#chowhangtung — Public Fediverse posts
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On International Women’s Day, we honor all those women who refuse to be sidelined, no matter the odds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/06/world/hong-kongs-democracy-fight-is-also-a-battle-for-womens-freedom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #internationalwomensday #hongkong #china #chowhangtung #jimmylai #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #tiananmensquare #carmenlau #tedhui #nationalsecuritylaw #gwynethho #franceshui
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On International Women’s Day, we honor all those women who refuse to be sidelined, no matter the odds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/06/world/hong-kongs-democracy-fight-is-also-a-battle-for-womens-freedom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #internationalwomensday #hongkong #china #chowhangtung #jimmylai #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #tiananmensquare #carmenlau #tedhui #nationalsecuritylaw #gwynethho #franceshui
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On International Women’s Day, we honor all those women who refuse to be sidelined, no matter the odds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/06/world/hong-kongs-democracy-fight-is-also-a-battle-for-womens-freedom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #internationalwomensday #hongkong #china #chowhangtung #jimmylai #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #tiananmensquare #carmenlau #tedhui #nationalsecuritylaw #gwynethho #franceshui
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On International Women’s Day, we honor all those women who refuse to be sidelined, no matter the odds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/06/world/hong-kongs-democracy-fight-is-also-a-battle-for-womens-freedom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #internationalwomensday #hongkong #china #chowhangtung #jimmylai #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #tiananmensquare #carmenlau #tedhui #nationalsecuritylaw #gwynethho #franceshui
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CCBE - Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe issued this letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping expressing serious concern about the continued detention and reported unfair trial of #HongKong lawyer #ChowHangtung, winner of the CCBE Human Rights Award 2023.
Link to CCBE’s letter: https://www.ccbe.eu/fileadmin/speciality_distribution/public/documents/HUMAN_RIGHTS_LETTERS/China_-_Chine/2025/EN_HRL_20251201_China_Continued-detention-of-lawyer-Chow-Hang-Tung-Lee-Cheuk-Yan.pdf?fbclid=PAdGRleAObIsFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaflCM8DJ_bQwrKz1MGkUCNucANWG9r2hSXtKiEOFG15Rs1BsnMIf8Aw2aZXKA_aem_b6XmjRydc2mZ0CWT7Y0MdQ -
🎥 Projection du documentaire « She’s in Jail » sur CHOW Hang-tung, une avocate emprisonnée pour avoir commémoré #Tiananmen
« She’s in Jail » (幸彤在監獄) est un documentaire indépendant sur Me. Tonyee CHOW Hang-tung. Avocate-militante hongkongaise emprisonnée, elle a lutté pour les droits de l’homme, la démocratisation et l’état de droit à Hong Kong ainsi qu’en Chine.
Ayant organisé des commémorations du Massacre de Tiananmen, et ayant défendu les droits fondamentaux des Chinois, elle est actuellement inculpée pour subversion de l’État chinois sous la Loi sur la Sécurité Nationale, en vigueur à Hong Kong depuis 2020.
En projetant ce film, DOC ! et le Comité voudrions vous rappeler l’importance de la liberté d'expression et de la démocratie. En raison de l'actuelle situation délicate en France, nous avons décidé de décaler la projection du documentaire à 14h, pour que vous puissiez voter avant ou après la séance, ou défendre la démocratie après le scrutin.
Vive la liberté ! On se verra dimanche.
Dimanche 7/7/2024
14h (suivie d'une table ronde à 16h)
Association Doc !, 26 rue du Dr. Potain, 75019 ParisPrix libre
VO cantonais + ST chinois & anglais
#幸彤在監獄Organisé par le Comité pour la liberté à Hong Kong
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Screening of the documentary “She’s in Jail” about imprisoned #HongKong barrister and activist #ChowHangtung at the Japanese parliamentary building in #Tokyo. Thanks Shu Sakurai, Uryu Hirano and Alric Lee for their excellent speeches.
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When we heard the news, our reaction was like: #ChowHangtung's friends and her mother were also arrested? Just so much like what happen to human rights defenders in China, and to certain extent even worse.
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The Japanese version of #ShesinJail - the documentary on #ChowHangtung - will be screened at the University of Tokyo at 2pm on 7 April 2024 along with two other documentaries on China
https://x.com/tomoko_ako/status/1774338268169171392?s=46&t=_gW9UTQwqLuKB-LAJ4uknQ
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It's great to see that so many people have already seen/are going to see the documentary "She's in Jail". It's not just about #ChowHangTung. It's about all Hong Kongers. It's about all of us. Please support The 29 Principles' future campaigns. Thanks!
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Documentary on detained #HongKong barrister and activist #ChowHangTung to be shown in different parts of the world, including Taiwan, Canada, Malaysia and other places.
