{"id":23862,"date":"2019-04-30T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-tourism.com\/Ar\/2019\/04\/30\/beijings-baleful-influence-on-hong-kongs-freedom-of-speech\/"},"modified":"2019-04-30T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:24:31","slug":"beijings-baleful-influence-on-hong-kongs-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-tourism.com\/Ar\/2019\/04\/30\/beijings-baleful-influence-on-hong-kongs-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing&#8217;s &#8216;baleful influence&#8217; on Hong Kong&#8217;s freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"188.924287724\">\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\"><strong>Hong Kong<\/strong> &#8211; Hong Kong&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/04\/hong-kong-occupy-central-activists-handed-prison-sentences-190424013728788.html\">jailing of four leaders<\/a> of the &#8220;Umbrella Movement&#8221; has had a chilling effect on the city&#8217;s freedom of speech, according to activists and human rights lawyers who\u00a0<\/span>added that people might be deterred from joining protests because of the harsh sentences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Four leading activists of the 2014 pro-democracy protests were sentenced to up to 16 months in jail while another four received suspended sentences or community service hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">Those sentenced included sitting legislators, professors and student activists who were convicted of public nuisance for their roles in the 79-day protests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Hong Kong slipped three places to 73 in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking\" target=\"_blank\">Press Freedom Index<\/a> by Reporters With Border (RSF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">Beijing&#8217;s <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;baleful influence&#8221; led to a decline in Hong Kong&#8217;s press freedom, according to the RSF who released the rankings earlier this month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;This is the most difficult time in Hong Kong when it comes to our democracy fight since 1997,&#8221; pro-democracy camp convener Claudia Mo<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> told Al Jazeera, <\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">referring to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the time when the British colonial government handed the city back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/china.html\">China<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;That&#8217;s because the [government] is using judicial means as political weapons to shut us down.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Yellow umbrellas, that symbolise the 2014 mass demonstration, were once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/04\/huge-protest-hong-kong-china-extradition-plan-190428140825076.html\">unfurled in Sunday&#8217;s protest<\/a>, wherein 130,000 people marched to the city&#8217;s parliament in opposition to the extradition law amendments, according to organiser estimates.<\/p>\n<p>If the amendments pass, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Hong+Kong+al+jazeera&#038;rlz=1C1GCEU_enQA828QA828&#038;oq=Hong+Kong+al+jazeera&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j69i59l3.1999j0j9&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\">Hong Kong<\/a> would be allowed to send criminal suspects to China for trial.<\/p>\n<h2>Push for social change<\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">Jeffrey Ngo, the chief researcher for the pro-democracy\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"ES-TRAD\">Demosisto party<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">, termed the sentencing harsh given that the protests were peaceful and non-violent, adding that he was\u00a0<\/span>worried about the future development of Hong Kong&#8217;s democratic movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;Protest has always been the primary means to push forward social changes throughout history and around the world,&#8221;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> said Ngo<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;The power of the people is potentially very high, but only if they feel like participating in a way they would not face these unreasonable consequences, such as being sent to prison.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"Body\">\n<span lang=\"ZH-TW\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8216;Civil disobedience is not a defence&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The 2014 Occupy Central demonstrations were sparked by the Chinese government&#8217;s political reform framework that ruled out universal suffrage for the semi-autonomous region. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tens of thousands of protesters camped out on the streets and blocked traffic in three key districts &#8211; Admiralty, Causeway Ba<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">y\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">and Mong Kok &#8211; for nearly three months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">But in the eyes of judge Johnny Chan, the three movement cofounders were too &#8220;naive&#8221; to think that they could push for full democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;It is nai<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ve to suggest that a concession to introduce the form of universal suffrage advocated by the trio could be made by the government overnight with a click of fingers,&#8221; Chan wrote in his 268-page verdict. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;It is equally nai<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ve to suggest a mass protest of tens of thousands of people could be dispersed overnight even if a positive response were to come from the authorities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Despite the defence justifying the obstruction as a result of civil disobedience, Chan dismissed this argument in court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;C<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ivil disobedience does not constitute any defence to a criminal charge brought against a defendant,&#8221; the verdict read<\/span> <span lang=\"ZH-TW\"> . &#8221; <\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">Even if a defendant is prosecuted for an offence committed in the course of civil disobedience, civil disobedience is not a defence in law.<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"Body\">\n<span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8216;No regrets&#8217;<\/span><strong><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">Chan stressed that he did not mean the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">defendants should give up their political beliefs or their political demands<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\"> as they are not of the court&#8217;s concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is an apology that the members of the public rightly deserve from the defendants, but never received.<\/span> <span lang=\"ZH-TW\"> &#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">But activists who were not involved in the court case, said saying sorry was not the nature of civil disobedience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">Mo, a sitting legislator, believes the movement cofounders should feel quite the opposite to what the judge suggested &#8211; be proud of standing at the front line of the protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;We are talking about civil disobedience. It&#8217;s all peaceful and non-violent,&#8221; said Mo. &#8220;I regret very much [that] the court failed to take that into account <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">altogether<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.64556962025\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The sentences handed to the \u2018Occupy\u2019 activists in Hong Kong are deeply disappointing. One Country Two Systems and the Joint Declaration are about respect for civil and political freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeremy_Hunt\/status\/1121360002772549633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">Less than an hour before the prison term was handed down, the city&#8217;s leader Carrie Lam arrived at Hong Kong&#8217;s International Airport to depart for the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">A reporter asked if she thought the sentencing could have a chilling effect on protests and assemblies in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;Since the handover, we can see whenever something big or small happen, a lot of citizens, organisations and legislator would make use of Hong Kong&#8217;s freedom of expression to organise protests and assemblies,&#8221; Lam replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see such freedom has been undermined.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">But Chris Ng, a human rights lawyer and convener of Progress Lawyer Group, disagrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;There are a lot of incidents showing that we do not enjoy freedom of expression as it used to be. We see that [freedom] continues to decline,&#8221; said Ng, who was the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">legal counsel<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\"> of a land rights activist in a protest five years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">He pointed out that the line between &#8220;one country, two systems&#8221; &#8211; a constitutional principle formulated by China to allow Hong Kong to have its own laws &#8211; has become blurry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"ZH-TW\">&#8220;It&#8217;s obvious the governments in Hong Kong and the mainland emphasise too much one country, instead of two systems,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong &#8211; Hong Kong&#8217;s jailing of four leaders of the &#8220;Umbrella Movement&#8221; has had a chilling effect on the city&#8217;s freedom of speech, according to activists and human rights lawyers who\u00a0added that people might be deterred from joining protests because of the harsh sentences. 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