mungkin ya mungkin doa atau harapan anda itu bisa jadi kenyataan, bisa jadi 
mereka atau salah satu dapat nobel. kelihatannya banyak yg mengusulkan. apakah 
termasuk anda? 

---In [email protected], <SADAR@...> wrote :

 Hahahaaa, ... baguuussslah kalau pejuang-pejuang pemuda Demokrat yang BERHASIL 
divonis 6-8 bulan PENJARA ini bisa dinobatkan pemenang Hadia Nobel! Lalu 
disejajarkan dengan pembela PERDAMAIAN, DEMOKRASI macam Auung San Suuky. ... 
Tanpa melihat kenyataan konkrit yang mereka lawan adalah pemerintah HK yang 
sudah jauh lebih demokratis ketimbang masa KOLONI Inggris! Bahwa mereka 
menuntut lebih demokratis tentu boleh-boleh saja, tapi mereka LUPA bahwa setiap 
perjuangan tidak boleh menginjak HUKUM dan UU yang berlaku! TIDAK BOLEH main 
labrak dan gunakan KEKERASAN yang merusak keamanan, ketertiban masyartakat, 
...! 
  
  
 
 From: Jonathan Goeij jonathangoeij@... [GELORA45] 
 Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 4:20 AM
 To: Yahoogroups 
 Subject: [GELORA45] A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong’s Democrats


  

   
 A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong’s Democrats 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/hong-kong-democrats-prison-nobel.html

  
 
 Opinion | A Nobel Prize for Hong Kong’s Democrats By Bari Weiss
 Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow are prisoners of conscience in the 
tradition of Andrei Sakharov and Vaclav...
 
  
  
 By BARI WEISS AUG. 17, 2017
  

  
 

  
 Leaders of the “Umbrella Movement” Nathan Law, left, Joshua Wong, center, and 
Alex Chow at a rally in Hong Kong on Wednesday. CreditTyrone Siu/Reuters

  
 Here’s a suggestion for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, which opens its 
nominating season next month https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/: Look 
to the three young men who earlier today became Hong Kong’s first prisoners of 
conscience.
 In 2014, the courageous trio helped lead what become known as the Umbrella 
Movement — an enormous political protest defending Hong Kong’s freedoms from an 
increasingly aggressive Beijing. Like Andrei Sakahorv, Vaclav Havel, Aung San 
Suu Kyi and so many dissidents that came before them, the men were hit with a 
bogus charge (“unlawful assembly”), were found guilty and served out their 
punishments last year.
 But today 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/asia/hong-kong-joshua-wong-jailed-umbrella-movement.html,
 Hong Kong’s Department of Justice decided that those penalties were too 
lenient.
 Joshua Wong, who burst onto the city’s political scene at 14 years old and is 
the public face of its democracy movement, was sentenced to six months. Nathan 
Law and Alex Chow were sentenced to seven and eight months, respectively. All 
three had budding political careers, but these new sentences bar them from 
running for public office for the next five years.
 As Mr. Wong put it to a reporter from The New York Times before his 
sentencing: “The government wanted to stop us from running in elections and 
directly suppress our movement.” He added: “There’s no longer rule of law in 
Hong Kong. It’s rule by law.” Just so.
 The implications of their imprisonment are monumental. Since Britain handed 
over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has 
operated under the notion of “one country, two systems.” That increasingly 
appears to be an empty slogan. “The outcome isn’t just a travesty for these 
three peaceful pro-democracy activists or free speech — it’s also a painfully 
clear sign that Beijing’s political dictates are eating away at Hong Kong’s 
judiciary, an institution essential to the territory’s autonomy,” Sophie 
Richardson, the China director of Human Rights Watch, told me.
  
 Derek Lam, Mr. Wong’s best friend and a key activist in the movement, put it 
even more bluntly in a call from Hong Kong: “The court of Hong Kong is a slave 
of the Chinese government.” He added: “The judge doesn’t acknowledge that 
democracy, freedom and human rights are the reasons Joshua is doing this. He 
just kept insisting that they were inciting violence.”

  
 Mr. Lam, who aspires to become a pastor, could soon be accused of the same: 
Next month he faces sentencing 
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/27/hong-kong-surge-political-prosecutions for 
his role in a 2016 protest.
 “I am heartbroken. All my friends went to jail today. I might join them next 
month,” he told me. “But we will never regret what we have done. What we are 
doing is correct. It is the truth. And we will persist.” That relentless spirit 
was echoed by Mr. Law, Mr. Chow and Mr. Wong today. As Mr. Wong, just 20 years 
old, put it on Twitter before he was jailed: “You can lock up our bodies, but 
not our minds! We want democracy in Hong Kong. And we will not give up.”
 The battle these young people are waging is far bigger than their futures — or 
even than Hong Kong itself. They are among some of the most prominent leaders 
pushing an authoritian China to honor its international and political 
commitments. Can a handful of Davids hold a Goliath to account? The imprimatur 
of a Nobel Prize would help.
 Bari Weiss (@bariweiss https://twitter.com/bariweiss) is a staff editor and 
writer in The Times opinion section.










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