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Hong Kong: Democracy activists convicted in landmark ruling | DW News
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
- Hong Kong's High Court on Thursday found 14 activists guilty of "subversion" in the city's biggest trial against pro-democracy campaigners since China imposed a national security law (NSL). Those who were found guilty included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung, Lam Cheuk-ting, Helena Wong and Raymond Chan. Two former district councilors Lee Yue-shun and Lawrence Lau were acquitted. In 2021, 47 protesters and activists, known as the Hong Kong 47, were charged under the national security law with "conspiracy to commit subversion." While 16 of them maintained their innocence throughout the trial, the remaining 31 pleaded guilty, hoping for more lenient sentences. Those found guilty could face from three years to life in jail. The sentencing is expected later this year.
Judges Andrew Chan, Alex Lee and Johnny Chan released a statement summarising their verdict that said the 14 defendants had planned to undermine "the power and authority of both the government and chief executive. In our view... that would create a constitutional crisis for Hong Kong." It was not immediately clear if they would appeal as the court adjourned until the afternoon session. Most of the defendants have been in jail since they were first brought to court in March 2021. The trial was held without a jury and the judges were chosen from a pool of jurists handpicked by Hong Kong's leader John Lee. Supporters of the defendants queued overnight to be in the courtroom but attempts at protest were quickly shut down by police.
Australia voiced "strong objections" and deep concern over the conviction, vowing to raise the fate of a condemned Australian at the "highest levels".
"We are deeply concerned by the verdicts handed down today," Foreign Minister Penny Wong said, "including a guilty verdict for Australian citizen Mr Gordon Ng". Diplomatic officers from the consulates of Britain, France, the European Union and Italy were present in court on Thursday. The British Consulate-General told AFP the UK was concerned "over the erosion of meaningful political opposition in Hong Kong."
They began attending court proceedings following accusations that the trial was politically motivated and joined calls for the immediate release of the accused. China responded by telling international critics to "stop interfering."
"We advise individual countries and politicians to face reality squarely, uphold an objective and impartial stance... and stop interfering in Hong Kong's affairs and China's internal affairs immediately," the spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong said.
Mass pro-democracy protests erupted in Hong Kong in 2019 over the NSL that was being planned at the time by Beijing. Democrats argued the NSL would infringe on freedoms guaranteed when Hong Kong was handed back to China by the British in 1997. The charges centered around an unofficial pre-selection ballot in July 2020 that prosecutors called a "vicious plot" to paralyze the government. The democrats maintain it was an unofficial attempt to select the strongest candidates for a citywide election in a bid to win a historic majority in Hong Kong's legislature.
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That's quite sad
Thank you Phoebe for reporting what is a tense situation in Hong Kong for citizens and journalists. Stay safe!
thanks for reporting
Shocking! Who would have thought this would happen.
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This is the Republican vision for America.
The Republican vision includes more "Handmaid's Tale" and "The Purge" elements.
Their greatest mitigating factor, if not for them HK will not have the National Security Law implemented successfully..go easy on their sentencing 😀😀
the 2 innocent. do you think authorities used prisoner's dilemma on them? those 2 saved themselves by accusing their colleagues?
Relatively to Pe10si, HK is so kind..
2024-5-28, man who was convicted of assaulting Pe1osi's husband in 2022 was re-sentenced to 30 years
sentenced to 30 years requested by that __ woman
For break and enter into their property and assault.
How is that, and the desire to elect you own leaders, in any way comparable?
Why all the fuss. In 2015, Catalonia declared independence from Spain in an unlawful referendum. The Madrid government arrested and imprisoned the separatists. No reaction from the EU and US. However, China is viewed differently in exactly the same circumstances. All the emphasis is on the democracy aspect, not the subversion aspect. Didn't the German government also arrested right wing subversive trying to overthrown the German government ? Hypocrisy.
Relatively , HK is so kind.
HK Legislative Council Complex RIOT sentence for 4 years.
U$A Capital Hill Riot "Proudboy" sentence for 22 years.
