Breaking News Violence resumes in Hong Kong.

[Husky_Khan]

96% of Hong Kongers with a BNO passport plan on staying in Britain.

Most Hong Kong residents who successfully applied for a pathway to UK citizenship are university educated, married or in a relationship with children, and have no plans to return to the city, according to a British Home Office survey.

The survey interviewed a random sample of 500 British National (Overseas) visa holders living in the United Kingdom last year, and was released on Monday – exactly a year since the scheme was launched on January 31, 2021.

The Home Office said it had commissioned the research to “understand more about BN(O) visa holders”.

All survey participants were main applicants who had been granted their BN(O) visas and were currently living in Britain.

Some 88,900 Hongkongers have applied for the visa scheme since its introduction on January 31 last year, of whom 76,176 have been approved.

An estimated 5.4 million of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents are eligible for the scheme, which allows successful applicants and their dependents to live, work and study in the country for up to five years.

After staying in Britain for a sixth year, visa holders can apply for citizenship.

According to the survey, about 96 per cent of successful applicants staying in Britain said they planned to stay indefinitely.

Majority of Hongkongers with BN(O) visas in UK won’t come back, survey finds

About 96 per cent of successful applicants staying in Britain say they plan to stay indefinitely.

www.scmp.com

 

[Cherico]

96% of Hong Kongers with a BNO passport plan on staying in Britain.

Majority of Hongkongers with BN(O) visas in UK won’t come back, survey finds

About 96 per cent of successful applicants staying in Britain say they plan to stay indefinitely.

www.scmp.com

this is common sense really the moment the chi coms took power you should have moved heaven and earth to get the fuck out of there.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Apparently this happens every so often.

Alleged Pro-CCP thugs attacked a pro-Democracy supporting Bakery in Hong Kong, HK9Cake, and beat several staff members there with wooden clubs and the like resulting in injuries that required hospitalization.

 

[Husky_Khan]

In spite of two years of anti-pandemic measures and the Chinese government imposing authoritarian measures meant to fight the Commie Cough, Hong Kong's health services are somehow overwhelmed by Covid cases apparently to the extent that they're stories bodies in hospital wards near living patients.

Covid-19: Hong Kong Hospital Authority urges understanding as shocking photo emerges of bodies stored on ward - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) has asked the public to understand its difficulties with saturated mortuaries amid the city’s Covid-19 crisis, as an image of bodies lying next to living patients on a hospital ward surfaced online. The photo, circulating on Facebook on Friday, showed six body...

hongkongfp.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

Everything is under control.

Running out of even coffins apparently.

Photos obtained Wednesday by AFP show workers in full personal protective equipment putting corpses into a refrigerated container at a mortuary in Hong Kong, where more than 4,600 deaths and nearly 1 million infections have been tallied in the past three months.

The rising death toll has pushed local morgues to the brink and exhausted Hong Kong’s supply of coffins. Just 300 remain and those are expected to be depleted by this weekend, AFP reported.

Hong Kong storing bodies in shipping containers amid Omicron surge: photos

The bodies of coronavirus victims in Hong Kong are being stored in refrigerated shipping containers as a deadly Omicron surge pushes morgues past capacity, harrowing photos show.

nypost.com

 

[Doomsought]

How can we be sure these are actual covid deaths? Not just a purge.

 

[Bacle]

How can we be sure these are actual covid deaths? Not just a purge.

Very good point.

With the CCPs record, killing them and hiding as a Wu Flu death would not be that hard.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Very good point.

With the CCPs record, killing them and hiding as a Wu Flu death would not be that hard.

Precedent is there after all. All the western nations and health industries did it. Remember how all deaths with COVID are filed away as "died to covid" rather than stuff like "got shot/stabbed/beaten" or "died of cancer" or other things?

 

[Husky_Khan]

Apparently two years and a Pandemic can't stop the ChiComs from finding a reason to arrest you.

Or in this case... re-arrest you.

Police arrested 13 men aged 20 to 54 on Tuesday and charged 12 of them with rioting in Wan Chai on October 1, 2019, which marked the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Another man stands accused of possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property, while other charges in the case included possession of ammunition without a license and obstructing police.

Hong Kong police rearrest 13 men over 2019 China's National Day protest - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong police have rearrested 13 men in connection with offences linked to a protest in October 2019. Those apprehended on Tuesday were originally released after being detained on China’s National Day that year. Police arrested 13 men aged 20 to 54 on Tuesday and charged 12 of them with...

hongkongfp.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

Article on recent developments regarding the Hong Kong Protests of 2019.

Most of the pro-democracy leaders are still in jail due to the National Security Law that they protested the passing of. Hundreds of people, most of them under the age of thirty, are facing pre-trial detention for months at a time and receiving sentences that last years which previous wouldn't even likely result in jail time due to their role in the 2019 Democracy Protests. Some estimates are of a thousand plus people currently incarcerated for their role in fomenting the continuation of democracy in Hong Kong.

HKDC data found that of nearly 3,000 people prosecuted, 67 percent had been convicted, receiving an average prison sentence of 1.6 years. Sentences for suspected protest “leaders” and people charged under the national security law are even longer, and many face multiple charges.

“People with no criminal convictions whatsoever are being given custodial sentences for things like unlawful assembly, which in the past would’ve incurred a fine, nothing more.

One of the results of the recent developments is the importation of the "mainland Chinese justice system" which is replacing Hong Kong's once well regarded independent judiciary. It's not all Chinese laws though. The Chinese authorities have apparently re-activated some of Hong Kong's colonial era Sedition Laws to further prosecute their citizenry.

Common charges related to the protests include participating in an unlawful assembly and rioting, while those accused of being “leaders” face charges like incitement and organising an unlawful assembly. More than three-quarters of Hong Kong’s “political prisoners” are young people below the age of 30, according to the HKDC. More than half are below 25.

Beijing imposed the national security law in 2020. The fallout has been felt among the political opposition, civil society leaders, journalists, and “almost all non-violent pro-democracy activities in Hong Kong”, according to Eric Lai, a Hong Kong law fellow at the Georgetown Center for Asian Law.

Many defendants face additional charges under Hong Kong’s ordinary criminal statutes.

While the security law specifically refers to crimes of subversion, sedition, “terrorism” and “collusion with foreign forces”, more than 50 people have been arrested for “seditious” or “secessionist” speech under recently revived sedition laws that date from the British colonial era.

So far only 10 people have been convicted under the new law, but many cases have been delayed by Hong Kong’s strict COVID-19 policies, according to Lai.

What’s going on in Hong Kong’s courts?

Thousands have been arrested over the 2019 protests, and more than 1,000 trials are currently under way.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

Gary Pang Moon-yuen, a Protestant Pastor in Hong Kong, was sentenced to several months in jail for criticizing the Hong Kong government on charges of sedition and seditious speech. One of the charges of sedition came when the Pastor cheered and applauded the appeal of a Democracy activist at an earlier trial when said activist urged people to commemorate the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Massacre with a vigil.

Hong Kong imprisons Protestant pastor on charge of "sedition"

According to the Christian Post, China's anti-free speech law, which has been in place for two years, has made its way into previously independent Hong Kong.

notthebee.com