Jumat, 04 Juni 2021
Hong Kong protesters light candles to mourn China's Tiananmen victims - BBC News - BBC News
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2021-06-04 13:58:34Z
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Roman Protasevich arrest: EU to ban Belarusian jets from airspace after critic snatched from plane - Sky News
Brussels is to ban Belarusian planes from EU airspace as it ramps up pressure on the Minsk regime over the forced diversion of a passenger jet and arrest of a government critic.
The move will also see European airlines strongly encouraged to avoid flying over the ex-Soviet country, which sparked an international outcry after a Ryanair flight was forced to land by a fighter jet and dissident journalist Roman Protasevich was detained.
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The 26-year-old has subsequently given an interview to state-controlled TV, claimed to have been made under duress, in which he appears to praise the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, saying he had "acted like a man with balls of steel", despite the "pressure" of opposition movements.
The step by the EU, which forms part of a wider package of sanctions against Belarus, is due to come into effect at 10pm (UK time) on Friday barring any last-minute objections by member states, which is not expected.
According to the European air traffic control agency, Eurocontrol, about 400 civilian planes usually fly over Belarus every day.
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Many airlines had already announced they would avoid the country, including Lufthansa and Air France.
Belavia, the Belarusian national carrier, runs flights to some 20 airports in Europe including Helsinki, Amsterdam, Milan, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Rome and Vienna.
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Enforcement of the ban will fall to national governments, many of whom are also members of NATO.
The measure will serve to increase the isolation of Mr Lukashenko, who has been president of Belarus since the office was established in 1994.
The close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin is often referred to as Europe's last dictator.
He won re-election for a sixth time in 2020 with 80% of the vote, in a ballot deemed "neither free nor fair" by the EU.
Since winning the disputed election last August, Mr Lukashenko has cracked down on dissenting voices, with many opposition figures arrested and others forced into exile.
Mr Protasevich was arrested after his flight from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, was diverted following an alleged bomb threat.
In the latest video released, he tearfully confesses to his role in anti-government protests and admitted plotting to topple Mr Lukashenko by organising "riots".
Insisting he had not been coerced, Mr Protasevich said: "I immediately admitted my guilt in organising massive unauthorised actions."
Withdrawing his previous criticism of Mr Lukashenko, he added: "When I became more involved in political topics, I began to understand that he was doing the right thing and I certainly respect him."
At the end of the 90-minute interview he covered his face with his hands and wept, with marks left by handcuffs clearly visible on his wrists.
Analysis: Dissident's tearful interview sends out message to Lukashenko's critics
By Adam Parsons, Europe correspondent
The words of Roman Protasevich have to be seen through a prism.
Firstly, he was speaking to state-controlled media and in Belarus, that link is becoming ever closed.
His interview was recorded entirely on behalf of creating propaganda for Alexander Lukashenko - if Mr Protasevich had made any criticisms in his so-called interview, they would never have been broadcast.
Would he have dared to criticise?
He is a resolute character, but it's not hard to imagine his time in detention has been profoundly unpleasant.
His friends and family have already said that they believe he has been mistreated, and even tortured, while in captivity.
So what he said was almost certainly said under duress.
How else to explain his praise of the courage of Mr Lukashenko - a man who Mr Protasevich clearly loathes?
But, just like his original arrest, the subtext of this interview is what matters.
The message being sent out from Minsk is that Lukashenko's critics can never rest - that the Belarus regime has the determination to first arrest someone on an aeroplane flying over the country, and then to force them into empty words of praise.
This isn't about Mr Protasevich changing his mind.
It's about Lukashenko flexing his muscles and humiliating an opponent - showing the world that, whatever sanctions that may impose, he is still in charge.
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2021-06-04 11:57:40Z
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Anthony Fauci urges China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers - Financial Times

Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose illnesses might provide vital clues into whether Covid-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, told the Financial Times that the records could help resolve the debate over the origins of a disease that has killed more than 3.5m people worldwide.
The records in question concern three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who reportedly became sick in November 2019, and six miners who fell ill after entering a bat cave in 2012. Scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology subsequently visited the cave to take samples from the bats. Three of the miners died.
