0443, 23 Sep, Apple Daily: The horrifying rumours you have heard about San Uk Ling might just be true. Here is the full English version of Apple Daily article about "The Cell of Terror", San Uk Ling:
True Story Behind San Uk Ling: From Arrestees Of 831 After 48-Hour Detention
“As soon as I heard we were going to San Uk Ling, I wanted to bite my tongue off and die.”
On the night of 831 Hong Kong Free Walk Protests, conflicts occurred in multiple districts of Hong Kong. Police centralized and transported the arrested to Kwai Chung Police Station; the covered car park was set up as a temporary detention room. 70 people were crowded in a confined space without air-conditionin
During the detention, the rights of those who required medical treatments, phone calls, legal assistance were interfered or delayed. Some even witnessed the suspected police brutality and abuse.
What the arrestees didn’t realize, was half of them actually became the lucky survivors of “The Cell of Horror” at San Uk Ling after 24 hours.
Our reporters contacted a few of the victims, to deconstruct the 48-hour detention.
[Inside Kwai Chung Police Station Car Park]
According to the police guidelines, arrested persons may be arranged for medical treatment if they feel unwell during their detention. However, inside the police station, this basic human right has become a luxury. A young female, V (alias) recalled, that the parking lot was so hot that everyone was drenched in sweat. In the morning, a boy was seen pale and weak with almost white lips, still trembling despite of being wrapped in a blanket. It seemed he was having a fever but there was no ambulance on site.
It was not until other arrestees questioned the police in the evening before the male was being sent to a hospital. Police responded,”What
[ Stripped Away From Rights To Medical Treatments, Arrestees Witnessed Police Using Suspected Brutality]
According to a teenager Jason (ailas), one of injured’s eyes was swollen, black and blue, but his request for treatment was delayed.
It took more than ten male peers to fight for his rights with the police. “Sir, he is so wounded already. Why don’t you just let him go to the hospital?” Only then, Jason was arranged to go to the hospital. Jason said his injury was not serious. Although he demanded for medical treatment as soon as he was arrested, it took more than 9 hours to be sent to hospital.
Another arrested teenager, Joyce (alias), has asthma and felt sick in the airless parking lot. However, because the arrested couldn’t take any medication they carried, she could only ask for medical treatment. Again it was delayed for at least 45 minutes before she was on an ambulance.. She said with certainty,”a 45-minute delay can mean death to me if I had an asthma attack.”
Chan Hung-sau, a social worker arrested in Wan Chai that night criticized, "I don't believe it takes long for any ambulance to arrive, regardless of whether you call the ambulance hotline or 999, not to mention we were at the police station." She said seeking medical treatment is basic human right of anyone. Police are not medical staff. They have no rights to refuse arrestees to be sent to hospital based on the severity of the injuries.
In the police station parking lot, V, Jason and others heard someone shouted,"Hong Kong police, put a gun in your mouth and kill yourself."
An arrested male on 8.31, who did not want to be identified, said that he had witnessed a teenager, aged around 15, being dragged into the bathroom by several CIDs in the Kwai Chung Police Station. During that time, There were banging noises coming from the bathroom. After the teenager came out, he could see the wounds and cuts on the teen’s body. Other arrestees, who were acquaintances of V, also said that they heard a CID saying, “Are you going to cooperate with us or not? If not, I am gonna teach you a lesson!" Next, the teen was dragged into a room that was originally used for body-searching.
[Inside Kwai Chung Police Station's “Stinky Slot”]
In the early morning of September 2, many of the arrested people were deep asleep in the “stinky slot”. Suddenly they were awoke by the police. Police read aloud their full Chinese names, cuffed everyone, then took them onto a coach bus. Jason was also among them. He was still shaken when he recalled the feelings of when he was about to be sent to San Uk Ling, "I was scared to death. I was still wondering why no one has beaten me in Kwai Chung. Once I knew I was going to San Uk Ling, I knew I was going to die. At that time, I already planned to bite my tongue until it bleeds, so I could be sent to the hospital. But I was also worried that they wouldn’t let me, thinking I was causing trouble, and beat me up a bit more.”