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/ec-03042024081625.html
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#HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner #ChowHangTung's had her application for bail rejected following the reinstatement of her protest conviction on Jan 25. Behind bars since Sep 2021, she's awaiting verdict in one appeal, re-sentencing in protest conviction & a national security trial. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1752304534217494770#m
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#HongKong's top court overturns acquittal of human rights lawyer #ChowHangTung | #Reuters
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@CECCgov RT by @benedictrogers: #ChowHangTung was jailed for urging others to peacefully commemorate the #TiananmenMassacre. There are over 1000 others detained for exercising rights protected by int’l law and treaty. #UPR delegations must ask the PRC to free all of #HongKong’s political prisoners. #FreeThemAll https://nitter.hongkongers.net/CECCgov/status/1747468790680420812#m
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Amnesty International: Five Ways Our #RightToProtest is Being Threatened Around the World
by James Duggan, October 5, 2022
"All around the world, right now, peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, threatened, and face physical violence from authorities. Even at home, in #Australia, our right to stand up and speak out against injustice is being taken away. Now more than ever, it’s essential we continue to fight for our #HumanRights.
"The right to protest is a fundamental human right. #Article20 of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The right to protest is a way for people to defend their human rights and the rights of others when they’re threatened by governments and authorities.
"Here are five places where the right to protest is currently at threat:
1. #Australia
"Right here in Australia, governments and authorities are adopting an increasingly punitive attitude towards protestors. In 2020, peaceful protestors at a #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Sydney were met with excessive and unnecessary force from #NewSouthWales Police. Police used pepper spray and chased student protestors on horseback at the University of New South Wales, and pushed them to the ground. Both protestors and bystanders were injured in the process.
"The following year, in November 2021, a #ClimateActivist was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he climbed atop a #coal train and stayed on it for five hours to protest Australia’s #climate policies. Twenty-eight other people belonging to the same activist group were also arrested in NSW that month.
"In 2022, the NSW Government announced that disrupting any bridge or tunnel in Greater Sydney as part of a protest would result in individual fines of $22,000. This is a ten-fold increase from the previous penalty of $2,200. The NSW Government also plans to introduce legislation which would mean this $22,000 fine would also apply to protestors disrupting roads and public transport facilities.
2. #HongKong
"In June 2020, a new law came into effect in Hong Kong, referred to as the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL). What “national security” refers to in this law isn’t well defined, and the NSL has been applied arbitrarily at the discretion of the government and authorities to suppress #dissent and political opposition.
"In September 2021, a human rights lawyer named #ChowHangTung was arrested under this law and charged with 'inciting subversion.' She faces up to ten years in prison for peacefully commemorating the 1989 #Tiananmen Square protest crackdown. During the 1989 crackdown, an undisclosed number of people, anywhere from hundreds to thousands, were killed by authorities for gathering to protest the government’s censorship laws. At least three other activists were arrested along with Chow Hang-tung in relation to the peaceful memorial of these victims.
3. #Cambodia
"In May 2021, three young activists belonging to a Cambodian environmental campaign group called #MotherNatureCambodia were convicted to between 18 and 20 months in prison. They were arrested after they announced a plan to undertake a two-person march to the #Cambodian prime minister’s house in order to express their concerns regarding plans to privatise and develop the largest remaining #lake in the country’s capital city. They were charged with 'incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.'
"Mother Nature Cambodia have won several major #environmental victories in Cambodia. In 2016, their efforts to expose widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to the #mining and export of #sand from coastal areas of Cambodia resulted in a total export ban on #CoastalSand from the country. As a result, the group have been targeted with harassment and repression from the Cambodian government. Multiple other activists have been charged with 'incitement,' and the group has been accused of 'causing chaos in society' and labelled 'illegal' because they’re not registered under the country’s restrictive NGO Law.
4. #Russia
"The right to protest in Russia has been severely compromised since 2004, when the Federal Law on Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets was passed. The Law on Assemblies restricts who’s allowed to organise a protest and where the protest is allowed to be held, and subjects planned protests to a strict authorisation process that often results in permission being denied.
"Since 2004, legislation has been tightened numerous times. Most recently, the Russian government introduced new, heavy penalties for anyone who protests Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Less than three weeks after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, almost 15,000 peaceful protestors had been arrested. #RussianAuthorities have arrested bystanders of protests and even children. Police have used excessive force against peaceful protestors, including women, subjecting them to beatings and electrocution with stun guns.
5. #India
"In India, draconian laws such as 'the crime of sedition' have been repeatedly used against peaceful protestors, journalists and human rights defenders. The slow investigative processes and strict bail conditions under these laws mean that activists and others who speak out against injustice in their country may spend many years behind bars while their trial is ongoing.
