Pro-democracy: our legal opinion says yours is wrong.
Pro-Beijing: our legal opinion says yours is wrong.
Pro-democracy: act harder later today! Beijing is watching you!
Pro-Beijing: you act harder! Pompeo is watching you!
House Committee ep 1 pt 1
The fight for meeting starts from the fight for meeting room.
House Committee ep 1 pt 2
Parliamentary rivals united by post-truth era doctrine: my phone, my truth.
Interval #recap: does DAB's Starry Lee have the usual power of House Committee chairperson to handle choked bills including the National Anthem Law?
LegCo legals said she couldn't last October. But after Beijing spoke out, outside legal opinion was sought to make way for her.
House Committee ep 2 pt 3
Junius Ho brought in freshly made posters saying "DQ Dennis Kwok. Violate Oath" and "Anti-HK Independence; Anti-subversion".
Pro-dem shouted "7.21 Junius Ho" to interrupt Ho's speech.
House Committee ep 2 pt 4
Competition of slogan chanting: "Starry Lee seizes power!" vs "Dennis Kwok abuses power!"
House Committee ep 2 pt 5
A new height was reached and soon lost by pro-dem lawmaker Eddie Chu.
It's past 2.30pm now so we are in the official time of the special House Committee meeting convened by Starry Lee. Lee remains on the top seat but apparently no meeting can be held.
House Committee ep 2 pt 6
The meeting must go on: across a 2 meter thick human wall consisting of LegCo security guards and pro-Beijing lawmakers, Starry Lee is giving her opening remark on the inside, and pro-dems are launching moderate scuffles on the outside.
House Committee ep 2 pt7
Starry Lee exercising power: @ray_slowbeat@ChuHoiDick@TedHui were forcibly removed from the meeting room and Democrat Andrew Wan had to pull himself together after falling on his back in scuffles.
House Committee ep 2 pt 8
Starry Lee gave a five minute break. Democrat Andrew Wan was carried away on a stretcher. Wan could not stand up to get on the bed on wheels but had to be pulled up in a sitting position.
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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.