The Hong Kong-based Human Rights and Democracy Movement in China Information Center (HRDCIC) issued a statement on March 12, saying it had deleted all articles from its inception in 2003 to March 3 of this year. The founder of CDHRIC, Lu Siqing, said he removed the information from the website because he was concerned about the National Security Law in Hong Kong.
In a statement released on its website at noon on March 12, CIDH founder Lu Siqing said he had learned from hearing the High Court’s “subversion case” that many political “statements” in Hong Kong could be misconstrued under the National Security Law of Hong Kong. In order to avoid such a misunderstanding, on March 12, 2021, Lo deleted the website of the Information Centre www.hkhkhk.com从2003年至2021年3月3日这18年以来的全部文章 (except for two newspaper article headlines from many years ago that remained due to technical malfunction), and the Information Centre shredded all physical documents related to politics for 18 years.
Two days earlier, Lu Siqing had deleted all content on the website from Sept. 11, 2017, to March 3, 2021.
According to Apple Daily, Lu Siqing pointed out on the 10th that the Hong Kong National Security Law came into effect on June 30 last year, but there is no other way to learn the details of this law, and the only way is to sit in on the relevant cases. He pointed out that Article 9 of the Hong Kong SAR National Security Law reads: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall strengthen the work of maintaining national security and preventing terrorist activities. In matters relating to national security in schools, social organizations, the media, and the Internet, the HKSAR government shall take necessary measures to strengthen publicity, guidance, supervision and management; and Article 10 is: The HKSAR shall carry out national security Education through schools, social organizations, the media, and the Internet, etc., to enhance the national security awareness and law-abiding consciousness of HKSAR residents, which means that the National Security Law 》 stipulates that the Hong Kong government should carry out national security education to social organizations and media’s to raise the national security awareness and law-abiding awareness of Hong Kong residents.
He pointed out that “social organizations like the Information Centre” simply could not consult any authority of the Hong Kong government, such as the Information Centre’s daily work in which may accidentally hit the legal net? He decided to format the entire hard disk, delete all emails, WhatsApp and Telegram messages, and shred all papers related to “politics”. He stressed that he had not been interviewed by the media in 15 years, and that only one photo was published in the media in 2006.
According to the information, the China Human Rights and Democracy Information Center was founded in the early 1990s to provide overseas readers with information on human rights violations in mainland China, and was qualified by the Chinese authorities as an “overseas hostile organization. The director of the Information Center, Lu Siqing, is of Hunan origin. He was arrested in 1981 for fighting for freedom of expression, and was arrested again for organizing a march in Changsha, Hunan during the 1989 pro-democracy movement.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Mr. Lu, a Hong Kong scholar, said that Lu removed all the articles from the website of the China Human Rights and Democracy Movement Information Center, which he founded, arguably as a reluctant move. Under the current environment in Hong Kong, where the national security law is being arbitrarily interpreted and abused, even if he does not remove the information from his website, then the authorities will one day remove the information from his website, or even shut down his website.
Chen Zixiang, who is concerned about the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Information Center, said on the 12th that this is a tragedy for Hong Kong: “Hong Kong is the window of China’s reform and opening to the outside world, and also the throat of China’s market economy, and Hong Kong’s prosperity is China’s prosperity, and Hong Kong’s weakness is China’s weakness. but now it seems that the mainland has dominated the fate of Hong Kong. This is a tragedy. The bitter fruit of this tragedy will be swallowed by everyone in China and Hong Kong in the next 10 years.”
The newspaper reported that over the years, Lu Siqing has been frequently harassed and even threatened in various ways, and many people fear for his safety. in 1997, before the Chinese Communist Party took over Hong Kong, it had promised to give Hong Kong residents democracy and freedom of speech, but with the implementation of the Hong Kong Regional State Security Law, many Hong Kong democrats, including Lu Siqing, their future is in doubt.
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