Hong Kong's steady descent into a police state

drumbrake · 31-05-2021, 06:57 PM

Now reported in the guardian (via AFP)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nanmen-protest

East_coast · 01-06-2021, 06:44 PM

Police recruitment day

Police state 2000 people attended
Police friendly Press suggest 1600
The Civil Human Rights Front put the number at 224 people present at its peak

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...2-20210530.htm

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...ecruitment-day

shri · 01-06-2021, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by East_coast:

Police recruitment day

Police state 2000 people attended
Police friendly Press suggest 1600
The Civil Human Rights Front put the number at 224 people present at its peak
l]

Sort of like how the police estimate that 324 people joined thst chrf march

Hkemail888 · 04-06-2021, 09:44 AM

Need to edit will post later

shri · 05-06-2021, 05:55 PM

Not sure where the Wix issue was discussed...

A group of exiled activists said a website they put up to call for greater democratic freedoms in the city had been taken down on Monday by Wix, the Israeli company hosting it. Nathan Law, one of the activists, posted images on Twitter of a letter written by the Hong Kong police to Wix, demanding the company take down the site or face a fine and six months of imprisonment for an employee.

Three hours after Mr. Law’s tweet, Wix reversed course. The company restored the site and issued an apology. A company spokeswoman said that the site had been removed by mistake and that the company was reviewing its process for screening takedown requests.

The New York Times: In Hong Kong, Short-Lived Censorship Hints at a Deeper Standoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/t...ensorship.html

East_coast · 05-06-2021, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by shri:

Not sure where the Wix issue was discussed...

The New York Times: In Hong Kong, Short-Lived Censorship Hints at a Deeper Standoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/t...ensorship.html

Expect an injunction to ban the site from being accessed from HK with a provision for similar sites also to be blocked.