Benny Tai
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Universidade de Hong Kong despede Benny Tai, professor pró-democracia
Benny Tai foi o impulsionador do movimento de resistência pacífica Occupy Central, que fez eclodir a “Revolução do Guarda Chuva”. Disse que a decisão marca “o fim da liberdade académica” na região chinesa. https://www.publico.pt/2020/07/28/mundo/noticia/universidade-hong-kong-despede-benny-tai-professor-prodemocracia-1926182
Benny Tai Yiu-ting, MH[1] (Chinese: 戴耀廷; born 12 July 1964) is a Hong Kong legal scholar and democracy activist. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and is known for his initiation of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace, a non-violent civil disobedience campaign to pressure the Hong Kong government to implement full democracy in 2014, which turned into the massive pro-democracy protests.
A pro-Beijing lawmaker has accused former Occupy leader Benny Tai Yiu-ting of sedition for controversial remarks on the possibility of Hong Kong independence and launched an online petition urging the Department of Justice to press charges against the legal scholar.The accusation by Junius Ho Kwan-yiu centred on comments Tai made at a forum in Taiwan in March. The University of Hong Kong associate professor suggested the city could consider independence or enter into a confederation with other regions of China should the country become democratic in the future. Tai previously defended his independence remarks during a talk at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) in June 2018, saying he was exercising academic freedom by posing such a possibility.
After Tai spoke in Taiwan, the Hong Kong government issued an unusually harsh condemnation of him, which was followed by a similar statement from the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office as well as Beijing’s liaison office in the city.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2159924/hong-kong-lawmaker-junius-ho-pushes-have-occupy-founder
Pro-Beijing lawmakers reignited the row over Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s controversial independence remarks with a 75-minute attack on the activist in the Legislative Council on Thursday.
Members of the pro-establishment camp turned a request to adjourn into an opportunity to condemn the pro-democracy Occupy movement co-founder, while emphasising their own anti-independence beliefs.One of the harshest comments came from lawmaker Holden Chow Ho-ding, who accused the activist of turning Hong Kong’s streets into “rivers of blood” https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2147591/benny-tai-accused-turning-hong-kongs-streets-rivers-blood
2020: The next lethal weapon: a LegCo majority: Actually, the term he uses in his own English translation is a “massive constitutional weapon.” But in Chinese, the phrase is the same as he used in 2013 to introduce his ideas on civil disobedience. Not content to rest on his laurels, Benny Tai now has a new plan. With the Legislative Council election due to be held in September, he has set his sights on the heretofore impossible dream of a pro-democratic majority in the 70-seat council. He elaborated in an Apple Daily column on March 31, titled: “A Legislative Council majority Is the most lethal constitutional weapon.” Since Hong Kong has now entered an age of resistance, he explained, we need weapons – not the real thing – but weapons that can strengthen people’s will to resist. This resistance can take many forms. Since Hong Kong still has elections, people can still use their votes toward that end. To be effective, however, people need to vote in unison, like the targeted voting that was tried in the 2016 LegCo election. https://hongkongfp.com/2020/04/25/prof-benny-tais-next-masterplan-a-pro-democrat-majority-in-hong-kongs-legislature/
After the protests, he also launched the "Operation ThunderGo" in the 2016 Legislative Council election, a "smart voter" mechanism aiming at getting the most pro-democracy candidates elected to the Legislative Council. He also initiated "Project Storm" for the pro-democrats to win the majority in the coming 2019 District Council election. In March 2018, he received all-round attacks from the Beijing and Hong Kong governments, the pro-Beijing media and politicians for his remarks on Hong Kong independence.
In April 2019, Tai was found guilty of conspiracy to cause public nuisance and inciting others to cause public nuisance.[2] He was sentenced to 16 months in prison,[3] but was released on bail on August 15.[4]
that the movement was guided by another Christian leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr..[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Tai
After Tai spoke in Taiwan, the Hong Kong government issued an unusually harsh condemnation of him, which was followed by a similar statement from the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office as well as Beijing’s liaison office in the city.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2159924/hong-kong-lawmaker-junius-ho-pushes-have-occupy-founder
Pro-Beijing lawmakers reignited the row over Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s controversial independence remarks with a 75-minute attack on the activist in the Legislative Council on Thursday.
Members of the pro-establishment camp turned a request to adjourn into an opportunity to condemn the pro-democracy Occupy movement co-founder, while emphasising their own anti-independence beliefs.One of the harshest comments came from lawmaker Holden Chow Ho-ding, who accused the activist of turning Hong Kong’s streets into “rivers of blood” https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2147591/benny-tai-accused-turning-hong-kongs-streets-rivers-blood
"There will be darker times ahead for Hong Kong but the sun will rise again" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/04/benny-tai-hong-kong-umbrella/
In 2019 amid the historic anti-extradition protests and the pro-democracy landslide in the District Council elections, legal scholar Benny Tai, initiator of the 2014 Occupy protests, suggested the chance of the pro-democrats winning more than half of the seats to block the government's bills including the expected legislation of the Article 23 of the Basic Law and pressured the government to implement the five key demands of the protest movement. Learning from the experience of excessive numbers of candidates which split the pro-democratic votes in the 2016 election, he proposed a primaries within the pro-democracy camp which could set limit on the numbers of tickets, avoid wasting votes, and therefore maximise the chance for the pro-democrats to win more seats.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hong_Kong_pro-democracy_primaries
"This is the end of one country two systems and the process to 'authoritarian-ize' Hong Kong is completed" legal scholar and Occupy Central activist Benny Tai told ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/US/beijing-tightens-screws-hong-kong-contentious-law-effect/story?id=71532634
2020: The next lethal weapon: a LegCo majority: Actually, the term he uses in his own English translation is a “massive constitutional weapon.” But in Chinese, the phrase is the same as he used in 2013 to introduce his ideas on civil disobedience. Not content to rest on his laurels, Benny Tai now has a new plan. With the Legislative Council election due to be held in September, he has set his sights on the heretofore impossible dream of a pro-democratic majority in the 70-seat council. He elaborated in an Apple Daily column on March 31, titled: “A Legislative Council majority Is the most lethal constitutional weapon.” Since Hong Kong has now entered an age of resistance, he explained, we need weapons – not the real thing – but weapons that can strengthen people’s will to resist. This resistance can take many forms. Since Hong Kong still has elections, people can still use their votes toward that end. To be effective, however, people need to vote in unison, like the targeted voting that was tried in the 2016 LegCo election. https://hongkongfp.com/2020/04/25/prof-benny-tais-next-masterplan-a-pro-democrat-majority-in-hong-kongs-legislature/
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