One year after the Umbrella Revolution protests in Hong Kong that called for universal suffrage, student leaders like Alex Chow who organized the protests now face political backlash and restrictions on academic freedom. However, the revolutionary spirit remains as the movement has shifted to a more grassroots, bottom-up approach through local community organizing and elections to create long-term democratic reform.
Harsh Climate for Human Rights Defenders in China:2014 in Photos 中国大陆人权捍卫者面临严...CHRDnet
In 2014, Chinese activists, writers, lawyers, journalists, artists, and citizens experienced one of the harshest years in government repression and retaliation. CHRD has recorded nearly 1,000 detentions in 2014 for exercising and defending human rights. We have produced an image gallery showcasing major trends and figures in China’s human rights landscape of 2014.
2014年是中国政府打压活跃人士、律师、作家、记者、艺术家和其他维权公民最为 严峻的一年,他们因为行使和保护人权受到报复。这一年,我们经核实统计了近 一千例剥夺人权捍卫者人身自由的个案。我们并且整理了一个图片库回顾2014.e
Harsh Climate for Human Rights Defenders in China:2014 in Photos 中国大陆人权捍卫者面临严...CHRDnet
In 2014, Chinese activists, writers, lawyers, journalists, artists, and citizens experienced one of the harshest years in government repression and retaliation. CHRD has recorded nearly 1,000 detentions in 2014 for exercising and defending human rights. We have produced an image gallery showcasing major trends and figures in China’s human rights landscape of 2014.
2014年是中国政府打压活跃人士、律师、作家、记者、艺术家和其他维权公民最为 严峻的一年,他们因为行使和保护人权受到报复。这一年,我们经核实统计了近 一千例剥夺人权捍卫者人身自由的个案。我们并且整理了一个图片库回顾2014.e
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مجلة إشراقات؛ شهرية، ثقافية، منوعة
العدد 43، شهر ربيع أول 1437هـ - كانون ثاني/2016م
رابط آخر للتحميل:
http://gulf-up.com/do.php?id=48546
تقرأون في هذا العدد:
- حصاد المقاومة في شهر كانون أول 2015م
- شهداء الشهر الثالث (12/2015) في انتفاضة القدس المباركة
- الأقارب الشهداء | من ظواهر الانتفاضة البارزة، جمانة الجعبري
- الفن المقاوِم في انتفاضة القدس، فراس طه
- ماذا قدمنا للإسلام؟ أمير عثمان صوف
- مخيم شعفاط... كيف تتحول الهزائم إلى انتصارات، فيصل الرفاعي
- منى وبسام السائح.. حكاية الصبر على البلاء والثقة بالفرج، سجود عليوي
- صمود الحركة الطلابية: إبداع متصاعد وتضحيات مستمرة
- أحبك يا حبيب، أحمد حازم الحاج
- وافي الشعيبي مجاهد ومطارد وشهيد
- لقاء| أمان فلسطين مع سفيان بن أبو مقداد
- جِد نفسكْ، محمد الجمل
- كيف تقضي إجازة الشتاء مع عائلتك؟
- ما بين زواج العادة وزواج الفكرة!، آيات صوالحة
- المعشوقة الشقراء، شهد المحتسب
- وسم | # | الحرية لمحمد القيق، الحرية لأسماء
- أخبار التقنية
مجلة إشراقات
شهرية، ثقافية، منوعة
العدد 55، ربيع ثاني/ 1438 هـ - كانون ثاني/ 2017مـ
تقرؤون في هذا العدد:
حصاد فلسطين 2016
كن مثل عياش؛ حملة شبابية
في انطلاقة الأحزاب الفلسطينية هل ما زالت الأيديولوجيا والرؤى كما هي؟ فازع صوافطة
شخصية العدد: الشهيد كريم مفارجة
حرية الإعلام في القانون الفلسطيني، إسراء لافي
خطب الجمعة في المساجد الفلسطينية، النسبة والتناسب بين الأداء والواقع، أحمد البيتاوي
رجال من أهل القرآن ودعتهم فلسطين خلال 2016.
الطبيب إنسان لا آلة، ميمونة عفانة
الوجه الآخر للمواد الحافظة ودورها في توفير الغذاء، براءة شريدة
حملة إجازة الشتاء:
إجازتك عيشها صح، جمال الزبيدي.
آراء: كيف يمكن قضاء إجازة الشتاء؟
أفكار لإجازة شتاء قصيرة ونافعة.
