A leading organizer of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong appeared in court Tuesday accused of defying police orders to disband a weekend rally, a move that activists say is intended to weaken the opposition movement by deterring others from staging demonstrations.
Ventus Lau, who has organized several large protests over the past few months, was charged with inciting others to take part in an unlawful assembly, and refusing or willfully neglecting to obey an order of a police officer. Police gave Mr. Lau permission for...
No mention of liaison police officers being bloodied by some rally participants
This is the result why we say rule of law is dead. Who destroy nomocracy? HKPoliceTerrorism
In Hong Kong, if you do something to express your opinions but the opinion is not satisfied by HK Gov,you will be arrested by hkpolice.They have many many reasons to explain you are guilty.But those reasons are unbelievable & unreasonable. SOSHK FreedomOfspeech hkpolicestate
KongState That is unacceptable!
HKPolice caught him because the assembly is over 25K people🤯🤯🤯🤯HKPoliceState
Is ridiculous! Is he supposed to be able to teleport 150,000 people out of the rally instantly? HongKongProtests StandWithHongKong
Lau didn’t want to defy police orders but that plained clothes officer refused to shows his ID. Another example tells the world Hong Kong police is using white terror to stop citizens from fighting for freedom and democracy. We are standing with Lau to fight against tyranny.
Hong Kong protesters are crazy,hope people safe, stand with Hong Kong, fight for freedom 💪💪💪
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Live-streaming of different press can prove his innocent. Riot police is trying to threaten and suppress pro-democracy movements. What a shame. HKPoliceTerrorism HKPoliceState hkpolicebrutality
Hong Kong government is killing all freedoms we used to enjoy in Hong Kong! 😭
The accusations made by the Department of Justice in HK are being increasingly nonsense. So as the investigation of the HKPF HKPoliceTerrorists HKPoliceState hkpolicebrutality HKPoliceTerrorism
hkpolice trumped up various baseless charges against him. HKPoliceState
It’s arbitrary arrest without justified reason! Hong Kong police simply suppress demonstration and assembly freedom, it’s shame Hong Kong Gov’t allow the police to do so, Hong Kong is no longer to a free society with two systems!
Got detained right after end of the rally which was called off early by riot police and tear gas. HongKong StandwithHK
Sometimes you have to defy a ridiculous demand. Sometimes is every time now in Hong Kong though.
Arbitrary arrest. White terror. It's happening every day in Hong Kong. 'StandwithHongKong by boycotting Chinese products & firms. Ur support matters!' SanctionChinaCCP 5DemandsNot1Less
The organizer just asked the policeman to show his warrant cause he wears no uniform. Who is violating the HK law is very obvious.
rule of law in Hong Kong is a joke
So you will be prosecuted when you speak out. Freedom of Speech: Am I a joke to you? StandWithHongKong BoycottChina AnywherebutChina CCP_is_terrorist HKPoliceTerrorists HKPoliceState hkpolicebrutality
How can we live a crazy city ! Where is the justice ? There is no more words can express my feelings , I can feel the sad and mad everyday after reading the news.😡😡😡😡FreeHongKong StandwithHK TuesdayMotivation TuesdayThoughts
He disbanded the rally right after the plainclothes cop had displayed his warrant card It’s the cop’s responsibility for arguing for so long without displaying his card, and the police is blaming the organiser for making sure the cop’s identity
It is terrifying. Half year ago, HongKong police usually didn't freely abuse pepper sprays under peaceful circumstances. Yet, abuse of lethal weapons, including rubber bullets & live around is not rare anymore. What will happen in the coming days ?
That’s fake accusation. Also, human rights protect us of assembly. That’s crazy. Magnitsky Act is very important to deal with Hong Kong and China.StandWithHongKong
He was dismissed the rally immediately after a terrorist requires. Also, the terrorist organisation said there was around 10 thousands people in side the park. But for the history record of terrorist organisation. The park can accommodate more than 30 thousands
Police is trying to shut everyone up, and they will announce that they solve the problems
Shame on hkpf and govhk. Another dodgy set up for subpressing freedom of expression and human rights.
Fight4HongKong It was a lawful assembly. Lau told people to come. Police didn't like the large turnout and used some lame excuse to call it off. Lau was then arrested for failing to get tens of thousands of people to vanish into thin air.
Unacceptable. The organizer worked very well according to the order of the police. But the police were out of control and found political reasons to arrest the organizer. White terror is everywhere.
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Police banned a march and allowed only an assembly. Tens of thousands of people showed up, more than what an assembly could hold. People moved forward. Police fired tear gas and beat people up. Hours later they said, “This is a march, not an assembly. You break rules. Arrested.”
