1 Aug 2023獨媒#8117
李家超首場《施政報告》諮詢會晤人大政協 凌友詩倡中小學每周上一堂書法課
Chief Executive John Lee will deliver the Policy Address on 25 October. He held the first consultation session this morning, meeting NPC deputies and CPPCC members. Hong Kong NPC deputy Yu Shih Ling, who once described herself at a CPPCC meeting as “an ordinary Taiwanese girl”, suggested that all primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong should hold a weekly calligraphy lesson, enabling students to identify with Chinese culture and cultivate moral character: “It’s a very convenient direction that can also achieve results.”
行政長官李家超將在10月25日發表《施政報告》，今早舉行首場諮詢會，率先會晤人大及政協。曾在政協會議上自稱「平凡台灣女孩」、港區人大代表凌友詩向李家超建議，全港中小學每周都要有一堂書法課，讓學生認同中華文化，及培養品德修養：「一個好便捷又能收到效果嘅方向。」
1 Aug 2023獨媒#8120
登記選民數目連續兩年下跌 20歲以下選民跌五成
The Registration and Electoral Office announced the provisional register of electors. The total number of registered electors in Hong Kong fell for the second consecutive year, from about 4.41 million to about 4.33 million this year. The decline was mainly among younger people: the 18-to-20 age group recorded a drop of more than 52%, while the 21-to-25 age group fell by 10%. The two groups together lost 53,000 electors, while the number of older electors increased. Members of the public may inspect the provisional register of electors at the Registration and Electoral Office from today until the 25th.
選舉事務處公布臨時選民登記冊，全港登記選民人數連續第二年下跌，由約441萬人跌至今年約433萬人。跌幅主要來自年輕層，在18至20歲群組，錄得超過52%跌幅；21至25歲群組則有10%，兩個群組合共流失5.3萬人，而年長選民的數字則有上升。市民由今日起至25日，可向選舉事務處查詢臨時選民登記冊資料。
31 Jul 2023cable#8113
鄧炳強拒透露130億國安開支細節：奧妙之處在於唔知幾時用完
The government has so far allocated HK$13 billion in dedicated funding for national security. Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung refused to disclose details, explaining that this was to prevent people from speculating about and attacking the government’s national security work. Tang said reports must be submitted to the Legislative Council every year, but Article 14 of the National Security Law requires work to combat acts endangering national security to be kept confidential. He said details of national security, including expenditure, were not disclosed in any society because spending could reveal the methods used, which would be highly detrimental to national security. Asked whether the HK$13 billion had been spent and whether additional funding might be sought, Tang said the point was that people would not know when it would run out or how much had been spent, and that further funding would be applied for if necessary, to prevent others from speculating about and attacking the government’s national security work.
政府至今撥出130億元維護國家安全開支專門款項，保安局局長鄧炳強拒絕透露細節，他解釋是因為要防止有人揣測和攻擊政府的國安工作。
鄧炳強：「每年也要向立法會提交報告，但當然在《國安法》第14條裏，提到打擊危害國家安全的工作要保密。因為打擊危害國家安全事關重大，與及機密性很高，在所有的社會中對於國家安全的細節都是不會透露，包括支出都是不便透露，因為若透露就能根據支出知道打擊的方法，這對於國家安全是絕對不利。」
主持:「若不說細節，我想問一下，130億元市民都很關注，用完沒有？將來會有追加撥款的可能？」鄧炳強：「我認為奧妙之處在於，你不知道我何時用完，又不知道我用了多少，有需要時再申請。為了防止別人對於我們的國家安全工作作出揣測和攻擊。」
28 Jul 2023明報#8092
批聯署曲解《基本法》院校自主 梁振英：再證需「停用」段崇智
Three CUHK council members who are Legislative Council members, including Cheung Yu-yan, submitted a private bill to the Legislative Council concerning the restructuring of the CUHK Council. CUHK Alumni Consultative Committee chairman and council member Kelvin Yu Ming Yeung, among others, launched a petition calling for the proposal to “strike a balance between the university’s accountability to the public and institutional autonomy”; it received support from more than 1,000 alumni. Former Chief Executive CY Leung wrote yesterday criticising Kelvin Yu Ming Yeung for misinterpreting the institutional autonomy provided for in the Basic Law. Leung said that “institutional autonomy does not mean complete autonomy” and reiterated that there was a need to “stop using” CUHK President Rocky Tuan.