ثقافة وفن:
مشروع (روح) للفنون والتراث، أيمن اشتية.
فيلم: معطف كبير الحجم، قراءة نقدية: أنصار الشرباتي
وسْم: #طيار_حماس
التقنية: سياحة في بانوراما تكنولوجي عام 2016، عبد الرحمن نجم.
Hong Kong, the 3rd largest world’s financial center, has exploded into protest. The current prodemocracy protests in Hong Kong came in response to an August decision by the Beijing government to limit voters’ choices in future elections for the autonomous territory’s chief executive. Hong Kong students have been using umbrellas to protect themselves from police tear gas. The umbrellas became a symbol of the movement and gave it its nickname, the Umbrella Revolution.
Why the umbrellas?
Who are the main players?
And what do Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters want?
Let’s find out what’s behind the Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution.
Hong Kong went to the polls to elect a new legislature on Sunday, following major protests that have underlined growing anger and unease over perceived meddling from Beijing.
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مجلة إشراقات؛ شهرية، ثقافية، منوعة
العدد 43، شهر ربيع أول 1437هـ - كانون ثاني/2016م
رابط آخر للتحميل:
http://gulf-up.com/do.php?id=48546
تقرأون في هذا العدد:
- حصاد المقاومة في شهر كانون أول 2015م
- شهداء الشهر الثالث (12/2015) في انتفاضة القدس المباركة
- الأقارب الشهداء | من ظواهر الانتفاضة البارزة، جمانة الجعبري
- الفن المقاوِم في انتفاضة القدس، فراس طه
- ماذا قدمنا للإسلام؟ أمير عثمان صوف
- مخيم شعفاط... كيف تتحول الهزائم إلى انتصارات، فيصل الرفاعي
- منى وبسام السائح.. حكاية الصبر على البلاء والثقة بالفرج، سجود عليوي
- صمود الحركة الطلابية: إبداع متصاعد وتضحيات مستمرة
- أحبك يا حبيب، أحمد حازم الحاج
- وافي الشعيبي مجاهد ومطارد وشهيد
- لقاء| أمان فلسطين مع سفيان بن أبو مقداد
- جِد نفسكْ، محمد الجمل
- كيف تقضي إجازة الشتاء مع عائلتك؟
- ما بين زواج العادة وزواج الفكرة!، آيات صوالحة
- المعشوقة الشقراء، شهد المحتسب
- وسم | # | الحرية لمحمد القيق، الحرية لأسماء
- أخبار التقنية
مجلة إشراقات
شهرية، ثقافية، منوعة
العدد 55، ربيع ثاني/ 1438 هـ - كانون ثاني/ 2017مـ
تقرؤون في هذا العدد:
حصاد فلسطين 2016
كن مثل عياش؛ حملة شبابية
في انطلاقة الأحزاب الفلسطينية هل ما زالت الأيديولوجيا والرؤى كما هي؟ فازع صوافطة
شخصية العدد: الشهيد كريم مفارجة
حرية الإعلام في القانون الفلسطيني، إسراء لافي
خطب الجمعة في المساجد الفلسطينية، النسبة والتناسب بين الأداء والواقع، أحمد البيتاوي
رجال من أهل القرآن ودعتهم فلسطين خلال 2016.
الطبيب إنسان لا آلة، ميمونة عفانة
الوجه الآخر للمواد الحافظة ودورها في توفير الغذاء، براءة شريدة
حملة إجازة الشتاء:
إجازتك عيشها صح، جمال الزبيدي.
آراء: كيف يمكن قضاء إجازة الشتاء؟
أفكار لإجازة شتاء قصيرة ونافعة.
ثقافة وفن:
مشروع (روح) للفنون والتراث، أيمن اشتية.
فيلم: معطف كبير الحجم، قراءة نقدية: أنصار الشرباتي
وسْم: #طيار_حماس
التقنية: سياحة في بانوراما تكنولوجي عام 2016، عبد الرحمن نجم.
Hong Kong, the 3rd largest world’s financial center, has exploded into protest. The current prodemocracy protests in Hong Kong came in response to an August decision by the Beijing government to limit voters’ choices in future elections for the autonomous territory’s chief executive. Hong Kong students have been using umbrellas to protect themselves from police tear gas. The umbrellas became a symbol of the movement and gave it its nickname, the Umbrella Revolution.
