6 Feb 2021立場新聞#1224
Hong Kong Alliance stall at Victoria Park displays “Vindicate June Fourth” and “Stand Together in Protest”; FEHD fences off and repossesses stall
維園年宵開幕前夕，支聯會共收到食環署兩封警告信，指其攤檔展示「與鮮花無關」物品 ，要求移除，否則終止合約；至深夜下令支聯會早上 7 時前交還攤位。至早上 8 時許，10 多名食環署人員到場，在花檔外圍架起鐵馬，圍封攤位。支聯會成員亦被圍在鐵馬陣內，到九時半左右，支聯會決定搬走所有物資撤走。食環署回應傳媒查詢時指，攤位架起多塊與售賣鮮花無關的「橫幅、背景展板和易拉架」，違反攤檔使用協議，要求移除，但攤檔無遵守警告，決定收回攤檔，但無明確指出支聯會攤檔哪些展示內容違規。
On the eve of the opening of the Lunar New Year fair at Victoria Park, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China received two warning letters from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, saying that its stall was displaying items “unrelated to fresh flowers” and demanding their removal or termination of the contract. Late that night, the department ordered the Alliance to return the stall by 7 a.m. At around 8 a.m., more than 10 FEHD staff arrived and erected crowd-control barriers around the flower stall, enclosing Alliance members inside. At around 9:30 a.m., the Alliance decided to remove all its materials and leave. In response to media enquiries, FEHD said the stall had put up several “banners, backdrop display panels and pull-up display stands” unrelated to the sale of fresh flowers, in breach of the stall-use agreement. As the stall did not comply with the warning, the department decided to repossess it, but did not specify which displays at the Alliance’s stall had violated the rules.
4 Feb 2021眾新聞#1223
Education Bureau Promotes National Security Education Across 15 Subject Areas, Full Implementation Required in 2022/23
教育局就國家安全教育向全港學校發出多份通告和指引，目標在2022/23年度起全面落實國家安全教育。教育局制訂國家安全教育課程框架，包括至少15個學習領域或科目，共以小學常識科、中學地理科和高中生物科為例，說明學科學習元素如何建立「國家概念」和「國民身份認同」、認同維護國土安全的重要性等。局方提醒教師不得向學生宣揚個人政治立場或直接或間接鼓動或默許學生參與校外的政治活動等。如學校人員作出涉及違反《香港國安法》的行為，須承擔相關責任和「嚴重後果」。學生若在校內佩戴具政治訊息的飾物、叫口號、拉人鏈等，校方應立即勸止，如懷疑涉及違法行為可諮詢警方，遇上嚴重情況應該報警。 局方又指國際學校及教授非本地課程的私立學校，也有責任防範校內違反《基本法》及國安法的活動，及幫助學生認識國安法立法背景及重要性的原則。但教育局的憲法與《基本法》網頁，學與教資源部分，只有中文教材，並無英文內容。
The Education Bureau has issued multiple circulars and guidelines to schools across Hong Kong on national security education, with the aim of fully implementing it from the 2022/23 school year. The bureau has drawn up a national security education curriculum framework covering at least 15 learning areas or subjects. Using primary general studies, secondary geography and senior secondary biology as examples, it explains how learning elements in these subjects can build a “national concept” and “national identity”, and foster recognition of the importance of safeguarding national territorial security. The bureau reminded teachers not to promote their personal political positions to students, or directly or indirectly encourage or condone students’ participation in political activities outside school. If school personnel engage in conduct involving a breach of the Hong Kong National Security Law, they must bear the relevant responsibility and face “serious consequences”. If students wear accessories bearing political messages, chant slogans or form human chains on school premises, schools should immediately advise them to stop. If illegal conduct is suspected, schools may consult the police, and should report the matter to the police in serious cases. The bureau also said that international schools and private schools offering non-local curricula have a responsibility to prevent activities on their premises that breach the Basic Law and the National Security Law, and to help students understand the background to and importance of the enactment of the National Security Law. However, the Education Bureau’s Constitution and Basic Law webpage contains only Chinese teaching materials in its learning and teaching resources section, with no English content.
