{"id":214711,"date":"2019-08-23T23:28:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T06:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=214711"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:21:51","slug":"lawyer-chen-qiushis-video-record-of-hong-kong-protest-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2019\/08\/lawyer-chen-qiushis-video-record-of-hong-kong-protest-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Chen Qiushi&#8217;s Video Diary of Hong Kong Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese human rights lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3023796\/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-chen-qiushi-missing-after-return\"><strong>Chen Qiushi confirmed that he has returned safely to mainland China<\/strong><\/a> after visiting Hong Kong last week to observe the protests and broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/2019\/08\/%E3%80%90cdtv%E3%80%91%E9%99%88%E7%A7%8B%E5%AE%9E%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E8%A7%82%E5%AF%9F%E5%8F%8D%E9%80%81%E4%B8%AD%E4%B9%8B%E8%A1%8C%E5%90%88%E8%BE%91\/\">video commentaries<\/a> about them on social media. Chen was forced to end his trip ahead of schedule after receiving pressure from Chinese authorities. South China Morning Post&#8217;s Laurie Chen reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While in Hong Kong, Chen uploaded several video diaries and observations about the protests to the Twitter-like Weibo, where his account has more than 770,000 followers. The diaries have since been deleted from his Weibo account but are still available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">Chen indicated to the\u00a0<em class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--em content--em\">South China Morning Post<\/em> on Wednesday evening that he was safe, then explained in audio messages on Thursday morning that he had returned to Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">\u201cNo one sent me or invited me to Hong Kong. I went purely out of my curiosity about what was happening there,\u201d Chen said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">\u201cIn my broadcast online, I only reported objectively what I saw and what I learned in the city.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3023796\/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-chen-qiushi-missing-after-return\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">Chen explained that he wanted to see what was happening in Hong Kong for himself since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inkstonenews.com\/politics\/mainland-attorney-broadcast-hong-kong-protests-he-got-call-authorities\/article\/3023727\"><strong>he could not take filtered mainland state media reports at face value<\/strong><\/a>. Mainland coverage of the rallies have focused mainly on violent clashes and official sources have heavily criticized the protesters for disrupting order in the city. Censorship instructions were <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2019\/08\/minitrue-promote-the-following-reports-on-hong-kong\/\">issued to mainland media<\/a> earlier this week calling for specially curated reports on the protests to be promoted over others. Before his trip was called to an end, Chen was able to share a dozen videos showing a different side of the protests to his mainland followers on Weibo. From Qin Chen at Inkstone:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m not a mainland agent, nor a journalist. I\u2019m an ordinary mainland Chinese citizen, making a living as an attorney,\u201d said Chen in Saturday broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHong Kong is going through a historical period, I want to come here and bear witness to this history,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chen\u2019s reporting and analysis put him squarely at odds with the nationalistic reporting from some official state-run media<\/p>\n<p>In one video broadcast on Sunday morning, hours before a massive crowd of protesters marched in a peaceful assembly, Chen explained that most demonstrators were, in fact, not out for blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me explain some concepts to you all. One is \u2018peaceful,\u2019 one is \u2018aggressive\u2019 and one is \u2018no division.\u2019 More than 2 million people have participated in the protests so far. But not all of them are rioters,\u201d he said. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inkstonenews.com\/politics\/mainland-attorney-broadcast-hong-kong-protests-he-got-call-authorities\/article\/3023727\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>CDT has translated the last video Chen filmed before leaving Hong Kong:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lNDz1Te3bys\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good evening everyone.<br \/>\nThis is Qiushi.<br \/>\nRight now it is approximately 7PM on the evening of August 20.<br \/>\nI am at the Hong Kong airport and must immediately fly back to mainland China.<br \/>\nWhy am I leaving so abruptly?<br \/>\nBecause there is really a lot of pressure right now.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been getting calls from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice, my legal association, and my law firm.<br \/>\n\u201cQiushi quit staying in that sensitive place.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t come back right now no one is going to be able to protect you.\u201d<br \/>\nIn particular, my colleagues and my superiors might also become implicated.<br \/>\nThis means that they will be held responsible for poor management.<br \/>\nBut the reality is that I secretly came here by myself without telling anyone.<br \/>\nThis really doesn\u2019t have anything to do with other people.<br \/>\nThe last thing I want is to see others become implicated because of me.<br \/>\nThat is why I must quickly head back to give my colleagues and superiors an explanation.<br \/>\nThe reason why I came to Hong Kong this time is that I believe we, the Mandarin media, should not be missing at such an important historical moment.<br \/>\nMore than one million people gathered on August 18.<br \/>\nThirty to 40 media organizations and journalists from all over the world were present at the event.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been trying the entire time to find a Chinese mainland journalist in their midst but it was very difficult.<br \/>\nThat is why I am doing my own reporting.<br \/>\nBut actually I am not too pleased with my own reporting.<br \/>\nNot to say that I didn\u2019t get to interview Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor in person. As for those mask-wearing black-shirt protesters, those gun-firing policemen, or those rod-wielding white-shirt protesters, I also wasn\u2019t able to interview and communicate with any of them up close.