• 秦始皇帝@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    Both public and private

    The local CPC deputies have broken into my house multiple times for mentioning it when talking politics with friends (sarcasm). You people are so unserious

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      From https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2025/05/what-is-the-tiananmen-crackdown/

      Alliance vice-chairperson Chow Hang-tung and 25 activists were prosecuted in 2020 simply because they insisted on lighting candles in Victoria Park despite the government prohibiting the vigil that year, ostensibly on Covid-19 grounds. In 2021, after the police banned the vigil once again, Chow was arrested on 4 June after encouraging people on social media to commemorate the crackdown by lighting candles.

      Ultimately, Chow was jailed for 22 months for taking part and inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly. She and fellow Hong Kong Alliance leaders Lee Cheuk Yan and Albert Ho have also been charged with “inciting subversion” under the National Security Law and all three face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

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        Amnesty always manufactures consent for shit, but assuming this is true, why would any government be okay with people commemorating an attempt to overthrow them? You’re so unserious

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          why would any government be okay with people commemorating an attempt to overthrow them?

          Because that is free private speech. That is what free speech means.

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            People were allowed to do Jan 6 lmao. Fuck, they all even got pardoned. Much better if more of them had gone the way of Babbit, IMO.

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        9 hours ago

        Firstly that’s public.

        Secondly

        for taking part and inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly

        Thirdly amnesty famous for publishing the nayirah testimony without any factchecking or corroboration

        Fourthly you Brits are really butthurt about losing your colony and your bootlickers being a shunned minority.

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          Firstly that’s public.

          It is a private person saying a thing. As opposed to the state saying a thing.

          And the text also says:

          all three face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

          You write:

          you Brits

          WTF? I am not British.