Police have obtained arrest warrants for two men and a woman who allegedly ransacked a house after the homeowner lost consciousness and died while using illegal drugs.
Police have obtained arrest warrants for two men and a woman who allegedly ransacked a house after the homeowner lost consciousness and died while using illegal drugs.
City’s decision to drop the case is significant as it stopped investigating infractions involving evacuation routes and alarm systems in subsequent years
Nathan law, thank you very much indeed forjoining me again on hardtalk. thank you so much. thank you very much. looking at the weather prospects for the week ahead. it has been an unsettled weekend and blustery for the time of year with sunny spells and also some shower clouds forming here at clacton on sea in essex. but lots of sunshine recorded by our weather watcher in east lothian. as we head through the week ahead we find things settle down particularly from tuesday onwards but always the chance of a few more showers, the winds will generally be lighter but it s still wet and windy for many on monday and that s because we ve got a deep area of low pressure this system arriving
Makes david s fight with goliath look like an even match. despite its one country, two systems pledge, beijing has found ways to stamp out dissent in the territory, and now, china is actively seeking to apprehend activists in overseas exile. my guest today is one of them, nathan law, the hong kong student leader who fled his home in 2020 and advocates for democratic reform from the uk. has china proved it knows how to make repression work?
Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me again, stephen. well, it s a pleasure to have you back in the studio. we talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. you ve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. but your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. what difference has that made? well, it s definitely a step up of the intimidation tactics that the chinese and hong kong government has been using. for me, i ve been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someone s head is completely new. like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the government s list, it s actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes,
And to make them to stop what they re doing. yeah, i mean, amongst their methods are putting pressure notjust on you, but on family and friends, and some of them, of course, still in hong kong. so how effective is that? because i know, in recent weeks, your family has felt this directly. this is definitely outrageous. like, when we look at the persecution in hong kong, it s getting more and more similar to mainland china. there are a lot of human rights activists, the most famous one, liu xiaobo, the nobel peace prize winner in 2010, they all got arrested, being put injailfor years, just because of they are speaking up against the government. what s more scary is their families also face similar situations. but your families have been questioned, they were briefly detained. and are they saying to you, nathan, we ve got a real problem here ? for now, definitely, we don t
Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me again, stephen. well, it s a pleasure to have you back in the studio. we talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. you ve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. but your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. what difference has that made? well, it s definitely a step up of the intimidation tactics that the chinese and hong kong government has been using. for me, i ve been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someone s head is completely new. like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the government s list, it s actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were,
It s that we don t have any reasons to give up. it s a painful and turbulent journey, but look at me, i m sitting here to do an interview with you. i am really lucky and fortunate. a lot of my fellows who are in hong kong, they re injails, behind bars for years. they still don t have any verdict. their crime isjoining a primary election, speaking up against the chinese communist party, and when you think about that, i don t have any reason to give up just because of, well, china is the largest and most powerful authoritarian country. and it gives me more motivation to do what i m doing because i think doing that, of course, we eventually want to return to a hong kong which is a democratic and free one, but we also have a lot of fellows that are suffering and we need to address that and we want to change that. we have to end there. nathan law, thank you forjoining me again on hardtalk. thank you so much. thank you.