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Edward Snowden’s Escape from Hong Kong [audio]
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#12Short summary: There's a two week period in Hong Kong missing from the film CitizenFour and this talk is about the three refugee families and their lawyer who sheltered and protected Snowden in that time in Hong Kong. Also how asylum seekers in Hong Kong have a 0.3% chance of being accepted and how any assistance (if any) these people have gotten before have been cut by the government after their involvement with Snowden. The talks seeks raising awareness for them and shows a few ways of how donations for them are being collected. Also, one of the refugees, Vanessa from the Philippines, was skyped in live, which was quite touching.
There's not a lot of revealing new info here, but wonderful people in dire need of support.
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#13The story begins around 18:30.
After listening to these folks explain the situation of refugees and their legal status in HK, one wonders a bit why EJS decided to go there as his first stop.
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#14Text summary, for those who value their time?
It would be nice that when submitting something, Title, URL AND summary would be mandatory... At least couple of sentances.
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#15I feel for Lena Rohrbach. That was a nightmare presentation, gets 5 minutes into her part of the talk and the power dies on her laptop.
Lena handled it very gracefully. She gives a very quick synopsis of what her part of the talk would have been around the 41 minute mark.
The whole presentation was plagued by gremlins; the substance begins with Sönke Iversen's part of the talk around 13:45.
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#17The story begins around 18:30. After listening to these folks explain the situation of refugees and their legal status in HK, one wonders a bit why EJS decided to go there as his first stop.
There is a short list of countries that won't actively help the US, be bullied into helping the US, and be able to protect defectors from the CIA. China is vulnerable to economic pressure from the US, Russia is to a lesser extent.
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#18Article in the Handelsblatt about the same time frame of Snowdens hiding in Hong-Kong: https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/edward-snowdens-gua...
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#20The story begins around 18:30. After listening to these folks explain the situation of refugees and their legal status in HK, one wonders a bit why EJS decided to go there as his first stop.
Well apart from China (which rules Hong Kong) or Russia, where else would he go? Maybe India as a last resort (India's protected the Dalai Lama for many decades).