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【12港人家屬聲明：立即回應家屬訴求】

12港人被送中至今已 53日，家屬仍未收到絲毫音訊。10月13日，其中一人的家屬委託的律師盧思位獲鹽田公安分局通知，稱被捕者已委託兩名律師，但拒絕向家屬披露律師身份。特首林鄭月娥北上會見國家主席習近平，若林鄭真的視自己為香港人的特首，斷無置 12港人生死安危於不顧之理，為港人發聲，林鄭政府責無旁貸。我們要求林鄭月娥當面向習近平反映 12港人遭受秘密關押之不法待遇，並直接向深圳有關部門施壓，查問並公開 12港人目前的狀況，以及「官派律師」的資料。

中國當局一再以不同藉口，拒絕家屬委託律師面見當事人，如今更強行指派「官派律師」予 12港人，我們至今仍無從得知律師名字，無法查問到 12港人的任何消息。我們相信，香港政府必定有渠道得知 12港人被強迫接受的律師人選，港府務必將此訊息向家屬及社會公開。

12港人被送中秘密關押一案，不僅攸關全香港社會的公眾利益，亦已成為國際曯目的人權事件，中國既以大國自居，以「陽光司法」為傲，何以對 12港人的案件一直左閃右避，不敢向港人及國際交代？目前，國際所見到的，只有中國的不公義與黑獄。

中方應藉此機會向世界展示其「陽光司法」有幾公平公正，而非繼續對被捕港人施以不人道對待，令中國司法體系的聲譽在國際上進一步受創。

12港人家屬要求林鄭向習近平及深圳當局，當面反映訴求，並回應家屬要求如下：

一、公佈12港人的官派律師名單

二、公開雷達記錄，交代警方在事件中的角色

三、香港政府官員現身，直接面對 12港人家屬

香港政府一再以謊言敷衍家屬及公眾、借「司法管轄權」為藉口迴避、推卸責任、12港人的家屬不會放棄追尋真相，及爭取 12港人盡快回港。思及 12港人現時極可能面對的酷刑及不人道的折磨，家屬萬分痛心，但始終為心繫香港、將香港置於自身安危之上的 12港人而驕傲，亦堅信 12港人會在囹圄內繼續堅持，直到重踏故土之日。

被秘密關押港人的家屬
2020年10月14日

[Oct 14: Statement by the families of the 12 Hongkongers: Demand for immediate response]

It has been 53 days since the 12 Hongkongers were sent to China, yet no news has been received by their families so far. On October 13, one of the family-appointed lawyers Lu Siwei, was informed by the Yantian Public Security Bureau that the arrested people had appointed two other lawyers, but they refused to disclose the identity of the lawyers to their families. The Chief Executive Carrie Lam is currently travelling to Shenzhen to meet President Xi Jinping. If Carrie Lam still regards herself as the Chief Executive of the people of Hong Kong, there is no reason for her to turn a blind eye to the life of the 12 Hongkongers and shall speak up for them. We hereby request Carrie Lam to escalate the issue of the illegal incommunicado detention of the 12 Hongkongers to Xi Jingping, and seek for direct pressure on the relevant bureau in Shenzhen to investigate and disclose the current situation of the 12 Hongkongers, as well as the information of the “government-appointed lawyers”.

The Chinese authorities have repeatedly used different excuses to refuse the family-appointed lawyers, and now they have even assigned "government-appointed lawyers" to the 12 Hongkongers. The families have no knowledge of the name of the government-appointed lawyers and thus no update of their family members can be inquired therein. The families believe that the Hong Kong Government must have a channel to find out the names of the lawyers whom the 12 Hongkongers were forced to accept, and the Government must disclose this information to the family members and the public.

The case of the 12 Hongkongers is not only a matter of public interest for Hong Kong as a whole, but has also become the international human rights issue. Given that the Chinese Authorities have always been proud of their "sunshine justice", they shall not shy away from the case of the 12 Hongkongers and refrain from responding to Hong Kong people and the international community.

Instead of continuing to treat the arrested Hongkongers inhumanely and further damaging the reputation of China's judicial system in the international arena, the Chinese authorities should take this opportunity to show the world the fairness and impartiality of their "sunshine justice".

The demands of the 12 families are as follows:

Releasing the list of government lawyers assigned to the 12 Hongkongers;

Release radar records to account for the police's role in the incident; and

Direct meeting with Hong Kong Government Officials.

The Hong Kong Government has persistently lied to the families and public, using "jurisdiction" as an excuse to evade and shirk their responsibilities. The families of the 12 Hongkongers will not give up in finding the truth and will fight for the expeditious return of the 12 Hongkongers. Despite the fact that the families are in great pain that 12 Hongkongers might be facing inhumane torture, they are still proud of the 12 Hongkongers who care about Hong Kong and place Hong Kong above their own safety. They are also convinced that the 12 Hongkongers will continue to persevere behind bars until the day they return to their homeland.

Family members of Hong Kong residents being held in incommunicado

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[On Mar 18 2020, Professor David Lung at the University of Hong Kong and his colleague Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a world-renowned expert in microbiology and infectious diseases, withdrew their op-ed in the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao, in which they elucidated the origin and naming of the Wuhan Coronavirus, and criticized "inferior Chinese culture" for being the origin of the present pandemic. This led to allegations that the Chinese and Hong Kong governments are covering up the truth and suppressing academic freedom. Below is an English translation of this op-ed. Please spread the word and expose the truth!]