Shi Zhengli, the institute’s leading expert on coronaviruses, has previously denied there were any infections at the lab — a claim Fauci did not dispute, but said should be investigated further.
“I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to have got sick in 2019,” Fauci said. “Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?
“The same with the miners who got ill years ago . . . What do the medical records of those people say? Was there [a] virus in those people? What was it? It is entirely conceivable that the origins of Sars-Cov-2 was in that cave and either started spreading naturally or went through the lab.”
The state department did not immediately respond to a question about whether the Biden administration had asked China for the medical records.
China’s foreign ministry declined to say whether it would consider releasing the medical records of the nine individuals at a press briefing on Friday. But Wang Wenbin, a spokesman, repeated a statement made by the institute in March that none of its staff had ever been infected with Covid-19.
The origins of Covid-19 have become one of the most contentious questions of the pandemic. Donald Trump, the former US president, said last year he thought the coronavirus had leaked from the Wuhan lab, but he was widely dismissed by most of the scientific community, who argued it was far more likely to have naturally jumped from animals to humans.
However, the lab leak theory has gained traction in recent weeks after a group of prominent scientists signed a letter arguing it should be taken seriously. There has also been a renewed focus on the Wuhan researchers who were sent to hospital weeks before the first case of Covid-19 was officially recorded.
Biden last week ordered US intelligence services to come to a conclusion within 90 days about what started the pandemic. The White House said two branches of the intelligence community believe the Sars-Cov-2 virus was transmitted naturally, but a third believes it came from the Wuhan Institute. None of the branches have a high level of confidence in their conclusion.
Fauci has been accused, especially by conservatives, of playing down the lab leak theory, in part to protect the reputation of NIAID, which helped to fund controversial bat research at Wuhan.
David Asher, former head of the state department’s Covid-19 origins investigation, questioned why Fauci was only seeking the medical records now. He pointed out that the Trump administration said publicly in January that US intelligence believed the Wuhan scientists had fallen sick with symptoms of the virus.
“I’m stunned that Fauci would now ask this question,” said Asher, who is now at the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington-based think-tank.
Asher added that while he respected Fauci, he was frustrated at what he perceived as a lack of interest at NIAID and its parent agency, the National Institutes of Health, into pursuing the possibility that the virus had leaked from the lab.
Fauci told the FT he continues to believe the virus was first transmitted to humans via animals, pointing out that even if the lab researchers did have Covid-19, they could have contracted the disease from the wider population. But he said he thought the question warranted further investigation, not least because of the renewed public interest.
“I have always felt that the overwhelming likelihood — given the experience we have had with Sars, Mers, Ebola, HIV, bird flu, the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — was that the virus jumped species,” he said. “But we need to keep on investigating until a possibility is proven.”
He dismissed the idea that his organisation might bear any responsibility for the pandemic, however, saying: “Are you really saying that we are implicated because we gave a multibillion-dollar institution $120,000 a year for bat surveillance?”
Additional reporting by Christian Shepherd in Beijing
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2021-06-04 09:04:35Z
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Hong Kong police out in force to prevent Tiananmen commemoration - Al Jazeera English
Thousands of police were deployed in Hong Kong on Friday and the organiser of the territory’s now-banned annual vigil of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown arrested, as the authorities tried to prevent people from gathering for any kind of remembrance of the events of 1989.
Hong Kong usually holds a mass vigil to remember those killed when soldiers stormed the square, which was packed with protesters calling for democracy, but police have banned the events for the past two years blaming the coronavirus pandemic.
This year is the first to be held since China imposed national security legislation on Hong Kong that punishes anything Beijing deems subversion, secession, “terrorism” or collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison.
Police have not clarified whether commemorating the crackdown, which has been all but erased from history in the mainland, will breach the law, but in a statement late on Thursday said any gathering posed “considerable threats to the public health and lives” and warned that those taking part in “unauthorised assemblies” could face as many as five years in prison.
“Police will deploy adequate manpower in relevant locations on the day and take resolute action to enforce the law, including making arrests,” the police said.