"In 2021, a 22-year-old #EnvironmentalActivist named #DishaRavi was charged with '#sedition' for sharing an online Google document that was originally tweeted by #GretaThunberg. The document was a basic 'toolkit' for #farmers in India who were then in the midst of protests against the Indian government over newly introduced agricultural legislation. The 'toolkit' included information on the protests and how to support the movement, both in person and online. Disha is a leader of India’s #FridaysForFuture movement, an international student environmentalist movement instigated by Greta Thunberg.
Source:
https://www.amnesty.org.au/five-ways-our-right-to-protest-is-being-threatened-around-the-world/#ForestDefenders #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
#DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime -
Amnesty International: Five Ways Our #RightToProtest is Being Threatened Around the World
by James Duggan, October 5, 2022
"All around the world, right now, peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, threatened, and face physical violence from authorities. Even at home, in #Australia, our right to stand up and speak out against injustice is being taken away. Now more than ever, it’s essential we continue to fight for our #HumanRights.
"The right to protest is a fundamental human right. #Article20 of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The right to protest is a way for people to defend their human rights and the rights of others when they’re threatened by governments and authorities.
"Here are five places where the right to protest is currently at threat:
1. #Australia
"Right here in Australia, governments and authorities are adopting an increasingly punitive attitude towards protestors. In 2020, peaceful protestors at a #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Sydney were met with excessive and unnecessary force from #NewSouthWales Police. Police used pepper spray and chased student protestors on horseback at the University of New South Wales, and pushed them to the ground. Both protestors and bystanders were injured in the process.
"The following year, in November 2021, a #ClimateActivist was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he climbed atop a #coal train and stayed on it for five hours to protest Australia’s #climate policies. Twenty-eight other people belonging to the same activist group were also arrested in NSW that month.
"In 2022, the NSW Government announced that disrupting any bridge or tunnel in Greater Sydney as part of a protest would result in individual fines of $22,000. This is a ten-fold increase from the previous penalty of $2,200. The NSW Government also plans to introduce legislation which would mean this $22,000 fine would also apply to protestors disrupting roads and public transport facilities.
2. #HongKong
"In June 2020, a new law came into effect in Hong Kong, referred to as the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL). What “national security” refers to in this law isn’t well defined, and the NSL has been applied arbitrarily at the discretion of the government and authorities to suppress #dissent and political opposition.
"In September 2021, a human rights lawyer named #ChowHangTung was arrested under this law and charged with 'inciting subversion.' She faces up to ten years in prison for peacefully commemorating the 1989 #Tiananmen Square protest crackdown. During the 1989 crackdown, an undisclosed number of people, anywhere from hundreds to thousands, were killed by authorities for gathering to protest the government’s censorship laws. At least three other activists were arrested along with Chow Hang-tung in relation to the peaceful memorial of these victims.
3. #Cambodia
"In May 2021, three young activists belonging to a Cambodian environmental campaign group called #MotherNatureCambodia were convicted to between 18 and 20 months in prison. They were arrested after they announced a plan to undertake a two-person march to the #Cambodian prime minister’s house in order to express their concerns regarding plans to privatise and develop the largest remaining #lake in the country’s capital city. They were charged with 'incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.'
"Mother Nature Cambodia have won several major #environmental victories in Cambodia. In 2016, their efforts to expose widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to the #mining and export of #sand from coastal areas of Cambodia resulted in a total export ban on #CoastalSand from the country. As a result, the group have been targeted with harassment and repression from the Cambodian government. Multiple other activists have been charged with 'incitement,' and the group has been accused of 'causing chaos in society' and labelled 'illegal' because they’re not registered under the country’s restrictive NGO Law.
4. #Russia
"The right to protest in Russia has been severely compromised since 2004, when the Federal Law on Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets was passed. The Law on Assemblies restricts who’s allowed to organise a protest and where the protest is allowed to be held, and subjects planned protests to a strict authorisation process that often results in permission being denied.
"Since 2004, legislation has been tightened numerous times. Most recently, the Russian government introduced new, heavy penalties for anyone who protests Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Less than three weeks after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, almost 15,000 peaceful protestors had been arrested. #RussianAuthorities have arrested bystanders of protests and even children. Police have used excessive force against peaceful protestors, including women, subjecting them to beatings and electrocution with stun guns.
5. #India
"In India, draconian laws such as 'the crime of sedition' have been repeatedly used against peaceful protestors, journalists and human rights defenders. The slow investigative processes and strict bail conditions under these laws mean that activists and others who speak out against injustice in their country may spend many years behind bars while their trial is ongoing.