2 Feb 2021眾新聞#1217
【Police Annual Review】97 Arrested Under National Security Law Six Months After Enactment; Chris Tang Says Disagreement with Its Enforcement Is “White Terror”
警務處在記者會上交代去年罪案數字，當中至今以國安法拘捕的有97人；警方國安處舉報熱線自去年11月啟用起，至今已收到逾4萬個訊息；警方將在本財政年度添置較細小、可用於較狹窄街道的水炮車；截至去年底共有1.02萬人涉及反修例活動被捕，當中四成報稱學生；被檢控的2450人中有940多人完成法律程序。
The Police Force gave an account of last year’s crime figures at a press conference, saying that 97 people had so far been arrested under the National Security Law. The police national security hotline has received more than 40,000 messages since it was launched last November. The police will procure smaller water cannon vehicles in the current financial year for use on narrower streets. By the end of last year, 10,200 people had been arrested in connection with anti-extradition bill activities, 40 per cent of whom reported that they were students. Of the 2,450 people prosecuted, more than 940 had completed legal proceedings.
29 Jan 2021立場新聞#1210
Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office and Liaison Office Name and Blast New Bar Association Chairman Paul Harris, Accusing Him of Challenging Beijing and Speaking Up for Hong Kong Independence
本月當選的大律師公會主席夏博義接受多間傳媒專訪，質疑國安法損香港法治，會游說政府修改部分條文。中聯辦、港澳辦先後發文炮轟，指控他仇視中共，以英藉之便勾結外國勢力干涉香港，形容其目的是隔擋香港撥亂反正，挑戰香港憲制秩序，對抗中央。
Hong Kong Bar Association Chairman Paul Harris, elected this month, gave interviews to several media outlets, questioning whether the National Security Law had harmed the rule of law in Hong Kong and saying he would lobby the government to amend some provisions. The Liaison Office and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office issued statements attacking him in turn, accusing him of hostility towards the Chinese Communist Party and of using his British citizenship to collude with foreign forces to interfere in Hong Kong. They described his aim as obstructing Hong Kong’s efforts to restore order, challenging Hong Kong’s constitutional order and opposing the central authorities.
29 Jan 2021眾新聞#1211
Government pushes SIM card real-name registration to combat crime; Mexico’s experience shows it has not stopped people using foreign cards to commit crimes
港府宣布就電話卡實名登記制展開公眾諮詢，諮詢期至2月28日。商務及經濟發展局局長邱騰華指已登記的個人資料只會儲存在電訊商資料庫。除非有逼切、緊急情況，執法機構需有法庭手令才可索取資料。
The Hong Kong government announced a public consultation on a real-name registration scheme for SIM cards, running until 28 February. Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau Tang-wah said registered personal data would be stored only in telecommunications operators’ databases. Except in pressing or emergency circumstances, law enforcement agencies would need a court warrant to obtain the data.
29 Jan 2021立場新聞#1212
[Building Sealed Off for Mandatory Testing] North Point’s Tung Fat Building “Yellow Shop” Villa: Staff Waited in Vain Overnight Without Arrangements, Fined HK$5,000 Each This Morning for Allegedly Breaching Mandatory Testing Order
政府晚上7時突擊圍封北角東發大廈為「受限區域」，區內人士需強制檢測，至翌日7時解封，未有發現確診個案。有位於「受限區域」的「黃店」餐廳職員整晚於餐廳內等候，但一直未有收到檢測指示，直至早上主動往檢測站查詢，卻被指逾時未檢測，每人罰款5000元。
At 7pm, the government suddenly cordoned off North Point’s Tung Fat Building as a “restricted area”, requiring people inside to undergo mandatory testing. The area was unsealed at 7am the following day, and no confirmed cases were found. Staff of a restaurant in the “restricted area”, a “yellow shop”, waited inside the restaurant throughout the night but never received instructions to undergo testing. They went to the testing station to make enquiries the following morning, but were accused of failing to undergo testing by the deadline and fined HK$5,000 each.
