Hong Kong: Lord Alton on 'Tiananmen-style authoritarianism'

Lord Alton with Mr Lam

In his latest blog, David Alton writes: As China tells Hong Kong to force its citizens to expose their faces to facial recognition surveillance here are two stories that should make us face up to the nature of Tiananmen-style authoritarianism…

Tonight (Friday) following orders from Beijing, the Hong Kong Government said citizens may not wear masks so that pro democracy protestors can be identified.

No doubt this will enable German and British made surveillance equipment to be put to its intended use of facial recognition.

So the mask has slipped and the true face of Chinese authoritarian Communism, now dominant in Hong Kong, has been revealed to the watching world.

If you have any doubts about the nature of this authoritarian regime, now intent on bending free Hong Kong to its will, consider these two stories.

The first is the story of a Hong Kong bookseller.

Mr Wing-kee Lam, the former manager of Causeway Bay Books, in Hong Kong, spent 8 months detained in 2015 in Chinese detention centres which he says "are worse than any prison you can imagine."

To read on see: https://davidalton.net/2019/10/04/as-china-tells-hong-kong-to-force-its-citizens-to-expose-their-faces-to-facial-recognition-surveillance-here-are-two-stories-that-should-make-us-face-up-to-the-nature-of-tiananmen-style-authoritariani/