"In 2021, a 22-year-old #EnvironmentalActivist named #DishaRavi was charged with '#sedition' for sharing an online Google document that was originally tweeted by #GretaThunberg. The document was a basic 'toolkit' for #farmers in India who were then in the midst of protests against the Indian government over newly introduced agricultural legislation. The 'toolkit' included information on the protests and how to support the movement, both in person and online. Disha is a leader of India’s #FridaysForFuture movement, an international student environmentalist movement instigated by Greta Thunberg.
Source:
https://www.amnesty.org.au/five-ways-our-right-to-protest-is-being-threatened-around-the-world/#ForestDefenders #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
#DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime -
Amnesty International: Five Ways Our #RightToProtest is Being Threatened Around the World
by James Duggan, October 5, 2022
"All around the world, right now, peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, threatened, and face physical violence from authorities. Even at home, in #Australia, our right to stand up and speak out against injustice is being taken away. Now more than ever, it’s essential we continue to fight for our #HumanRights.
"The right to protest is a fundamental human right. #Article20 of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The right to protest is a way for people to defend their human rights and the rights of others when they’re threatened by governments and authorities.
"Here are five places where the right to protest is currently at threat:
1. #Australia
"Right here in Australia, governments and authorities are adopting an increasingly punitive attitude towards protestors. In 2020, peaceful protestors at a #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Sydney were met with excessive and unnecessary force from #NewSouthWales Police. Police used pepper spray and chased student protestors on horseback at the University of New South Wales, and pushed them to the ground. Both protestors and bystanders were injured in the process.
"The following year, in November 2021, a #ClimateActivist was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he climbed atop a #coal train and stayed on it for five hours to protest Australia’s #climate policies. Twenty-eight other people belonging to the same activist group were also arrested in NSW that month.
"In 2022, the NSW Government announced that disrupting any bridge or tunnel in Greater Sydney as part of a protest would result in individual fines of $22,000. This is a ten-fold increase from the previous penalty of $2,200. The NSW Government also plans to introduce legislation which would mean this $22,000 fine would also apply to protestors disrupting roads and public transport facilities.
2. #HongKong
"In June 2020, a new law came into effect in Hong Kong, referred to as the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL). What “national security” refers to in this law isn’t well defined, and the NSL has been applied arbitrarily at the discretion of the government and authorities to suppress #dissent and political opposition.
"In September 2021, a human rights lawyer named #ChowHangTung was arrested under this law and charged with 'inciting subversion.' She faces up to ten years in prison for peacefully commemorating the 1989 #Tiananmen Square protest crackdown. During the 1989 crackdown, an undisclosed number of people, anywhere from hundreds to thousands, were killed by authorities for gathering to protest the government’s censorship laws. At least three other activists were arrested along with Chow Hang-tung in relation to the peaceful memorial of these victims.
3. #Cambodia
"In May 2021, three young activists belonging to a Cambodian environmental campaign group called #MotherNatureCambodia were convicted to between 18 and 20 months in prison. They were arrested after they announced a plan to undertake a two-person march to the #Cambodian prime minister’s house in order to express their concerns regarding plans to privatise and develop the largest remaining #lake in the country’s capital city. They were charged with 'incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.'
"Mother Nature Cambodia have won several major #environmental victories in Cambodia. In 2016, their efforts to expose widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to the #mining and export of #sand from coastal areas of Cambodia resulted in a total export ban on #CoastalSand from the country. As a result, the group have been targeted with harassment and repression from the Cambodian government. Multiple other activists have been charged with 'incitement,' and the group has been accused of 'causing chaos in society' and labelled 'illegal' because they’re not registered under the country’s restrictive NGO Law.
4. #Russia
"The right to protest in Russia has been severely compromised since 2004, when the Federal Law on Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets was passed. The Law on Assemblies restricts who’s allowed to organise a protest and where the protest is allowed to be held, and subjects planned protests to a strict authorisation process that often results in permission being denied.
"Since 2004, legislation has been tightened numerous times. Most recently, the Russian government introduced new, heavy penalties for anyone who protests Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Less than three weeks after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, almost 15,000 peaceful protestors had been arrested. #RussianAuthorities have arrested bystanders of protests and even children. Police have used excessive force against peaceful protestors, including women, subjecting them to beatings and electrocution with stun guns.
5. #India
"In India, draconian laws such as 'the crime of sedition' have been repeatedly used against peaceful protestors, journalists and human rights defenders. The slow investigative processes and strict bail conditions under these laws mean that activists and others who speak out against injustice in their country may spend many years behind bars while their trial is ongoing.
