28 Jul 2020聞庫（立場）#730
HKU Council Dismisses Benny Tai; Liaison Office Calls It a Just Act That Punishes Evil and Upholds Good
香港大學法律系副教授戴耀廷去年因為「佔中案」被判監，港大展開紀律程序檢討戴耀廷去留，港大校委會今日（28 日）召開會議。消息人士指，校委會以 18 票比 2 票，通過開除戴耀廷的決定，意味著校委會推翻教務委員會早前建議保留教席的結論。中聯辦今日晚上表示，港大校委會的決定是「懲惡揚善、順應民心的正義之舉。」發言人又形容「正義或許會遲到，但絕不會缺席，戴耀廷被解僱完全是咎由自取。」
Benny Tai, an associate professor in the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, was sentenced to imprisonment last year in the “Occupy Central case”. HKU launched disciplinary proceedings to review whether he should retain his post, and its Council met today (28th). Sources said the Council voted 18 to 2 to dismiss Tai, overturning an earlier recommendation by the Senate to retain his position. The Liaison Office said this evening that the Council’s decision was “a just act that punishes evil and upholds good, and conforms to the wishes of the people”. Its spokesperson said, “Justice may be late, but it will never be absent. Benny Tai’s dismissal was entirely brought upon himself.”
26 Jul 2020獨媒#729
District Councillor’s Office Used for Strike Referendum and Primary; More Than HK$60,000 in Two Months’ Allowances Withheld
據悉，多名曾借出議員辦事處作民主派初選票站的區議員，均被抽起本月津貼。東區區議員郭志聰向《獨媒》表示，自己分別於上月20日及本月11及12日，借出議辦作罷工公投票站及的民主派初選票站，惟初選結束僅兩星期，他即遭秋後算賬，涉及兩個月、逾六萬元的區議員津貼被抽起。郭志聰批評政府「綑綁式」把整個月的津貼抽起，「係咪其餘28日都冇服務過街坊呢？」並反問，「咁建制派又可以搞撐《國安法》聯署？」
It is understood that the monthly allowances of several district councillors who lent their offices as polling stations for the pro-democracy camp’s primary have been withheld. Eastern District Councillor Kwok Chi-chung told InMedia that he lent his office as a polling station for the strike referendum on the 20th of last month and for the pro-democracy camp’s primary on the 11th and 12th of this month. Just two weeks after the primary ended, he was penalised after the fact, with more than HK$60,000 in district councillor allowances for two months withheld. Kwok criticised the government for deducting the entire month’s allowance in a blanket manner, asking, “Does that mean I did not serve residents on the other 28 days?” He also asked, “Then how can the pro-establishment camp organise a petition supporting the National Security Law?”
25 Jul 2020獨媒#728
Lau Wing-kwong, Alvin Yeung and Gwyneth Ho among those questioned by election officers over US sanctions and protest camp positions
選舉主任今午去信多名已報名參選立法會的民主派，包括公民黨楊岳橋、劉頴匡、何桂藍、梁晃維、袁嘉蔚、公民黨郭榮鏗、公民黨鄭達鴻、公民黨郭家麒等，要求他們回應是否有意繼續請求美國制裁香港，並解釋「抗爭派立場聲明書」或「若政府未能回應五大訴求，議員會否決《財政預算案》」等立場如何合乎「擁護《基本法》」聲明中的實質要求。
Election officers wrote this afternoon to several pro-democracy candidates who had registered to stand for the Legislative Council, including Civic Party members Alvin Yeung, Lau Wing-kwong, Gwyneth Ho, Leung Wong-wai and Tiffany Yuen, as well as Civic Party members Dennis Kwok, Cheng Tat-hung and Kwok Ka-ki. They asked whether the candidates intended to continue requesting that the United States impose sanctions on Hong Kong, and to explain how positions such as the “Protest Camp Position Statement” or whether lawmakers would veto the “Budget” if the government failed to respond to the five demands complied with the substantive requirements of the declaration to “uphold the Basic Law”.
24 Jul 2020獨媒#7783
[Settling Accounts with Education] “‘Yellow’ teacher works as a volunteer journalist in spare time; school targets teacher and reviews CCTV for ‘evidence’
教師工餘任義務記者 學校針對 翻CCTV尋「罪證」
Teacher works as a volunteer journalist in spare time; school targets teacher and reviews CCTV for ‘evidence’.
