2020年11月5日
褚簡寧 Michael Chugani
STRAIGHT-SHOOTING
The freedoms Chow Tsz-lok died for a year ago are also dying
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It is uncertain if a clear winner in the United States presidential election will emerge by the time this column appears. That's why I won't focus on the election except to say I hope the world's democracies will keep a close eye on semi-democracy Hong Kong slipping into a form of totalitarian rule.
Our leader, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, is speaking through her rear end when she says we are not losing our freedoms. How can it be anything other than totalitarian when the government arrests opposition legislators for disrupting a meeting last May 8 but spares pro-Beijing legislators who also joined in the melee?
How can it not be Orwellian when the government arrests an RTHK reporter for investigating last year's July 21 mob attack by white-shirted thugs against MTR passengers and protesters in Yuen Long? Police inaction that night led to accusations it had colluded with the attackers. Now the police has arrested the reporter who investigated the attack, accusing her of illegally searching car ownership information. ...
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