Outbreak in Wuhan shows that lessons from seventeen years ago are forgotten - David Lung and Yuen Kwok-yung, University of Hong Kong [translated from Chinese]

The novel coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan in Winter 2019, and engulfed the entire province of Hubei by Spring 2020; the number of cases in China grew to over 80,000, with at least 3,000 deaths. The outbreak in China slowed down only after a month-long lockdown, which has failed to curtail the spread of the disease overseas by March 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) was sluggish in response and failed to declare this a pandemic in a timely fashion. Shortage of relevant measures and protective gear around the world contributed to the global outbreak. Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Republic of China have so far been spared of the pandemic, though cases linked to overseas travel have yet to cease.

This pandemic is caused by a coronavirus, thus named because of its shape. From 2015 onwards, the WHO has ceased to name diseases using monikers for people, places, animals, food, culture, or occupations. As such, they labeled the disease using the year of the outbreak; thus the designation COVID-19. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) used viral genome sequencing as the sole criterion for the naming of viruses; because the similarity between the genetic sequences of the SARS coronavirus and the present novel coronavirus, which therefore is not truly "novel", the ICTV designated the novel coronavirus as "SARS-CoV-2.0". Media organizations and the public call this the Wuhan Coronavirus or the Wuhan Pneumonia; this is perfectly fine because of its simplicity.

There has been heated debate over the naming of the pandemic. As a matter of fact, the disease is named by the WHO and the virus is named by the ICTV; the common name is purely a customary matter and suffices to serves it purpose as long as it is simple and clear. The official names of COVID-19 for the disease, or SARS-CoV-2 for the virus, must be used in scientific and academic discourse. However, the simplicity of the popular designations "Wuhan Coronavirus" and "Wuhan Pneumonia" are far more conducive to daily communication and conversations in the media.

The 2020 pandemic originated in Wuhan

Roughly 75% of novel diseases can be traced to wild animals; the ancestral virus from which several mammalian coronaviruses descend can be traced to bats or birds, both of which can fly over a distance of several thousands of kilometers to the location of first discovery of the virus. As such, the nomenclature of viruses may utilize the name of the location of discovery. The most accurate and objective means to identify the origin of the virus is to isolate the virus from the animal host. However, the Huanan Seafood Market had been cleared, and live wild animals vacated, by the time researchers had arrived for live samples. Consequently, the identity of the natural and intermediate hosts of the coronavirus is unclear. According to local personnel, the wild games in the Huanan Seafood Market are shipped and smuggled from various locations in China, Southeast Asia, and Africa; it remains impossible to identify the ancestry of the Wuhan Coronavirus.

Viral genome sequencing shows a 96% similarity between the Wuhan Coronavirus and the viral strain RaTG13 found in bats, lending credence to the belief that the RaTG13 strain is the ancestral virus for the Wuhan Coronavirus. This viral strain can be isolated from the bat species Rhinolophus sinicus found in Yunnan, China; thus bats are believed to be the natural host to the Wuhan Coronavirus. Epidemiological studies show definitively that the Huanan Seafood Market was the amplification epicenter, where the transmission of the virus from the natural host to the intermediate host likely occurred, before a mutation to a form that can adapt to the human body, followed by human-to-human transmission.

The identity of the intermediate host remains unclear; viral genome sequencing, however, reveals a 90% similarity between the spike receptor-binding domain of the Wuhan Coronavirus and of the coronavirus strain found in pangolins. While uncertainties remain for us to unambiguously identify the pangolin as the intermediate host, it is extremely likely that the pangolin coronavirus strain donated the spike receptor-binding domain genetic sequence, or even the entire gene section, to the bat coronavirus strain, culminating in the novel coronavirus upon DNA shuffling.

Wild animal market: the origin of numerous viruses

The SARS outbreak in 2003 can be traced to Heyuan prior to engulfing Guangdong and ravaging Hong Kong. The SARS Coronavirus was found in the masked palm civet; China has subsequently outlawed the sales of live wild animals. Seventeen years later, wild animal markets have instead grown unabashed, in flagrant violation of the law. The Chinese people have forgotten the lessons of SARS in their entirety. The glaring appearance of live wild animal markets in city centers, and the egregious acts of selling, cooking, and eating these wild animals, constitute a stunning and blatant disregard for the laws. The feces of these wild animals carry large concentrations of bacteria and viruses; the crowded set-up, the poor hygiene, and the proximity of different animal species are extremely conducive to DNA shuffling and genetic mutations. As such, these markets need to be banned outright.

Remodeling of markets is key to the prevention of epidemics. The Chinese and Hong Kong governments must promptly improve the set-up of markets by enhancing ventilation and getting rid of rats and pests. Before the elimination of all live poultry markets becomes a reality, animal feces found in these markets must be handled properly to lower the chances of genetic shuffling between viruses.

Internet conspiracies of an U.S. origin of the virus is not supported by facts, and only serves to mislead the public. The dissemination of conspiracy theories needs to stop. Transparency is first and foremost in the fight against an epidemic; we need cool heads and rational analysis in place of hearsay and falsehood. The failure to close all live wild animal markets post-SARS was a colossal mistake; to win the battle over the pandemic, we must face reality, and not repeat the same mistakes while leaving the blame upon others. The Wuhan Coronavirus is a product of inferior Chinese culture -\-\ the culture of recklessly catching and eating wild animals, and treating animals inhumanely, with an utter disrespect and disregard of lives. This inferior culture of the Chinese people -\-\ specifically the consumption of wild animals to satiate themselves -\-\ is the true origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus. If these habits and attitudes remain in place, SARS 3.0 will certainly happen in a matter of a decade or so.

以上翻譯來自：
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外媒報道：
https://www.nytimes.com/…/19reuters-health-coronavirus-hong…

https://www.nasdaq.com/…/adviser-to-hong-kong-on-coronaviru…