Ex-journo of @StandNewsHK@KwaiLamHo is set to respond to police's new narration of #721YuenLongAttack at YL station at 7pm. Who came before her are 2 teams of police with pepper ball gun and loud speaker, and radical Beijing loyalist Man Shek.
A public area in bus terminal under Yuen Long MTR Station is cordoned off, with radical Beijing loyalist Man Shek inside, and pro-democracy district councillor Ng Kin-wai outside.
Gwyneth Ho @KwaiLamHo said police pointed two accusations on her 1) a women in hi-vis vest exited the paid area and that deteriorated the situation and 2) the live feed was focusing on one side.
Ho said she left the paid area becos she saw many pax besieged in the area by...
...white-clad mob wielding sticks and poles outside. And there was no other reporter at the scene, so she wanted to go to the other side of the station to check on pax over there.
As Ho was speaking, police spoke via loud speaker to give warning.
"I filmed the white-clad, I also filmed ordinary passengers, a pregnant woman in a pretty dress and a mother who was caught off guard when she left the train with her young daughter, I filmed different parties at the scene, everyone can revisit the hour-long live online."
"As one of the few named witnesses of what happened that day, I am obliged to tell the truth. If telling the truth is a crime under this regime, the police can come and arrest me any time," @KwaiLamHo said.
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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.