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Category: Say No to China Extradition
Undercover Cop, Denies He is Police, Then Launches Unprovoked Baton Attack
A caucasian (permanent?) Hong Kong resident has been arrested and charged with assaulting police… The alleged policeman was undercover/ in plainclothes and clearly said “No” when asked “Are you Popo?”
Then the ‘policeman’ attacked the man with an extensible baton for no obvious reason and repeatedly refused to produce his warrant card.
This incident looks to be where we find out if Hong Kong still has an independent judiciary who will hold the police accountable. Or are men who claim to be police allowed to assault and attack anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=294&v=1XFT8HIJb_0&feature=emb_logo
Twilight, 6 Months of Police Brutality (Alleged)
Twilight, artist’s black and white drawing records many of the serious instances of (alleged) police brutality since June.
And if you’re not sure which incidents are covered…
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Five Demands, Not One Less! December Protest Schedule
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This schedule is provided for reference and guidance only, as things change on a daily/hourly basis.
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Five Demands, Not One Less! November Protest Schedule
bc magazine does not support or condone violent protest!
This schedule is provided for reference and guidance only, as things change on a daily/hourly basis.
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Lam Pours Fuel on the Fire
The Hong Kong government’s bypassing of Legco to unilaterally introduce a ‘mask law’ is an insult to all HongKongers and a violation of our rights under both the Basic Law and Hong Kong law.
Carrie Lam has ignored millions of HongKongers marching peacefully, she has ignored the input of the people invited to attend the community discussions that she instigated.
Instead of listening to the people she claimed to represent when elected, and looking to attempt to defuse the volatile situation she created with the Extradition Law, Lam has instead trampled over the rights and freedoms of all HongKongers.
There was no violence or masks at the original protests against the extradition law.
The violence was instigated and initiated by the HK Police who actively and deliberately choose to use excessive force to disperse peaceful protestors and who allowed triads to attack the public.
Masks arrived because of the police’s excessive, indiscriminate and illegal use of tear gas and pepper spray.
The ‘mask law’ does not affect those Lam labels as ‘violent’ protestors, the penalties for ‘unlawful assembly’ far exceed those of the ‘mask law’.
The newly instigated law looks to intimidate and shutdown the peaceful protestors who are freely expressing their opinions as enshrined in the Basic Law and allowed under HK Law.
It also appears to be worded to suppress and interfere with the Freedom of the Press and the media’s ability to cover the protests and the excessive violence of the HK Police against protestors and members of the public. It is after all hard to film and report when you have a faceful of tear gas and/or pepper spray.
The protestors violence directly stems from the police’s own actions.
The damage to the MTR stems from it’s own injunction turning passengers into criminals and from picking sides rather than remaining neutral and simply moving people around.
The only way ‘healing’ and peace can come is from the government and the new ‘mask law’ shows Lam has no interest in resolving the violent situation she created. Beijing only understands force, subjugation and repression of freedoms.
Lam will go down in history as woman who destroyed Hong Kong, we can only hope that the blood on her hands gives her nightmares for the eternity.
Declaration by CHRF on 5th Anniversary of Umbrella Movement
Five years ago, on this very same day, the 28th of September, CY Leung’s Government shot 87 tear gas bombs to Hong Kong people in the Harcourt Road, Admiralty, marking the start of 79 days of the Umbrella Movement. Polls show that 1.2 million Hong Kong people had participated in the Umbrella Movement.
The aim of Umbrella Movement was to fight for a genuine universal suffrage, including the right to nominate, right to elect and right to be elected.
Unfortunately, 5 years have passed, and we still don’t have the real universal suffrage.
Some people described that the Umbrella Movement ended in failure. But is it true that the movement that we all supported and participated in, had achieved nothing?
We’ve asked a lot of people, how would they describe the last five years. A lot of them said: “powerless” and “hopeless”.
Especially after the “Fishball Movement”, many people thought that “peaceful” protests no longer work, and “brave” protests could not succeed.
LEADERS of BOTH Umbrella AND Fishball movement were jailed. Hong Kong seemed to be facing a dead end.
We spent 5 years soaked in these hopelessness and powerlessness. Without mass protests, the HKSAR Government disqualified lawmakers, passed evil laws, and had done all the unimaginable things to destroy our system.
No one would have thought that, in 2019, another evil bill, the Extradition Bill, that was so blatantly and daringly attempted to be pushed through by Carrie Lam and pro-Beijing lawmakers, would start this huge “Anti-Extradition Bill Movement”.
Since June this year, 1 million, then 2 million, then again 1.7 million people took to the street in just three-month period. Surely, it is because of the arrogance and inability of Carrie Lam’s Government. But more importantly, it is because of YOU, who had participated in the Umbrella Movement, who had stayed with us in those 79 days, decided TO BE BACK to the streets again.
Together with the new generation of young protesters who were inspired to join this year, we created marvellous scenes of almost ONE-THIRD of our whole population came out to “fight against the tyranny and for democracy”. Five years after the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong people once again made ourselves proud, and amazed the world.
We EVOLVED from the hopelessness and powerlessness, and stand up again STRONGER. Our new generation of protesters are wiser, smarter, with more energy and strategies, bravely resisting the persecution of Beijing and HK Governments.
We LEARNT from both Umbrella Movement and Fishball Movement, and EVOLVED to a new form of protest that is more united, more flexible, and finally SUCCESSFUL MADE Carrie LAM to withdraw the Extradition Bill.
However, “Five Demands, not one less”. As our five demands are not all heard and responded, WE CANNOT CLAIM THIS MOVEMENT SUCCESSFUL. But we are closer.
“NOT SPLITTING, STAY UNITED” is not only a slogan, but wisdom that evolved from our valuable past.
Social movement is created by stories after stories written by us. What we are facing NOW is only one chapter, 2 million is only a record waiting to be broken. The next chapter WILL ONLY BE BETTER AND BRIGHTER.
Let’s continue to fight for REAL UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. Fight for ALL 5 DEMANDS.
香港人加油，Hongkongers, soldier on!
Civil Human Rights Front
28 September 2019
HongKongers are NOT objects!
Was this the first time the HK Police inadvertently spoke the truth?
That Carrie Lam and her Beijing buddies just see HongKongers as objects to be beaten, kicked and jailed if they stand in the path of Xi and his sycophants using Hong Kong to get evermore personally wealthy.
Xi, we understand you hate Hong Kong. All your citizens flock here to buy safe foods, get proper treatment in hospitals and to put their money in banks where you can’t just steal it from them on a whim.
And then the real truth hits them, that China is a massive prison with the CCP as jailers and thugs controlling and manipulating lives through violence.
You thought to break us with your batons, instead, you united us, made us stronger, resilient. By nature, HongKongers are not violent (and bc doesn’t support or condone violence), so you might win a battle or two, but this is now a ‘war’ you can never ‘win’!
Why because you can never win our hearts and minds, Xi you have shown HongKongers and the world what life in China today is like… Do as we say or get dragged off and beaten.
HongKongers are NOT objects!
We are free to think and act, argue and love.
Glory to Hong Hong!