The all-black coach bus, now filled with arrested demonstrators, was driven from Kwai Chung Police Station to San Wu Ling. During the drive for about an hour, the bus was nothing but complete silence. Perhaps everyone was thinking, it would be the end of the road for them. V recalled that some police officers were beating the back of the seats with what seemed to be batons, as if they were threatening the arrested.
Meanwhile some police officers were distributing white medical gloves and black open-fingertip mittens. It reminded the arrested of the rumors on 831 which some arrested were abused violently and gang-raped. Police officers deliberately rubbed the rubber gloves to make popping noises when putting them on. The sounds made V shivered in fears.
[Arriving at San Uk Ling]
San Uk Ling was built between 1950s-60s and was used as an illegal immigrant detention center. Chan Hung-sau criticized the facilities in San Uk Ling are so primitive that it is not suitable of becoming a detention center. For example, there is no door in the search room. It is easy to peep the entire body-search process outside the door. The consequences will be even more unimaginable if the arrested were stripped naked and searched illegally.
Joyce described the search procedure was complicated and repetitive. From Kwai Chung to San Uk Ling, she was searched at least five to six times by the police. "I was monitored by the police the entire time. How could I possibly, suddenly have something on me that can be damaging to others? Is it necessary to search me so many times?”
[Once you have been to San Uk Ling, you are like released prisoners]
Many female arrestees witnessed the male police officers coming and going through the female warehouses as they pleased. The squatting toilets in the warehouse, however were the mainland China’s public toilets. There were no doors, only a short wall. “You are fully exposed as soon as you get up after using the toilet." Only after repeated reminders by Chan Hung-sau, the police officers then knew to knock on the door before entering. She criticized that the police had never considered the human rights, privacy and dignity of the arrestees.
After being detained for 48 hours, everyone finally stepped out of “The Cell of Horror". Even though no harm was done to them physically, they have been scarred with more charges. V and Jason clearly remembered, that some uniformed police officers said to them, "When you walk out of here, you will look forward. Don’t let me see you in here ever again for the rest of your life. Get out quickly and don’t come back. Understand?” V felt instantly as if she was a released prisoner since she has been to San Uk Ling.
V believed that it was fortunate she escaped from the devil, all because of sharing a cell with Chan Hung-sau and her fearlessness of speaking up was the reason why they were given “better treatment” by the police.
Joyce shared her memories of San Uk Ling’s conditions. She still felt chills in her bones, “no CCTV will be able to capture whatever happens inside the “Stinky Slot”. There are no lighting fixtures. Once it gets dark outside, it will just be as dark inside. When you think back on everything that happened in San Uk Ling, you will not consider yourself lucky at all.
Those rumors can absolutely happen.”
English Translation: @the852spirit
Original article: 香港蘋果日報
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Sep 23, MPWeekly Culture: Why do the youngsters fight so hard for the 5 demands?
Here is the full interview in English: From Tuen Mun to Admiralty: Story of fighting for Freedom
On 6th July, 2019, Tuen Mun residents initiated “Reclaim Tuen Mun” movement. District Council cancelling the “Self-Entertain
Wai and Raymond, born and raised in Tuen Mun, are the witnesses of their homes being taken over by Mainland Chinese tours. Their freedom of going out was also taken away.
On top of that, there are the incidents of “The Causeway Bay Bookshop” and “Disqualificati
Tuen Mun Today, Hong Kong tomorrow. Two unfamiliar people suddenly are not so unfamiliar anymore, when they met in Tuen Mun and walk at the frontline of Admiralty , in the name of freedom.
Only 22 years have passed since the handover and the the concept of “50 years never change” we talked about. But Hong Kong has become “Hong Kong Market”, a city that no longer belong to us HongKongers.
Cap: From Tuen Mun to Admiralty. A story of fighting for freedom.
Super: Raymond, 21 years old
Raymond: I grew up in Tuen Mun. In the recent year, Mainland Independent Travel has worsened. Students don’t go out much to the other districts. Most of us stay in Tuen Mun for entertainment like going out for a meal.