Stewart Rhodes: 18 years
Peter Schwartz: 14 years
Thomas Webster: 10 years
Jessica Watkins: 8.5 years
.......
record high trade between germany btw🎉
work for CIA=democracy activist😅😅😅
Well Taiwan politicians were saying things like that Hong Kong should join them and then other cities in China until they took back the mainland from the Communists and suggesting that they would help the "activists." A real wonder why their governments don't get along.
working for foreign countries has its price
which one? give us proof.
What about the desire to elect your own leaders?
Guilty as charged. Justice has prevailed.
The west used these fools and forgot all about them😂😂😂
We probably never cared about them in the first place. They were just a chance to make China look bad while we were dealing with the BLM movement, only China killed and injured far fewer protestors, and there was less damage overall.
You think the desire to elect your own leaders is uniquely western?
Georgia was lucky enough to pass a “foreign agents” bill.
The 2019 Hong Kong were the result of the absence of a "Foreign Agents" bill, to prevent/protect/defend against foreign interference.
As if it would be any other way ! 😢 with ❤
Justic will never absence
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
3:09 to remind, it's now patriots-only
That Che Guevara shirt is hilarious for someone who is supposedly pro-Democracy and not a dangerous wannabe revolutionary, with peace signs no less. What a choice.
Justice served.
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I am a Hong konger, and it is absolutely ridiculous that the so-called resistance from activists were ALL supporting Hong Kong INDEPENDENCE. Only people who are nuts would think that is possible, yet almost all rioters as well as many protestors were demanding self determination like a referendum for independence.
Almost all politicians from the so-called democratic party( in name only) broke the election laws on purpose and many were jailed subsequently despite repeated warnings from the government.
Most of the activists who organised the protests were also trying to be famous in local media as they would be interviewed by many journalists and literally everyone of them tried to run for local elections ! Protests were simply tools for them to get media exposure.
Western media in 2019 wanted to dump it down to communist sympathiers vs democracy protestors (blue and yellow ribbon in hong kong) when in fact the silent majority were both afraid of the communist AND they were even more afraid of fascist freedom fighters ( i.e the rioters) who hospitalised anyone that dared to exercise free speech and opposed their vandalism and violent protests.
Doxxing was rampant as children and relatives of the police, or anyone who dared to oppose violent protests were threatened and their homes attacked.
Many fled Hong Kong because they were arrested during the riots to escape potential prosecutions. what s the prosecution rate? out of 12000+ rioters, less than 1000 were sent to jail despite being caught red handed at the riots. Most were not even charged as you need beyond reasonable doubt in hong kong to prosecute a rioter.
By wearing masks, most of them could not be identified even if they were arrested with rioting gears like helmets, huge umbrella on sunny day, protective gears etc.
Out of every riot, e.g 300+ rioters, only 20+ would be arrested in the early months. i.e less than 10%. So out of 12000 people, with 99.3% of rioters got away with rioting as less than 1000 were jailed.
This sad affair ultimately prompted Beijing to establish the national security law. So hong kongers could no longer legally commit treason, like flying to the Congress and demanding America to sanction hong kong and China if hong kong couldn't have a western style democracy.
How many protestors were killed by the hong kong police during 5 months of protests and riots? ZERO. Did rioters kill anyone? One unarmed cleaner was murdered by a rioter in broad daylight as they got accustomed to throwing bricks at the police and they threw bricks at unarmed innocents for opposing violent protests.
Another was set on fire and required multiple surgeries to survive. A total of at least 70+ unarmed innocents were severely hospitalised by rioters, a dozen required surgeries as the fascist mobs beat them to a pulp.
Only a few were reported like they were isolated incidents when in fact the rioters brutality against unarmed innocents were happening EVERY SINGLE WEEK for FIVE months, terrorising millions of hong kongers.
Solution? Many pretend to support them. e.g they stopped all the cars at motorways and demand drivers to donate money to their cause, so many simply shouted their protests slogans and they were immediately let go!
:) nobody really cares about hk, or china, for every single person that says he want a better place to live, 1000 like it just the way it is. :)
people make a place not viceversa.
Are you afraid of communists?
action has consequences, many Democrats pleaded guilty earlier, they were the wiser, shorter sentences