(27) Bye Bye Falun Gong! A 3-judge panel at Hong Kong's Court of Final has rejected an application for judicial review by a HK student in support of Falun Gong against the move by the HK Food and Environmental Hygiene Department to confiscate its exhibits displayed in #RaamWTF
(28) in the streets (example in (27) above) or on govt land without approval - the final decision of the HK's top court settled the 8-year lawsuit, and the HK Food and Environmental Hygiene Department can enforce the law & confiscate these Falun Gong displays in the future
(29) however, Falun Gong exhibits can be seen in hot spots in many districts in HK - some installations have been in the same spots (e.g the HK Immigration Tower walkway) for DECADES - Oriental Daily interviewed a FLG supporter who put up displays in Soy Street, Mongkok after the
(30) court ruling, & the FLG woman said "it is not that the display cannot be continued, it's just that the display cannot take up too much space" & vowed they would continue to put up displays
(2) among those who pleaded guilty: Democratic Party’s Albert Ho, Sin Chung-kai & Yeung Sum; Labour Party’s Cyd Ho & Lee Cheuk-yan & Richard Tsoi of the HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, League of Social Democrats' “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung,
(3) Avery Ng & Figo Chan, who is also convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front - Chan, Lee, Albert Ho and Leung additionally admitted their guilt on one further count of inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly, while Ng & Tsoi pleaded guilty to the additional
(1) today a Hong Kong taxi driver was jailed for 4 years for possession of 40 petrol bombs, 3 bottles of petrol and two igniters (found in the trunk of his taxi in 10/2019) #RaamWTF
(2) aged 32, the taxi driver denied the charges of conspiracy to arson & possession of dangerous items with intent to damage property, & was convicted of conspiracy to arson after the trial- he argued that he had only transported "a box of goods said to be medical supplies at the
(3) request of a familiar customer - his lawyer pleaded that he was only responsible for the transportation, & there was no evidence that it was connected to the unrest - judge did not but his story as the bombs were assembled & ready to go off & stored in the
(1) Not looking good in Taiwan - Taiwan confirms 333 new domestic Covid cases, of which 155 were linked to a cluster of infections involving hostess "teahouses" in Taipei's Wanhua District, while 86 involved people who've been to Wanhua; total passes 2,000 focustaiwan.tw/society/202105…
(3) Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said that it would now be impossible to conduct contact tracing of hundreds of confirmed cases anymore given the wide spread & called on patients to inform relatives & friends if they'd been to infected areas
(1) Hong Kong art student in Taiwan has returned to HK as the no of Covid cases surge in Taiwan - she told HK01 news that she didn't flee Taiwan because of Covid, but merely wanted to return to HK to be "useless youth" & that she didn't mind hotel quarantine ss she likes hotels
(2) more than her home - this is sadly the only "strength" of some HK youngsters who excel at talking back with bitter, sarcastic remarks, coming up with meaningless slogans (with poor Chinese & English) & "empowering" themselves with piggy cartoons & keychains to draw attention
(3) but hardly anything constructive - but are extremely useful as Western tools of racist attacks against fellow Chinese people in the mainland - they give a bad name to the other HK youngsters who aren't like that at all but who are much less visible or who don't dare to speak
(1) Welcome to the WTF Hong Kong Protest Series - "Judge, if I yell Democracy, don't I have license to work with a mob to sexually assault, demean, unlawfully confine a woman?" Special Edition
today a judge convicted 3 disgusting thugs who pleaded
(2) NOT guilty to illegal imprisonment, participation in illegal assembly & indecent assault for their despicable acts against an innocent, defenseless woman during the 7/7/2019 riot in Mongkok- a 24-year-old female teacher from HK's prestigious Ying Wa Girls' School, a 31-yr-old
(3) male cook <thug in white tee marked "Denver" in video in (5) & riht pic below> & 23-year-old male student (left pic below) worked with a mob to demean the woman with the excuses that they suspected she was an "undercover cop" (she worked in logistics)
(1) today in Hong Kong, Democratic Party's founding member & former chairman Martin Lee, media tycoon Jimmy Lai & former lawmakers Margaret Ng, Cyd Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho & "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung were convicted of organising & taking part in an news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…
(2) unlawful assembly on 18/8/2019, while former lawmakers Au Nok-hin & Leung Yiu-chung have earlier pleaded guilty to the same charges - they faced a female judge who didn't buy their bull - judge will hear mitigation pleas on 16 April before passing sentence
(3) their defense lawyers had argued that the activists were only taking part in the procession "to help disperse the crowd", but the judge noted that some of the defendants were among those carrying a huge banner at the front of the march (see pic below)