Ridiculous
It was totally insane. He did nothing but asking the protestors to dismiss. HKPoliceNazism HKPoliceTerrorism
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Hong Kong Police lied as the organizer did call off the peaceful rally early! HKPoliceTerrorists arbitrarily decided they didn't want to authorize the rally anymore➡️indiscriminately attacked citizens in HK CBD➡️framed/arrested the organizer HongKongProtests HKPoliceState
This is oppression on freedoms of assembly. The peaceful rally is deliberately harassed by a plaincloth officer as excuse to cut short the rally, fire teargas, arbitrary assault and arrest. Organiser is arrested to intimidate organising of rally and civilians from joining.
That’s guy incites violence and beatings. Not a peaceful guy at all.
Police used excuse to suppress freedom of assembly in HK. Criminalizing rally organizers is equal to political prosecution. sanctionHKpolice
Hold Hong Kong in your prayers that they succeed in true democracy
can we accuse the police of interrupting the rally under legal agreement issued by them previously?No! See how fair the police is treating ppl🤗
hongkong is similar to China. Charge ISN'T depend on wt u did. Once u ask for freedom, democracy & human rights, u're criminal.
This is absolutely unlawful arrest and is just a tip of the iceberg. HKPoliceTerrorists are killing rule of law, human rights & freedoms etc. foundations connecting universal values in Hong Kong. These evils & black hands behind, Carrie Lam & officials, has to be sanctioned.
It’s false accusation! It’s just the evil HK police’s tactics to scare away the protesters! Hope the court can ensure justice in Hong Kong!
Free Hong Kong FreeHK FreeHongKong StandWithHongKong
I have heard 3 versions about the charges from the Hong Kong Police & seems they have finally come up with 2. This is how the cops turning the assembly “unlawful” - Provoking citizens by sending an unidentifiable plain-clothed to tell Ventus Lau the assembly has to end suddenly.
I don't know why asking a plain-clothed police to show his warrant card can be accused of defying police orders. And the organizer indeed help disbanding the rally afterwards. The Hong Kong Police just want to find an excuse to stop organizer holding more rally. HKPoliceState
I believe that policemen stopping the rally is just because they would like to make the situation messy and bad or even spark the conflicts. However, Carrie Lam will keep rejecting independent inquiry into police handling of protests. Please stop them.
HK_not_safe no freedom hong Kong anymore. HongKong
HKPolice accused the organizer of overcrowding the rally...
I was in the rally. The organizer was just asking the plaincloth cop to show his warranty then he was charged of defying police order. HK has become a police state now. We need international inquiry into the police and we need universal suffrage!
This is a way for Hong Kong Gov to ban peaceful assemblies and protests!!! HKgers's freedom is severely eroded! Hk gov wants us to be absolute loyal to China. They wont succeed!!
Man goes to Lau to tell him to disband the rally. Lau asked the man (dressed in plain clothes) for his police identification but the man refused. Now they arrest Lau. What sort of police force is this? Disband the corrupt HongKongPolice.
Why one would be accused when s/he refuse to follow unacceptable illogical orders from police? Even HKPoliceTerrorists themselves didn’t hv concret n appropriate reasons to disband the legal peaceful rally. Welcome to PoliceState
He did tell the crowd to disband I don’t understand what’s the grounds of his accusation HongKongProtests HongKongPoliceTerrorists
octopusscity Media showed clearly that the organiser had already announced the end of rally in response to police’s request. Police spokesman still lied and did the false accuse
Hong Kong is under HumanitarianCrisis and becomes PoliceState. Our young generation is slaughtered by own gov’t tgt with CCP, manipulated in ‘black hand’ behind. Please join ABC_challenge tgt to minimise the economic profits of CCP. Don’t send bullet to CCP! BoycottChina
He cooperated with those undercover cops, calling a disband of the rally. Even with all these he was falsely accused by HKpolice.
It’s a PRELUDE to The Article 23 of basic law (aka the National Security Law) - suppressing freedom of Hongkongers. StandWithHongKong CCP_is_terrorist
A police officer should show his warrant card whether you know him or not. When you go to the bank to withdraw money, and the teller knows you, so you don't need to show any identification?
Support HongKongProtesters as usual
That's a fabricated charge
MiffyPekkle HKPoliceTerrorists are being extremely ridiculous, not to mention the judges. They both cooperate to ne ccp’s handyman to put HKProtesters and innocent citizens in jails. The rule of law is dead! CCP_is_terrorist 5DemandsNot1Less
I want to tell the world that, the assembly was lawful and peaceful!!!! Again and again, it was always HKPolice to end the assembly with dirty arrest and unreasonable force. FightForFreedomStandWithHongKong 5DemandsNot1Less
No mercy on terrorism organizers! Lock up the bad guys, save Hong Kong!
What the HKPoliceState prepared for the peaceful assembly. Still think HongKong has the freedom of assembly?
The police was asking the crowd to dismiss in 30 minutes or else they would start using force. For the record, it had taken 3 hours for the crowd to only start walking before the demonstration started.
