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[00:00:00] to be
[00:00:00] convicted
[00:00:06] in the face
[00:00:06] of
[00:00:06] of the street protests, the extradition bill was
[00:00:09] suspended, but the movement showed no sign of losing
[00:00:14] of momentum. five years after the failure
[00:00:17] of the umbrella movement,
[00:00:19] a hong kongers were once again demanding universal
[00:00:21] sufferage. Joshua Wang's
[00:00:25] charisma and ideas continued to inspire the
[00:00:27] movement. At just... 43 years old, he had become
[00:00:31] one
[00:00:31] of the leading figures of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
[00:00:35] At the time he shared his concerns with me as he prepared to
[00:00:39] challenge Beijing through the ballot box. Election in Hong Kong
[00:00:43] is manipulated by Beijing, even they lock me up in prison,
[00:00:47] censor me out from a baylot. Our determination to fight for
[00:00:51] democracy would never been
[00:00:53] eroded.
[00:01:00] "as the authorities intensified their crackdown, part
[00:01:04] of the protest movement became more
[00:01:06] radical. The
[00:01:09] most determined
[00:01:11] a activists even stormed the parliament building, targeting the
[00:01:15] symbols of power
[00:01:19] of of itself.
[00:01:24] In 2019, we had seven months of
[00:01:27] wits, our legislative..."
[00:01:30] of council building was vandalized, it was occupied,
[00:01:34] university campuses were occupied, police
[00:01:37] vans were set on fire, national flags were thrown
[00:01:41] into the harbor, which caus lot
[00:01:44] of of alarm to
[00:01:47] of Beijing. Stability is the most
[00:01:51] important thing, and for Hong Kong, we need stability as well, because
[00:01:55] if we become unstable, we're part of China, it creates
[00:01:58] instability. China.
[00:02:02] Billionaire Alan Seaman moves within the circles of
[00:02:06] power. A close advisor
[00:02:10] to Hong Kong's chief
[00:02:11] of executive, he's one
[00:02:12] of the few figures still willing
[00:02:14] of to speak publicly about the unrest that shook the city.
[00:02:18] Between democracy and business, the property magnate
[00:02:22] has made his choice. China does not
[00:02:25] need western democracy, because if I look around the
[00:02:28] world, United States. has problems, Canada has
[00:02:31] problems, Europe, a bigger mess, UK,
[00:02:35] of France, Germany, all all the countries around the
[00:02:39] world that practice western democracy in this sphere does
[00:02:43] not work, and that's why I became Chinese, because I
[00:02:47] really think that is the future. I had to give out my Canadian
[00:02:50] passport, and uh, I'm very happy, I really
[00:02:54] trust China
[00:02:56] wholeheartedly.
[00:03:02] As 2019 drew
[00:03:03] of to
[00:03:03] a close, Hong Kongers were still taking to the streets 7 months after
[00:03:07] the movement began, but in Beijing the response was
[00:03:11] already being
[00:03:12] prepared. In his
[00:03:15] new
[00:03:16] of year's address to the nation, the Chinese president commented publicly on
[00:03:20] the situation in Hong Kong for the first time and issued a
[00:03:23] warning,
[00:03:26] in 近幾個月, 香港局.
[00:03:30] 有 奔 历 。 心 腾 常 有 。 风 史 平 和
[00:03:34] 不 吸 浪 境
[00:03:39] 颇
[00:03:39] of 涛
[00:03:40] 大 家 胸 , 涌 的 。 也 我 们 不 惧 风 雨 ,
[00:03:43] 也 不 为 闲 主
[00:03:45] 。
[00:04:03] of
[00:04:22] of of
[00:04:26] of
[00:04:37] I think that the rots had the effect of hardening
[00:04:41] the Chinese government's attitude, and it led
[00:04:45] directly to the imposition by Beijing
[00:04:48] of national security
[00:04:50] law.
[00:04:55] of
[00:05:20] Imagine Hong Kong is
[00:05:24] scatered in your hands and the national
[00:05:28] security law would be something like
[00:05:31] crystal ball or locking the whole
[00:05:35] city inside the crystal b and from
[00:05:39] outside you see inside is it was just like normal.
[00:05:43] but people from win, you will feel that you are being
[00:05:46] locked with invisible frisal
[00:05:48] wall.
[00:05:55] in June 2020, as Hong Kong streets empted due to the
[00:05:59] lockdown imposed during the COVID-19
[00:06:01] pandemic,
[00:06:05] China unleashed legislative weapon on the
[00:06:08] city, the National Security
[00:06:11] law.
