15 Dec 2025法庭線#7693
黎智英被裁罪成 港澳辦批「馬前卒」特首指「可恥歹毒」 多國反對譴責促釋放
After being held on remand for five years, Jimmy Lai was convicted of conspiracy to collude with external forces and other offences. The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, the Liaison Office and the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong criticised Lai as a “pawn of anti-China forces” and a “traitor to China and national enemy”. Chief Executive John Lee said Lai had harmed the country’s fundamental interests and the welfare of residents, and that “his conduct was shameful and his intentions vicious”.
The United Kingdom, Australia and the European Union opposed and condemned the verdict, while the Congressional-Executive Commission on China called for Lai’s unconditional release. The Foreign Ministry said it was strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to certain countries’ open denigration and smearing of Hong Kong’s judicial system. International press groups said the verdict undermined press freedom, a claim the Hong Kong government rebutted.
已還押 5 年的黎智英被裁定串謀勾結外力等罪成，港澳辦、中聯辦與駐港國安公署批評黎為「反華勢力馬前卒」、「漢奸國賊」。特首李家超指黎損害國家根本利益及市民福祉，「其行可恥、其心歹毒」。
英國、澳洲及歐盟反對及譴責裁決，美國的中國委員會要求無條件釋放黎。外交部指，強烈不滿和堅決反對個別國家公然詆毀抹黑香港司法。國際新聞團體指裁決損害新聞自由，港府予以反駁。
15 Dec 2025法庭線#7694
黎智英勾結外力罪成 9人明年1.12求情 港澳辦港府批黎 英澳歐盟譴責反對裁決
In the national security case against Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai, three High Court-designated judges ruled on Monday (15th) that Lai was guilty on three charges involving conspiracy to collude with external forces and incitement. He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Lai and the other eight defendants were remanded in custody until mid-January next year for mitigation submissions, and the judges said they would announce the sentencing date as soon as possible. Lai’s wife and lawyers did not respond to the verdict. His children in the UK said they were saddened and worried that their father’s health would deteriorate.
In their judgment, the judges said Lai had harboured resentment towards China for many years and that, both before and after the implementation of the National Security Law, his sole intention was to seek the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party, even at the expense of the interests of the Chinese and Hong Kong people. The judges described Lai’s hatred of the Chinese Communist Party as extremely intense, saying it remained strong even when he gave evidence in court. They ultimately ruled that, in pursuit of his political objectives, Lai conspired separately with Apple Daily executives and the “Chung Kwong team” to incite and collude with external forces, with the aim of weakening the authority of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments and seeking foreign sanctions.
Various parties responded after the verdict. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office described Lai as a “pawn, traitor and national enemy”, while Chief Executive John Lee said Lai had harmed the national interest and condemned him as “shameful and vicious”. The UK, Australia and the European Union condemned and opposed the verdict, while the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China called for Lai’s release. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed strong dissatisfaction at what it called open smearing and vilification, and urged that there be no interference. The Hong Kong government also rebutted the criticism, saying the case had nothing to do with press freedom.
壹傳媒創辦人黎智英國安案，3 名高院指定法官周一（15 日）裁定黎串謀勾結外力、煽動 3 罪成，他最高可被判囚終身。黎與另 8 被告續還押至明年一月中處理求情，官指盡快公布判刑日期。黎妻及律師未回應裁決，黎在英國的子女則稱感悲傷，憂父健康惡化。
法官在判詞指，黎長年對中國心懷怨恨，指他無論在《國安法》實施前後，唯一意圖是尋求中共倒台，即使要犧牲中國人民、香港人的利益也在所不惜。官形容，黎對中共極為仇恨，甚至在他出庭作供時，仇恨依然強烈，最後裁定黎為求達到政治目的，分別與《蘋果》高層、「重光團隊」串謀煽動及勾結外力，以削弱中港政府的權威，以及尋求外國制裁。
各方在裁決後回應，港澳辦形容黎為「馬前卒、漢奸國賊」，特首李家超指黎損國家利益，批「可恥、歹毒」。英、澳、歐盟譴責及反對裁決，美國的中國委員會促釋放黎。外交部指強烈不滿公然詆毀抹黑，敦促不得干預，港府亦反駁指案件無關新聞自由。
14 Dec 2025集誌社#7681
民主黨運解散｜即日停運 一年內完成清盤 如資產有剩捐工業傷亡權益會 羅健熙：盡可能留在香港
The Democratic Party, which has a 30-year history, formally ceased operations today (14th). The party held a members’ general meeting and a special annual general meeting this afternoon, where a resolution to wind up the party was passed with 117 votes in favour, none against and four blank ballots. The winding-up process is to be completed as far as possible within one year, and any remaining assets will be donated to the Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims. Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei said he had no plans to start another party after its dissolution, but would remain in Hong Kong as far as possible and face the current circumstances together with Hong Kong people. He hoped that members of the public would retain kindness and integrity and strive to live each moment well.
