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#PoliceState #DistrictCouncil
District Councilor Reveals How Police Undertake Political Retaliation
1. On January 16, Chairwoman Cheng Lai-king demanded Police Commissioner to wear his warrant card in the council meeting.
2. On January 16, a plainclothes police officer refused to wear a warrant card, Cheng as the Chairwoman demanded him to leave.
3. The Central and Western District Council has established a new “constitutional and security committee” to monitor the police force.
4. During the meeting on March 12, police officers refused to put on their warrant card despite the demand of the council
5. During the meeting on March 19, Chairwoman Cheng has allowed Councillors Kam Nai-wai and Sam Yip to read out the statement condemning the police.
6. Cheng asked the police officers who were disturbing the meeting to stop talking.
7. Cheng wanted to bring justice to the reporter who was blinded in one eye after being hit by a police plastic baton round.
Source: Napa Wong's facebook #Mar26
District Councilor Reveals How Police Undertake Political Retaliation
1. On January 16, Chairwoman Cheng Lai-king demanded Police Commissioner to wear his warrant card in the council meeting.
2. On January 16, a plainclothes police officer refused to wear a warrant card, Cheng as the Chairwoman demanded him to leave.
3. The Central and Western District Council has established a new “constitutional and security committee” to monitor the police force.
4. During the meeting on March 12, police officers refused to put on their warrant card despite the demand of the council
5. During the meeting on March 19, Chairwoman Cheng has allowed Councillors Kam Nai-wai and Sam Yip to read out the statement condemning the police.
6. Cheng asked the police officers who were disturbing the meeting to stop talking.
7. Cheng wanted to bring justice to the reporter who was blinded in one eye after being hit by a police plastic baton round.
Source: Napa Wong's facebook #Mar26
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District Councilor: Police are Abusing Anti-Crowding Laws to Arrest Citizens and Impose Political Pressure
2314 Prince Edward
District Councilor Chan Po-ming states that he went to the vigil alone and did not know nearby citizens. However, while being searched by the police, he was asked if he was gathering with four other nearby citizens. He noted that these types of events kept happening, and it is unacceptable that the anti-epidemic policy is being used as a political pressure tool.
Source: Apple Daily #Mar31
#DistrictCouncil #831PrinceEdward #AntiEpidemic
2314 Prince Edward
District Councilor Chan Po-ming states that he went to the vigil alone and did not know nearby citizens. However, while being searched by the police, he was asked if he was gathering with four other nearby citizens. He noted that these types of events kept happening, and it is unacceptable that the anti-epidemic policy is being used as a political pressure tool.
Source: Apple Daily #Mar31
#DistrictCouncil #831PrinceEdward #AntiEpidemic
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Yau Tsim Mong District Council Passes Motion Calling For Reforming the Police despite Government’s Obstruction
In a meeting on April 16, the Yau-Tsim-Mong District Council tabled a motion calling for restructuring of the Police Force. The Home Affairs Commissioner from the government, however, refused to provide secretariat services and denounced the motion as outside the remit of the Council.
The Commissioner, Police Representatives and three pro-establishment councilors left the meeting venue abruptly. In the absence of the secretariat, the motion was passed unanimously by 17 pro-democracy councilors.
During the meeting, the police commander refused to admit police excessive use of the force. He claimed that it was evident that "innocent protesters" were beaten by "violent protesters". Meanwhile, the government commissioner spoke to the media in an intimidating manner when he stormed out.
Source: Now News; InMedia
#Apr16 #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality
Yau Tsim Mong District Council Passes Motion Calling For Reforming the Police despite Government’s Obstruction
In a meeting on April 16, the Yau-Tsim-Mong District Council tabled a motion calling for restructuring of the Police Force. The Home Affairs Commissioner from the government, however, refused to provide secretariat services and denounced the motion as outside the remit of the Council.
