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Political publisher, ex-teacher and 'took an bullet in the eye' Raymond Yeung gets 9 months

Good morning,

I’m officially coming back to HK! With the announcement of the 3+4 scheme, I thought it time to actually book my trip back. Flights prices went up 2x, but at least quarantine is shortened…still costing me about $10,000 for what would otherwise normally be a $4000 trip but…..

But I get a seaview room for 72 hours?

That’s nice right?

— Cyril

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• Protest | Publisher Raymond Yeung jailed for 9 months

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Raymond Yeung gets 9 months

Ex-liberal studies teacher, political publisher and protest casualty Raymond Yeung has been sentenced to 9 months in prison by Judge Ada Yim. Yeung is convicted of two counts of “taking part in an unauthorized assembly”.

In 2019, Yeung became known as “the teacher who was shot in the eye” after he was struck by a police projectile and landed in hospital. Police arrested him in hospital for rioting but released him unconditionally. He was rearrested in April 2022 under unauthorized assembly charges.

Image: The Standard

Yeung pleaded guilty in first instance, something that Yim took into consideration when handing out his sentence. However, she did not consider Yeung’s permanent injury to his right eye (it looks fine now in pictures, but it basically doesn’t work) saying that the police had given plenty of warning. She also mentioned that Yeung had stayed longer than he should have, even when things got messy, which meant he could not be there for a “peaceful assemble”. He also moved bannisters around the protest site, signalling that he was supporting a violent protest, said Yim.

• Hillway [political] publishing

Yeung lost his job after a picture of his injuries went viral. He decided to leave his post early and focus on his side-gig: a bookstore and independent publishing company, Hillway Culture.

Since then Hillway has become known as one of the few local companies still daring to publish potentially seditious material.

Last month, Hillway organized the ‘Hong Kongers Book Fair’ which was set to include books that the main book fair would not stock. However, it was cancelled last minute after the landlord cited a ‘lease violation’ for allowing other booksellers to sublet the sapce. In response Yeung said that the landlord had always been award he was using it for a book fair, and that he was happy to have all the books checked for potentially illegal material.

Stil didn’t go ahead tho.

See our previous coverage on it here:

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COVID in Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk

The Centre for Health Protection says it is looking into 4,699 additional locally acquired #COVID19 cases, of which 1,594 were directly identified through nucleic acid tests and 3,105 via verified rapid antigen tests

news.gov.hk4.6k local COVID-19 cases loggedThe Centre for Health Protection says it is looking into 4,699 additional locally acquired COVID-19 cases, of which 1,594 were directly identified through nucleic acid tests and 3,105 via verified rapid antigen tests.

COVID-19 in Hong Kong

• New cases: 4896 (197 imported)

• Total cases: 1,421,918

• New deaths: 4

• Total deaths: 9,569

• Compulsory Testing locations: 65

Toddler in hospital

Authorities repeated their calls for toddlers to get vaccinated after a two year old was sent into hospital for serious respitory symptoms after catching COVID. The boy developed croup and quickly deteriorated. Hospitals have recorded croup among younger patients on the rise.

Masking germs

The Consumer Council reported yesterday that at least 30 patterned face masks sold in Hong Kong have bacteria on the surface that exceed EU standards. However, one masks from CASETiFY exceeded the standard six times.

Go big or go home, even if it’s having germs on the thing that’s supposed to stop germs.

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Chris Tang secrets

Security Chief Chris Tang said in a Commercial Radio program yesterday that “criticising the government is fine” [but] “to provoke hatred among others, causing people of different classes to point their fingers at each other, attack each other or even use violence, you might have breached the law”.

His comments come after the arrest of two civil servants for publishing ‘seditious’ speech on social media - they were admins of the ‘Civil Servants Secrets’ Facebook group where people anonymously commented on government matters.

Tang added that criticisms have to be made in faith for the government to “do better”.

See our previous [secret] coverage:

🌊Lots of politics

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