Hong Kong police block Taiwanese church’s Web site
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By Lo Chi and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Hong Kong police on Saturday blocked access to the Web site of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan due to “national security” concerns, Chinese state-owned daily
Wen Wei Po reported on Sunday.
The report from
Wen Wei Po, which is run by Beijing’s Hong Kong Liaison Office, said that access to the Web site was blocked due to contraventions of Hong Kong’s National Security Law.
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On April 16, the Hong Kong court officially sentenced key pro-democracy activists who were convicted last month. Most of their sentences are around a year to 18 months in prison. The “crime” for which the people were found guilty was illegal assembly without permission for a large-scale protest in August 2019 that was attended by hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers.
The crime appears to have no connection with the Hong Kong National Security Law, but many have linked the trial and conviction of the Hong Kong court with the National Security Law imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has aired a televised confession of a Belizean national after detaining him in connection with his support for the Hong Kong protest movement in November 2019.
Henley Lee was found guilty on April 24, 2020 of financing criminal activities that harm national security, the overseas-based rights group Safeguard Defenders said.
He was paraded in a forced televised confession on state broadcaster CCTV on April 14, 2021, which said he was currently serving an 11-year jail term for the offense. This makes Lee the fifth (known) person to appear on national TV confessing to national security crimes, some before trial, all of them on the same news show, Focus Report, on CCTV-13, in recent months, Safeguard Defenders said.