One of those released from Hennessy Road was put on an oxygen mask and helped away by rescuers after some volunteer medics took care of him for a while. A first aider who helped him said the boy’s heart felt unwell after being gassed and he claimed to have rheumatoid arthritis.
A girl released from Hennessy Road who called herself N said she believed two to three hundreds of people were subdued but only some 60 were released. She said police had been humiliating and threatening those in detention and asked them to provide reasons and proofs for their...
...presence on the road. She was asked to uphold her ID card for a mugshot and had her personal information recorded before release. She said the release was decided arbitrarily as some were kept inside only because a surgical mask was found.
A young man released from Hennessy Road and called himself W said police warned that they might go to his home for further search after taking his information. He said about 300 people were subdued along Hennessy, adding up two groups outside Sogo and Citibank, and about 60...
...were released after search. W also said police talked “like triads” to the people detained. Three of his friends are still in the group and he saw two of them having hands tied up with plastic wires.
A total of eight coaches were deployed to Hennessy Road and this is the seventh leaving, witnesses said.
Among the belongings left behind by people subdued and arrested outside Causeway Bay Sogo, many are medicines usually carried along by first aiders.
Compared with those left outside Sogo, belongings abandoned by the group subdued outside TSL, Citibank and Bank of China are obviously much less and simpler.
Closing my #thread for #Jan1March with this: Causeway Bay’s Lennon Footbridge after police’s occupation.
Said closing but actually two more. Here is the first one: three bottles of yellow liquid and some urination bags are found where hundreds were detained for hours on Hennessy Road.
A bean bag round and rice boxes believed to be left behind by police on Hennessy Road.
Note: this is not where the bean bag round was first located.
Note2: am extra HKD50 million tax money was paid for police food allowance in the past six months
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#BREAKING HK top court ruled in favour of journalist @Baochoy’s appeal , quashing all her conviction and fines as the court found “there was no reason that bona fide investigative journalism … should be excluded from the phrase ‘other traffic and transport related purpose’.”
Choy was found guilty of “making false statement” 2 years ago for choosing the purpose of “other traffic and transport related matters” on the application form for car owner info from public registries controlled by the Transport Dept.
Choy’s search was for her award winning investigative report on #721YuenLongAttack in 2019. The application form then provided only 3 purposes for applicants after an amendment to remove the open-ended “other:” column in Oct 2019.
Tsui Hon-Kwong, veteran member of disbanded #HongKongAlliance - the group who hosted candlelight vigil for #June4 for three decades in HK, was taken away by police. He kept upholding his candle for #TiananmenMothers until police shut the door.
A man whose phone torch was on was taken away by police after a search. An officer snatched his phone as a group of officers escorted him into the search zone.
At a point people were lined up to wait for police search.
#BREAKING League of Social Democrats leader #ChanPoying was taken away minutes after she showed up with a small candle for #TiananmenMothers and two yellow flowers. She resisted and tried to uphold what she had in hands.
Heard LSD’s Chan Po-Ying said “why must police station? I don’t mind here.” before police bundled her into a police car.
Truck driver turned activist To Chi-kuen was taken away by police. He apparently carried nothing with him except wearing a tee that says “I don’t want to remember but I dare not to forget”.
#JUSTNOW This woman was taken away by police after a search. Not immediately clear what triggered the search. She upheld a small card with the Chinese characters “conscience” during the search. She wore a yellow mask, a black tee, a yellow skirt, and yellow socks with “Hong Kong”
“Going to a police station. Going to Wan Chai Police Station,” the woman shouted as police bundled her away.
A woman surnamed Cheung and in all black outfit was searched and let go by police. She told reporters police didn’t specify what made her suspicious and only checked her ID and bag. She took the search rather easy, “everyone knows what day is it today.”
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On the protest-annulled Labour Day in HK, leftist party League of Social Democrats and the Women Workers Association would have small group petitions separately outside the government HQs to advocate for labour rights.
Before the 1st group LSD arrived , some 20-30 officers were seen deployed nearby with at least two holding a video camera to record the petition.
When Chan Po-ying, chairwoman of LSD arrived, an acting sergeant from the central police precinct read out an 8-point “reminder” to her. The points will be laid out in English translation from the next tweet.