Wai, 23 years old
Whenever I have time off, if I want to go shopping in Tuen Mun Town Plaza, I immediately will want to leave as soon as I get there. All you see are suitcases everywhere and you have to dodge them one after another. I won’t go there unless it is absolutely necessary. Mainland housewives are everywhere; if you [the government] keep giving out 150 single entry passes to mainlanders everyday, not only Tuen Mun, Yuen Long or Tin Shui Wai, soon other districts will also be overcrowded by the mainland Chinese.
I think one of the main concerns for those who live far away is what if we protest until late at night and then have to retreat. How do we leave if there are no transportations
Cap: Freedom VS Fear
During the Umbrella Movement, I never went alone. I always went with friends. But during the anti-extraditio
I was worried. But I was only worried about others more than myself at that moment.
cap: The Decline of Human Rights
When I was studying liberal studies and social science, we discussed a lot of issues about China’s human rights. The Causeway Bay Bookstore- because the publisher published books that China didn’t like, they were “disappeared”. It’s been defeating looking at the government’s escalating violence within the system in the past few years.
In the LegCo election oath-taking controversy In 2016, 6 seats of pro-democratic parties have been disqualified.
The real criminal who broke the law is the government themselves, not the people who protest.
Hong Kong without freedom will be exactly like Mainland China. You can’t do anything in Mainland. You have no freedom of speech, no YouTube, no Facebook.
You can’t talk about 64’ [Tiananmen Square Massacre]. There is nothing you can talk about. It’s like you are living in a cage, trapped. You can’t get out even if you want to.
I am scared of being arrested, but I am more scared of Hong Kong losing what belong to us. Freedom, freedom of expression, characteristics
- END -
English Subtitles: Azure Lorraine The Hong Kong Spirit
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0443, 23 Sep, Apple Daily: The horrifying rumours you have heard about San Uk Ling might just be true. Here is the full English version of Apple Daily article about "The Cell of Terror", San Uk Ling:
True Story Behind San Uk Ling: From Arrestees Of 831 After 48-Hour Detention
“As soon as I heard we were going to San Uk Ling, I wanted to bite my tongue off and die.”
On the night of 831 Hong Kong Free Walk Protests, conflicts occurred in multiple districts of Hong Kong. Police centralized and transported the arrested to Kwai Chung Police Station; the covered car park was set up as a temporary detention room. 70 people were crowded in a confined space without air-conditionin
During the detention, the rights of those who required medical treatments, phone calls, legal assistance were interfered or delayed. Some even witnessed the suspected police brutality and abuse.
What the arrestees didn’t realize, was half of them actually became the lucky survivors of “The Cell of Horror” at San Uk Ling after 24 hours.
Our reporters contacted a few of the victims, to deconstruct the 48-hour detention.
[Inside Kwai Chung Police Station Car Park]
According to the police guidelines, arrested persons may be arranged for medical treatment if they feel unwell during their detention. However, inside the police station, this basic human right has become a luxury. A young female, V (alias) recalled, that the parking lot was so hot that everyone was drenched in sweat. In the morning, a boy was seen pale and weak with almost white lips, still trembling despite of being wrapped in a blanket. It seemed he was having a fever but there was no ambulance on site.
It was not until other arrestees questioned the police in the evening before the male was being sent to a hospital. Police responded,”What
[ Stripped Away From Rights To Medical Treatments, Arrestees Witnessed Police Using Suspected Brutality]
According to a teenager Jason (ailas), one of injured’s eyes was swollen, black and blue, but his request for treatment was delayed.
It took more than ten male peers to fight for his rights with the police. “Sir, he is so wounded already. Why don’t you just let him go to the hospital?” Only then, Jason was arranged to go to the hospital. Jason said his injury was not serious. Although he demanded for medical treatment as soon as he was arrested, it took more than 9 hours to be sent to hospital.
Another arrested teenager, Joyce (alias), has asthma and felt sick in the airless parking lot. However, because the arrested couldn’t take any medication they carried, she could only ask for medical treatment. Again it was delayed for at least 45 minutes before she was on an ambulance.. She said with certainty,”a 45-minute delay can mean death to me if I had an asthma attack.”
Chan Hung-sau, a social worker arrested in Wan Chai that night criticized, "I don't believe it takes long for any ambulance to arrive, regardless of whether you call the ambulance hotline or 999, not to mention we were at the police station." She said seeking medical treatment is basic human right of anyone. Police are not medical staff. They have no rights to refuse arrestees to be sent to hospital based on the severity of the injuries.