Some 7,000 officers will conduct stop-and-search operations throughout the day, public broadcaster RTHK reported, citing unnamed sources.
This video frame grab taken from AFPTV footage shows Chow Hang-tung (left), a leader of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and a barrister, being led away by plainclothes police officers after being detained in Hong Kong on the anniversary of Beijing’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown [Xinqi Su/ AFP]Chow Hang-tung, the vice chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which organises the annual vigil, was arrested on Friday morning by plainclothes officers outside her office in the city centre.
A police source told the AFP news agency that Chow was being held under Section 17A of the Public Order Ordinance, which covers publicising unlawful assemblies.
A 20-year-old was also detained on Friday morning after sharing social media posts that police said were found to “advertise or publicise a public meeting that had been prohibited by the police,” Senior Superintendent Terry Law was quoted as saying by the Hong Kong Free Press.
The territory’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam has not commented on the commemorations, saying only that citizens must respect the law, as well as the Communist Party, which marks its 100th anniversary next month.
In the afternoon, police closed off parts of Victoria Park, where the vigil is usually held. The park is only a couple of hundred metres from Beijing’s national security office.
Analysts said it seemed the authorities were trying to extinguish any form of remembrance of Tiananmen in the territory.
“All this shows the government is doing all it can to stop people from lighting a candle or commemorating June 4,” Alkan Akad, a China researcher with Amnesty International told Al Jazeera. “According to international human rights law there’s no need to seek permission from any authority for peaceful assembly. Lighting a candle is not a crime. Peacefully remembering an event that happened 32 years ago is not a crime.”
A group of artists marked the anniversary on Thursday [Jerome Favre/EPA] Ficker of remembrance
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Tiananmen protests were “echoed in the struggle for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong” noting that this year’s vigil had been banned.
“The United States will continue to stand with the people of China as they demand that their government respect universal human rights,” Blinken said in a statement. “We honor the sacrifices of those killed 32 years ago, and the brave activists who carry on their efforts today in the face of ongoing government repression.”
#Breaking #ChowHangTung, the vice chair of #HongKong Alliance has been arrested for allegedly promoting or publishing an unauthorized assembly in the morning of #June4. We are supposed to interview her this morning. Here is our LIVE report. @AJEnglish @sarahclarkehk pic.twitter.com/rgbYo2tuvE
— Bertha Wang (@berthawangg) June 4, 2021
The arrest of high-profile leaders follows a pattern.
But the arrest of a 20-year-old food delivery man for promoting the vigil sends a different message to regular Hongkongers. https://t.co/RVuoBKZEO2
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) June 4, 2021
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people defied 2020’s ban on the vigil, gathering in the city’s Victoria Park and lighting candles.
This year, many plan to light candles again in their neighbourhood, if safe to do so. Some churches will be open for prayers.
Jailed activist Jimmy Sham said via his Facebook page he planned to “light a cigarette at 8pm”.
“We do not see the hope of democracy and freedom in a leader, a group, or a ceremony. Every one of us is the hope of democracy and freedom.”
Prominent activist Joshua Wong was given a 10-month prison sentence last month after pleading guilty to participating in last year’s vigil, while three others received four- to six-month sentences. Twenty more people are due in court on June 11 on similar charges.
The Hong Kong Alliance has said it would drop calls for people to show up at Victoria Park and not run an online commemoration as in 2020.
Usually thousands of people fill Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to remember the Tiananmen Square crackdown and call for democracy in China [File: Tyrone Siu/Reuters]On Wednesday, Hong Kong’s June 4th Museum said it would temporarily close due to an investigation into whether it had a public entertainment venue licence.
Commemorations of Tiananmen are banned in China, and the semi-autonomous territory of Macau has also banned June 4 activities.
On the democratic island of Taiwan, a memorial pavilion will be set up in Taipei’s Liberty Square, where people can lay down flowers while following social distancing rules. A light-emitting diode or LED installation of 64 lights will also be set up in the square.
China has never provided a full account of what happened in 1989. The death toll given by officials days later was about 300, most of them soldiers, but rights groups and witnesses say thousands of people may have been killed.
