#CarrieLam said Australian judge James Spigelman did not explain why he decided to resign in his resignation letter to her so she would not make any guess.
Lam said the Court of Final Appeal has 13 foreign judges from other Common Law regions and she expects future appointments
Re #ChanTongkai, #CarrieLam said he has served his jail term and there is nothing more HK's law enforcement can do on him.
Lam emphasised that she learned from and only from Reverend Peter Koon that Chan is still willing to surrender himself to Taiwan...
...yet Chan's trip to Taiwan has been hindered by "situations of politics and coronavirus pandemic".
"I told Reverend Koon that if he needs any help from the HK government, we are willing to help," Lam said.
Interestingly, Koon said he is not the spokesman (代言人) of Chan...
...when reporters in a media group Koon created upon Chan's release from jail last October urged Koon to respond to the appeal made by mother of Poon Hiu-wing in a three-part report published by @StandNewsHK yesterday.
Koon also confirmed that Chan is still living in...
...a safety house that Chan requested from HK police. HK police said they would not comment on individual cases. Safety houses are usually saved for witnesses and victims of cases and/or their families who are considered under substantial threats. If Chan is a free man as Lam ...
...said, why would he be allowed to live in a police safety house?
In the past 11 months, Chan has been out of public sight and has never made any statement in any form on his own. Neither have his parents. Reverend Koon appears to be the only channel between Chan and the world
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The confidential work of national security committee was again revealed in court.
The court was shown two “judgement and decision” by NSC during the legislative exercise of the #Article23 security law which in general said the bill and the amendments were necessary…
…and the HK gov table them at the legislature. The prosecution confirmed that the documents were not available to the legislators and were revealed under special authorisation from the gov to assist the court in today’s proceeding.
Today’s proceeding concerned jailed #HKAlliance activist Chow Hang-tang’s application to introduce evidence from overseas witnessed by live TV link in the Alliance’s #NSL trial scheduled to start next May.
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”.