#NOW Pro-Beijing lawmaker Regina Ip is ready for House Committee chair election presided by Chan Kin-por, the insurance sector legislator appointed by LegCo president to replace @cpdenniskwok .
Chan got the top chair while reporters outside are still wondering how he got in.
Appointed House Com presiding member Chan Kin-por and his human cordon formed by LegCo security guards with black leather gloves.
The committee is set to elect chairs today, a task loathed by Beijing as long overdue and paralysing LegCo. Pic via @YuxuanMichael
Pro dem lawmakers are surrounding the LegCo security guards around Chan Kin-por and the meeting is now having a standstill.
Democrat Ted Hui told Chan he is unlawfully occupying the top chair and trying to convene an unlawful meeting.
“CCP tramples HK legislature” says the placard held by pro dem lawmaker Claudia Mo. “Beijing loyalists abuse power,” says another one held by Labour Party’s Fernando Cheung.
Mobile air time in House Committer standstill.
Shortly before 11am, scuffles flared up at House Committee meeting as pro dem lawmakers tried to surround themselves, the security guards and presiding lawmaker Chan Kin-Por with a big piece of black cloth.
Convener of pro dem and Civic Party lawmaker Tanya Chan was the first to be evicted.
Democrat Ted Hui was once pinned to ground when LegCo security guards tried to remove him.
#earlier in House Committee: Pro Beijing camp snatched the black cloth from pro dem and called it an evidence of “black violence”
#earlier in House Committee, Democrat Lam Cheuk-ting unbound a copy of Rules of Procedure and threw the pages at Chan Kin-por
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What happened in Hong Kong around June 4, 2024, the 35th anniversary of the deadly, military crackdown on democracy protests in China in 1989. It’s the first Tiananmen anniversary in Hong Kong since the city enacted a second national security law.
🗓️ May 24: Ex pro-democracy district councillor Debby Chan disclosed on social media that police called her concerning where she would run on June 4 and warned her not to contravene national security law.
🗓️ May 28: HK national security police made the first arrests under the newly enacted “#Article23” Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, rounding up jailed Tiananmen activist Chow Hang-tung and five associates over the allegation of…
#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.”