In the police station parking lot, V, Jason and others heard someone shouted,"Hong Kong police, put a gun in your mouth and kill yourself."
An arrested male on 8.31, who did not want to be identified, said that he had witnessed a teenager, aged around 15, being dragged into the bathroom by several CIDs in the Kwai Chung Police Station. During that time, There were banging noises coming from the bathroom. After the teenager came out, he could see the wounds and cuts on the teen’s body. Other arrestees, who were acquaintances of V, also said that they heard a CID saying, “Are you going to cooperate with us or not? If not, I am gonna teach you a lesson!" Next, the teen was dragged into a room that was originally used for body-searching.
[Inside Kwai Chung Police Station's “Stinky Slot”]
In the early morning of September 2, many of the arrested people were deep asleep in the “stinky slot”. Suddenly they were awoke by the police. Police read aloud their full Chinese names, cuffed everyone, then took them onto a coach bus. Jason was also among them. He was still shaken when he recalled the feelings of when he was about to be sent to San Uk Ling, "I was scared to death. I was still wondering why no one has beaten me in Kwai Chung. Once I knew I was going to San Uk Ling, I knew I was going to die. At that time, I already planned to bite my tongue until it bleeds, so I could be sent to the hospital. But I was also worried that they wouldn’t let me, thinking I was causing trouble, and beat me up a bit more.”
The all-black coach bus, now filled with arrested demonstrators, was driven from Kwai Chung Police Station to San Wu Ling. During the drive for about an hour, the bus was nothing but complete silence. Perhaps everyone was thinking, it would be the end of the road for them. V recalled that some police officers were beating the back of the seats with what seemed to be batons, as if they were threatening the arrested.
Meanwhile some police officers were distributing white medical gloves and black open-fingertip mittens. It reminded the arrested of the rumors on 831 which some arrested were abused violently and gang-raped. Police officers deliberately rubbed the rubber gloves to make popping noises when putting them on. The sounds made V shivered in fears.
[Arriving at San Uk Ling]
San Uk Ling was built between 1950s-60s and was used as an illegal immigrant detention center. Chan Hung-sau criticized the facilities in San Uk Ling are so primitive that it is not suitable of becoming a detention center. For example, there is no door in the search room. It is easy to peep the entire body-search process outside the door. The consequences will be even more unimaginable if the arrested were stripped naked and searched illegally.
Joyce described the search procedure was complicated and repetitive. From Kwai Chung to San Uk Ling, she was searched at least five to six times by the police. "I was monitored by the police the entire time. How could I possibly, suddenly have something on me that can be damaging to others? Is it necessary to search me so many times?”
[Once you have been to San Uk Ling, you are like released prisoners]
Many female arrestees witnessed the male police officers coming and going through the female warehouses as they pleased. The squatting toilets in the warehouse, however were the mainland China’s public toilets. There were no doors, only a short wall. “You are fully exposed as soon as you get up after using the toilet." Only after repeated reminders by Chan Hung-sau, the police officers then knew to knock on the door before entering. She criticized that the police had never considered the human rights, privacy and dignity of the arrestees.
After being detained for 48 hours, everyone finally stepped out of “The Cell of Horror". Even though no harm was done to them physically, they have been scarred with more charges. V and Jason clearly remembered, that some uniformed police officers said to them, "When you walk out of here, you will look forward. Don’t let me see you in here ever again for the rest of your life. Get out quickly and don’t come back. Understand?” V felt instantly as if she was a released prisoner since she has been to San Uk Ling.
V believed that it was fortunate she escaped from the devil, all because of sharing a cell with Chan Hung-sau and her fearlessness of speaking up was the reason why they were given “better treatment” by the police.
Joyce shared her memories of San Uk Ling’s conditions. She still felt chills in her bones, “no CCTV will be able to capture whatever happens inside the “Stinky Slot”. There are no lighting fixtures. Once it gets dark outside, it will just be as dark inside. When you think back on everything that happened in San Uk Ling, you will not consider yourself lucky at all.
Those rumors can absolutely happen.”
English Translation: @the852spirit
Original article: 香港蘋果日報
