(11 May 2022)
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Hong Kong, 30 December 2021
1. Various of popular singer and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho being released from police detention
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Hong Kong, 5 August 2021
2. Various of Denise Ho outside court
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Seoul, 13 July 2020
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Ho, recording artist - on the situation in Hong Kong following the new national security law:
"It is actually a very scary situation right now in Hong Kong, because, you just don't know what might get you arrested."
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Taipei City, 29 September 2019
4. Close of Denise Ho trying to wipe off the red paint with tissue and walking away with her entourage
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Washington, DC, 17 September 2019
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Ho, recording artist/Pro-Democracy Activist:
"As a singer and activist from Hong Kong. I have experienced this oppression firsthand. Ever since the Umbrella Movement in 2014 I have been blacklisted by the communist government. My songs and my name are censored on Chinese internet."
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Hong Kong, 10 January 2019
6. Wide of congregation inside cathedral with Cardinal Joseph Zen leading mass
7. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Joseph Zen, Catholic cardinal:
"Brothers and sisters, tonight we grieve to remember our departed Bishop Michael Yeung."
8. Pan of altar
9. Wide of Bishop Joseph Ha (left), Cardinal Joseph Zen (middle) and Cardinal John Tong (right), the interim administrator
10. Pan from Bishop Joseph Ha to Cardinal Joseph Zen to Cardinal John Tong
STORYLINE:
HONG KONG ARRESTS 4 INCLUDING ROMAN CATHOLIC CARDINAL, SINGER DENISE HO
Hong Kong authorities arrested a Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and two others on Wednesday (11 MAY 2022) on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China's national security, reports said.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, singer-actress Denise Ho, lawyer Margaret Ng and scholar Hui Po-keung were detained by Hong Kong’s National Security Police, the U.K.-based human rights group Hong Kong Watch said.
The arrests were apparently related to their roles as trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal aid to people who took part in 2019 pro-democracy protests that were quashed by security forces, the group said. The fund closed in 2021, it said.
Scores of pro-democracy activists have been arrested under a sweeping National Security Law imposed on the city by Beijing in 2020 following the demonstrations. The city’s independent media have been gutted and its legislature reorganized to pack it with Beijing loyalists.
Zen, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, is a fierce critic of China and has been blistering in his condemnation of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing over bishop nominations, which he has said was a sellout of underground Christians in China.
The Vatican didn’t immediately respond when asked for comment on his reported arrest.
Ho also has been outspoken in her advocacy of civil and political rights. Her manager, Jelly Cheng, confirmed Ho’s arrest but said she had no other information.
Hui was arrested at Hong Kong’s international airport as he sought to leave the city, Hong Kong Watch said.
“Today’s arrests signal beyond a doubt that Beijing intends to intensify its crackdown on basic rights and freedoms in Hong Kong,” said the group’s chief executive, Benedict Rogers.
“We urge the international community to shine a light on this brutal crackdown and call for the immediate release of these activists,” Rogers said.
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