The Commissioner, Police Representatives and three pro-establishment councilors left the meeting venue abruptly. In the absence of the secretariat, the motion was passed unanimously by 17 pro-democracy councilors.
During the meeting, the police commander refused to admit police excessive use of the force. He claimed that it was evident that "innocent protesters" were beaten by "violent protesters". Meanwhile, the government commissioner spoke to the media in an intimidating manner when he stormed out.
Source: Now News; InMedia
#Apr16 #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality
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"This is Hong Kong’s District Council": Governmemt Representatives Leave Midway During District Council Meeting
While district councilors were discussing and passing the motion to censure the Home Affairs Department for refusing to serve the District Council and the public, the assistant district officer suddenly said, “I disagree with the contents of the motion”, and abruptly led his team out, including all the Secretariat staff, whose job is to handle the documents and operated the live camera.
Jordan Pang, a pro-democracy district councilor in Central and Western District, lamented on facebook, "Hongkongers, this is Hong Kong’s District Council."
Source: Jordan Pang's Facebook #May7
#DistrictCouncil #HomeAffairs
"This is Hong Kong’s District Council": Governmemt Representatives Leave Midway During District Council Meeting
While district councilors were discussing and passing the motion to censure the Home Affairs Department for refusing to serve the District Council and the public, the assistant district officer suddenly said, “I disagree with the contents of the motion”, and abruptly led his team out, including all the Secretariat staff, whose job is to handle the documents and operated the live camera.
Jordan Pang, a pro-democracy district councilor in Central and Western District, lamented on facebook, "Hongkongers, this is Hong Kong’s District Council."
Source: Jordan Pang's Facebook #May7
#DistrictCouncil #HomeAffairs
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Government Reprsentative Refuses to Provide Secretary Support in District Council, Due to Difference of Terms
The Kowloon City District Council had a meeting on May 7. Pro-democracy councillors were dissatisfied with the Home Affairs Department's refusal to support the election of the chairman of the "Police Monitor Committee" with secretary service.
The government representative to the Kowloon City District Franco Wai-fan Kwok insisted that the district-based police monitoring council is not within the scope of the District Council's functions. He said that District Office could not include the discussion in the meeting records, even with objection.
When the pro-democracy and the pro-establishment factions debated, some government officials including Lam Ming-wai, the director of environment and hygiene in the Kowloon City District, snickered.
Source: In Media #May7
#HomeAffairsDepartment
Government Reprsentative Refuses to Provide Secretary Support in District Council, Due to Difference of Terms
The Kowloon City District Council had a meeting on May 7. Pro-democracy councillors were dissatisfied with the Home Affairs Department's refusal to support the election of the chairman of the "Police Monitor Committee" with secretary service.
The government representative to the Kowloon City District Franco Wai-fan Kwok insisted that the district-based police monitoring council is not within the scope of the District Council's functions. He said that District Office could not include the discussion in the meeting records, even with objection.
When the pro-democracy and the pro-establishment factions debated, some government officials including Lam Ming-wai, the director of environment and hygiene in the Kowloon City District, snickered.
Source: In Media #May7
#HomeAffairsDepartment
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#Tiananmen #Vigil
Government Representative Refuses to discuss the Annual June 4th Massacre Vigil in District Council
The annual June 4th Vigil and the annual July 1st protest have not yet been approved by the police and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD).
The Wan Chai District Council discussed the two events' arrangements on May 19. Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, was invited to explain, but District Officer Rick Chan Tin Chu, representing the government, repeatedly interrupted his speech. Chan insisted that Lee's speech had deviated from the "arrangement" matters.
Lee said “I am talking about 'arrangement' in every sentence," and refuted that "the application has nothing to do with the arrangements". However, the government representative refused to listen and pulled the entire team away.
Source: InMedia #May19
#DistrictCouncil
Government Representative Refuses to discuss the Annual June 4th Massacre Vigil in District Council
The annual June 4th Vigil and the annual July 1st protest have not yet been approved by the police and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD).
