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“He ran away immediately”, “seemed suspicious”: for these reasons, the Hong Kong police, at the exit of a stationery, surrounded, knocked down and kicked: “we used the minimum force necessary”, read the statement a few hours later, and finally arrested one 12-year-old girl who had just bought supplies for drawing hours at school.. “It has nothing to do with the protests, I was just buying brushes,” the mother told Apple Daily news site, adding that the family will file a complaint. “She came home bruised and bruised, terrified.” Yesterday’s clashes in the former colony were particularly tough, after a summer of forced silence imposed by the new “national security law.” Meanwhile, pro-democracy movements have also emerged in Taiwan and Thailand to support those in Hong Kong, in a “network” jokingly renamed the “Milk Tea Alliance” (the alliance of milk tea, a heritage drink colonial much appreciated in the three countries and vaguely anti-Chinese).
Some students who were in the streets protesting filmed the moment and put it online, in a post that immediately became very popular as did almost all the many videos of police violence that circulate through the streets of the former colony. Yesterday 300 militants were arrested in Hong Kong: yesterday’s clashes – within a protest that has been going on for more than a year – were unleashed by the postponement of elections to the Legislative Council, Hong Kong’s local parliament, which should have been held yesterday, but on July 31, Governor Carrie Lam postponed for a year, officially due to the pandemic of Covid-19. A decision strongly criticized by the opposition, already proven by the new national security law desired by Beijing. The same security law has considerably reduced the scope of the demonstrations: yesterday’s was the busiest since July 1.
And the Hong Kong police reacted vigorously with nearly 300 arrests, 270 of them for joining illegal demonstrations. The demonstrations caused chaos late into the night in Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei, the hottest areas, where riot control officers used cartridges and sharp sprays in an attempt to disperse the crowds, while clashes broke out multiple times with throw objects. Saturday’s warning from the police to avoid meetings, By ensuring a “swift and resolute” response, it fell on deaf ears, as did the threat of the new national security law imposed by Beijing, which has cost at least 22 people arrested since its entry into force on June 30.
Before the protests began, Tam Tak-chi, a well-known opposition activist, was arrested for “uttering seditious words.” Vice President of People Power, Tam ended up in squeeze underway on the democratic front: he was taken by agents straight from his home. Instead, the League of Social Democrats reported that three of its leading exponents – Leung Kwok-hung, Raphael Wong and Figo Chan – were detained near the Eaton Hotel in Jordan. Joshua Wong, one of the best-known faces on the Democratic front, was seen outside the same hotel in the afternoon., where he reiterated that “September 6 is election day” that now “Beijing has delayed and even canceled, which is unreasonable. The only way out is to immediately restart and relaunch the voting.
The election postponement was strongly contested by the pro-democracy opposition, which aimed to replicate the 2019 district result in the wake of anti-government sentiment. In a sentence, a local government spokesman denounced the protesters’ action as “illegal and selfish”, recalling that broadcasting messages about Hong Kong’s independence could violate national security law, while Failure to comply with the ban on gatherings of more than two people increases the risk of the spread of Covid-19.. International pressure for Beijing to tighten Hong Kong remains high: Most recently, UN experts warned on Friday that the national security law is a “serious threat to political freedoms and the right to protest.” Hypothesis denied by China, which accused the demonstrations of being pushed “by external forces” to destabilize the country.
September 7, 2020 (change September 7, 2020 | 11:00)
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