Welcome to d. W. News asia. Glad you could join us. Leaving hong kong, prodemocracy campaigner joshua wong and 2 others could be facing long jail terms after pleading guilty to protest charges. The 3 were taken into custody in hong kong earlier today. Wong and fellow activists, ivan lamb, and agnes had been charged with organizing, participating in and inciting demonstrators during a protest outside Police Headquarters last june. They could be facing up to 5 years in prison. This is what was said, as he appeared in court. What we are doing now is to explain the well freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own time point for a prayer, for the finish of walking free this case would draw the world and passion to the operative power of the criminal Justice System impartially is not a ploy by beijing crackdown and the systematic violence. Incredible. For more, im joined by former hong kong no maker and prodemo
A stumbling block for the switch to home office during the pandemic. Im british. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. Leaving hong kong prodemocracy, joshua wong and 2 others could be facing long jail times after pleading guilty to protest charges. The 3 were taken into custody in hong kong earlier today. Wong and fellow activists, ivan lamb, and agnes had been charged with organizing, participating in and inciting demonstrators during a protest outside Police Headquarters last june. They could be facing up to 5 years in prison. This is what was said, as he appeared in court. What we are doing now is to explain the well freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own time for a prayer hall and have been charged walking free. This case patrol the world and Pay Attention to the opportunity power of the criminal Justice System impartially. His manner played by paging crackdown and the systematic violenc
An action is essential to being able to condemn the actions of violent offices. Many believe the law which applies to both journalists and citizens will lead to a sense of impunity, of police at demonstrations that often turn violent. I know friends who are really scared to go to demonstrations because of the violence, the rubber bullets and the tear gas used by police. And the one thing that protects us is taking a video. The law wants to protect Police Officers so that they can hit people without consequence. Jorma used journalists have been hit and injured by police, especially in the last couple of years. And until now, the Police Version of events could be question thanks to images and videos. Really believe what campaigners here fear that the new security law could have a Chilling Effect on press freedom. They say that of citizens and journalists are dissuaded from filming the police. It may make it harder to hold certain officers to account. The french government, however, says
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