition and issued its policy outline.
Its diplomatic policies would be based on values, as it sought to actively contest actions that violate human rights and democratic freedom, and defend people around the world who are fighting for their freedom, including Belarusians and Taiwanese people.
Source from: Now News #Nov10
#Taiwan #Lithuania #Belarus
https://bit.ly/3ls6DtG
Lithuania’s new ruling coalition published its policy outline and expressed their support for Taiwan to fight for their freedom.
After two rounds of parliamentary elections in Lithuania, three political parties formed a centre-right ruling coalition and issued its policy outline.
Its diplomatic policies would be based on values, as it sought to actively contest actions that violate human rights and democratic freedom, and defend people around the world who are fighting for their freedom, including Belarusians and Taiwanese people.
Source from: Now News #Nov10
#Taiwan #Lithuania #Belarus
https://bit.ly/3ls6DtG
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#Powerplay #DistrictCouncil
Government Forcefully Renames 'Sha Tin District Council Conference Room' as 'District Office Conference Room'
[Editor's note: Though similarly-named, the District Council and District Office are independent entities. The District Office is part of the government's Home Affairs Department, which does not generated by election; while the District Council is democratically elected by the population.]
A number of Sha Tin District Council members criticized in their Facebook posts today that the Sha Tin District Office had renamed the 'Sha Tin District Council Conference Room' at the Government Offices as 'District Office Conference Room'. An electric drill was even employed to erase the words 'District Council Conference Room' on the map at the lift lobby.
Community Sha Tin, a group formed by a number of the district's council members, described in a post that the change discovered today during the meeting was 'a change without consent', and criticized that the District Office did not consult with the District Council beforehand, and refused to explain who ordered the change, nor under what authority or justification.
In their reply to the inquiry, the Sha Tin District Office stressed that the conference room was located within their office, thus 'the name now adopted can clearly reflect its location'. They added that both the government departments and the Sha Tin District Council could still use the venue as before, following the established procedures.
Ching Cheung-ying, the chairman of the Sha Tin District Council who has been serving as a District Council member for over 30 years, told Stand News that the conference room had been named 'Sha Tin District Council Conference Room' since 2002, and it was also designed with holding District Council meetings in mind. 'We have been using this name all this time'. He then challenged the District Office's statement of 'correcting the error': 'There was no error; where is the error?'. He slammed the District Office's action, calling it 'petty and overbearing' , and questioned whether they were 'belittling the District Council'.
Source: Stand News #Nov10
#FailedState
Government Forcefully Renames 'Sha Tin District Council Conference Room' as 'District Office Conference Room'
[Editor's note: Though similarly-named, the District Council and District Office are independent entities. The District Office is part of the government's Home Affairs Department, which does not generated by election; while the District Council is democratically elected by the population.]
A number of Sha Tin District Council members criticized in their Facebook posts today that the Sha Tin District Office had renamed the 'Sha Tin District Council Conference Room' at the Government Offices as 'District Office Conference Room'. An electric drill was even employed to erase the words 'District Council Conference Room' on the map at the lift lobby.
Community Sha Tin, a group formed by a number of the district's council members, described in a post that the change discovered today during the meeting was 'a change without consent', and criticized that the District Office did not consult with the District Council beforehand, and refused to explain who ordered the change, nor under what authority or justification.
In their reply to the inquiry, the Sha Tin District Office stressed that the conference room was located within their office, thus 'the name now adopted can clearly reflect its location'. They added that both the government departments and the Sha Tin District Council could still use the venue as before, following the established procedures.
Ching Cheung-ying, the chairman of the Sha Tin District Council who has been serving as a District Council member for over 30 years, told Stand News that the conference room had been named 'Sha Tin District Council Conference Room' since 2002, and it was also designed with holding District Council meetings in mind. 'We have been using this name all this time'. He then challenged the District Office's statement of 'correcting the error': 'There was no error; where is the error?'. He slammed the District Office's action, calling it 'petty and overbearing' , and questioned whether they were 'belittling the District Council'.
Source: Stand News #Nov10
#FailedState