The Wan Chai District Council discussed the two events' arrangements on May 19. Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, was invited to explain, but District Officer Rick Chan Tin Chu, representing the government, repeatedly interrupted his speech. Chan insisted that Lee's speech had deviated from the "arrangement" matters.
Lee said “I am talking about 'arrangement' in every sentence," and refuted that "the application has nothing to do with the arrangements". However, the government representative refused to listen and pulled the entire team away.
Source: InMedia #May19
#DistrictCouncil
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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
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Gov't Stops Incumbent #DistrictCouncillor's Salary and Office Income, #TedHui: Lack of Legal Basis shows the Panic of Hong Kong’s political power”
The Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR government is stopping the payroll, the allowance and the expense reimbursement of district councillor Ted Hui from December 3, 2020. The government cited Hui’s self-exile as a reason.
Hui responded to the Hong Kong government’s decision as “No legal basis at all”. He also states that his HSBC bank account has been frozen, making it impossible to withdraw any of his salary since then.
Hui said the government’s treatment of him is a political statement but should be considered useless. The government’s action is severely impacting the district councillor's office that has continued to serve Hong Kong citizens.
Hui said that the government should not stop any payment of the payroll when the councillors are still serving their term of office. He is very disappointed with how the government wields political power and ignores the public interest.
Source: Stand News #Dec16
#HSBC #DistrictCouncil
Gov't Stops Incumbent #DistrictCouncillor's Salary and Office Income, #TedHui: Lack of Legal Basis shows the Panic of Hong Kong’s political power”
The Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR government is stopping the payroll, the allowance and the expense reimbursement of district councillor Ted Hui from December 3, 2020. The government cited Hui’s self-exile as a reason.
Hui responded to the Hong Kong government’s decision as “No legal basis at all”. He also states that his HSBC bank account has been frozen, making it impossible to withdraw any of his salary since then.
Hui said the government’s treatment of him is a political statement but should be considered useless. The government’s action is severely impacting the district councillor's office that has continued to serve Hong Kong citizens.
Hui said that the government should not stop any payment of the payroll when the councillors are still serving their term of office. He is very disappointed with how the government wields political power and ignores the public interest.
Source: Stand News #Dec16
#HSBC #DistrictCouncil
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#Censorship #CCPControl
China Blocks Shipments of "Freedom and Democracy" Calendars to Hong Kong
Chinese customs may have held up an order of new year calendars printed for district councils in Hong Kong, Yau Tsim Mong District councillor Lee Wai-fung wrote in a Facebook post.
The calendars, with the text "Pursue Freedom and Democracy" in golden calligraphy, was scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong in mid-November, so that they will be given out to civilians on Dec 16, 2020.
However, Lee was later informed that order was detained in China, without an official explanation from either the print shop nor the Chinese customs. The councillors ended up printing labels with their names and pictures, and handing out regular calendars with their labels attached.
Yuen Long District councillor Henry Wong Pak-yu experienced similar issues with the Chinese customs. He was informed by the print shop in China that printed products for district councils in Hong Kong are now being scrutinized much more closely by Chinese customs, because some of their previous materials contained "sensitive content". The printer was not allowed to send out the shipment, and Wong may not be able to receive his calendars in time for the new year.
Source: Stand News #Dec16
#NewYearCalendar #FreeSpeech #ChineseCustoms #DistrictCouncil
China Blocks Shipments of "Freedom and Democracy" Calendars to Hong Kong
Chinese customs may have held up an order of new year calendars printed for district councils in Hong Kong, Yau Tsim Mong District councillor Lee Wai-fung wrote in a Facebook post.
The calendars, with the text "Pursue Freedom and Democracy" in golden calligraphy, was scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong in mid-November, so that they will be given out to civilians on Dec 16, 2020.
However, Lee was later informed that order was detained in China, without an official explanation from either the print shop nor the Chinese customs. The councillors ended up printing labels with their names and pictures, and handing out regular calendars with their labels attached.
