Human Rights Watch Press Release: Hong Kong Should Reject Subversion Bill
Hong Kong’s legislature should reject controversial national security legislation because it will roll back basic freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Hong Kong’s legislature should reject controversial national security legislation because it will roll back basic freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today.
The promotion of Article 23 has irked the citizens of Hong Kong and people who care about the future of Hong Kong. Recently, people from all walks of Hong Kong’s society held successive protests. Over thirty civic organizations founded a human rights front and collected signatures all over Hong Kong. They will also hold a large parade across Hong Kong on December 15.
May 17 was the last day of the week-long event. On the beautiful Yarra River, a
newly decorated tour boat caught many tourists’ eyes.
Mrs Liangs younger sister Tang Yiwen, who lives in China, was detained by authorities in Tiananmen Square in 2000 after she went to appeal t stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
With Liu’s business card, an American journalist visited the Chinese Foreign Ministry and asked them why they fabricated news. Since then, Liu Jianli has been illegally sent to a forced labor camp.
I am a Dafa practitioner in Henan Province. Due to resisting the authorities’ forced brainwashing, I was illegally sentenced to forced labor for three years. I was treated very inhumanely there. I had to work 14-17 hours or longer every day.
On May 18, a day after conducting a grand parade to celebrate the 11th anniversary of Falun Dafa’s introduction to the public, the 2003 Canada Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held in the Westin Bayshore Conference Center.
In the long river of history, human life is as short-lived as a jet of spray. In the vastness of the universe, human capability is as negligible as a speck of dust.
35-year-old Chinese citizen Mr. Mingkai Hou was dead and secretly cremated just two days after being detained by Chinese police.
After more than 3 years of torture and abuse, 65 year-old Mr. Quanfu Zhang was beaten to death in a Chinese forced-labor camp. His son, Qifa Zhang, died 16 days later from sustained torture in the same labor camp.