Hong Kong extradition protests

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The federal government announced today that help is being given to Canadians and Permanent Residents in Hong Kong.

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/11...ng-kong-today/

OTTAWA – The Liberal government is creating a new measure for young people in Hong Kong: a work permit designed to speed up the process toward permanent residency in Canada.

“An opportunity to work, to study, to build that next chapter in their life,” Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Thursday of long-awaited plans to help people living in Hong Kong — including some 300,000 Canadians — amid the Chinese clampdown on democracy.

Mendicino says any Canadian citizens and permanent residents living in the territory can return to Canada at any time and Ottawa will expedite any documents they need.

“It’s about creating jobs. It’s about accelerating our economic recovery, and it’s about driving long-term prosperity,” Mendicino said Thursday of the new process.


To be eligible for the new measures, students and young people must have graduated from “recognized Canadian or overseas post-secondary learning institution in the last five years,” he explained.

“If approved, their spouse or partner, as well as children, will also be eligible to apply for a study or work permit.”

[StylinRed]

Bumpity

So after all this time, several of the white shirts were sentenced to jail

Surprised this took so long considering how fast the protesters were thrown in jail

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57925055

A court in Hong Kong has sentenced seven men to jail after they were convicted of violently attacking pro-democracy protesters and commuters at a train station in 2019.

The men got between three-and-a-half and seven years of jail time.

The attack in Yuen Long, which was captured by victims and bystanders on mobile phones, left the city in shock.

Police were accused of arriving late to the scene and doing little to stop the violence, charges they have denied.

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They were also accused of colluding with the attackers, some of whom had triad connections.

However, these denials did little to stop to growing mistrust of the police at a time when Hong Kong was facing widespread anti-government protests.

The footage inside Yuen Long, which went viral on social media, showed groups of men, suspected to be triad gangsters, dressed in white shirts and beating passengers with sticks, metal rods and bats.

Tens of thousands took to the streets in the days afterwards to protest against the violence.

The seven-year jail term for one of the convicted men is the highest sentence that the District Court could impose.

The judge was insulted by supporters of the men, with some referring to him as "dog judge" as he walked outside the court, AFP reported.

Earlier, while hearing mitigation pleas from lawyers, the judge said that the "indiscriminate assault" needed to be "severely" punished.

One of those convicted apologised to his victims and said he had acted on impulse.

[SkinnyPupp]

Courts were closed for much of last year, so people are just starting to be convicted for stuff

Most riot charges are not sticking, and you can read court notes to see judges lashing out at cops for arresting some of these people. This won't happen in the future though...