[00:06:16] 赞成
[00:06:17] 163跳完了
[00:06:30] year before i was barred from entering Hong Kong, I was granted an
[00:06:34] interview at the legislative council headquarters with Regina
[00:06:37] IP, a former security secretary, she served as a
[00:06:41] pro Beijing. maker for 17 years,
[00:06:45] powerful woman and one of Hong Kong's most influential political
[00:06:48] figures, she made no secret
[00:06:51] of her pride at seeing the law finally
[00:06:53] enacted.
[00:07:00] this is the national security law adacted by the
[00:07:04] national people's congress, standing committee in Beijing, they
[00:07:08] enacted four offenses: secession breaking away part
[00:07:12] of. subversion overthrow of
[00:07:14] government, local terrorist activities and
[00:07:18] collution with external forces. this law
[00:07:22] was extremely effective, it brought back law and order, peace and
[00:07:26] stability in Hong
[00:07:27] Kong.
[00:07:32] once known for its defiance and spirit of protest, Hong Kong has
[00:07:36] become a city governed by restrictions and fear of
[00:07:39] denunciation. these banners displayed throughout
[00:07:43] the streets encourage residents to identify and report
[00:07:47] suspicious
[00:07:48] behavior.
[00:08:32] Inness heads a pro China organization, he
[00:08:35] describes himself as a man who loves Hong Kong a patriot
[00:08:39] dedicated to social harmony.
[00:09:19] It's a baby, natural security law, very loose, very
[00:09:23] easy, nobody
[00:09:27] suffers from
[00:09:27] it, maybe
[00:09:31] few people who are against
[00:09:33] it, but majority
[00:09:37] of people wins, majority people are very happy with their
[00:09:40] life, and so that's why I say this is... something that the
[00:09:44] western media will pick up and say, oh wow,
[00:09:48] it's a non-event.
[00:10:04] Samsam,我今年就24歲,我就因為國法,之後.
[00:10:12] and
[00:10:19] Sam collected
[00:10:21] While sweets toileties to studying, send to prisoners jailed following the 2019 protests.
[00:10:29] "the authorities accused him of trying to insight uprising
[00:10:33] inside the prison
[00:10:34] system. he was
[00:10:37] convicted of subversion with the intent of overthrowing the
[00:10:41] government.
[00:12:25] judges to sit its highest court, for Hong
[00:12:28] Kong, it's a way of demonstrating the independence and credibility of its
[00:12:32] judicial system in relation to Chinese political
[00:12:35] power. These judges are supposed to be the garantours
[00:12:39] the rule of law. The rule of
[00:12:42] law still exists in the whole
[00:12:46] area of commercial law, in most criminal law,
[00:12:50] it's only in cases which the Hong Kong
[00:12:54] government and the Chinese government regards
[00:12:58] as directly affecting its own interests that the rule of law
[00:13:02] is suspended. The extreme example of that is the
[00:13:06] prosecution of 47
[00:13:09] democracy
[00:13:10] activists.
[00:13:15] In July 2020, just days after the national security law
[00:13:19] came into force, Hong Kong's democrats organized a primary
[00:13:23] election to select their... candidates for the legislative council
[00:13:26] elections,
[00:13:30] 47 leading figures from the movement took
[00:13:33] part, but when the
[00:13:37] results were announced, the Hong Kong authorities disqualified
[00:13:40] several the winners, notably the candidate who had received the
[00:13:44] most votes, Joshua Wong. I was just
[00:13:48] disqualified from running in the upcoming legislative council
[00:13:52] election, the excuse they use is that I described national
[00:13:55] secretary law as a dracolean law, which showed that I do
[00:13:59] not support this whipping
[00:14:01] law. A few months
[00:14:04] later, the crackdown intensified even
[00:14:07] further.
[00:14:13] All 47 candidates from the primary election were arrested
[00:14:16] and put on trial, accused of plotting to overthrow the
[00:14:20] government.
[00:14:25] After 3 years of legal proceedings, 45 them were convicted
[00:14:29] and sentenced to prison terms of up to 10
[00:14:31] years. Joshua Wong received a sentence
[00:14:35] of four years and eight
[00:14:36] months.
[00:14:40] I resigned early in June 2024 as a direct
[00:14:44] result the conviction the 47 democracy
[00:14:48] activists, because I felt that the outcome of that
[00:14:52] case showed uh that the judiciary in
[00:14:56] Hong Kong was not prepared to stand up
[00:15:00] to China. Hong Kong is becoming
[00:15:03] totalitarian state because political descent is no longer
[00:15:06] tolerated.
[00:15:18] Having brought civil society to heal and imprisoned political
[00:15:21] opponents, the authorities turned their attention to another. the symbol of
[00:15:25] Hong Kong's special status, the
[00:15:28] press.
