No 1 priority of HK Police in 2021: safeguard national security, police chief Chris Tang said at the press conference summarising the past year's crime and law enforcement.
"It's not that we can't accept criticism," HK police chief Chris Tang said. "We are happy to receive fact-based criticism but we cannot accept smearing and insults without basis of facts."
"In fact the term (white terror) has been abused by a lot of people when they are being arrested, they make excuses and saying that this is a terror," said HK police chief Chris Tang when asked if the mass arrests were spreading white terror.
The national security reporting hotline opened in November last year has received more than 40,000 messages, or a daily average of 700+ messages, HK police chief Chris Tang said.
Top brass of HK police refused to disclosed details of the newly established national security unit, including number of officers, and how many times the unit wielded the wide range of powers authorised under NSL43, including freezing assets and intercepting communications.
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#NOW Outside HK’s Court of Final Appeal queues have been growing since ystd for ppl waiting for a seat at DOJ’s appeal against High Court’s bail for #JimmyLai over his #NSL case. Whether #NSL assumes bail or no bail will be the crux of the debate. Hearing at 10am.
This group “Volunteer Association of Oriental Pearl” is protesting outside CFA, condemning #JimmyLai of engendering national security and advocating for Lai to be sent to mainland China for trial.
Two men dressed like coronavirus (?) to protest outside CFA against #JimmyLai and @appledaily_hk , which they called a “poisonous newspaper”.
On Wednesday mainland Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei who has been working on the case of the #12HKers detained in Shenzhen despite authorities' threats produced 10 Q&A on the case in Chinese as trial is near.
Q1: What now as family-hired lawyers can’t work on the case?
Family-hired lawyers should continue to submit representation to Yantian’s court and demand reading the case docs. Meanwhile families should demand gov-assigned lawyers to leave the case otherwise they will sue.
Q2: Should Yantian prosecutors provide indictments for defendants’ relatives?
Procuratorates are not required to do so in mainland's laws but defense lawyers should provide copies of the indictments and explain the content, legal basis to the families.
Been 2+hrs since High Court judge Alex Led granted bail to @JimmyLaiApple , Lai is yet to be allowed to leave court as prosecutors immediately applied for certificate to appeal the bail at Court of Final Appeal and are now cross examining Lai’s ensurers...
All reporters and public members were asked to leave the courtroom as judge decided that the cross examination of ensurers shall be closed door hearing due to privacy concern.
While waiting , we may review the highly uncommon bail conditions @JimmyLaiApple has to undertake ...
1) huge amount of bond money
@JimmyLaiApple has to deposit HKD 10 million cash for the 2 allegations of defraud and collusion with foreign forces. And his three ensurers will in total deposit HKD300,000 for the 2 allegations.
Wong Lai-ping, deputy chief of China news of iCable, said management made lay-off decision without consulting unit heads. Szeto Yuen, China news chief, had decided in advance that he would resign if any one in his team got fired. The rest of team decided to follow Szeto's lead.
China news deputy Wong Lai-ping's voice began to shake when she recalled how iCable ignored the efforts her team paid despite pay cut.
"We went to Wuhan when other news stations evacuated; We never missed one day of news despite manpower crunch under quarantine..."
Wong said the parachuted management "had rather hostile attitudes towards the newsroom", and what happened today has crossed the journos' bottom line although "we had been putting up with everything, hoping it would be our last compromise".
An avalanche is taking place in iCable News, HK's best non-state-owned TV newsroom.
To protest against the short-noticed firing of 40 staff including the award-winning investigative team News Lancet, full China news team and heads of local, financial, intl news have resigned.
Rounds of meetings between staff and parachuted management have taken place but none yielded any meaningful explanation to the decision of chopping away journos who are considered the best and fastest by their peers.
The line-to-take of the management is that the company has to lay off redundancies due to financial difficulties under #covid19 and needs of restructuring. Yet, why started from the best, remains a question unanswered.
The 25-say death inquest for ex-HKUST student #AlexChow kicked off today with Chow’s father and a female police commander being the first two called to the witness stand.
For the first time in slightly over one year, Chow’s parents appeared in public and Chow’s father spoke...
...about Alex, his only child with his wife Lee Lai-lai.
Alex was founding lying in a puddle of blood on the ground of Carpark A of Sheung Tak Estate in Tseung Kwan O in the midnight between 3&4 Nov. He was certified dead in the morning of 8 Nov, nearly three months...
...after his 22nd birthday. Around the time Alex fell in the carpark, riot police were dispersing protesters in Sheung Tak areas, deploying tear gas and other anti-riot weapons. After Alex’s death, the Operation Dawn citywide roadblocking protests soon reached its climax, when...