28 Jan 2021獨立媒體#1207
Privacy Commissioner: Seven in 10 Doxxing Cases Involved Police Officers and Officials; Hotline Set Up Today
個人資料私隱專員公署指，2019年6月至2020年12月期間共錄得有5,406宗起底個案，當中71%涉及警員、官員及支持政府人士，就此公署宣佈即日起設立「反起底熱線」，供市民投訴及查詢。
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it recorded 5,406 doxxing cases between June 2019 and December 2020, of which 71% involved police officers, officials and people supporting the government. The office announced that it would set up an anti-doxxing hotline from today for public complaints and enquiries.
27 Jan 2021眾新聞#1203
Xi Jinping stresses governing Hong Kong by patriots; phrase “implementing the two systems” disappears, timing of Hong Kong and Macau duty reports differs
港澳特首改用視像方式向中國國家主席習近平及總理李克強述職。在中央可能修改香港特首及立會選舉制度的強硬吹風下，習近平稱香港必須始終堅持「愛國者治港」，才能落實中央對港全面管治權及維護憲法及《基本法》確立的憲制秩序。習近平過去三年會見林鄭時，都有提及要堅持或全面準備貫徹一國兩制，今年類似字眼消失，直接提醒要堅持「愛國者治港」。
The chief executives of Hong Kong and Macau used video links to report on their work to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Amid strong indications that the central authorities may amend Hong Kong’s electoral systems for the chief executive and Legislative Council, Xi said Hong Kong must always uphold “governing Hong Kong by patriots” in order to implement the central authorities’ overall jurisdiction over Hong Kong and safeguard the constitutional order established by the Constitution and the Basic Law. In each of his meetings with Carrie Lam over the past three years, Xi had mentioned the need to uphold or fully prepare to implement “one country, two systems”. This year, similar wording disappeared, with Xi directly reminding Hong Kong to uphold “governing Hong Kong by patriots”.
26 Jan 2021獨立媒體#1201
Police Speak as ‘CUHK Alumni’, Describe Students as ‘Thugs’ and Student Organisation as ‘Shameless’
警方就早一日調查中大港鐡站鐵馬被推倒及保安被灑撥粉末一事，交代案情。警方指，涉案4人均為中大學生，其中1人在當日被捕，目前正通緝另1人。他們被指涉嫌非法集結和襲擊他人意圖導致不作出某些行為。在案件未正式起訴及審理情況下，有警方發言人以中大校友身份批評涉案學生為「兇徒」。
Police briefed the public on their investigation into crowd-control barriers being pushed over and security personnel being sprayed with powder at the CUHK MTR station the previous day. Police said all four people involved were CUHK students; one was arrested that day and another is currently wanted. They were suspected of unlawful assembly and assault with intent to cause another person to do or omit to do an act. Before the case had been formally charged and heard, a police spokesperson criticised the students involved as “thugs” while speaking as a CUHK alumnus.
22 Jan 2021眾新聞#1194
RTHK terminates Lei Kwan-nga’s three-year, 120-day civil service contract: report
《眾新聞》引述消息指，港台助理節目主任利君雅三年及120日的公務員合約正式遭終止。港台管理層另開一份120日的新合約給利君雅，口頭聲稱可繼續以公務員身分履行職務。據了解，一般公務員完成三年試用期，會獲得約滿酬金，但利君雅的約滿酬金遭扣起直至完成調查。
Citizen News cited sources as saying that the three-year, 120-day civil service contract of RTHK assistant programme officer Lei Kwan-nga had been formally terminated. RTHK management had offered Lei a new 120-day contract, verbally claiming that she could continue performing her duties as a civil servant. It was understood that civil servants who complete a three-year probationary period generally receive an end-of-contract gratuity, but Lei’s gratuity had been withheld pending completion of an investigation.
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