有 30 年歷史的民主黨運作到今天（14日）正式結束。民主黨今午召開會員大會及特別周年會員大會，議決清盤，以 117 票贊成，0 票反對，4 票白票通過，清盤程序盡量在一年內完成，如有剩下資產，會捐給工業傷亡權益會。民主黨主席羅健熙表明，政黨解散後，沒打算另起爐灶，但他會盡可能留在香港，跟香港人一起面對現在的處境。他希望市民心存善良、正直，努力過好每一刻。
13 Dec 2025追光者#7679
嶺大出售持續進修學院予涉中國背景辦學團體 諮詢大會學生會幹事遭保安阻攔
Lingnan University recently announced that it would spin off its School of Continuing Education to a new education provider, the Hong Kong Emerging Technologies Education Charitable Foundation. The Lingnan University Students’ Union revealed that some people on the latest list of directors of the new buyer are suspected of working at Chinese higher education institutions and even operating overseas study agencies in China, suggesting possible Chinese capital backing. A Students’ Union officer who tried to learn more at a related Lingnan University meeting was stopped by security. If implemented, the move would mean that Lingnan’s School of Continuing Education could become Hong Kong’s third self-financing higher education institution with Chinese capital backing, after Chu Hai College and Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education.
Lingnan held a consultation meeting on the spin-off on Thursday (11th). The Students’ Union Editorial Board reported on social media that the meeting was open only to students and staff of the School of Continuing Education, while undergraduate and postgraduate students were not allowed to enter. Participating students were also required to register their personal details and student numbers outside the venue. More than 10 security guards and university staff were already on standby outside the venue before the meeting began, including Student Affairs Manager Alice Wing Yee Leung.
editorial board said the meeting ended after only about 20 minutes. When the Students’ Union External Vice-President Lai Cheuk-yin tried outside the venue to ask departing students and staff about the meeting, several security guards stopped him. They said the matter had nothing to do with the Students’ Union or undergraduate students, told him, “What’s it got to do with you?”, and questioned whether he was “getting in the way of work”. Lai later tried to approach participants at other locations on campus, but was followed by security guards throughout and returned without success.
嶺南大學日前宣布，將分拆持續進修學院予新辦學團體「香港新興科技教育慈善基金」，嶺大學生會揭發，新買家的最新董事名單中，部份人疑任職於中國高等院校，甚至在中國經營海外升學中介機構，或涉中資背景，有學生會幹事試圖在嶺大相關會議了解詳情時遭保安阻攔。若最後落實，意味嶺大持續進修學院或繼珠海學院、能仁學院後，成為香港第三間具中資背景的自資高等院校。
嶺大周四（11日）上午就分拆事宜舉行諮詢大會，學生會編輯委員會在社交平台報道， 當日大會僅限持續進修學院學生及職員參加，本科生及研究生不得內進，而參加學生須先在門外登記個人資料及學生證號碼。會議開始前，會場外已有十多名保安及校方職員戒備，包括學生事務經理梁詠儀。
編委會指出，大會只進行約20分鐘便結束，學生會外務副會長賴卓賢在場外試圖向離場學生及職員了解會議內容時，遭多名保安阻攔，對方稱是次事務與學生會及本科生無關，更斥「關你咩事」、又質疑賴「阻住做嘢」。賴其後在校園其他位置嘗試與參加人士接觸，但一直被保安尾隨只能無功而還。
13 Dec 2025Yahoo#7680
宏福苑五級火｜災民須五日內遷離旅舍 每日致電「一戶一社工」求助 社工稱房協熱線長期「唔通」
It has been 16 days since the fire at Hong Fuk Court on the afternoon of the 26th of last month. Public attention has begun to wane, but the residents’ difficulties are only now emerging. Yahoo News spoke to several Hong Fuk Court residents who are currently staying temporarily at an NGO hostel in Fanling, but must leave after five days. They call “one household, one social worker” daily for help, but receive “no answer” each time. Social workers also acknowledge that even their direct hotline is “always impossible to get through”. After two weeks, the emotions the residents had kept suppressed finally boiled over, and many residents have had to seek treatment from psychiatrists. Information among the residents is also highly confused, leaving them feeling that they can only help themselves.
