一名戴着面具的單獨示威者被穿着防暴裝備的8名警察小隊包圍,該抗議者帶有「你可以嚇我們,但你不能阻止我們」的標誌。
現場象徵着當前香港抗議活動中大衛與歌利亞的局勢。在這種情況下,巨人歌利亞是中國的極權國家,無效的行政長官及其政府和國際特赦組織認為使用過度武力及違反了國際法的警察。
這位單獨的年輕女示威者只有她的抗議標語可以在心理上保護自己,而她的面具則可以保護她的身份。但是,最近特首林鄭援引殖民時代的《緊急法》使《禁蒙面法》生效後,她可能會被入罪。
A masked lone protester carrying a sign “you can scare us but you can’t stop us” was surrounded by a squad of 8 police in riot gear, outside Sogo department store in Causeway Bay this afternoon.
The scene is symbolic of the David vs Goliath situation in the current protests in Hong Kong. The giant Goliath, in this case, is the authoritarian Chinese state, the ineffectual chief executive and her government, and the police, whose excessive use of force was found by Amnesty International to be a violation of international law.
The lone young female protester only has her protest sign to protect herself psychologically and her mask to shield her identity. But after the recent “mask ban law” put into effect by Carrie Lam who invoke the colonial-era “emergency laws”, she could be in violation.
楊必興 P H Yang
專業攝影師。人生上半場在IBM、惠普和匯豐銀行等跨國公司擔任高級技術及管理層的IT人。數十年後,楊必興改變了軌跡,選擇追求他對攝影的終身熱愛。他屢獲殊榮,在三藩市、華盛頓、北京和香港曾舉辦十多場個人攝影展,包括香港PMQ開幕攝影展。作品經常在國際媒體的首頁刋登,包括CNN、CrowdSpark(前Newzulu、Citizenside)、Demotix、《三藩市紀事報》、Hong Kong Free Press、香港01、《信報月刊》、《明報》、《蘋果日報》、TVB等。他的作品授權《Lonely Planet旅遊指南》和港龍航空機上雜誌《絲路》刊登。2015年榮獲香港人權藝術獎。
Professional photographer. After decades working as an IT professional in senior technical and management positions with multinationals such as IBM, HP and HSBC, P H Yang changed tack and chose to pursue his life-long passion in photography. Award-winning photographer Yang is an exhibited and published artist in North America and Asia. His work is frequently featured on the front page of international media – CNN; CrowdSpark (formerly Newzulu, Citizenside) and Demotix; San Francisco Chronicle; Hong Kong Free Press; Hong Kong 01; Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly; Ming Pao; Apple Daily; TVB...His work is licensed by Lonely Planet travel guides and Dragonair's in-flight magazine Silkroad. Yang has held over 10 solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Washington DC, Beijing and Hong Kong including PMQ's opening photo exhibition. Yang won the Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize in 2015.
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