Thread by @dr_CatKo

#NSL47
Cute-sad scenes at the dock as who I think were Au Nok-hin and Tiffany Yuen made hearts with their hands and arms 🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻 to the audience. These guys are here to appeal their bail decisions today.
And crikey Fergus’ hair is LOOOONG...

They’re aiming to finished within 2hrs and if any of their reps can’t finished their addresses their cases could be stood down.
9P(2) applies so reporting will be very discreet...

The newest NPC decision over the HK electoral system = a material change in circumstance in which none of these primary runners would even go through the screening by Beijing to run in any future elections.
(Risking to get this aired) Long-hair’s rep: my D is a 大中華膠 + 和理非.

Mutual destruction was never mentioned by Ng, he never encouraged any violent revolution and he had always only aimed to make political changes through constitutional means which themselves would take a long time to come to fruition (if ever).

Au Nok-hin has announced retraction of his bail appeal...

Mo EE 😢... It’s difficult watching her stand in the dock of all places.
Rep: She verbalised only her understanding of mutual destruction and HK localism and her analysis of the ideas as a reaction to oppression. She only made these comments cos she was asked about it.

She was concerned about the ‘reddening’ of HK and only sought to improve HKers’ livelihood.
On her version of localism: it’s first a cultural concept before it’s political.
...Case just got stood down cos judge said the presentation wasn’t about a material change in circumstance.

Tiff Yuen made an emotional appeal on her grandma’s passing. She was just denied bail cos judge didn’t think her appeal represented a material change in circumstance, but she was advised to apply to go to the burial of her gran’s ashes.

Fergus (with an impressively solid voice): I won’t take part in elections anymore. Some drafters of Annex5 were granted bail. I don’t do violence — I was attacked by a 70+yo blue ribbon in a wheelchair and didn’t retaliate. I’ll raise my bail $.
Judge: Can’t grant bail sorry.

Prognosis is that they’re probably all fucked... One of the lawyers used the NPC argument and it’s currently the only ‘material change in circumstance’ one could present but judge didn’t buy it...
Summary for the first session:

https://twitter.com/xinqisu/status/1370207868574560258

Dock banter:
Wong Ji Yuet: Omg everyone’s so tall — I’m like a kid here.
One of the men: 我愛大家 我愛大家 (I love you all, I love you all)~
They all individually waved at the audience.

Another bail appeal rejected. Audience: So easy being the judge, it’s like all no-brainers for him.
And so many of them are now retracting their bail appeal...

Many arm hearts as the 3rd batch files into the dock.
Someone: ‘My old-mother leh?’
Someone: ‘This is hard life lol.’
Someone: ‘okok happy to see everyone.’
Someone: ‘倉底救人 出面要人’
Someone: ‘Empty cells either side of me. Not a complaint tho.’
Someone: ‘Correctional is bae.’

Someone: ‘I’m wearing this shirt that I’ve owned since 2015!’
Someone: ‘You haven’t gotten fat meh?’
Someone: ‘Food at Stanley Prison = Michelin-level. Chicken breasts taste like chicken. There’s veg. Veg = green.’
Someone: ‘Curry at Tai Lam has masala flavour.’
🥘🍗🥬

Gwyneth after retracting bail appeal: *left the room*
Judge: So Miss Ho — Eh? Person leh?
Audience: Ran away la.

Lester Shum: *got denied bail after his rep gave a sound argument re the NCP decision* The tougher the battle, the harder we must fight on. *leaves*

Wong Pak-yu also just got denied bail. To audience: ‘Ok la I love you friend! Wait for me!’

Chairwoman of HAEA (though not anymore) = denied bail
‘各位手足頂住呀 香港人加油!’

Alvin: ‘I don’t have a legal rep. I now 撤回my application.’

Lam Cheuk-ting: ‘I don’t have material changes to present. (Used the same wording as the judge has been throughout) Won’t waste time.’

Mo EE just got denied bail...
That’s it for today...

*倉底夠人
Damn diction...

Omg... I’m really pretty deaf ain’t I...😵 (like e.g. I literally thought I heard ‘ok la’ when the guy said ‘屋企人’)
Here comes the *actual* transcript of the parts of their banters in Canto by @hkcnews_com that I tried to capture.
Sorry guys, # mistakes mine. 😬🙌🏻