上月26日下午發生的宏福苑大火，距今十六天。社會的關注度開始減退，但災民的困境才剛剛浮現。《Yahoo新聞》接觸到好幾位宏福苑居民，他們目前暫居於粉嶺的NGO旅舍，但五天之後就必須遷出，他們每日致電一戶一社工求救，但每次的答覆都是「沒有答覆」，社工亦不諱言連他們的直撥熱線也「永遠打唔通」。災民之前一直壓抑的情緒，歷兩星期之後終於爆煲，不少街坊須求診精神科醫生；災民之間的訊息亦十分混亂，他們有感只能自救。
12 Dec 2025集誌社#7676
23 條｜國安警首引用「非法操練罪」拘九人 行動檢獲槍械、懷疑爆炸品等
The National Security Department held a press conference today (12th), announcing that it had for the first time enforced the “unlawful drilling” offence under Article 13 of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. The department said it had received a public report alleging that weapons were being stored and military-style training was being conducted in an industrial building in San Po Kong. After an investigation, the relevant conduct was found to involve a breach of the “unlawful drilling” offence. Six men were arrested yesterday at the industrial building in San Po Kong, followed by the arrest of three more men. The nine men remain detained for investigation. Long-barrelled air guns and air pistols, short knives and long swords, suspected explosives and other items were seized during the operation.
Li Kwai-wah, Senior Superintendent of the Police National Security Department, said the investigation found that some of those arrested had worn clothing commonly associated with “black-clad violence” and had visited the site of the Wang Fuk Court fire. He also said that after the fire, some people had used clothing and slogans commonly seen in 2019 and 2020 to spread hatred, making people feel there were “signs of black-clad violence”. He said the arrests “tell us clearly that these signs involve violence” and that the matter could not be taken lightly.
國安處今（12日）召開記者會，公布首度引用《維護國家安全條例》第 13 條下「非法操練罪」執法。國安處指收到市民舉報懷疑有人在新蒲崗工廈，收藏武器及進行類似軍事形式的訓練，調查後相關行為涉違反「非法操練罪」；昨先在新蒲崗工廈拘捕 六名男子，其後再拘捕多三名男子，九人仍被扣查。行動中檢獲長氣槍和氣手槍、短刀和長劍、懷疑是爆炸品等等。
警務處國安處總警司李桂華指，調查中發現有被捕人曾著「黑暴常用服裝」，到過宏福苑火災現場。他又指火災後有人用 2019、2020 年常見的服裝、口號等散佈仇恨，令人感到有「黑暴嘅苗頭」，而今次拘捕行動「正正話我地聽，呢個苗頭帶有暴力性」，不能掉以輕心。
12 Dec 2025明報#7677
增收外地生直資校 准升國際課程佔比 最高達49%多間有意申 津校憂競爭加劇
This year’s Policy Address proposed a pilot scheme allowing Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) primary and secondary schools to apply from the 2026/27 school year to expand classes and relax class-size limits in order to admit more self-financed non-local students holding student visas. The Education Bureau wrote to all DSS schools yesterday to introduce the scheme, mentioning for the first time that DSS secondary schools could simultaneously apply to raise the proportion of students studying international curricula from the current general level of about one-third to as high as 49%, meaning at least 51% would study the local Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) curriculum. At least four DSS schools told this newspaper they intended to apply. A DSS secondary-school principal said the scheme would help with student recruitment, while a principal of a prestigious aided school feared that competition for students would intensify. The secondary school principals’ association hopes the authorities will extend the scheme to government and aided schools.
今年《施政報告》提出試點計劃，准直資中小學申請下學年（2026/27）起擴班及放寬每班學生人數，以取錄更多持學生簽證的自資非本地生。教育局昨致函全港直資學校介紹計劃，首次提及容許直資中學同步申請提高國際課程學生佔比，由目前一般佔約三分之一，最高增至佔49%，即最少51%人修讀本地中學文憑試（DSE）課程。最少4間直資學校向本報稱有意申請，有直資中學校長認為有助收生，有津貼名校校長憂慮收生競爭加劇。中學校長會盼當局拓展計劃至官津校。
12 Dec 2025HK01#7678
七旬清潔工收垃圾被食環署告「亂拋垃圾」惹議 兩個月後終獲撤控
A 71-year-old building cleaner was issued a littering fixed penalty notice by Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) staff in September this year while preparing to transport rubbish he had collected from a building in a handcart. The incident drew criticism of the FEHD’s handling. Sap Ping Toi, an organisation concerned with scavengers and cleaners, said on Thursday (11th) that the cleaner had received a letter from the FEHD confirming that the charge had been withdrawn.
