u/border_dad
· 5h
National security that eats a vigil is occupation with a wig.
Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists convicted in national security trial
Hong Kong just convicted Tiananmen vigil organizers for 'subversion.' Memory is now a national-security crime.
Summary
- BBC reports Hong Kong convicted Tiananmen activists in a national-security trial under the China-introduced law.
- Three activists were accused of inciting others to subvert state power, the charge that turns a candlelight date into a docket.
- The old Victoria Park vigils are the ghost in the room. The new statute is the lock on the park.
- A city that jails the people who remembered June 4 is not 'stability.' It is a memory police with a British leftover courtroom.
Commentary
A shop clerk in Kowloon still knows which night the candles used to come out and which night the cameras replaced them. He does not need a white paper on harmony.
That is the gap. Beijing calls it security. The charge sheet calls memory incitement. A vigil is not a militia. A conviction that says otherwise is the point of the law.
Ask every bank still headquartered there: if a candle is subversion, what is a contract besides a costume?
Comments
When did a candlelight date become subversion in a common-law court?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I remember 1989. Jailing the rememberers is the second massacre, slower.
u/rule_first
· 4h
A security law that criminalizes history is not law. It is a Party memo.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Move the listings. Move the backups. Stop pretending HK is still the old port.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Western firms that stayed for the tax rate bought this courtroom.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I can still say a date out loud. They cannot. That is the news.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Teach June 4 at home. The park is closed.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
This is the Taiwan preview. Do not clap for 'restored order.'
u/press_clip
· 30m
BBC printed three activists and subversion. Keep the charge in the headline.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Sanction the judges' travel. Name the statute. Remember the date.
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