At the time, she was the vice chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which had been the organizer of the annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil on June 4 at Victoria Park since the first anniversary in 1990. [...] The fact that the authorities keep throwing new charges at Chow for the one thing she did—organize commemorations to honor those killed by their government for peacefully demanding freedom and democracy—only speaks to the insecurity that she inspires in her own government and in Beijing. [...] • Court order bans protest anthem, YouTube blocks access: On May 8, the Hong Kong Appellate Court banned the distribution of “Glory to Hong Kong,” a song widely considered the unofficial anthem of the 2019 prodemocracy protest movement. [...] On May 11, six committee members of the mosque were ordered by local authorities to attend a meeting aimed at addressing “unlawful religious activities.” According to the mosque’s members, during the meeting its widely revered imam was tarred as “fake re- ligious personnel,” and the administrative committee was accused of “illegal- ly controlling the religious power.” Their 40-year-old scripture s. [...] Upon the completion of upgrade, the system should be capable of creating a file for each targeted individual, including, via facial recognition technology, features such as gender, age, Uyghur identity, and the presence of glasses, as required in the project specifications.
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