"In 2021, a 22-year-old #EnvironmentalActivist named #DishaRavi was charged with '#sedition' for sharing an online Google document that was originally tweeted by #GretaThunberg. The document was a basic 'toolkit' for #farmers in India who were then in the midst of protests against the Indian government over newly introduced agricultural legislation. The 'toolkit' included information on the protests and how to support the movement, both in person and online. Disha is a leader of India’s #FridaysForFuture movement, an international student environmentalist movement instigated by Greta Thunberg.
Source:
https://www.amnesty.org.au/five-ways-our-right-to-protest-is-being-threatened-around-the-world/#ForestDefenders #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
#DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime -
Amnesty International: Five Ways Our #RightToProtest is Being Threatened Around the World
by James Duggan, October 5, 2022
"All around the world, right now, peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, threatened, and face physical violence from authorities. Even at home, in #Australia, our right to stand up and speak out against injustice is being taken away. Now more than ever, it’s essential we continue to fight for our #HumanRights.
"The right to protest is a fundamental human right. #Article20 of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The right to protest is a way for people to defend their human rights and the rights of others when they’re threatened by governments and authorities.
"Here are five places where the right to protest is currently at threat:
1. #Australia
"Right here in Australia, governments and authorities are adopting an increasingly punitive attitude towards protestors. In 2020, peaceful protestors at a #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Sydney were met with excessive and unnecessary force from #NewSouthWales Police. Police used pepper spray and chased student protestors on horseback at the University of New South Wales, and pushed them to the ground. Both protestors and bystanders were injured in the process.
"The following year, in November 2021, a #ClimateActivist was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he climbed atop a #coal train and stayed on it for five hours to protest Australia’s #climate policies. Twenty-eight other people belonging to the same activist group were also arrested in NSW that month.
"In 2022, the NSW Government announced that disrupting any bridge or tunnel in Greater Sydney as part of a protest would result in individual fines of $22,000. This is a ten-fold increase from the previous penalty of $2,200. The NSW Government also plans to introduce legislation which would mean this $22,000 fine would also apply to protestors disrupting roads and public transport facilities.
2. #HongKong
"In June 2020, a new law came into effect in Hong Kong, referred to as the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL). What “national security” refers to in this law isn’t well defined, and the NSL has been applied arbitrarily at the discretion of the government and authorities to suppress #dissent and political opposition.
"In September 2021, a human rights lawyer named #ChowHangTung was arrested under this law and charged with 'inciting subversion.' She faces up to ten years in prison for peacefully commemorating the 1989 #Tiananmen Square protest crackdown. During the 1989 crackdown, an undisclosed number of people, anywhere from hundreds to thousands, were killed by authorities for gathering to protest the government’s censorship laws. At least three other activists were arrested along with Chow Hang-tung in relation to the peaceful memorial of these victims.
3. #Cambodia
"In May 2021, three young activists belonging to a Cambodian environmental campaign group called #MotherNatureCambodia were convicted to between 18 and 20 months in prison. They were arrested after they announced a plan to undertake a two-person march to the #Cambodian prime minister’s house in order to express their concerns regarding plans to privatise and develop the largest remaining #lake in the country’s capital city. They were charged with 'incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.'
"Mother Nature Cambodia have won several major #environmental victories in Cambodia. In 2016, their efforts to expose widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to the #mining and export of #sand from coastal areas of Cambodia resulted in a total export ban on #CoastalSand from the country. As a result, the group have been targeted with harassment and repression from the Cambodian government. Multiple other activists have been charged with 'incitement,' and the group has been accused of 'causing chaos in society' and labelled 'illegal' because they’re not registered under the country’s restrictive NGO Law.
4. #Russia
"The right to protest in Russia has been severely compromised since 2004, when the Federal Law on Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets was passed. The Law on Assemblies restricts who’s allowed to organise a protest and where the protest is allowed to be held, and subjects planned protests to a strict authorisation process that often results in permission being denied.
"Since 2004, legislation has been tightened numerous times. Most recently, the Russian government introduced new, heavy penalties for anyone who protests Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Less than three weeks after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, almost 15,000 peaceful protestors had been arrested. #RussianAuthorities have arrested bystanders of protests and even children. Police have used excessive force against peaceful protestors, including women, subjecting them to beatings and electrocution with stun guns.
5. #India
"In India, draconian laws such as 'the crime of sedition' have been repeatedly used against peaceful protestors, journalists and human rights defenders. The slow investigative processes and strict bail conditions under these laws mean that activists and others who speak out against injustice in their country may spend many years behind bars while their trial is ongoing.
"In 2021, a 22-year-old #EnvironmentalActivist named #DishaRavi was charged with '#sedition' for sharing an online Google document that was originally tweeted by #GretaThunberg. The document was a basic 'toolkit' for #farmers in India who were then in the midst of protests against the Indian government over newly introduced agricultural legislation. The 'toolkit' included information on the protests and how to support the movement, both in person and online. Disha is a leader of India’s #FridaysForFuture movement, an international student environmentalist movement instigated by Greta Thunberg.