Why the umbrellas?
Who are the main players?
And what do Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters want?
Let’s find out what’s behind the Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution.
Hong Kong went to the polls to elect a new legislature on Sunday, following major protests that have underlined growing anger and unease over perceived meddling from Beijing.
This is the record of the Umbrella Movement happened in HK in Sept 2014. Just want to share as an important record to those who think justice is important.
Summary Hong Kongs protests started in June against proposals t.docxdeanmtaylor1545
Summary
Hong Kong's protests started in June against proposals to allow extradition to mainland China. Critics feared this could undermine the city's judicial independence and endanger dissidents. A former British colony, Hong Kong has some autonomy and more rights than the mainland under a "one country, two systems" deal. City leader Carrie Lam agreed to suspend the bill, but demonstrations continued and developed to include demands for full democracy and an inquiry into police actions. The bill was finally withdrawn in September. Clashes between police and activists have been becoming increasingly violent, with police using tear gas and activists storming parliament.
Tie to class
There are several different international reactions to the Hong Kong protest. In the United States, president Donald Trump condemned the developing violence of the protests in calling the events 'riots'. He also said the US will not involve itself. In response, a bipartisan group of senators issued a statement to Trump, condemning Beijing's efforts to undermine Hong Kong's autonomy. In the letter, they declared Hong Kong's governance is not China's internal affair and that if the U.S fails to respond to Beijing's threats it would only encourage Chinese leaders to act with impunity. Trump administration officials said the day after that the president had no intention to signal a policy change or an endorsement of China's position.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong ho said that, North Korea fully supports the stand and measures of China to defend the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of the country and safeguard the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, and concerns about foreign forces interference in Hong Kong issue.
The European External Action Service said rights "need to be respected" in Hong Kong. Over the past months, the people of Hong Kong have exercised their fundamental right to assemble and express themselves freely and peacefully. These rights need to be respected.
We can see how they react differently by the political bias they have in their country. Especially, North Korea is a country based on socialism. And that is why they entirely support China.
Personal Takeaway
My personally support the Hong Kong protest. Not only because I have Hongkongese friends, but also because I am Korean. This protest is basically occured by the political problem. Back in the days, Korea also have suffered from losing freedom. We also had a big pre-democracy movement in the 1980s. The government totally repressed the protestors even physical attack just like the Hong kong police nowadays. The protestors didn't surrender at all and finally we got the freedom from the government. I hope Hong Kong protestors could gain the things they want without any harm.
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Political participation in Hong Kong / Politische Partizipation in HongkongGIGA Informationszentrum
Bei der folgenden Kurzbibliografie handelt es sich um einen Auszug aus der Datenbank des Fachinformationsverbundes Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde -IBLK).
This short bibliography is an excerpt from the database of the Specialized Information Network International Relations and Area Studies FIV-IBLK).
The original file could be found here:
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/iz_publications/dok-line_asien_2015_1.pdf
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HONG KONG
REVOLUTION
WON’T BACK
DOWN
text Willem van Ewijk
photos Pasu Au Yeung
One year ago, the Hong Kong academic community sparked a huge
protest movement for universal suffrage. Now that the Umbrella
Revolution has been dissolved, scholars and students are facing a
serious backlash. But a revolutionary flame still burns.
International International students and teachers
make up a crucial part of Amsterdam.
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is trial is due next month. What does he expect?
‘There will be a verdict, no matter what. The gover-
nment is looking for political revenge,’ Alex Chow
(25) says. The comparative literature and sociology student at
Hong Kong University was one of the leaders of the Umbrella
Revolution – the movement of civil disobedience that shook up
Hong Kong one year ago.
Hong Kong citizens were rallying for universal suffrage
after Beijing decided that a committee would screen candi-
dates for the election for Hong Kong’s Chief Executive in
2017. Critics expected the committee to be packed with Beijing
loyalists, presenting an obstacle to true democracy. More
than one hundred thousand Hong Kong citizens went out to
the streets to defy the Hong Kong and Beijing authorities in
protest marches, and to demand free and open elections. This
culminated in a sit-in at three of Hong Kong’s major arteries
that lasted for 79 days.
It is undeniable that this protest movement was initiated by
Hong Kong academics. Already in January 2013, Benny Tai,
an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong,
published an opinion article in the Hong Kong Economic
Journal. He proposed an act of civil disobedience – to occupy
the city’s central square – if the proposals for universal suffrage
weren’t serious enough.
