2015年8月30日星期日

POST REFORM VOTE：DAY 73 (30-08-2015)

Occupy Central

Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments do not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020 according to "international standards." The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷), an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013.

Umbrella Movement

The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; pinyin: yǔsǎn yùndòng) is a loose political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014. Its name derives from the recognition of the umbrella as a symbol of defiance and resistance against the Hong Kong government, and the united grass-roots objection to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of 31 August.

The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.

Occupy Central site in Causeway Bay was cleared as police moved in ...

Occupy Central site in an area surrounding the Legislative Council and Central Government Offices at Tamar were cleared 22-06-2015.

Hong Kong reform vote

The Hong Kong government’s political reform proposal for how the city elects its leader by universal suffrage for the first time in 2017 is based on a strict framework set by Beijing. The plan limits the number of candidates to two or three and requires them to win majority support from a 1,200 strong nominating committee. Arguing that this does not constitute genuine universal suffrage, pan-democratic lawmakers have vowed to reject the package, while pro-democracy groups have protested. The government’s resolution was to be put to a vote by the 70-member Legislative Council in June 2015, requiring a two-thirds majority to be passed.

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POST REFORM VOTE：DAY 73 (30-08-2015)

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Fake address

SCMP found that 5 voters registered their yachts as address, which Registration and Electoral Office accepted, despite a Marine Department ban on using such as residences. This certainly beats living under a bridge, on a playground, and in a lamp post.

Public parks, lamp posts being used as residential addresses in voter registrations

In response to suspected voter registration frauds* reported in recent news, Electoral Affairs Commission chairman Barnabas Fung Wah said no problem was found in these cases.

Fung also said that there are other “strange” public spaces being used as residential addresses in voter registrations, including Cultural Centre, public parks, lamp posts, etc. But all these “strange” addresses had been checked and confirmed to be legitimate based on 3rd party evidence.

*Recent news reports revealed a number of questionable voter registrations including using hotel rooms as residential addresses and elders in care homes being registered without knowledge.

HKFP Lens: Echoes of Occupy HK in Malaysia as up to 250,000 pro-democracy protesters hit the streets

30 August 2015 18:14

Guest Contributor

2 min read

Thousands of Malaysians took to the streets this weekend, clad in yellow, echoing scenes from Hong Kong’s Occupy protests last September. Demonstrators called upon Prime Minister Najib Razak to quit over a financial scandal involving a US$700m (HK$5.4b) payment he received from unnamed foreign donors. Other protest slogans included “Clean Elections”, “Clean Government”, “Save the Economy” and “The Right to Dissent”.

Police said that around 25,000 people attended the rally on Saturday as Bersih 2.0, the pro-democracy coalition behind the protest, put the figure at 200,000. Many demonstrators slept out on the streets overnight as the rally continued into Sunday.