Source:
https://www.amnesty.org.au/five-ways-our-right-to-protest-is-being-threatened-around-the-world/#ForestDefenders #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
#DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime -
Amnesty International: Five Ways Our #RightToProtest is Being Threatened Around the World
by James Duggan, October 5, 2022
"All around the world, right now, peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, threatened, and face physical violence from authorities. Even at home, in #Australia, our right to stand up and speak out against injustice is being taken away. Now more than ever, it’s essential we continue to fight for our #HumanRights.
"The right to protest is a fundamental human right. #Article20 of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The right to protest is a way for people to defend their human rights and the rights of others when they’re threatened by governments and authorities.
"Here are five places where the right to protest is currently at threat:
1. #Australia
"Right here in Australia, governments and authorities are adopting an increasingly punitive attitude towards protestors. In 2020, peaceful protestors at a #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Sydney were met with excessive and unnecessary force from #NewSouthWales Police. Police used pepper spray and chased student protestors on horseback at the University of New South Wales, and pushed them to the ground. Both protestors and bystanders were injured in the process.
"The following year, in November 2021, a #ClimateActivist was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he climbed atop a #coal train and stayed on it for five hours to protest Australia’s #climate policies. Twenty-eight other people belonging to the same activist group were also arrested in NSW that month.
"In 2022, the NSW Government announced that disrupting any bridge or tunnel in Greater Sydney as part of a protest would result in individual fines of $22,000. This is a ten-fold increase from the previous penalty of $2,200. The NSW Government also plans to introduce legislation which would mean this $22,000 fine would also apply to protestors disrupting roads and public transport facilities.
2. #HongKong
"In June 2020, a new law came into effect in Hong Kong, referred to as the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL). What “national security” refers to in this law isn’t well defined, and the NSL has been applied arbitrarily at the discretion of the government and authorities to suppress #dissent and political opposition.
"In September 2021, a human rights lawyer named #ChowHangTung was arrested under this law and charged with 'inciting subversion.' She faces up to ten years in prison for peacefully commemorating the 1989 #Tiananmen Square protest crackdown. During the 1989 crackdown, an undisclosed number of people, anywhere from hundreds to thousands, were killed by authorities for gathering to protest the government’s censorship laws. At least three other activists were arrested along with Chow Hang-tung in relation to the peaceful memorial of these victims.
3. #Cambodia
"In May 2021, three young activists belonging to a Cambodian environmental campaign group called #MotherNatureCambodia were convicted to between 18 and 20 months in prison. They were arrested after they announced a plan to undertake a two-person march to the #Cambodian prime minister’s house in order to express their concerns regarding plans to privatise and develop the largest remaining #lake in the country’s capital city. They were charged with 'incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.'
"Mother Nature Cambodia have won several major #environmental victories in Cambodia. In 2016, their efforts to expose widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to the #mining and export of #sand from coastal areas of Cambodia resulted in a total export ban on #CoastalSand from the country. As a result, the group have been targeted with harassment and repression from the Cambodian government. Multiple other activists have been charged with 'incitement,' and the group has been accused of 'causing chaos in society' and labelled 'illegal' because they’re not registered under the country’s restrictive NGO Law.
4. #Russia
"The right to protest in Russia has been severely compromised since 2004, when the Federal Law on Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets was passed. The Law on Assemblies restricts who’s allowed to organise a protest and where the protest is allowed to be held, and subjects planned protests to a strict authorisation process that often results in permission being denied.
"Since 2004, legislation has been tightened numerous times. Most recently, the Russian government introduced new, heavy penalties for anyone who protests Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Less than three weeks after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, almost 15,000 peaceful protestors had been arrested. #RussianAuthorities have arrested bystanders of protests and even children. Police have used excessive force against peaceful protestors, including women, subjecting them to beatings and electrocution with stun guns.
5. #India
"In India, draconian laws such as 'the crime of sedition' have been repeatedly used against peaceful protestors, journalists and human rights defenders. The slow investigative processes and strict bail conditions under these laws mean that activists and others who speak out against injustice in their country may spend many years behind bars while their trial is ongoing.
"In 2021, a 22-year-old #EnvironmentalActivist named #DishaRavi was charged with '#sedition' for sharing an online Google document that was originally tweeted by #GretaThunberg. The document was a basic 'toolkit' for #farmers in India who were then in the midst of protests against the Indian government over newly introduced agricultural legislation. The 'toolkit' included information on the protests and how to support the movement, both in person and online. Disha is a leader of India’s #FridaysForFuture movement, an international student environmentalist movement instigated by Greta Thunberg.
