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By Marius Zaharia HONG KONG (Reuters) -Thousands of Hong Kong police are expected to patrol the city s streets on Friday to prevent people from gathering to commemorate the 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Beijing s Tiananmen Square. Critics say the heightened vigilance from authorities is a marked departure from Hong Kong s cherished freedoms of speech and assembly, bringing the global financial hub closer in line with mainland China s strict controls on society. The former British colony, promised a high degree of autonomy from Beijing upon its return to Chinese rule in 1997, has traditionally held the world s largest vigil for the Tiananmen victims. Police have banned the vigil for a second year in a row, citing the coronavirus. It did not say whether commemorating Tiananmen would breach a sweeping national security law China imposed in 2020 to set its most restive city onto an authoritarian path. Late on Thursday, police urged people not to gather, saying in a stateme ....
By Pak Yiu and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police arrested on Friday an organiser of annual vigils for the victims of China s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, in what activists see as a suppression of one of the city s most powerful symbols of democratic hope. The arrest of Chow Hang Tung, vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, comes as thousands of police are expected to patrol the city s streets to prevent people from gathering. The heightened vigilance from authorities was a marked departure from Hong Kong s cherished freedoms of speech and assembly, bringing the global financial hub closer in line with mainland China s strict controls on society, activists say. The annual June 4 vigil in Hong Kong s Victoria Park, the world s largest, is widely seen as a symbol of the former British colony s democratic aspirations and desire to preserve its different way of life from mainland China. She o ....
By Pak Yiu and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police arrested on Friday an organiser of annual vigils for the victims of China s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, in what activists see as a suppression of one of the city s most powerful symbols of democratic hope. The arrest of Chow Hang Tung, vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, comes as thousands of police are expected to patrol the city s streets to prevent people from gathering. The heightened vigilance from authorities was a marked departure from Hong Kong s cherished freedoms of speech and assembly, bringing the global financial hub closer in line with mainland China s strict controls on society, activists say. The annual June 4 vigil in Hong Kong s Victoria Park, the world s largest, is widely seen as a symbol of the former British colony s democratic aspirations and desire to preserve its different way of life from mainland China. She o ....
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) -An Australian court on Friday ordered a dozen media firms to pay a total of A$1.1 million ($842,270) in fines for breaching a suppression order on reporting the conviction of former Vatican treasurer George Pell for child sexual assault. The 12 media outlets, mostly owned by Nine Entertainment Co and Rupert Murdoch s News Corp, pleaded guilty in February to breaching the gag order on reporting on the trial and conviction of the cardinal, after the state agreed to drop all charges against journalists and editors. Supreme Court of Victoria Justice John Dixon convicted the media firms saying they had frustrated the suppression order as they diminished its purpose or efficacy by reporting information contrary to the terms of the order . Pell s conviction for abusing two choirboys was overturned in April last year after he was jailed for more than a year. He was the most senior Catholic church official to have gone to prison for child sex assault. Reporti ....
MANILA (Reuters) - Hundreds of police in the Philippines will start wearing body cameras during operations, it police chief said on Friday, heeding demands from human rights groups for accountability after thousands of killings and allegations of cover-ups. The announcement came after public outrage over the fatal shooting on Monday of a woman by an off-duty policeman, which led to condemnation from activists who say police brutality has become systematic under President Rodrigo Duterte and his bloody war on drugs. The shooting of Lilibeth Valdez, 52, was recorded on a mobile phone and shared on social media. Policeman Hensie Zinampan was seen in the video pulling Valdez s hair before he shot her in the neck. Administrative and criminal charges have been filed against him. The Commission on Human Rights said it was investigating the killing. Valdez was laid to rest at a ceremony on Friday. Philippine police have been accused of executing suspects then staging crime scenes and fabricati ....