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May 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#FACTCHECK On May 8, after #JohnLee was declared HK’s next leader with 1,416 supporting votes from the election committee, he said in his victory speech “today…is also the World Smile Day established by the International Committee of the Red Cross”. However…
…in response to enquiry about the day, @ICRC said “On May 8, we celebrate the Word Red Cross Red Crescent day. This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant (born on 8 May 1828)”, founder of the ICRC.

So ICRC did not establish May 8 as the World Smile Day.
A search w/the key words “World Smile Day” “May 8” - in Chinese or English - will lead to reports by China’s state media saying that the May 8 World Smile Day was established by a “World Mental Health Organisation” 世界精神衛生組織, an org I am yet to find any official info.
There is after all indeed a World Smile Day which was founded by American commercial artist Harvey Ball, who is also the creator of the popular smiley picture. The day is set on the first Friday of October every year. It’s neither related to ICRC or on May 8. @WorldSmileDay

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What have #612Fund done to “collude with foreign forces”? State-associated Ta Kung Pao gave a list of six “evidence” today.

* before #NSL the fund was already suspected of colluding with foreign forces including funding local anti-China forces to ask for foreign sanctions Image
* during “black-clad violence”, it funded the Hong Kong Higher Institutions International Affairs Delegation to smear HK in London and Geneva. At a meeting with UK parliamentary members in Sep 2019, the delegation urged UK parliament to sanction HK officials.
* between 2019 and 2020, the fund provided legal and medical support for HKers in Canada and for Taiwan NGOs. It can be reasonably believed to be funding rioters who had fled there.
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Apr 29
Reasons for the unprecedented aggravation of sentence in an #NSL trial handed down this morning : legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/…

In her further reasons on overturning her original 3yrs8mths sentence and boosting it to 5yrs, Judge Woodcock did not explain...
...what is the new starting point (it was 5.5 yrs originally) and what is the discount the defendant Lui Sai-yu can enjoy from his guilty plea at the earliest opportunity (1/3 usually and originally).

If Lui still enjoys 1/3 discount, to reach a final sentence of 5yrs demands..
...a starting point of 7.5 years, which is beyond the District Court's sentencing cap on 7 years.

If Lui cannot enjoy fully the 1/3 discount, what factor other than the minimum sentence requirement in #NSL can justify that?
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Apr 29
#TWIST After Judge Woodcock handed down the sentence of 3 yrs 8 mths., #NSL prosecutor Ivan Cheung rised and said since the court found Lui's offence in "serious nature", #NSL demands a sentence between 5 to 10 years, not just a sentence starting in this range. Adjournment now.
DOJ's #NSL prosecutor Ivan Cheung argued that when Beijing made #NSL the NPCSC has taken into full account of HK's criminal laws therefore when a min sentence was set, discounts due to various reasons had been considered, and a discounted sentence should not fall below the min.
Defense counsel Edwin Choy said the starting point of 5.5 yrs has reflected the court's determination of the offense's seriousness. The offense, though found serious, is not as serious as one deserving a starting point of 7.5 years, which is also beyond the court's sentencing cap
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Jan 29
#NOW HKU @HKUniversity is covering up the June 4 slogan on Swire Bridge - slightly over one month after they toppled the #PillarofShame
Today is 28 Dec in lunar calendar, a day for people to thoroughly tidy up their home in order to welcome CNY. The erasure of the June 4 slogan on Swire Bridge means the last piece of June 4 monument in #HKU will be gone.
Last time #HKU took down #PillarofShame in the darkness of night leaving some half hundred reporters staying up till dawn . This time it’s happening in broad day light and fewer than 10 reporters are now at the scene.
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Jan 27
Ten months after the striking four-day marathon bail hearing of 47 pro-dems charged of “conspiracy to subversion” last March, West Kowloon Court today is again running extraordinarily late - from 10.30am to just now - on a side hearing branched from the same case.
Acting chief magistrate Peter Law abruptly adjourned the case after everyone returned to court at 9pm-ish in light of a hour-long dinner break he ordered (tho no dine-in is allowed in the city), as some defendants on remand complained about being given only few pieces of biscuits
There was a brief cross-fire between some defendants and Magistrate Law over the biscuit dinner, an episode which both the leading NSL prosecutor Anthony Chau and Magistrate Peter Law warned that reporters shall bear their own risk if they report.
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Jan 27
HK leader #CarrieLam announced that the 21-day mandatory hotel QT for arrivals will be shortened to 14 days plus 7-day self-monitoring at home. Arrivals can leave home in the last week but have to get tested twice. She said it’s a decision based on “pure science”.
Lam also gave advance notice about rolling out vaccine pass in the city ie making it compulsory for people to show vaccine record or exempt before they are allowed to enter premises specified by the government. Lam said this is not forcing people to get jabs…
“If you choose not to get vaccinate and it’s not due to medical reasons , you must bear some consequences which is that you can’t go to many places. This is different from making vaccination legally compulsory,” Lam said.
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