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7 people charged with rioting on 8.31 last year in Wan Chai all acquitted, District Court says prosecution cannot proof then guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Judge had earlier ruled that social worker Jackie Chen, who faced the same charge, had no case to answer
#HongKongProtests
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Insulting spray paints against #HongKong ex-magistrate Stanley Ho, labeled a “pro-democracy yellow judge” by pro-#Beijing media, appear on 2 buildings in Kowloon Tong. Part of it is now covered up. #HongKongPolice list case as criminal damage, no one’s arrested so far
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From a friend:
The US sanctions 11 #HongKong & mainland officials in Aug, Apple Daily @appledaily_hk HQ gets raided by #HongKongPolice the next working day;
US warns financial institutions about the sanctions, @JimmyLaiApple’s office gets raided by police
Coincidence?
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#HongKong activist @joshuawongcf says they’ve obtained from “source” a roster of the #HK Govt Flying Service, indicating the morning when a GFS flight was sent to Sai Kung as #12hkers went on a speedboat, it was a #HongKongPolice operation. Wong says activists know.....
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Ex #HongKong top squash player, Annie Au, has joined #HongKongPolice force after abruptly retiring in March. She told #TVB news “friends held different views” about this, but she says job is meaningful. If all goes well, the 31 year old is passing out next month as an inspector
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The wife of Wong Wai-yin, one of #12hkers detained in Shenzhen, says they don’t know whether their loved ones are alive. But she still bought 2 mooncakes, hoping the Liaison Office will pass them to Wong. “When he sees them he can remember his mom & me,” hoping to meet next year
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Also #HongKongPolice chief Chris Tang: the duty of police is to maintain law and order and protect the safety of the public - even those taking part in illegal assembly and criminals - where possible.
This below is one of the unlawful assembly arrests in Mong Kok on 6 Sep
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#HongKongPolice chief Chris Tang says officers did not attack any university campuses in #HongKong, saying it’s rioters who attacked #CUHK & #PolyU, & all the officers wanted to do at Chinese University was to defend a bridge leading to campus & stop ppl from throwing things down
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#HongKongPolice chief Chris Tang: this girl suddenly ran so officers found her suspicious & had responsibility to stop & subdue her; officers then found out she’s only 12 & had female officers accompany her; police protect the safety of all #HongKong citizens, even arrestees twitter.com/SkyNews/status…
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#HongKongPolice Chief Chris Tang says when this pregnant woman was pushed down in #MongKok early this month, not everyone at scene could hear what others say, tho he admitted her husband had shouted loud about the pregnancy. Tang says special arrangement was made to let ......
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Social worker Jackie Chen has had her rioting charge withdrawn after District Court judge Sham Siu-man ruled that she has no case to answer. Chen was arrested in Causeway Bay on 31 August last year during the #antiELAB protests in #HongKong
#HongKongProtests
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Last year #HongKong leader #CarrieLam said she had to bring justice to the murdered Poon Hiu-wing & her family, so she introduced the #ExtraditionLaw; now she asks the Poon family (her mother in cap) to let go, & the suspect, Chan Tong-kai, to surrender to #Taiwan in his own time
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Executive councillor cum barrister Ronny Tong on the #12HKyouths: because the extradition bill wasn't amended last year amid the #antiELAB protests, the #HongKong government now has no authority to ask for the return of the 12 suspects from their mainland counterparts
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#HongKong Govt says it’s not intervening in the actions of other jurisdictions with regards to #12HKyouths detained in Shenzhen for allegedly fleeing to #Taiwan on speedboat
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The 12 are now confirmed to be in Yantian, Shenzhen, under criminal detention, & “their legal rights protected by the authorities”, says Shenzhen police twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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Activist Agnes Chow @chowtingagnes given a $HK2,000 fine a short while ago for allegedly violating social distancing rules, while she was trying to host a street booth in Jordan opposing health codes in #HongKong
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A 14-year-old hit by a live round shot from this plainclothes officer in Yuen Long last Oct has been charged with rioting & wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, which carries a max life prison sentence. The officer was attacked & had a petrol bomb thrown at him
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.@chowtingagnes says she’s reporting to the #HongKongPolice again in early Dec, a day before her 24th birthday.
Her wish?
(After several sighs)
“I hope I can [come out], spend my birthday....at home”
(Re: Life as a #NationalSecurityLaw suspect in #HongKong)
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#JUST_IN Legal source: riot charge laid against @HKDemocrats lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting @cheuktinglam, he will appear in West Kowloon Court this afternoon
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I’m confused
They say it’s 2047 but it’s 2020
But others say it’s 1984 twitter.com/jimcyf/status/…
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A doctor told the court the mother of teenager Chan Yin-lam refused to let her make a follow-up appointment with psychiatrists. The late 15-year-old was twice diagnosed with oppositional defiant & acute stress disorders, not schizophrenia, the Coroner’s Court was told
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WATCH: #HongKongPolice have warned people of violating #NationalSecurityLaw by chanting the #AntiELAB slogan, #5DemandsNot1Less. This happened in Kowloon Bay this afternoon when People Power’s Tam Tak-chi was giving out face masks there
15:25 of video:
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