{"id":330863,"date":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/?p=330863"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:13:49","slug":"vrye-spraak-in-china-verdere-knou-toegedien-met-arres-van-tiananmen-aktiviste-na-37-jaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/vrye-spraak-in-china-verdere-knou-toegedien-met-arres-van-tiananmen-aktiviste-na-37-jaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Vrye spraak in China verdere knou toegedien met arres van Tiananmen-aktiviste n\u00e1 37 jaar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2019n Hongkongse hof het Vrydag twee aktiviste wat jaarlikse gedenkdienste ter herdenking van China se dodelike Tiananmen-onderdrukking georganiseer het, skuldig bevind aan \u201caanhitsing tot ondermyning\u201d. Menseregtegroepe het die uitspraak veroordeel en ges\u00ea dit is \u2019n verdere poging om vrye spraak die swye op te l\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-ondermyning-van-die-basiese-stelsel\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Ondermyning van die basiese stelsel\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee Cheuk-yan (69) en Chow Hang-tung (41) het volgens \u2019n opsomming van die uitspraak \u201cander persone aangehits om deur onwettige middele dade te organiseer, beplan, pleeg of daaraan deel te neem met die doel om staatsgesag te ondermyn\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die paneel van drie regters het bevind dat albei beskuldigdes dade gepleeg het wat neerkom op \u201cdie omverwerping of ondermyning van die basiese stelsel &#8230; wat deur die Grondwet\u201d van China gevestig is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hulle word deur \u2019n maksimum vonnis van 10 jaar gevangenisstraf in die gesig gestaar, met vonnisoplegging wat op \u2019n later datum sal plaasvind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee en Chow is in 2021 van \u201caanhitsing tot ondermyning\u201d aangekla en is sedertdien ingevolge \u2019n nasionale veiligheidswet wat deur Beijing opgel\u00ea is, in aanhouding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-4-junie-1989\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 Junie 1989<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die semi-outonome voormalige kolonies Hongkong en Macau was voorheen die enigste plekke op Chinese grondgebied waar openbare gedenkdienste gehou kon word ter nagedagtenis aan mense wat op 4 Junie 1989 gesterf het, toe owerhede troepe en tenks gestuur het om protesoptrede vir politieke hervorming in en om Beijing se Tiananmen-plein te onderdruk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From the archives: Tiananmen Square&amp;apos;s &quot;Tank Man&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FaojdRThXbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee en Chow was leiers van die nou ontbinde Hong Kong Alliance, die groep wat jaarlikse gedenkdienste in die stad se Victoria Park georganiseer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-verbod-op-openbare-herdenkings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Verbod op openbare herdenkings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Openbare herdenkings is egter sedert 2020 effektief verbied nadat Beijing \u2019n nasionale veiligheidswet vir Hongkong ingestel het n\u00e1 groot en soms gewelddadige pro-demokrasiebetogings die vorige jaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die regters het bevind dat die leiers van die Hong Kong Alliance die Chinese Grondwet oortree het deur n\u00e1 die instelling van die veiligheidswet \u2019n beroep te doen om \u201c\u2019n eenparty-diktatorskap te be\u00ebindig\u201d, hoewel hul betoog vreedsaam was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens die hof was Lee en Chow van plan om mense \u201cvertroue te laat verloor\u201d in die Chinese Kommunistiese Party, en het hulle probeer om die bestaande politieke stelsel te ondermyn deur \u201cvyandigheid aan te wakker en verdeeldheid te veroorsaak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2019n Derde beskuldigde, die 74-jarige voormalige wetgewer Albert Ho, het in Januarie skuldig gepleit. In gevalle waar daar skuldig gepleit word, lei dit gewoonlik tot \u2019n verminderde vonnis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee en Chow het stil in die beskuldigingsbank gesit toe die regters Vrydag hul uitspraak gelewer het. Hulle het voorheen die aanklagte verwerp en aangevoer dat die \u201cdemokratiese oorgang\u201d waarvoor hulle hulle beywer het, nie die Kommunistiese Party se leierskap uitsluit nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-familie-woedend\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Familie \u2018woedend\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regter Alex Lee het ges\u00ea die hof verwag om volgende week hul versagtende omstandighede aan te hoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee se vrou, Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor, \u2019n voormalige vakbondleier, het n\u00e1 die uitspraak aan verslaggewers ges\u00ea sy is \u201cwoedend, kwaad &#8230; omdat ek nie dink hy is skuldig nie\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medina Chow Lau Wah-chun, Chow se ma, het die hoop uitgespreek \u201cdat die omgewing gesonder sal word, dat blomme van alle kleure kan blom\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-saadjies-van-haat\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Saadjies van haat\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Li, hoofsuperintendent van die polisie se Nasionale Veiligheidsdepartement, het die uitspraak verwelkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hy het ges\u00ea die Hong Kong Alliance het oor jare heen \u201csaadjies van haat teen die Chinese Kommunistiese Party en die sentrale regering onder die mense van Hongkong geplant\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens Li het die groep se leiers menseregte \u201cas \u2019n skild\u201d gebruik om \u2019n grootskaalse openbare geleentheid te organiseer wat daarop gemik was om emosies aan te wakker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan, die selfregerende eiland wat Beijing as deel van sy grondgebied beskou, het China aangemoedig om \u201cpolitieke vervolging te staak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die Mainland Affairs Council, Taipei se belangrikste liggaam vir China-beleid, het die skuldigbevindings in \u2019n verklaring veroordeel en die owerhede versoek om \u201cdiegene wat in hierdie saak aangehou word, onmiddellik vry te laat\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-ontstellende-boodskap\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Ontstellende boodskap\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Menseregtegroep Amnestie Internasionaal het die \u201contstellende uitspraak\u201d veroordeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die uitspraak \u201cis nog \u2019n somber mylpaal in die regering se doelbewuste veldtog\u201d om die nalatenskap van die Tiananmen-gedenkdiensaktiviste uit te wis, het Amnesty-woordvoerder Fernando Cheung ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die skuldigbevinding toon \u201choe openbare rou in Hongkong \u2019n misdaad geword het\u201d, het Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch se direkteur vir Asi\u00eb, ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHierdie aktiviste het die Chinese regering se vrese vir die herinnering aan sy eie gruweldade blootgel\u00ea, wat herinnering as \u2019n bedreiging vir nasionale veiligheid beskou.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How NBC Covered Tiananmen Square In 1989 | NBC News Now\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXJ6gHFME0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chow het voor Vrydag se hofverskyning in \u2019n bloginskrywing ges\u00ea dat \u201cgeregtigheid in die harte van die mense l\u00ea; daar is geen behoefte om uitsprake wat van bo af opgel\u00ea word, te eerbiedig nie, en \u2019n enkele uitspraak het min betekenis\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die saak is wyd gekritiseer as \u2019n voorbeeld van die erosie van vryheid van uitdrukking in Hongkong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dit \u201cstuur \u2019n kragtige en ontstellende boodskap aan die burgerlike samelewing: enige kritiek op die staat en sy beleid, ongeag hoe vreedsaam dit uitgespreek word, is nie meer welkom in Hongkong nie\u201d, het Urania Chiu, \u2019n dosent in die regte aan Oxford Brookes Universiteit, aan AFP ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2019n Hongkongse hof het Vrydag twee aktiviste wat jaarlikse gedenkdienste ter herdenking van China se dodelike Tiananmen-onderdrukking georganiseer het, skuldig bevind aan \u201caanhitsing tot ondermyning\u201d. 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