People were leaving peacefully before the plainclothes HKPolice rushed into the rally, but HKPolice just fired tear gas anyway
Talking about jail time, what about the men women and children in cages on our border. Nice picture with guliani's goons.
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Type of rally in HongKong HKPolice teargas HKProtests
HongKongPolice cut short Sunday’s peaceful protest 5 hours early and gassed the crowd w/in 10 minutes. The smoke were from the tear gas. HKPolicel HKProtests Rally
This is the 3rd time HKPoliceTerrorist arrested Lau on trumped up charges. Carrie Lam should be charged for incitement as all the police violence and lawlessness couldn't have happened without her spurring. HKPoliceBrutality HKPoliceState SOSHK
I disagree that Mr Lau defied the police order, he even guaranteed that he would protect that 'cop' if a warrant card is shown. The police just made up different kinds of nonsense stories to call off the demonstration of HongKongers 🙄 StandWithHongKong
Even the rally is approved by the hong kong police and running peacefully. Hong Kong police can stop the rally whenever they want. Do we still hv freedom of speech and assembly in hong kong
HKPolice fired teargas arbitrarily at an ongoing lawful assembly with 150,000 attendees last Sunday HKPoliceState arrested the organizer after a 'cop' had denied to show warrant card that caused an uproar HKers need MagnitskyAct passed to SanctionChina & SanctionHKPolice
Hong Kong Police fired tear gas after one and a half hour of a legal assembly approved by the police force. And there is a lot of kids and elderly right there.
Below a recap on what happened on the rally. Please judge with your common sense on who are the troublemakers. StandWithHongKong TuesdayThoughts hkpolicebrutality
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This is yet another arbitrary and illegal arrest by the police, the organiser has, in fact, announced the rally is disbanded and asked the crowd to leave the venue, the police are making up fake news. How could the organiser be arrested if the rally is approved by police.
This man was arrested for demanding the police to show police certificate. Ridiculous! Shame on HK police!
The police refused to show their police badges and threatened to close down the rally, which was approved by the HongKongPoliceState
Who’s are the violence one? The answer is HongKongPolice. The rally is very peaceful until the devil cops call off the legal assembly suddenly and fire couple rounds of teargas.
it’s absolutely non-sense! HKPoliceTerrorist doesn’t provide the letter of no objection to the march, it is already expected the rally will be overflowingas is a sign that eveyone is not happy about the HKGov, CCPChina and hkpolice
What an shameless, unlawful charge.
He is innocent and do nothing. HongKongPolice now abusively arrests all pro-democracy people and charge them as many as they can. Even don’t have any evidence, they will keep take HongKong people to court and see if they will be charged since they have no cost.
We all know what had happened that day. It was the riot police to blame for the confusion. First their use of excessive force has driven the protestors to hate them all the more. Then they limited the rally into a small place. Make to cancel it together later.
He did disband the rally when the plain-clothes officer showed his warrant card. There were lots of live-streams could prove that he is NOT guilty. This is political prosecution!
FreeHongKong13 The HKPF are triad colluding corrupt thugs.
He was asking the “officer” for warrant card and the “officer” refused to show it. Then he got arrested. Civilians have right to ask the officer to show their warrant card. Clearly, Hong Kong has become a police state. They established laws.
The charge is obviously ridiculous.
Didn’t the police feel shame? Maybe I’m wrong, they don’t know what SHAME is StandwithHK PoliceState
Here is the timeline of 1.19 Simply,HongKongPolice is oppressing freedom of assembly again and try to frame Mr.Lau for hindering their enforcement.
HKPoliceTerrorists are trying every means to suppress human rights and freedom of assembly. Global Magnitsky Act is needed china is terrorist SenBlumenthal marcorubio
Lau just ask for the warrant card from so-called police. We can’t identify who is he so lau asked for his warrant card. Is that crime? HKPoliceTerrorists StandWithHongKong China_is_terrorist
Organizer of protests always followed what'd police told them but the arrests are to warn ppl not to come to the streets while admitting the movement is leaderless
There is a Chinese saying , “if I want to incriminate you, there are million ways” none of them hold under a free world judiciary though.
Screw this criminal. Lock him up.
I can't imagine fear. Uneasy. Courage. Refueling Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Judiciary System has been used by the China and HK Govt to suppress free speech and human rights. Many authorized protests have been suspended by HK Police and followed by mass arbitrary arrests and detentions.
Meanwhile back in the US you the anti-freedom protesters on the Left.
didnt know rallying was a crime
HongkongerView It is absurd that he was arrested because he was 'unable to control the massive crowd' when the gathering protestors were actually leaving orderly. If the government no longer wants to see these protestors, respond to the FiveDemands instead of hide behind the police.
where what Lau actually did was only to ask the police to show his warrant card He also did disband the rally according to the police after
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