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https://www.amnesty.org.au/five-ways-our-right-to-protest-is-being-threatened-around-the-world/#ForestDefenders #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
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#HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner #ChowHangTung has been denied bail for the 16th time. She's been on remand for >2 years. Still no trial date set for her, Albert Ho & Lee Cheuk-yan on the national security charge of "inciting subversion" for commemorating the #TiananmenMassacre. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1737699483423567972#m
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Support group of #HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner #ChowHangTung reports she's been in solitary confinement for 18 days. From June to December this year, she's been put in solitary confinement 9 times. 18 days is the longest duration yet. The reason for the latest punishment's unclear https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1736948866191397105#m
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#HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner #ChowHangTung has written a 20,000-word speech accepting @CCBEinfo's Human Rights Award 2023. Read the full speech here in both English and Chinese: https://www.facebook.com/ChowHangTungClub/posts/pfbid05Nr7H84U4XasBgnUPWezHQ693wwL5S1Zjn7w3xzdeW3GABe9pP2aQL7HBn7ZWmWjl https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1728774284926214466#m
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Hang Tung - I have completed the mission! It’s so much an honour for me to represent you to receive the CCBE - Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe Human Rights Award and read out your long and extremely insightful speech. Come to visit me in to Tokyo pick up the award after you are free! #ChowHangTung
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.@CCBEinfo has given its Human Rights Award 2023 to imprisoned lawyers #ChowHangTung of #HongKong & Xu Zhiyong & Ding Jiaxi of China for “upholding the fundamental values of the legal profession & defending & advocating for human rights & the rule of law.” https://www.ccbe.eu/fileadmin/speciality_distribution/public/documents/Pressreleases/2023/EN_HR_20231122_PR_0423.pdf https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1727722721449054442#m
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The final appeal hearing over #HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner #ChowHangTung "inciting unauthorized assembly" on #June4 2021 was held at Court of Final Appeal on Wed. Prison authorities went to great lengths to prevent the public from seeing Chow go from prison van to courthouse. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1727280768408559864#m
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The final appeal hearing over #HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner #ChowHangTung "inciting unauthorized assembly" on #June4 2021 was held at Court of Final Appeal on Wed. Prison authorities went to great lengths to prevent the public from seeing Chow go from prison van to courthouse. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1727280768408559864#m
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Free #ChowHangTung Free #HongKong Rights NGO expresses concern as Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung allegedly put in solitary confinement 6 times since June - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP https://hongkongfp.com/2023/10/31/rights-ngo-expresses-concern-as-hong-kong-activist-chow-hang-tung-allegedly-put-in-solitary-confinement-6-times-since-june/ https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1719446624034812211#m
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R to @hkdc_us: Jane Fraser of @Citi is scheduled to share the stage w/ US-sanctioned John Lee at the #HongKong government finance summit just a few miles from where #ChowHangTung & hundreds of other #PoliticalPrisoners are held. Ms Fraser, pls withdraw! Don't be complicit in #HumanRights abuses https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1717603823483519163#m
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New 5-min doc (in English) about the making of the #JimmyLai #PrisonerOfConscience neon sign in #Sydney Jimmy's 1 of 6 #HongKongers nominated for 2023 #NobelPeacePrize (tba on Friday) along w/ #ChowHangTung #LeeCheukYan #CardinalZen #GwynethHo #JoshuaWong. https://youtu.be/mmjAyphdIXU?feature=shared https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1708848897651798341#m
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New 5-min doc (in English) about the making of the #JimmyLai #PrisonerOfConscience neon sign in #Sydney Jimmy's 1 of 6 #HongKongers nominated for 2023 #NobelPeacePrize (tba on Friday) along w/ #ChowHangTung #LeeCheukYan #CardinalZen #GwynethHo #JoshuaWong. https://youtu.be/mmjAyphdIXU?feature=shared https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1708848897651798341#m
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New 5-min doc (in English) about the making of the #JimmyLai #PrisonerOfConscience neon sign in #Sydney Jimmy's 1 of 6 #HongKongers nominated for 2023 #NobelPeacePrize (tba on Friday) along w/ #ChowHangTung #LeeCheukYan #CardinalZen #GwynethHo #JoshuaWong. https://youtu.be/mmjAyphdIXU?feature=shared https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1708848897651798341#m
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New 5-min doc (in English) about the making of the #JimmyLai #PrisonerOfConscience neon sign in #Sydney Jimmy's 1 of 6 #HongKongers nominated for 2023 #NobelPeacePrize (tba on Friday) along w/ #ChowHangTung #LeeCheukYan #CardinalZen #GwynethHo #JoshuaWong. https://youtu.be/mmjAyphdIXU?feature=shared https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1708848897651798341#m
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#ChowHangtung and #GwynethHo should have never been detained in the first place. What they have been doing is to exercise their right to freedom of expression.