張宇人等3名中大議員校董向立法會交私人草案，涉及改組中大校董會，中大校友評議會主席兼校董楊于銘等發起聯署，要求方案「在大學向公眾問責與院校自主之間取得平衡」，獲逾千校友支持。前特首梁振英昨撰文批評楊于銘曲解《基本法》訂明的院校自主。梁認為「院校自主不是完全自主」，並重提有需要「停用」中大校長段崇智。
28 Jul 2023集誌社#8094
有條件釋放令｜港府研強制羈留自願入院者有暴力傾向人士 學者批新增釋放條件侵人權
A knife attack at Hollywood Plaza in Diamond Hill last month prompted widespread public concern about mental illness. The Mental Health Advisory Committee discussed the conditional release mechanism this afternoon (27th). After the meeting, Under Secretary for Health Libby Lee Ha-yin said she agreed with the committee’s recommendation to improve the mechanism. Measures would include changing patients who voluntarily admit themselves but are found to have a criminal record involving violence or violent tendencies to compulsory detention, bringing them within the scope of conditional release orders. More conditions would also be added to such orders, including remotely monitoring whether patients take their medication and testing blood or urine samples to determine whether they have taken it. A member of the Mental Health Advisory Committee expressed concern that the measures could affect patients’ willingness to seek medical treatment, criticising the current direction as “targeting patients and using their rights and freedom to eliminate society’s concerns.”
鑽石山荷里活廣場上月發生持刀襲擊案，引起社會對精神病廣泛關注，精神健康諮詢委員會今午（ 27日）討論「有條件釋放」機制，醫務衞生局副局長李夏茵在會後表示，同意委員會建議，將「完善」「有條件釋放機制」，當中包括會將自願入院但發現有刑事暴力記錄或傾向的病人改為強制羈留，將其納入「有條件釋放令」之適用範圍；會為「有條件釋放令」增更多條件，包括遙距監察病人服藥、透過血液或尿液樣本測試病人有否服藥等。有精神健康諮詢委員會委員擔心，將影響病人的求醫意欲，批評現時的方向是「向病人開刀，用他們的權利自由去消除社會疑慮。」
28 Jul 2023獨媒#8103
律政司下架11份年報 只剩國安法生效後3份 不再附檢控官照片
The Department of Justice publishes a Hong Kong Criminal Prosecutions annual report every year summarising its work. Besides providing figures on various prosecutions, convictions and appeals, the reports also feature group photographs of Prosecutions Division staff at different levels of court, as well as photographs of community activities, thereby maintaining a degree of transparency. However, InMediaHK recently found that the Department of Justice had removed all annual reports published since the handover, leaving only the three reports from 2020 to the present. A feature of these three reports is that photographs of Department of Justice personnel have been almost completely eliminated; even where photographs appear, they are all distant shots and do not identify anyone by name. In response to an inquiry from InMediaHK about the reason for removing the reports, a spokesperson said that “the Department of Justice updates information on its website from time to time according to operational needs.”
律政司每年均會發表《香港刑事檢控》年報總結工作，除了交代各類檢控、定罪、和上訴數字，亦會刊載各級法院檢控科人員的合照，以及舉辦社區活動的照片，一定程度保持律政司的透明度。不過《獨媒》近日發現，律政司已將回歸以來所有年報下架，只剩低2020年至今的3份年報。該3份年報特色是律政司內人員照片近乎「清零」，即使有相均屬遠照，沒有標示人名。《獨媒》向律政司查詢下架原因，發言人指「律政司不時按實際運作需要更新網頁資料」。
27 Jul 2023明報#8081
修港大規程 議員否決公聽 謝偉俊質疑僅納書面意見 「以後不需開會」
A Legislative Council Bills Committee met yesterday to discuss amendments to the University of Hong Kong Statutes that would allow the Disciplinary Committee to determine whether students had damaged the university’s reputation. By two votes in favour, three against and one abstention, the committee decided not to hold a public hearing and to accept written submissions only. Paul Tse Wai-chun, an Election Committee constituency legislator who proposed holding a public hearing, said the amendments concerned one of the best-known and oldest universities and suggested upholding the tradition of allowing the public to participate in the discussion. He said, “If everything is conducted in writing, there would be no need to meet.”