In September 2014, the Hong Kong Federation of Students,
with Alex Chow as its president, together with Scholarism, a
protest movement of high school students lead by the sev-
enteen-year-old Joshua Wong, called on students to boycott
classes in order to give ‘a final warning to the authorities’.
‘If they continue to act against the public will, we will step up
to stronger action,’ the student’s declaration read. Many profes-
sors publicly expressed that the students had a legitimate reason
not to attend classes. After five days of student protests, Benny
Tai announced that the long-awaited occupation was underway.
Academic freedom
If the Hong Kong government is, as Chow has said, ‘seeking
political revenge’, how would thi s affect the academic commu-
nity that was at the forefront of the Umbrella Revolution?
‘The police were waiting for the right opportunity, so they
let everything die down,’ Surya Deva, Associate Professor at the
School of Law at the City University of Hong Kong told AFP in
August after student leaders Alex Chow and Joshua Wong were
charged for their role in the protests. The charges were filed
nine months after things in Hong Kong turned back to normal.
During a student protest on September 26th last year, Chow
was amongst a group of protestors that climbed over a three
meter high fence into Civic Square, which is part of the govern-
ment complex in Hong Kong’s Admiralty District.
He is charged for taking part in ‘unlawful assembly’ and
could be sent to prison. But Chow is not afraid. ‘We have the
right to use Civic Square and it is arguable whether it is an
offence to protest,’ Chow says.
Whilst he doesn’t fear conviction, Chow emphasises that
academic freedom has been restricted in many ways. He men-
tions Benny Tai, who was banned from supervising researchers
earlier this month because he was suspected of receiving funds
on Occupy-related research activities without notifying the
university. The law professor responded by saying that he has
not violated any regulations and that the political consider-
ations behind the ban were clear.
Chow also mentions Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at the
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City University of Hong Kong and the convener of the Alliance
for True Democracy (a coalition of groups campaigning for
universal suffrage). In May, the City University demoted him
from a chair professor to a regular professor after accusing
him of plagiarism. The demotion happened just three months
before his pension was due. Cheng stopped short of accusing the
university of punishing him for his activism.
‘No one has evidence that this happened because they were
activists, but one can argue against the decisions made,’ former
student-leader Alex Chow says diplomatically. He sees an
important role for the press in these cases. ‘Benny Tai and Joseph
Cheng were getting a lot of criticism from pro-Beijing media.’
Already in summer 2014, newspapers were giving extensive
coverage to the Joseph Cheng plagiarism case. This seemed odd
to Cheng: ‘If it was “just” an academic accused of plagiarism,
why should it be headline news for three days?’ he told the
Times Higher Education.
He was not the only one worrying about the role of the press.
A number of scholars believe they are targeted by media smear
campaigns from pro-communist newspapers loyal to Beijing. In
February, they wrote a public letter asking for the media to stop
their attacks and to guard their independence. The letter has
been signed by more than 1,000 students and professors.
Bottom-up
Although Joshua Wong already said that Hong Kong does not
need another Occupy movement, and Benny Tai has expressed
regrets that he did not end the sit-ins at an earlier stage, this
pressure has far from snuffed out the revolutionary flame within
the academic community. The movement has just changed tac-
tics. Instead of openly defying the Hong Kong central authori-
ties and Beijing, its leaders are aiming for a more structural and
broader reform movement. ‘You have to nurture different tactics
to put pressure on the government,’ Alex Chow states. Chow
himself has moved his engagement from the student federation
to the Community Citizens Charter, a group of scholars and
activists that wants to ‘change civil society as a whole’.
The Charter movement wants to foster a bottom-up
approach. ‘With the Umbrella Movement, people saw that
support could be highly mobilised, but that there was little
connection between these people,’ Chow noticed. In order to
create a connection and to nurture a democratic culture, the
movement organises public debates and creates citizen assem-
blies in all 18 districts of Hong Kong.
This bottom-up approach has already proven to be effective,
Hong Kong-based American journalist Ariel Conant observes.
‘More students are getting involved by voicing their opinions,’
she says. Some of the members of the Charter movement
are running for the district council elections in November.
‘There’s enough public support,’ Alex Chow says. He thinks it
will prevent him from getting convicted for his role in the pro-
tests. This would be highly beneficial to him, since he already
expressed interest in pursuing his studies abroad. ↙
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