<br \/>\nYou see, what kind of interview is this?<br \/>\nBasically I am leaving too abruptly.<br \/>\nThere are so many topics that I don\u2019t have time to cover.<br \/>\nI really want to look into the income levels of ordinary Hong Kong residents,\u00a0their rental situation.<br \/>\nTo find out whether it is true that they are a bunch of useless people who can\u2019t survive and are therefore out to cause trouble, as it is said online.<br \/>\nI want to look into Hong Kong people\u2019s average education situation.<br \/>\nI want to investigate election bribery,<br \/>\nvote planting<br \/>\nTo see whether it is true that there are people who would pick up a bus full of seniors from nursing homes to vote during elections.<br \/>\nWhether it is true that there are people in one building voting with tens of hukous.<br \/>\nWhat is the brown soil problem?<br \/>\nWhat is real estate hegemony?<br \/>\nWhether it is true that Hong Kong still has lots of land that can be used to build homes, but real estate developers are refusing to develop on those land, forcing the government to build low-cost housing. There is nothing you can do about it. You have to buy land from me.<br \/>\nI wasn\u2019t able to investigate any of these issues.<br \/>\nI have to go in a state of confusion.<br \/>\nI feel very sorry to both my fellow citizens in Hong Kong and the mainland.<br \/>\nI was not able to deliver the most truthful and objective side of things to all of you.<br \/>\nThese days, except from being tired as a dog, there wasn\u2019t actually much substantial gain.<br \/>\nWith this Hong Kong weather, it is sizzling when the sun is out and suffocating when the sun is not out.<br \/>\nWhen it finally gets windy and starts to rain, there stands more than one million people getting soaked for three, four hours.<br \/>\nTell me, what are they after?<br \/>\nHow much money would you have to spend to get more than one million people to endure this with you\uff1f<br \/>\nMy colleague said to me: \u201cQiushi, us lawyers should just focus on our work, why are you doing this?\u201d<br \/>\nI said: \u201cHave you realized, the Hong Kong incident started over whether a bill should be passed. What they are struggling over has always been whether police enforcement complies with regulations; whether the election of legislators meets statuary procedures; whether the Hong Kong Basic Law has been thoroughly implemented and executed; whether the normative provisions of the Sino-British Joint Declaration have been implemented and executed. Everything comes down to the law. That\u2019s why the Hong Kong problem is in essence not a political problem, it is a legal problem.&#8221;<br \/>\nAs a legal practitioner, facing one of the world\u2019s biggest legal conflicts and disputes, if we don\u2019t come to the front lines to investigate, to research, who do we expect to come examine this?<br \/>\nDo we expect TikTok influencers and Kuaishou brothers to come investigate?<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why when we speak of legal practitioners, I need to show off a bit.<br \/>\nLet me show everyone my lawyer license.<br \/>\nRight, why show off?<br \/>\nBecause it might not belong to me anymore after I go back.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not some really smart person.<br \/>\nIt took me three years to get this license.<br \/>\nWhat I am doing right now is not something that a smart person would do, right.<br \/>\nIf you ask me whether it is worth it that I used these three days to destroy my three years of hard work,<br \/>\nit is definitely not worth it.<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s nothing I can do.<br \/>\nI am a person with this kind of personality.<br \/>\nThere are clever people in the world hiding behind the scenes, taking care of their family and children.<br \/>\nThen there need to be people charging to the front, and taking responsibility.<br \/>\nThis is the path that I chose for myself and I am willing to take responsibility alone.<br \/>\nI really don\u2019t want to implicate any one else.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why right now I need to go back to give my family, my superiors, and my colleagues an explanation.<br \/>\nThere are even people giving me shady advice: \u201cQiushi, I\u2019ll give you money, hurry and go hide overseas for a while.\u201d I said: \u201cThat\u2019s nonsense. Once I accept the money I won\u2019t be able to make things clear anymore.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd also, I am Chinese. That is my motherland, that is my home. I will go back no matter what happens.<br \/>\nI also believe that the One-China Policy will not change. We have to build a unified China.<br \/>\nBut the problem is, simply being unified is not enough.<br \/>\nWhat we need is a unified, but also a civilized and progressive China.<br \/>\nTo build a civilized and progressive China, we can not resort to violence. It should only be done through law. Using guns can only bring about unity, but it cannot bring about civility and rule of law.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why I have to come here, to promote cross-strait communication and dialogue.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want asymmetrical information and misunderstanding to lead to disputes and even violent confrontations.<br \/>\nHere, I want to once again thank my superiors and colleagues for their help and support.<br \/>\nI thank the netizens, whether you like my channel or not.<br \/>\nI thank individuals in academia, law, and the media industry.<br \/>\nAnd those I\u2019ve never met who are now saying to protect me, pleading for me.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know you but I am still thankful for everything you have done for me.<br \/>\nThank you all.<br \/>\nThis year is the third year since I got my lawyer\u2019s license.<br \/>\nLike what Nezha said, three years is very short, but I had a lot of fun.<br \/>\nOne has to shoulder one\u2019s own life.<br \/>\nI am Qiushi.<br \/>\nThank you everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Additional videos by Chen can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/2019\/08\/\u3010cdtv\u3011\u9648\u79cb\u5b9e\u9999\u6e2f\u89c2\u5bdf\u53cd\u9001\u4e2d\u4e4b\u884c\u5408\u8f91\/\">via CDT Chinese <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Today__China\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Qiushi confirmed that he has returned safely to mainland China after visiting Hong Kong last week to observe the protests and broadcast video commentaries about them on social media. 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