立法會一個小組委員會昨開會討論修訂《香港大學規程》，准紀律委員會裁定學生有否損校譽。委員會以2票贊成、3票反對及1票棄權下，決定不召開公聽會，只接納書面意見。提議召開公聽會的選委會界別議員謝偉俊表示，今次修訂涉及一所最知名且歷史悠久的大學，建議秉承傳統讓公眾參與討論，又稱「若每件事均以書面進行，我們就不需要開會」。
27 Jul 2023明報#8085
28名內地港生 最快月底做警察
Amid manpower losses in the Police Force, senior officials earlier devised a mainland talent-recruitment drive to attract Hong Kong people studying at mainland universities to return to Hong Kong and join the force. The Security Bureau said yesterday that the drive, launched last November, received 447 applications from Hong Kong students studying on the mainland. As of the end of June, 128 had successfully passed the selection process; after completing character vetting and a physical examination, they could be hired as police officers as early as the end of July. Legislative Council documents show that the acceptance rate for local recruitment of police officers at constable and equivalent ranks is about 12%; by comparison, the acceptance rate for the mainland talent drive has so far reached 28%.
面對警隊人手流失，高層早前想出在內地「搶人才」，吸引在內地大學讀書的港人「回流」香港當差。保安局昨日表示，去年11至「搶人才」行動，收到447份內地港生申請，截至6月底有128人成功通過遴選程序，只要完成品格審查和體格檢驗，最快可以7月底前獲聘為警員。翻查立法會文件，本地員佐級警員招聘錄取率約是12%；相比起來，內地「搶人才」取錄率，暫時高達28%。
27 Jul 2023光傳媒#8086
「軟對抗」後再添新詞 張志剛批移居外地反對派「遠對抗」
The Hong Kong government has repeatedly warned in recent months that some people are endangering national security through “soft resistance”. Today, Victor Chi Kong Cheung, a National Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and president of the One Country, Two Systems Research Institute, proposed the new term “resistance from afar” in an article for Ming Pao. The article claimed that after large numbers of opposition figures moved abroad, they engaged in “resistance from afar” from overseas, stressing that the issue must be confronted seriously and cannot be addressed by relying on the methods used to quell the “black violence”. He said that “resistance from afar” was more a political problem than a national security problem.
港府近月多次警告，有人藉「軟對抗」危害國家安全，今日全國政協委員、一國兩制研究中心總裁張志剛在《明報》投稿，提出新詞「遠對抗」，文章聲稱大批反對派分子移居外地後，身處外地「遠對抗」，強調必須認真面對，不能依靠平息「黑暴」的手段來應對。他指，「遠對抗」更多屬於一種政治問題，多於國家安全問題。
25 Jul 2023獨媒#8069
周天行任律政司科技罪行分科主管 專責處理網絡恐怖主義及起底罪行
The Special Duties Team of the Department of Justice’s Prosecutions Division, which was tasked with handling anti-extradition bill cases, “disappeared” in May this year following an internal personnel adjustment. Records show that the Department of Justice recently established a new division targeting technology crimes, headed by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Tianxing Zhou, who was previously attached to the Special Duties Team. The division is responsible for offences including cyberterrorism and doxxing. Tianxing Zhou has handled numerous cases under the National Security Law, and was the lead prosecutor in the pan-democratic camp’s “35+” primary election case and the first National Security Law case, the Tong Ying-kit case.
專責處理反修例案件的律政司刑事檢控科「特別職務組」，今年5月因內部人事調整而「消失」。翻查資料，律政司近期增設針對「科技罪行」的新分科，由原本隸屬「特別職務組」的副刑事檢控專員周天行擔任主管，專責網絡恐怖主義、起底等罪行。周天行處理過多宗《港區國安法》案件，為民主派「35+」初選案和國安法首案「唐英傑案」的主控。
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