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#ChowHangtung and #GwynethHo should have never been detained in the first place. What they have been doing is to exercise their right to freedom of expression.
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#ChowHangtung and #GwynethHo should have never been detained in the first place. What they have been doing is to exercise their right to freedom of expression.
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#ChowHangtung and #GwynethHo should have never been detained in the first place. What they have been doing is to exercise their right to freedom of expression.
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Extraordinary courage. Smiling in the face of gross injustice. #HongKong hero #ChowHangTung deserves our very deepest respect, and solidarity. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1667246674597629965#m
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Censure de l’Etat chinois : une avocate jetée en prison
Militante et avocate spécialiste des droits humains, Chow Hang-tung était vice-présidente de la Hong Kong Alliance, association aujourd’hui dissoute qui organisait depuis 30 ans la veillée annuelle à la bougie, en mémoire aux victimes de la répression de la place Tiananmen en 1989. Mais encore aujourd’hui, L’Etat chinois censure toute mention de cette répression pour que l’opinion publique oublie. Face à cette censure, Chow Hang-tung s’est donné pour mission de faire vivre le souvenir des victimes…et y a laissé sa liberté.
En 1989, près de cette place à Pékin, des centaines de personnes – voire des milliers – ont été tuées, lorsque l’armée a ouvert le feu sur des manifestants pacifiques qui demandaient des réformes sociales et économiques. Depuis 1990, des dizaines de milliers de Hongkongais participaient chaque année à la veillée pacifique pour appeler les autorités chinoises à révéler la vérité sur ce qui s’est passé et à assumer leur responsabilité pour les homicides commis.
En 2020 et 2021, les autorités de Hong Kong ont interdit la veillée, en prétextant des raisons de santé publique dans le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19. Le 4 juin 2021, Chow Hang-tung a encouragé des personnes, sur les réseaux sociaux, à commémorer les événements en allumant des bougies. Elle a été arrêtée le jour même pour avoir « fait de la publicité en faveur d’un rassemblement non autorisé ».
Elle purge actuellement une peine de 22 mois uniquement parce qu’elle s’est exprimée pacifiquement et a exercé son droit de manifester. Elle risque également une peine de prison supplémentaire allant jusqu’à dix ans pour « incitation à la subversion ».
Les autorités hongkongaises doivent abandonner toutes les charges retenues contre Chow Hang-tung et la libérer immédiatement et sans condition !
#Hongkong #Tiananmen #répression #censure #Chine #RPC #ChowHangTung
Voir la pétition lancée par Amnesty International pour la libération de Chow Hang-tung : https://www.amnesty.fr/liberte-d-expression/petitions/10jps2022-chow-hang-tung-hong-kong
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As a personal friend of #ChowHangTung for many years, I feel so proud of her. She's so courageous to stage a hunger strike even in such difficult situation. Hope that more people can help to spread this message.
#NeverForgetJune4
#TiananmenMassacre
#鄒幸彤https://twitter.com/jooeysiiu/status/1665057051431563266?s=12&t=UcRPQepY0wql5xi0aKlmcA
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I salute #ChowHangTung and stand with her in ensuring we never, ever forget #TiananmenSquareMassacre 👇 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1665187096170995713#m
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#ChowHangTung is extraordinarily courageous. From her prison cell in #HongKong, this tireless and brave barrister and political prisoner is now on a 34-hour hunger strike in commemoration of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre Please retweet to show support and solidarity https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1665186758877741057#m
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Indeed. Ignore #Beijing #CCP #China's lies Stand with the people who speak the truth So stand with #ChowHangTung https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/rights-award-05182023153625.html https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1660403281787494400#m
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In Hongkong sind drei Ex-Organisatoren des Gedenkens an die Niederschlagung der Demokratie-Proteste 1989 in Peking zu Haftstrafen verurteilt worden. Sie wurden auf der Basis des "Sicherheitsgesetzes" schuldig gesprochen.
Viereinhalb Monate Haft für drei Aktivisten in Hongkong | DW | 11.03.2023
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Drei Organisatoren des Gedenkens an die Niederschlagung der Demokratie-Proteste 1989 auf dem Pekinger Tiananmen-Platz sind schuldig gesprochen worden. Die Hongkonger Justiz macht das sogenannte Sicherheitsgesetz geltend.
Organisatoren von Tiananmen-Gedenken verurteilt | DW | 04.03.2023
#Hongkong #Tiananmen #China #Sonderverwaltungszone #ChowHang-tung #Sicherheitsgesetz