An advocacy officer of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was deported from Hong Kong after arrival on 10 April to monitor the national security trial of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. This is the first time any RSF representative has been denied entry or held at the Hong Kong airport. Aleksandra Bielakowska, a Polish national, visited the city in June and December last year to meet journalists and attend court hearings. The Immigration Department said only that it would act according to laws and policies in handling each case.
Hong Kong accountant Jacky Ho, 43, was sentenced on 10 April to two years and nine months in jail for rioting inside Yuen Long train station on 21 July 2019. Ho’s riot conviction was the first for anyone who was at the mass fighting scene and was not part of the armed mob in white clothes that set off the initial attacks. During the trial, the judge noted Ho did not leave the station although he had several opportunities to do so. He also said the defendant had thrown a soda can at the white-clad group and used an umbrella to shield people clothed in black.
A severe fire broke out in a densely populated residential building in Jordan, Kowloon, on 10 April, killing five people and injuring 41. Secretary for Security Chris Tang appeared on-site in a firefighter’s jacket and helmet, sparking ridicule from online commenters that he was there for show.
HongKonger, a digital artwork by Hong Kong migrant to the United Kingdom Jack So, has found its way to an online exhibition of Impressionist creations following a voting contest held by the Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida, United States. The artwork shows a haphazard mass of floating translucent tubes in a Hong Kong train cabin. The museum had organised Dalí’s Impressionism Art Contest and invited the public to share and vote on original artworks inspired by the Impressionism movement.