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Hong Kong democracy advocates retreat as Chinese-style justice comes to the territory
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Till prison we part : Hong Kong crackdown pushes veteran activists to wed
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Target Beijing s big-business allies! Submitted by AWL on 20 April, 2021 - 5:18
Author: Pete Radcliff
Trade union leader Lee Cheuk Yan, socialist Leung Kwok Hung (“Long Hair”), and media mogul Jimmy Lai were given prison sentences of 14 months, 18 months and 14 months respectively, on 16 April, from their trial as leaders of the broad-based Civil and Human Rights Front.
Some other defendants, including 82-year-old former barrister and moderate democrat Martin Lee, were given suspended sentences.
Another trial started on 19 April, again on the charge of organising unauthorised assemblies, with three socialists, Avery Ng and Figo Chan from the League of Social Democrats, and Cyd Ho from the Labour Party, in the dock alongside (again) Lee Cheuk Yan and “Long Hair”.
New law pushes HK couple to wed
AFP, HONG KONG
Both veteran Marxists who have spent decades campaigning for Hong Kong democracy, Chan Po-ying (陳寶瑩) and Leung Kwok-hung (梁國雄) viewed marriage as something of a patriarchal and unnecessary institution.
However, when China’s crackdown on Hong Kong dissidents came for Leung, 63, they finally tied the knot.
The couple have been together for 45 years and are two of the most prominent faces on Hong Kong’s left, campaigning first against colonial Britain and then China’s rule.
Over the years Leung better known by his sobriquet “Long Hair” (長毛) has been in and out of prison on short sentences for his protest activity.
Asia PacificSPECIAL REPORT Hong Kong activists retreat as China-style justice comes to their city
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Pro-democracy activist Lester Shum is taken away by police officers as more than 50 Hong Kong activists are arrested under a security law in Hong Kong, China January 6, 2021. Picture taken January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
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On March 23, a Hong Kong High Court judge denied former Democratic Party lawmaker Andrew Wanâs bail appeal and sent him back to Lai Chi Kok prison.
âKeep going!â Wan shouted as he was led away by guards. âThe Department of Justice will be judged by heaven.â
Wan is one of 36 pro-democracy activists denied bail and being kept in custody more than a month after being arraigned on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion for organizing an unofficial primary election. Forty-seven activists were charged overall, in the biggest crackdown on the cityâs opposition since a national security law was imposed by China
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