[00:15:31] While every media outlet in Mainland China answers to
[00:15:35] Beijing, Hong Kong's journalists. have always enjoyed
[00:15:38] considerable freedom of expression, the
[00:15:42] newspaper that best embodied this defiant press was
[00:15:46] Apple
[00:15:46] Daily.
[00:15:50] Apple Daily is uh the most important
[00:15:53] mainstream media, which was very critical to the
[00:15:57] regime, they support democracy, they were
[00:16:01] willing to criticize unwelcome policies
[00:16:05] in Hong Kong as well as in China, I joined Apple
[00:16:08] Delhi in 2018, I'm
[00:16:12] surely learn how life from Hong Kong and I'm a
[00:16:15] journalist, apple daily is a place where you
[00:16:19] can like freely um work on
[00:16:23] yourself, there's no political
[00:16:26] censorship, founded in
[00:16:30] 1995, Apple Daily was the brainchild of
[00:16:33] billionaire entrepreneur Jimmy Lii.
[00:16:39] Born in Mainland, China, he fled the communist regime as a
[00:16:42] child and found refuge in Hong
[00:16:44] Kong. There he built his fortune through
[00:16:48] clothing brand he
[00:16:49] founded. A
[00:16:53] fierce opponent the Chinese government and sworn enemy the
[00:16:57] authorities in Beijing, he launched his newspaper with this
[00:17:00] deliberately provocative advertising
[00:17:03] campaign.
[00:17:11] "an apple a day keeps the lies
[00:17:13] away, so
[00:17:17] Jimmy Lie set up newspaper and which was strongly
[00:17:21] in favor the rule of law and democracy. So
[00:17:25] when the Chinese took over in
[00:17:28] 97, Jamieai represented
[00:17:32] all the things which vengeful authoritarian
[00:17:36] would dislike, he was in favor of..."
[00:17:37] freedom in the newspaper that he
[00:17:41] ran Apple Daily, he was always
[00:17:44] against China always the voice
[00:17:48] the dissidents and what we had the problems in
[00:17:51] 2019, and I saw him many times, I warn him,
[00:17:55] Jimmy, open up your eyes, you don't know what you're doing,
[00:17:59] right? No, no, no, you could knocked him, and
[00:18:03] and and so I said, okay, you will see at the end of course.
[00:18:08] China, he broke the law, lot of laws, and so he
[00:18:12] they had no choice, they arrested
[00:18:13] him. In August
[00:18:17] 2020, invoking the national security law, more than
[00:18:21] 200 police officers stormed Apple Daily's
[00:18:24] headquarters.
[00:18:29] For hours, they seized archives and computers. The
[00:18:33] editors in chief were arrested and
[00:18:36] Jimmy Ly. Handcuffed was paraded through his own
[00:18:40] newsroom like a
[00:18:41] trophy.
[00:18:54] As a journalist in Apple Daily um to seeing your
[00:18:57] boss or your editor being handcuffed and being
[00:19:01] arrested by police like a
[00:19:04] very familiar premises. like you went, you
[00:19:08] you went to work every day, we were very
[00:19:11] shocked, what would happen
[00:19:14] next?
[00:19:19] after year of legal proceedings, Apple Daily ceased
[00:19:23] publication. few months later,
[00:19:27] another independent newspaper met the same fate and its
[00:19:30] editors in chief was sent to prison.
[00:19:34] in Hong Kong, more than a thousand journalists lost their jobs
[00:19:38] in just six years, around 30 have faced
[00:19:42] criminal
[00:19:42] prosecution.
[00:19:46] After the closure of Apple Daily, Shirley Long found refuge in
[00:19:50] Taiwan, where she launched a new media outlet, serving the
[00:19:54] Hong Kong
[00:19:54] diaspora.
[00:20:00] It was from exile there that she followed the conclusion the
[00:20:03] long-running trial against her former employer.
[00:20:09] for living Hong Kong, I attend um the the trial
[00:20:13] of Gemini and I remember very clearly that
[00:20:16] everybody saying why you you you didn't leave
[00:20:20] Hong Kong, he's a British national right, he
[00:20:23] can go to UK and
[00:20:26] retired and like with his
[00:20:28] family, but after more
[00:20:32] than five years of legal proceedings the verdict finally
[00:20:36] came.
