[Oct 28: Police Press Conference]

Police Called Off Press Conference When Confronted with Questions on Police Violence on Journalists

The Hong Kong police suspended their press conference at around 16:44, after a journalist requested the police to stop violence on members of the press.

The journalist recounted cases of police violence and violation of press freedom. She demonstrated how the police flashed light on journalists obstructing them from reporting. She called on other journalists to boycott the press conference.

*After resuming the press conference, Police Public Relation Branch (PPRB) spokeperson ordered a journalist to "shut up" at around 17:07.

Video: Epoch Times Live

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Apple Daily boycotts police press conferences

Apple Daily announced today (Oct 28) that they will not attend protest-related press conferences held by the Hong Kong Police, until the police start displaying their identification number and the government withdraws the injunction on the disclosure of police personal details (names included).

Apple Daily states that they will continue to acquire information from the police but they refuse to be the mouthpiece of the authorities.

This decision comes after the police immediate suspension of the press conference, after a reporter demanded the police to stop imposing violence on journalists. (Watch video: https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/9271)

Source: Apple Daily, Oct 28

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Pillar of Shame placed outside Chinese Embassy in Rome. Nathan Law: China government's atrocities must be exposed to the world

As the G20 summit is to be held in Rome for two days from Saturday (30 October), exiled Hong Kong legislator Nathan Law Kwun-Chung took the "Pillar of Shame" to the Chinese Embassy there yesterday (27 October) to protest. He said he might not be able to stop the Chinese Communist Party (#ccp) from committing atrocities, but he hoped to draw public attention to human rights issues in China.

Joint with Luke de Pulford, a British member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), and others, Nathan Law erected a three-metre-high "Pillar of Shame", a replica of the original "Pillar of Shame" status made by the same Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt, outside the Chinese Embassy in Rome yesterday.

"We may not be able to stop the Chinese Communist Party's atrocities, but with the G20 summit around the corner, there is something we can do to get the media's attention and to direct some of the public opinions towards the human rights of the Chinese Communist Party," he said. He would also meet with parliamentarians from different countries in Rome in the coming days, hoping to remind them of the importance of fighting the expansion of Chinese Communist authority when they gather.

Source: Stand News #Oct28

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[Translator note: According to the Stand News video, Nathan Law said, "it is a statement about the atrocity and the massacre that the Chinese Communist Party did to its people, its crushing of democratic pursuit, and the pursuits of its people to decide the future of their own country", which is not quite the same as what the news article say]