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Kamis, 03 Juni 2021
Roman Protasevich: Journalist appears on state television - BBC News

Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, who was arrested in Minsk after being taken off a diverted flight last month, has appeared in a tearful interview on state television.
In the interview, he confessed to organising anti-government protests and praised President Alexander Lukashenko.
Mr Protasevich's family say the interview was conducted under duress.
The reporter, 26, was editor of the opposition Nexta channel on the Telegram messaging app until last year.
He was put on a list of "individuals involved in terrorist activity" last year.
Mass protests erupted across Belarus after long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in a 9 August presidential election widely condemned as rigged, and a crackdown followed.
The protests have been curbed and opposition leaders have been sent to prison or into exile.
What did he say?
In the interview broadcast on Thursday evening, Mr Protasevich admitted to attempting to topple Alexander Lukashenko and said that he was speaking to the television channel by choice.
He said that he had criticised President Lukashenko a lot but "began to understand that he was doing the right thing and I certainly respect him".
At the end of the interview, he burst into tears and said he hoped one day to marry and have children.
The journalist's father told AFP news agency that it pained him to watch the interview.
"I know my son very well and I believe that he would never say such things. They broke him and forced him to say what was needed," he said.
Thursday's interview was Mr Protasevich's third appearance on state television since he was detained.
In one interview, he said there was no use in the opposition calling for further street protests.
How was he arrested?
The journalist and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega were flying back to Lithuania, where they were both living, when their jet was made to land in Minsk over a fake bomb threat.
He faces serious charges. The charge of causing mass unrest can be punished by up to 15 years in jail. But terror offences carry higher sentences and as he was taken off the plane, passengers quoted him saying "I'll get the death penalty here".
Mr Protasevich and Ms Sapega were led away by police and later appeared in videos where they were shown making what appeared to be forced confessions to crimes against the Belarusian authorities.
Their arrests prompted the European Union to last month agree on sanctions on Belarus including banning the country's airlines from using the bloc's airspace and airports. Sanctions have also been placed on officials linked to the flight's diversion.
"We won't tolerate that one can try to play Russian roulette with the lives of innocent civilians," EU Council chief Charles Michel said.
Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, described the incident as "an attack on democracy".
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2021-06-04 00:53:26Z
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Roman Protasevich: Dissident Belarusian journalist appears to praise President Alexander Lukashenko in new video - Sky News
Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has been filmed appearing to praise Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in a new video.
In the clip, recorded for Belarusian state-controlled TV, Mr Protasevich was asked whether he respected the president, to which he replied: "Absolutely."
Mr Protasevich, 26, said Mr Lukashenko has "acted like a man with balls of steel", despite the "pressure" of resistance movements like his.
The journalist, who was arrested last month after the Ryanair flight he was on was diverted, did not appear to be in good health in the clip.
It comes after an earlier video for the state-controlled broadcaster saw him claim he was set up by an unidentified associate.
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Commenting on that clip, one of Mr Protasevich's associates said he was clearly speaking under duress.
It is not clear when the more recent interview was filmed and under what conditions.
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In it, he said: "I won't hide it, I criticised Alexander Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] a lot. Of course, because it seemed to be that there were reasons for it.
"I've been a journalist my whole life, but the more I was getting involved in political work, the more I wanted to run away from it.
"And then I started to realise that many things Alexander Grigoryevich is criticised for are just attempts to pressure him.
"And that in many moments he acted like a man with balls of steel, despite all the pressure and so on."
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Mr Protasevich, who worked for Poland-based online news service NEXTA, was detained by authorities in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on 23 May.
There was international outrage when his Ryanair flight - from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania - was diverted to Belarus by air traffic controllers over claims of a bomb threat. There have been accusations it was a "state-sponsored hijacking" on the orders of Mr Lukashenko.
No bomb was found on board, but Mr Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega were arrested.
Ms Sapega has since appeared in a video from prison where she confesses to running a channel that revealed personal data about Belarusian security officers.
Her boyfriend left Belarus in 2019 and has since become Mr Lukashenko's leading opponent.
As well as his work for the Polish news service, Mr Protasevich ran a popular channel on the messaging app Telegram that played a key role in organising anti-government protests last year.
