Top Hong Kong Court Upholds 2019 Mask Ban
Posted by John Chan | Dec 21, 2020
Hong Kong’s highest court has upheld a ban on mask wearing imposed by the government at the height of the 2019 protests, a major blow for the city’s pro-democracy movement. The ban, introduced using a colonial era law known as the Emergency Regulations Ordinance (ERO), was issued by Chief Executive Carrie Lam in an effort to “deter violent and illegal behavior” in October 2019. The Court of Final Appeal’s decision overturned rulings by lower courts that had constrained the scope of the law, finding it to be applicable to all public gatherings. The South China Morning Post’s Chris Lau
By Gu Minkang · 2020-12-22 · Source: China Focus
Visitors taste food in the 20th Macao Food Festival at Sai Van Lake Square in Macao, south China, November 13(XINHUA)
The date of December 20 this year marks the 21st anniversary of Macao’s return to the Mainland. Even though the handover of Macao happened later than Hong Kong, this special administrative region has successfully implemented the policy of “One Country, Two Systems” and sets a good example.
It has been 21 years since Macao’s return from Portugal back to China, and it has since transformed from a less developed society with poor social order, to an international metropolis. On December 19, 2019, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at a welcome banquet of the 20th anniversary of Macao s return to China, in which he commented that the past two decades were an ample witness to Macao’s fast-growing economy and improvement in citizens’ quality of life.
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The Insult To Jimmy Lai Is The Clearest Evidence Of The CCP s Intentions After the Hong Kong government formally congratulated U.S. president-elect Joe Biden on the phone, the city s National Security Department and police, obviously under the instructions of the Beijing authorities, launched a large-scale operation to settle the score with the Occupy Central Movement and Anti-extradition Movement. Within less than a week, Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were sent to jail, and Jimmy Lai was quickly charged with a new crime after his detainment. As the new charge has elevated Lai s case to a new level, i.e., whether he has violated the National Security Law, a jail sentence is foreseeable. While all that was happening, there were even more prominent activists being detained and charged.