In China’s Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared

As many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others have been sent to internment camps and prisons in Xinjiang over the past three years, an indiscriminate clampdown aimed at weakening the population’s devotion to Islam. Even as these mass detentions have provoked global outrage, though, the Chinese government is pressing ahead with a parallel effort targeting the region’s children.

Nearly a half million children have been separated from their families and placed in boarding schools so far, according to a planning document published on a government website, and the ruling Communist Party has set a goal of operating one to two such schools in each of Xinjiang’s 800-plus townships by the end of next year.

#Xinjiang #Uyghurs #China

Source: New York Times (28-Dec)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/asia/china-xinjiang-children-boarding-schools.html

19-year-old Hong Kong Protester in Exile Accused the Police of Planting of False Evidence

The “Days and Nights of HK Protesters, Turn Grieve into Action, Fight for Our Freedom Assembly” was held on December 29 at Edinburgh Place, Central with more than a thousand turning up to support.

During the assembly, there were also recordings of those in exile encouraging HongKongers to keep on fighting. The recording was played in front of a banner that read “planting of false evidence is strictly forbidden”.

A 19-year-old protester was brutally beaten and arrested on 11 August and he described the event as “pure luck (for him) to stay alive”. He did not go down to the details of cases regarding the planting of false evidence, but he witnessed many protesters being assaulted by the police. He was stepped on by the police on his head, kicked in eyes, had his hands tied behind his back and brought to the Sun Uk Ling Holding Centre. He further described that the least injury a protester would get at the Holding Centre was to have “blood cover the entire face”. He was also diagnosed with minor cerebral hemorrhage due the injuries that he sustained from the assault by the police.  

Source: Stand News #29Dec
https://bit.ly/37n4iJ4

【元旦大遊行 不反已出】

民陣已收到警方發出的不反對通知書，
可以正式同各位講多次，1.1 維園見！

元旦遊行當日，將會有超過 40 個新成立工會同大家見面，歡迎大家了解詳情，加入你所屬行業的工會，壯大抗爭的組織力量。

毋忘承諾，並肩同行，
五大訴求，缺一不可，
一月一，維園見！

2020.1.1 星期三 Wednesday｜2PM
維園中央草坪 遊行至 遮打道行人專用區
From Victoria Park (Central Lawn) to
Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct

*已取得不反對通知書
*Letter of No Objection Received

【海報、單張下載】 http://bit.ly/2QwFg31

#PoliceBrutality in various forms. It has certainly intruded into our daily lives.
#SparkAlliance #Privacy

5 months since 7.21 terrorist attack #721YuenLong