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Justice and human rights upset no one, except for evils

Have you ever heard dissidents who are suppressed in hometown cannot speak out for themselves even in a refuge because such experience is deemed to 'upset' others?

Can you imagine such on-going censorship we have been experiencing in even such liberal democracy could be in the name of 'impartiality', or even 'peace', 'love' and 'tolerance'?

We see board games for educating civil liberty and human rights which is banned in Hong Kong could be also rejected in the UK, we are told 'it may upset some people', 'peace is disturbed'.

We see crafts with a message about 'Free Hong Kong' in a market which is banned in Hong Kong could be also removed in the UK, we are ridiculed by 'no politics' in community festivals.

A Chinese state leader CY Leung publicly advocates anonymous people to secretly monitor exiled community events and grass on those 'who upset or shame the authorities' to the police.

A board game was banned yesterday, a craft is removed today, we are not surprised if songs, pictures, books, even human dignity we stand for will be cancelled tomorrow.

We are told all 'compromises' are for the sake of 'taking care of others' feeling' - for love, for peace, for tolerance. No, none. That is a de-facto censorship, and even a vilification.

If we don't stop this misperception, such works for social justice and even victims of human rights abuses are mistakenly seen as a source of inconvenience and disturbance.

We urge a continued vigilance in the defence of our freedom in the UKevents about human rights and civic education should be equally treated with respect and without let and hindrance.

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