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The Chinese regime recently gave the go-ahead to Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to use violence against crowds of democracy protesters, but a faction within the Chinese Communist Party reported on the violence used by Leung’s supporters.
For two days advertisers with the Hong Kong Epoch Times received phone calls aimed at scaring them off. The authors of the campaign did not try to hide their affiliation, choosing to use the same propagandistic tape that a Communist Party front organization plays daily on the streets of Hong Kong.
A Hong Kong primary school teacher said she received a letter from an “underground Communist Party member” threatening to kill her for opposing the police.
Since the Lam Wai-sze affair broke, people in Hong Kong have begun asking whether chief executive Leung Chun-ying has lost his mind.
A human rights research and activist organization has put out a call for information about members of a Communist Party front group operating in Hong Kong.
A series of violent attacks on Hong Kong media organizations and their owners are intended to have a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression in the city.
Beginning in June, 2012, the Association has attempted to completely cover up or wall off Falun Gong sites with banners, making them invisible or inaccessible to the mainland tourists who frequent the sites.
When Miguel Fernandez exited the subway in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong early on the morning of Dec. 27, 2012, he was shocked.
Hong Kong is a city proud of its legacy of individual rights, but a campaign to deny those rights to Falun Gong practitioners has proceeded systematically and in the open for eight months, while the city’s police stand aside. Hong Kongers are by turns annoyed and alarmed as the character of their city seems to be changing before their eyes.
Earlier this year an organization began making its presence felt throughout Hong Kong’s streets, harassing people, and presenting Chinese state propaganda wherever its members congregated.