Sap Ping Toi said it would continue to follow up on calls for the FEHD to revise its guidelines on enforcing fixed penalties, as failure to amend the enforcement guidelines could mean that all self-employed cleaners responsible for private buildings across Hong Kong would continue to face the possibility of being issued littering notices.
The FEHD confirmed that it had met the person involved. It said he acknowledged placing the relevant rubbish on the street that day, but had also explained the circumstances and undertaken to change his operating practice of storing rubbish in public places. FEHD staff had also observed his work practices on site several times during the period. After considering all relevant factors, the department decided to withdraw the fixed penalty notice issued to him on 8 September and had informed him of the decision.
一名71歲大廈清潔工今年9月收集完大廈垃圾，準備用手推車運走時，遭食環署職員票控「亂拋垃圾」，事件曝光後，食環署做法惹議。關注拾荒者及清潔工的組織「拾平台」周四（11日）表示，該清潔工終收到食環署回覆信函，通知已撤銷控罪。
「拾平台」說，會繼續跟進關於要求食環署修訂定額罰款執法前指引，因不修正執法指引，全港所有負責私人大廈的自僱清潔工友，將會有繼續面對被票控亂拋垃圾的可能性。
食環署證實已與涉事人會面，指涉事人承認當日將有關的垃圾放置在街上，但亦有就當時情況作出解釋，並承諾改變將垃圾存放在公眾地方的作業模式。過去一段時間，該署人員亦多次實地觀察涉事人的作業情況。經考慮所有相關因素後，署方決定撤回9月8日向涉事人發出的定額罰款通知書，並已就此通知涉事人。
11 Dec 2025集誌社#7674
宏福苑五級火｜走火梯「開窿木窗」 曾否巡查收投訴？追問十日始回覆 房屋署：不宜透露詳情
The fire at Wang Fuk Court left 160 people dead. The Collective earlier reported on deficiencies in the escape stairways, revealing that during major renovation works, windows in the escape staircases had been replaced with wooden-board windows with “holes and gaps” to facilitate workers’ access. Residents questioned whether the arrangement meant the stairways could not prevent fire and smoke during the blaze, resulting in dense smoke that obstructed escape, and criticised the alleged monitoring system as having completely collapsed. At the end of November, reporters asked several relevant departments whether they knew about the “wooden windows” or had received complaints. Ten days later, the Housing Department replied today (11th) that, as the Housing Bureau was conducting an investigation jointly with law-enforcement departments, “it is currently not appropriate to disclose details related to the incident.”
宏福苑大火造成 160 人死亡。《集誌社》早前報道走火樓梯漏洞，揭發逃生梯窗口在大維修期間，被改成「開窿、漏罅」木板窗，方便工人出入。居民質疑做法導致大火時未能防火防煙、樓梯濃煙密佈，窒礙逃生，批評所謂監管制度完全崩潰。記者 11 月底向多個相關部門查詢，是否知悉「木窗」情況或曾否收投訴？事隔 10 日，房屋署今（11日）回覆指由於房屋局正聯同執法部門進行調查，「現時不宜透露與事故有關的詳情」。
11 Dec 2025集誌社#7675
宏福苑五級火｜法團 12.17 開會 將議決終止工程承建商、顧問合約
The Wang Fuk Court fire killed 160 people, with six still unaccounted for, while more than 4,000 residents lost their homes. The Wang Fuk Court Owners’ Corporation will hold a full committee meeting at the hall of Tai Wo Neighbourhood Community Centre next Wednesday evening (17 December). The agenda includes a memorial silence and a motion to terminate the contracts of the major renovation works contractor and consultant company, for submission to the owners’ meeting for a vote, among other items.
宏福苑大火造成 160 人死亡、至今六人失聯，超過 4000 名居民痛失家園。宏福苑業主立案法團將於下周三（17日）晚上，於太和鄰里社區中心禮堂舉行全體委員會議。議程包括悼念默哀儀式；議決終止大維修工程承建商及顧問公司合約議案，交由業主大會表決等等。
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