22 Jul 2020獨媒#7781
[LegCo Election] Alvin Yeung: Civic Party Direct-Election Candidates Will Not Sign Confirmation Form
公民黨黨魁楊岳橋下午到沙田政府合署報名，參選立法會新界東直選。他表明，包括自己在內的四名公民黨地區直選候選人，均不會簽署確認書，指「從來確認書不應該係一個特別嘅問題」，亦承諾當選後會否決《財政預算案》。
Civic Party leader Alvin Yeung went to the Sha Tin Government Offices this afternoon to register as a candidate for the New Territories East geographical constituency in the Legislative Council election. He said that the four Civic Party candidates for geographical constituencies, including himself, would not sign the confirmation form, stating that “the confirmation form should never have been a particular issue”. He also pledged to vote against the budget after being elected.
22 Jul 2020獨媒#7782
LegCo Election Race: Liu Ting-kwong to Sign Confirmation Form, Citing “Unique Background”
於民主派新界東立法會初選中得票第二多的民間集會團隊發言人劉頴匡，今日（7月22日）正式報名參選。劉頴匡將會簽署確認書，他指簽署與否是個人自由，應受到尊重，籲各界不要糾結於「技術性問題」。
Liu Ting-kwong, spokesperson for the Civil Assembly Team who received the second-highest number of votes in the pro-democracy camp’s New Territories East Legislative Council primary, formally registered to stand for election today (July 22). Liu will sign the confirmation form. He said whether to sign it was a matter of personal freedom that should be respected, and urged all sides not to get hung up on a “technical issue”.
18 Jul 2020獨媒#7779
LegCo Election: FTU Holds Press Conference, Citing Pandemic for Refusing Access to InMedia and Apple Daily
立法會換屆選舉提名期今日開始，工聯會今早在土瓜灣馬頭涌道的會所舉行記者會，《獨媒》和《蘋果日報》記者均被拒絕採訪。工聯會職員稱記者會屬私人活動，只邀請相關媒體，後又改稱是因疫情關係。
The nomination period for the Legislative Council election began today. The Federation of Trade Unions held a press conference this morning at its clubhouse on Ma Tau Chung Road in To Kwa Wan, but reporters from InMedia and Apple Daily were refused access. FTU staff said the press conference was a private event and only relevant media had been invited, later changing their explanation to say it was due to the pandemic.
18 Jul 2020獨媒#7780
【Education Purge】Teacher Who Drew Current-Affairs Cartoons Not Offered Contract Renewal, Reluctant to Leave Students: Wants to Watch Them Do Well in the DSE
繪時事漫畫教師不獲續約
A teacher who drew current-affairs cartoons was not offered a contract renewal.
17 Jul 2020獨媒#7776
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute: Police May Have Taken Primary Polling Station Chiefs’ Data; Letter Sent Seeking Explanation
上周五民主派初選舉行前夕，警方上門搜查香港民意研究所辦公室。香港民研主席及行政總裁鍾庭耀表示，一個載有初選票站主任聯絡資料的文件可能被警方取走，已發信要求警方提供當日取走的資料的副本。
On the eve of last Friday’s pan-democratic primary, police searched the office of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute. Its chairman and chief executive, Chung Ting-yiu, said a document containing the contact details of the primary’s polling station chiefs might have been taken by police, and that he had written to the police requesting a copy of the information taken that day.
17 Jul 2020獨媒#7777
Councillors’ Work Reports Criticise National Security Law; Post Office Refuses to Mail Them, Yuen Siu-kin Condemns Political Censorship
民主黨立法會議員尹兆堅及屯門區議員馬旗的工作報告，疑因內容批評《港區國安法》，遭郵政署拒寄並沒收。兩人今（7月17日）召開記者會，抗議郵政署做「政治打手」，打壓言論自由。尹兆堅提到黨友甘乃威亦有同類遭遇，對連續出現政治打壓感憂慮，稱現時「已經唔係溫水煮蛙，係大滾水淥蛙」，但強調會追究到底，反擊白色恐怖。
The work reports of Democratic Party Legislative Council member Yuen Siu-kin and Tuen Mun District Councillor Kee Ma were allegedly refused delivery and confiscated by the Post Office because their contents criticised the Hong Kong National Security Law. The two held a press conference today (17 July) to protest against the Post Office acting as a “political hatchet man” and suppressing freedom of expression. Yuen Siu-kin said his party colleague Kam Nai-wai had experienced something similar, and expressed concern about the repeated occurrence of political suppression, saying that “it is no longer a frog being boiled slowly in warm water; it is a frog being scalded in boiling water”. He stressed that they would pursue the matter to the end and fight back against white terror.
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