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National Multicultural Festival Community Panel Reference Group announced
Five members of the community have been appointed to the newly established National Multicultural Festival Community Panel Reference Group. This Reference Group will work to strengthen engagement across Canberra’s multicultural community in the lead up to the National Multicultural Festival.
2022 is the much anticipated 25th anniversary of the Festival. The Reference Group will play a key role in providing input on aspects of the overall delivery of the Festival and advice on strategies to encourage the participation of the ACT’s diverse multicultural community.
Minister for Multicultural Affairs Tara Cheyne said, “The members of the Reference Group will provide valuable advice to the Festival Steering Committee on multicultural community engagement and participation strategies, language barriers, cultural sensitives and will bring other innovative ideas on how we can deliver a National Mult
April 17, 2021 Share
Several longtime pro-democracy advocates on Friday learned their fate for organizing one of Hong Kong’s largest-ever street protests during the height of anti-government demonstrations.
Nine pro-democracy activists, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, 73, and former lawmakers Lee Cheuk-yan, 64, Leung Kwok-hung, 65, Cyd Ho, 66, and Au Nok-hin, 33, were jailed after being found guilty this month of involvement in an August 2019 march that attracted hundreds of thousands of protesters.
District Judge Amanda Woodcock of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Magistrates Court also suspended sentencing for four other activists because of their age and accomplishments, according to The Associated Press.
Lai, who was additionally charged under the national security law on Friday for the second time and now faces six charges total, received 14 months in jail, as did activist Lee Cheuk-yan, after they had both pleaded guilty of organizing and participating in the rally o
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HONG KONG - A pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong is the latest to disclose that Chinese authorities questioned his family and friends in mainland China for information about him.
Yat-Chin Wong, 19, is the organizer of StudentPoliticism, a political group in Hong Kong whose aim is to promote “core values such as democracy and liberty and our sentiments to Hong Kong.”
The teenager was arrested twice last year, while national security officers warned group members about their continued activism.
Wong, who spent his childhood in China before moving to Hong Kong while in primary school, revealed that his relatives in Sichuan had recently been approached for questioning.