Jewel Stolarchuk - January 3, 2019
The Singapore Court today found prominent activist Jolovan Wham guilty of organising an illegal assembly involving Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, who participated via Skype. The Court also convicted him for refusing to sign a police statement.
In December 2016, the Police started investigating an event in which Joshua Wong, a youth democracy leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, spoke via Skype. Police told the organiser of the event, Mr Jolovan Wham, that he would need a work permit even if he was addressing the audience using Skype.
Wong, the face of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution and Secretary General of Hong Kong’s Demosisto Party, spoke at a conference titled ‘Civil Disobedience and Social Movements’ on 26 Nov. The conference was organised by Community Action Network (CAN!) – an affiliation of socio-political activists and cause journalists. Journalist Kirsten Han and political activist Seelan Palay were the other speakers at the conference.
Writing in his Facebook Mr Wham said that a permit was not granted for Wong to speak at the conference but his co-organiser Rachel Zeng and him “went ahead anyway because it was a harmless and straightforward discussion about social movements.”
http://theindependent.sg/prominent-...nw1_GS-kI3aBmnpe1z94B0s5xyM4SnIR7FbDzSdiJYQ-Y
The Singapore Court today found prominent activist Jolovan Wham guilty of organising an illegal assembly involving Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, who participated via Skype. The Court also convicted him for refusing to sign a police statement.
In December 2016, the Police started investigating an event in which Joshua Wong, a youth democracy leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, spoke via Skype. Police told the organiser of the event, Mr Jolovan Wham, that he would need a work permit even if he was addressing the audience using Skype.
Wong, the face of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution and Secretary General of Hong Kong’s Demosisto Party, spoke at a conference titled ‘Civil Disobedience and Social Movements’ on 26 Nov. The conference was organised by Community Action Network (CAN!) – an affiliation of socio-political activists and cause journalists. Journalist Kirsten Han and political activist Seelan Palay were the other speakers at the conference.
Writing in his Facebook Mr Wham said that a permit was not granted for Wong to speak at the conference but his co-organiser Rachel Zeng and him “went ahead anyway because it was a harmless and straightforward discussion about social movements.”
http://theindependent.sg/prominent-...nw1_GS-kI3aBmnpe1z94B0s5xyM4SnIR7FbDzSdiJYQ-Y
Forced to work 6 days or nights work on a 12hrs shift. Total 72 hrs per week. Expect him to work like a robot.
See...they can come out with crazy laws.