[00:20:38] Sedition,
[00:20:41] subversion, collusion with foreign
[00:20:44] forces. The outspoken
[00:20:48] billionaire was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the heaviest
[00:20:52] sentence handed down since the national security law was
[00:20:55] adopted. A succession of charges has been brought
[00:20:59] against him to ensure that he stays inside, and that does,
[00:21:03] I think, have parallels uh with the way that
[00:21:07] other authoritarian regimes have treated people who they regard
[00:21:10] as dangerous descenters, like Navalni and Angsan
[00:21:14] Suki.
[00:21:18] This is very hard to say, but... "we may not see uh
[00:21:22] Jimmy Lie um walking out of prison alive
[00:21:25] in the you know in in given his
[00:21:29] old age and so um
[00:21:33] yeah"
[00:22:00] In schools, pupils now attend Chinese flag raising ceremonies
[00:22:03] accompanied by the national anthem. A
[00:22:07] compulsory morning ritual that I was invited to witness during
[00:22:11] my last visit to the city. We are
[00:22:15] Chinese, that's why um, all the student need to
[00:22:19] know how... to do the fact raising and also how to sing
[00:22:23] the uh
[00:22:23] national,
[00:22:32] to reeducate the younger generation, the authorities have undertaken a
[00:22:36] sweeping overhaul the school curriculum. the reform the
[00:22:40] students successfully opposed in 2012 has now been
[00:22:44] fully implemented in classrooms,
[00:22:47] mandarin spoken throughout mainland China, is gradually
[00:22:50] replacing Cantonese, Hong Kong's traditional
[00:22:53] language, and new subject has appeared on the time
[00:22:57] table, patriotic education. I
[00:23:00] hope them to be a good citizen, like that, or they
[00:23:04] can love our Hong Kong, North China. This
[00:23:08] teacher faithfully repeats the official
[00:23:10] line,
[00:23:14] but not everyone has fallen into
[00:23:16] line, more than 12. teachers have
[00:23:20] chosen to resign over the past five years,
[00:23:24] this man is one them, he does not wish to show his face
[00:23:28] because he fears being arrested simply for speaking to foreign
[00:23:32] media
[00:23:32] organization.
[00:23:36] there's now a great amount of fear, not only
[00:23:40] in the classroom but in the whole school, in the school
[00:23:42] campus. for example, in the classroom you
[00:23:46] have maybe 30 students, you don't know the family.
[00:23:50] background, you don't know the political affiliation the
[00:23:53] students, so if you say something
[00:23:57] that may those students may think that you are
[00:24:01] criticizing the government, they may report that to the
[00:24:04] parents, and then the parents were complaining to the government or
[00:24:08] complaining to the school, teachers may be
[00:24:11] arrested, or at least they lost their job like like I
[00:24:15] did. This teacher taught history for more
[00:24:18] than 30 years enjoying. a high degree of academic
[00:24:21] freedom, that changed when Beijing tightened its
[00:24:24] grip, as is the case elsewhere in China, the authorities have
[00:24:28] removed some the darkest chapters of Chinese history from school
[00:24:32] textbooks, and now even Hong Kong's own past is
[00:24:36] being rewritten. Nowadays, the government said that Hong
[00:24:40] Kong had never been a colony, the Beijing
[00:24:43] government hated this Hong Kong history so
[00:24:47] much because Hong Kong prosper.
[00:25:50] denouncing neighbors, past that is being erased,
[00:25:54] history being rewritten. The entire city seems to be
[00:25:58] slipping into an orwelian
[00:25:59] dystopia.
[00:26:08] The latest targets the Hong Kong authorities are books and
[00:26:12] independent book shops. Since
[00:26:15] 2020 around 40 them have been forced to close their doors
[00:26:19] 。
[00:26:48] lead to the closure of her book
[00:26:50] shop
[00:26:53] 。
[00:27:32] authors these satirical fables, five speech
[00:27:35] therapists, were sentenced to 19 months in
[00:27:38] prison. a
[00:27:42] former journalist and local counselor, wong now
[00:27:45] weighs every word she says carefully, and
[00:27:49] when the questions become too sensitive, she answers by referring to
[00:27:53] novel by Nie Kwang, Hong Kong's master of science
[00:27:57] fiction.
[00:28:47] Two years after his release from prison Sam Chan is trying to
[00:28:51] rebuild a normal life.
[00:28:54] He had dream of becoming teacher or nurse but his criminal record
[00:28:58] prevents him from pursuing either career. Instead.
[00:30:32] Everything has ended up being swallowed by
[00:30:35] silence, civil society has been
[00:30:38] suffocated, the press muzzled and political
[00:30:42] opposition all but wiped out. The city has been
[00:30:46] stripped of its
[00:30:46] voice.
[00:30:52] More than 300,000 Hong Kong residents are believed to have left the
[00:30:56] city since the introduction the national system.