Urgent appeal by Hong Kong People's Alliance on the WTO
Dear friends,
Urgent appeal by Hong Kong People's Alliance on the WTO
We write to request your immediate solidarity action against the Hong Kong government’s mass arrest and violence against the anti-WTO demonstrators on 17th and 18th December 2005. On the 5th day of the WTO MC6 in HK, thousands of local and overseas demonstrators marched from the Victoria Park to Wanchai Convention and Exhibition Centre where the WTO meeting was being held. They were stopped by thousands of HK Police around 5 PM. Soon the police used pepper spray, fire hose and subsequently tear gas bombs were fired upon the demonstrators without any warning. 60 demonstrators suffered injuries and 3 were hospitalized.
All of them were detained by the Police soon after discharged from the hospital.
Around 900 demonstrators peacefully sat in at the Gloucester Road but were surrounded by hundreds of armed police for ten hours. They were denied of food and other backups. Subsequently they were all arrested around 3.30AM of 18th December 2005.
The HKPA is trying our best to continue our struggle against the WTO and to plan more local and international actions for the immediate release of those who were/are being arrested, who are mainly non-HK residents.
18th December 2005
Suggested action:
Please send protest letter to the following persons:
Mr. Donald Tsng
Fax :(852) 2509 0577
E-mail :ceo@ceo.gov.hk
Mr. Pascal Lamy
General enquiries
Tel: (41-22) 739 51 11
Fax: (41-22) 731 42 06
email: enquiries@wto.org
cc to HKPA secretariat
For more information, please contact:
Mabel Au (pawto2005@yahoo.com.hk)
Phone no. 852-93250030
Urgent appeal by Hong Kong People's Alliance on the WTO
We write to request your immediate solidarity action against the Hong Kong government’s mass arrest and violence against the anti-WTO demonstrators on 17th and 18th December 2005. On the 5th day of the WTO MC6 in HK, thousands of local and overseas demonstrators marched from the Victoria Park to Wanchai Convention and Exhibition Centre where the WTO meeting was being held. They were stopped by thousands of HK Police around 5 PM. Soon the police used pepper spray, fire hose and subsequently tear gas bombs were fired upon the demonstrators without any warning. 60 demonstrators suffered injuries and 3 were hospitalized.
All of them were detained by the Police soon after discharged from the hospital.
Around 900 demonstrators peacefully sat in at the Gloucester Road but were surrounded by hundreds of armed police for ten hours. They were denied of food and other backups. Subsequently they were all arrested around 3.30AM of 18th December 2005.
The HKPA is trying our best to continue our struggle against the WTO and to plan more local and international actions for the immediate release of those who were/are being arrested, who are mainly non-HK residents.
18th December 2005
Suggested action:
Please send protest letter to the following persons:
Mr. Donald Tsng
Fax :(852) 2509 0577
E-mail :ceo@ceo.gov.hk
Mr. Pascal Lamy
General enquiries
Tel: (41-22) 739 51 11
Fax: (41-22) 731 42 06
email: enquiries@wto.org
cc to HKPA secretariat
For more information, please contact:
Mabel Au (pawto2005@yahoo.com.hk)
Phone no. 852-93250030
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