Yuen Long District councillor Henry Wong Pak-yu experienced similar issues with the Chinese customs. He was informed by the print shop in China that printed products for district councils in Hong Kong are now being scrutinized much more closely by Chinese customs, because some of their previous materials contained "sensitive content". The printer was not allowed to send out the shipment, and Wong may not be able to receive his calendars in time for the new year.
Source: Stand News #Dec16
#NewYearCalendar #FreeSpeech #ChineseCustoms #DistrictCouncil
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#PoliticalSuppression #DistrictCouncil
Former Democratic District Councillors Opt to Stay after Resignation and Open Stalls for Wine-Selling, “Want to Slow Down the Collapse of Civil Society”
In July 2021, the HKSAR Government claimed to disqualify democratic district councillors and would ask for a salary return from district councillors after disqualification, leading to the resignation of over half of these councillors. However, resignation does not mean leaving the area permanently. Instead, some of the resigned councillors continue their contribution to society in another way. For example, LAM Siu-Bun's office in Yau Tsim Mong becomes a miscellaneous stall; LEUNG Kwok-Ho's office in Cheung Chau becomes a wine shop; former Kwai Tsing District Councillor WONG Pit-Man returns to the community organisation Tsing Yi Islanders as a convener to organise different events.
The above three did not leave but having different perspectives. LEUNG admitted a struggle between being an “ordinary person” to take care of his family and staying for the community. However, many fellow co-fighters are in prison now, and he said, “I need to be here! With my ability. I don’t want to leave!”. LAM, was the assistant of IP Kin-yuen, strengthened his persistence to stay after the collapse of the HK Professional Teacher’s Union, “I don’t want to see a sudden collapse of civil society!”. WONG thought that she loaded down her identity as a district councillor, “returning” to her past, being a convener of an organisation concerning the community, doing what she should do.
Yet, what they all have in common, is, "Stay in the community even if they are no longer a district councillor".
#disqualify #hongkong #districtcouncil #LamSiuBun #LeungKwokHo #WongPitMan #IpKinYuen #TsingYiIIslander
Source: Stand News; #Aug13
https://bit.ly/3jW793q
#disqualification #DQ #DistrictCouncillor
Former Democratic District Councillors Opt to Stay after Resignation and Open Stalls for Wine-Selling, “Want to Slow Down the Collapse of Civil Society”
In July 2021, the HKSAR Government claimed to disqualify democratic district councillors and would ask for a salary return from district councillors after disqualification, leading to the resignation of over half of these councillors. However, resignation does not mean leaving the area permanently. Instead, some of the resigned councillors continue their contribution to society in another way. For example, LAM Siu-Bun's office in Yau Tsim Mong becomes a miscellaneous stall; LEUNG Kwok-Ho's office in Cheung Chau becomes a wine shop; former Kwai Tsing District Councillor WONG Pit-Man returns to the community organisation Tsing Yi Islanders as a convener to organise different events.
The above three did not leave but having different perspectives. LEUNG admitted a struggle between being an “ordinary person” to take care of his family and staying for the community. However, many fellow co-fighters are in prison now, and he said, “I need to be here! With my ability. I don’t want to leave!”. LAM, was the assistant of IP Kin-yuen, strengthened his persistence to stay after the collapse of the HK Professional Teacher’s Union, “I don’t want to see a sudden collapse of civil society!”. WONG thought that she loaded down her identity as a district councillor, “returning” to her past, being a convener of an organisation concerning the community, doing what she should do.
Yet, what they all have in common, is, "Stay in the community even if they are no longer a district councillor".
#disqualify #hongkong #districtcouncil #LamSiuBun #LeungKwokHo #WongPitMan #IpKinYuen #TsingYiIIslander
Source: Stand News; #Aug13
https://bit.ly/3jW793q
#disqualification #DQ #DistrictCouncillor