He was then charged with inciting mass disturbances, which could carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years.
Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled the ex-Soviet nation for more than 25 years, is often referred to as Europe's last dictator.
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2021-06-03 21:57:02Z
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‘No difference’: Palestinians react to Israeli coalition deal - Al Jazeera English

Many Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza have dismissed a change in the Israeli government, saying the nationalist leader due to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would likely pursue the same right-wing agenda.
Naftali Bennett, the 49-year-old former head of Israel’s main West Bank settler organisation and ex-Netanyahu ally, would be the country’s new leader under a patchwork coalition.
Opposition and centrist leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid and Bennett declared on Wednesday night they had reached a deal to form a new government to unseat the incumbent Netanyahu after a 12-year run as prime minister.
Bassem al-Salhi, a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the prime minister-designate was no less extreme than Netanyahu.
“He will make sure to express how extreme he is in the government,” he said.
Bennett has been a strong advocate of annexing parts of the West Bank that Israel captured and occupied in a 1967 war.
However, in recent days Bennett appeared to propose a continuation of the status quo, with some easing of conditions for Palestinians.
“My thinking in this context is to shrink the conflict. We will not resolve it. But wherever we can [improve conditions] – more crossing points, more quality of life, more business, more industry – we will do so.”
‘We need a serious change’
Hamas, the group which rules the besieged Gaza Strip, said it made no difference who governs Israel.
“Palestinians have seen dozens of Israeli governments throughout history, right, left, centre, as they call it. But all of them have been hostile when it comes to the rights of our Palestinian people and they all had hostile policies of expansionism,” spokesman Hazem Qassem said.
Sami Abou Shehadeh, leader of the Palestinian nationalist Balad Party, told Al Jazeera from occupied East Jerusalem the issue was not the “personality” of Netanyahu but the policies Israel pursues.
“What we need is a serious change in Israeli policies, not in the personalities. The situation was very bad before Netanyahu, and as long as Israel insists on its own policies, it will continue to being bad after Netanyahu. This is why we oppose this government [new coalition].”
Former member of the executive committee of the PLO Hanan Ashrawi said the Netanyahu years still had “built-in systems of racism, extremism, violence and lawlessness”.
“His former cohorts will maintain his legacy,” she tweeted.
The end of the Netanyahu era still contains within it built-in systems of racism, extremism, violence &lawlessness + expansionism, annexation & lawlessness. His former cohorts will maintain his legacy. It's up to the diminished progressive forces to challenge & change this legacy https://t.co/v2NhpSWQzX
— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) June 2, 2021
Similar sentiments were voiced elsewhere.
“There is no difference between one Israeli leader and another,” Ahmed Rezik, 29, a government worker in Gaza, told Reuters news agency.
“They are good or bad for their nation. And when it comes to us, they are all bad, and they all refuse to give the Palestinians their rights and their land.”
The coalition agreement capped a March 23 election in which neither Netanyahu’s Likud party and its allies nor their opponents won a majority in the legislature. It was Israel’s fourth national ballot in two years.
The governing lineup comprises a patchwork of small and medium-sized parties from across the political spectrum
The deal includes the United Arab List, which would make it the first party of Palestinian citizens of Israel ever to be part of a governing coalition in Israel.
United Arab List’s leader Mansour Abbas has cast aside differences with Bennett, and said he hopes to improve conditions for Palestinian citizens who complain of discrimination and government neglect.
“We decided to join the government in order to change the balance of political forces in the country,” the 47-year-old said in a message to supporters after signing the coalition agreement.
Abbas’s party said the agreement includes the allocation of more than 53 billion shekels ($16bn) to improve infrastructure and combat violent crime.
It also includes provisions freezing demolition of homes built without permits in Palestinian villages and granting official status to Bedouin towns in the Negev Desert, a stronghold for support, the party said.
But he has been criticised in the West Bank and Gaza for siding with what they see as the enemy.
“What will he do when they ask him to vote on launching a new war on Gaza?” said Badri Karam, 21, in Gaza.
“Will he accept it, being a part of the killing of Palestinians?”
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2021-06-03 22:30:00Z
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