Here's an example on how #Beijing tries to silence #media (#RTHK in this case) and a #journalist who simply used a publicly accessible data base of number plates to uncover who was behind sending white-dressed #Triads thugs to beat up pro-#democracy protestors at #YuenLong MRT station.
While #BaoChoy was not sentenced to a jail term, the hefty fine certainly serves as an intimidating warning to investigative journalism in all of #HongKong.
#mediafreedom #resist #FarEast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/court-convicts-hong-kong-journalist-investigated-metro-attack

ça va finir en ventriglisse

RT @BordeauxDeborde@twitter.com

A #hongkong, pour empêcher l'évacuation par la #police d'un rassemblement dans la station #YuenLong en réaction à l'attaque des triades, les manifestants sont en train de construire des barricades et d'asperger le sol avec les lances à incendies, des extincteurs et du savon.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BordeauxDeborde/status/1164191068121980930

Ladies and gentlemen, can we have a very #slowclap for #HongKong's #police for not allowing a protest in #YuenLong, citing the violence that *erupted* after protest in the same place last weekend. That violence was one-sided, from #Triad #thugs that were not bothered by the cops. First let the protestors get beaten, then outlaw the protest. This is unacceptable, to the streets for #freedoms and #civicrights. Oh, and: #FuckChina!

Has anyone checked if the attacking thugs in white shirts speak #Cantonese (as people in #HongKong do) or #Mandarin? That would be a giveaway on where those thugs came from - *mainland* #authoritarian shithole #China that is. #YuenLong is where #Beijing has shown that it's more than willing to cooperate with #triads to smash #civicrights. Fuck China's CCP, they are enemies of all kinds of #freedom.

The #violence of #Triad thugs from #China against pro-#democracy demonstrators in #YuenLong's MRT station cannot go unsanctioned. Sadly the #police chose not to intervene and the thugs have left #HongKong for China by now. This is a dangerous precedent. If protestors are not protected fro thugs, they will organize their own protection. This is no internal struggle however, but a blunt provocation by #Beijing. https://t.co/YLjoOljcQC

It's painfully obvious what happened at #YuenLong #MRT station: Those guys in white t-shirts attacking and beating up pro-#democracy protestors without the police intervening? That's #triads aka #China's #mafia, happily doing the dirty work for #Beijing. Shame on #CarrieLam and the #CCP! #HongKong