Headlines
  • False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
  • On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
  • Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
  • Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
  • It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
  • If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
  • It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
  • Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
  • AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
  • Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
  • One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
  • Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.

More Details

Family of Detained Hong Kong Teen Face Obstacles At Every Turn

Cheng Tsz-Ho

The family of a Hong Kong teenager detained in mainland China after he tried to flee to the democratic island of Taiwan says he hasn’t been allowed to see a lawyer, and that they have had scant assistance from the Hong Kong authorities.

Cheng Tsz-Ho, 18, is among 12 Hongkongers aged 16 to 33 being held on suspicion of “illegal immigration”  at the Yantian Detention Center in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.

They were intercepted by the China Coast Guard after they tried to escape by speedboat to the democratic island of Taiwan last month.

All 12 are suspected of committing crimes in Hong Kong, according to the city’s security bureau, with 10 of them wanted for manufacturing or possessing explosives, arson, rioting, assaulting police officers, or possession of offensive weapons.

Cheng didn’t tell his family where he was going when he joined the speedboat in a bid to smuggle himself illegally into Taiwan, and the first his family knew of his plight was from a police officer who informed them of his detention, passing on a photocopied certificate of detention “on suspicion of illegally crossing the border” on Aug. 23.

“I don’t think the Hong Kong government has offered any assistance at all,” Cheng’s sister told RFA in a recent interview. “My father did receive several phone calls from the government, asking if they could send someone to visit my brother.”

“My father asked what they could do to help, but they couldn’t answer that, and they had a pretty casual attitude,” she said, adding that the lawyer they tried to hire to represent her brother has been dismissed by the mainland authorities.

Detention center staff in Yantian have claimed that they are unable to verify the credentials of several lawyers hired by families in Hong Kong, and have denied them access to their clients.

At least four lawyers have been forced to relinquish their instructions in this way, RFA has learned, and not one has been allowed to meet with a client.

“Political tensions are rising in mainland China and it’s getting harder and harder to find a lawyer,” Cheng’s sister said. “I got a lawyer, but then he quit under political pressure and referred me to a different lawyer.”

Cheng said she is pursuing every avenue to keep the lawyer she hired, but expects her application to be rejected on the grounds that her brother has already been allocated a lawyer by the authorities.

Cheng’s family was among several who attended a news conference to hit out at the authorities for their lack of support for the 12 detainees.

Chief executive Carrie Lam and her officials have said it is entirely appropriate to allow the mainland authorities to process their cases “according to law,” given that many had “absconded” after facing criminal charges linked to the pro-democracy and anti-extradition protests.

Concerns over lack of help

But while the families have called for the return of the detainees, they have also raised concerns over the lack of assistance for those who need medical treatment, as well as the lack of visits by lawyers or relatives.

Incommunicado detention is a known risk factor for torture and other forms of mistreatment in detention, and has been linked to several high-profile torture cases in mainland China in recent years.

“It is normal for the families [of detainees] to appoint the lawyers and it is also our right,” Cheng’s sister said. “I don’t think this counts as interfering with mainland Chinese law enforcement; that is irrelevant.”

“What worries me the most is that he will be charged with separatist activity [under the new National Security Law for Hong Kong] and won’t be allowed to come back here for as long as he lives,” she said.

Cheng said the normally happy family is distraught and constantly on edge, waiting for news.

“I fear that there will never come another day when the whole family gathers to eat our meals together,” she said.

“Sometimes I burst out crying when I see my parents,” she said. “I don’t even know if my brother has enough to eat.”

“My mom cries a lot and has difficulty sleeping. I often dream about my brother, that he has gotten thin and has been hurt,” she said. “He is 18 years old. He usually spends all of his time studying or having fun.”

“I don’t know how he will cope in a detention center,” she said. “I am giving more media interviews so more people will know about these cases, and to stop my brother getting ‘disappeared’.”

“Right now, we can only take one day at a time,” she said. “If the government won’t help us, we will have to support ourselves.”

Thousands arrested, hundreds prosecuted

Authorities in Hong Kong are bringing hundreds of protest-related prosecutions dating from the anti-extradition and pro-democracy protests that began in June 2019 on a range of charges including unlawful assembly, assault, arson, and rioting.

While thousands of people have been arrested since the movement began, a U.S. State Department report warned in March that the prosecutions of activists had infringed on the rights of Hongkongers to peaceful assembly and protest.

A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted a man of “rioting” and common assault in connection with the siege by unarmed protesters of the Hong Kong police headquarters in June 2019.

Prosecutions under a draconian national security law imposed on Hong Kong by the ruling Chinese Communist Party on July 1 are also gathering pace.

U.S.-based pro-democracy group Freedom House on Thursday said the Hong Kong protest movement was among the recipients of its 2020 Freedom Award.

“As the Chinese government has heightened repression at home and expanded efforts to export its authoritarianism abroad, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement — a leaderless, people-led effort —has inspired the world,” the group said in a statement announcing the awards.

“Beijing’s sudden imposition of a repressive new national security law has made these efforts tremendously dangerous,” it said. “Yet the people of Hong Kong remain committed to defending their rights for future generations in new and creative ways.”

Reported by Gigi Lee for RFA’s Cantonese Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.

Copyright © 1998-2020, RFA. Used with the permission of Radio Free Asia, 2025 M St. NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20036. https://www.rfa.org

RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: A valid URL was not provided.

Subscribe Our You Tube Channel

Fighting Fake News

Fighting Lies








































Related Article

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024

Myanmar Junta Airstrike Kills Vhildren Playing…

Myanmar’s air force bombed a church where displaced people were sheltering near the border with Ch ...
November 18, 2024

Bangkok Court Clears Thai Woman of…

A Bangkok court on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman accused of supporting two Chinese ethnic Uyghur m ...
November 8, 2024

Residents of Kamala Harris’s Ancestral Indian…

At the Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the ancestral village of Kamala Harris, in Tamil Nadu, Indi ...
November 7, 2024

TikTok Deletes Videos Related to Uyghur…

Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps, including Chinese-owned ...
November 6, 2024

In Post-Hasina Bangladesh,Awami League Faces Uncertain…

With its leaders in jail or fleeing from justice, the party that led Bangladesh to independence and ...
October 29, 2024

Other Article

Video Report

Despite Risks,Unaccompanied Child Migrants Keep Crossing…

One of the top entry points for migrants under the age of eighteen who enter the United States witho ...
November 22, 2024
News & Views

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024
Video Report

Trapped in Lebanon, African Migrants Face…

Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jo ...
Pick of the Day

Permanent Representative of France Briefs Press…

Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after ...
November 20, 2024
Video Report

The Impact on a Ukrainian Family…

This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old ...
Pick of the Day

UN Security Council Meets to Discuss…

James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Presid ...
November 19, 2024

[wp-rss-aggregator feeds="crime-more-world"]
Top