oh oh oh. oh. oh oh oh. respects. this is news asia coming up this sucker off prize goes to meeker activist. with china condemned to life in prison he spoke out against beijing's persecution of his people. and local elections in hong kong becomes the new battleground for the pro and anti beijing campaign will need 2 candidates facing off across the political divide. this strict council elections ready attracts huge amounts of attention

particularly outside hong kong but this here that is radically different. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the european parliament has awarded its pristine just human rights award the soccer prize to iran toady he is the professor and member of the ethnic muslim minority called weekers who mostly live in china beijing has gone after this group putting an estimated 1000000 of them according to the u.n. in detention camps yes you heard that right detention camps it's the largest internment of people since world war 2 toady is serving a life sentence he probably doesn't even know he's won this award china says he's a separatist but what he says. ed and what he tried to do with simply to convey the

feelings weekers had about how china was running xing john the territory where most of them may have. made me or that i feel we have no representative no newspaper of our own i forgot what can ordinary people do when they encounter in justice to draw some of them will fight resist for you even know why a person falling so i believe there will be more and more violent resistance by ordinary people if government policies start changing condo or your day with care when is the spokesperson for the world congress peter tell us a little more about. so. is an economics professor we're economics professor taught at men's university in beijing i think there's one thing you could say about him is he is a voice of moderation reconciliation that was reflected in the of the european parliament decision today he advocated fairly openly for dialogue between iran and

leaders and he said with a side of your business that and 6 primarily as a means of encouraging conversation between these groups to overcome in some ways the states of florida divisions that are very deeply rooted in some of the conversations challenges and one of the foundational nissen is that enforced by the chinese communist party for that work he was arrested in just in 14 and he was denied access to a lawyer for 6 months after his detention in a trial lasted 2 days and was i think gives you a sense of china's legal system his lawyers without evidence for the on the prosecutor all requests for witnesses were refused by the court time subsequently sends them to life in prison for inciting separatism and in the media that we need to understand is that he never course culver separatism he was the exact opposite he was a boy says what a racial reconciliation. now peter i remember i spoke to back in 2010 when i was based in beijing and he also struck me as a voice of moderation in many ways he's sort of like the model minority

a what china says they want to see and yet even he could not escape the clutches of a getting in you know stuck in the system so what kind of leader model minority do the chinese want to see if even iran is in prison for life. i think some things with his case have been become the didn't work clear in the subsequent years after his detention in sentencing i think what they want to see what a model minority as uncomfortable as they are using that kind of language is someone who is essentially just chinese music is up to the characteristics of the communist party of the ford speaking chinese basically deconstructing the great vanity does that sort of goes against what the chinese want i think for him he's criticized as aussies but i think he has the qualities you saw i was going to productive in such a way that was constructive you know quite a clear vice of the government and actually solve these problems and what he sends them indicates is that i think the chinese government is not interested in actually

solving these problems in the 4 or 5 years afterwards the cattleman after the couple 1000000 people give this clarity in terms of what actually they don't want to do and that's undermine the big identity itself and not solve the deeper problems tell us what you know about the latest concerning these camps. well the moment estimates put the number of detention detainees in the camps into 12000000 perhaps upwards of 3000000 people these people are still taking in camps essentially what the government calls into the case some training centers are more like in german camps for indoctrinate that we your population has incurred is there also detained as well. and then of course beyond the cancer itself is quite extensive security surveillance system in the region so of course people perhaps need to be released from the cast but there's such a clump of fear at the moment in the region that you lose the free to speak at all is it sort of a more general policy to undermine an essential need to get an expression there of peter irwin thank you finally hung's government has

withdrawn the unpopular extradition bill that 1st kicked off protests months ago it would have allowed people to be transferred to mainland china to face a separate far more unreliable court system and now it looks as though kerry land the territory's chief executive might step down before her term ends so protesters in hong kong should be happy right well if there were campaigning and local elections which are exactly one month away are any indication they've still got a lot to say it's essentially become a single issue vote are you for or against ageing here's the charge that charlie kills report. $82.00 and michael long or an opposing sides of the political spectrum but both are already feeling the heat and one of the most divisive district council elections in memory. pro stablish one councillor michael wang is running for a 3rd term this was previously

a safe seat but months of pro-democracy protests have turned this election on its head the some i'm feeling really frustrated. matter how much we do for the local community people don't care. only care now about your stance on the protests and whether you're for or against the protesters demands. that. it's not just reelection at stake michael was among a number of pro stablish lawmakers whose officers have been vandalized in recent weeks he's now boarded up his doors concerned mounting public anger has turned him into a target. nor make a chew also feeds more violence several pro-democracy candidates have been physically attacked a handful of also face challenges from the authorities $82.00 among them he was threatened with disqualification over his stance on self-determination beijing is

very. anxious 1st. coming election. i would say it is even more important. election next year. both sides know this election could have far reaching implications district council is formed part of the committee that will select the next chief executive in 2022 which means they will have some limited say in the next leader of hong kong district council elections rarely attract huge amounts of attention particularly outside hong kong but this year that is radically different everyone watching the results of this election very closely with some even wondering whether the day's will even be allowed to go ahead i given the current unrest some pretty beijing politicians are calling for the vote to be suspended but others fear that could set a dangerous precedent and further fuel public anger if we do not have this.

disregard. that that means we will lose a crucial peaceful way for people to avoid all of this for months movement and will possibly food as. well as on the streets i this vote has become a referendum on a movement and with a month before voters go to the polls candidates face an uncertain few weeks ahead with weekly protests and anxious authorities capable of shaking up the political climate in an instant. i. we have wilson leon from hong kong's progressive lawyers group i should add there are pro-democracy organization was on i looked at the last poll numbers from one of the more trusted news outlets in hong kong known for their fact based coverage just 6 percent of people in support of probating candidates tell us more. yeah i think that particular poll

shows the number of people who self identify themselves as in the probation camp so it's not necessarily the same number of people who would actually go and vote for the same count but despite that there's no doubt that the support for the probe aging pro-government side of the political spectrum is falling we see the trust in the hong kong government collapsing trust in the police collapsing and of course that then feeds in to probe aging side of the political elite political spectrum they benefit when the government is doing well they benefit from funds from popularity but when the government is doing wholly then they suffer the consequential damage and that's probably going to be seen in the november district council elections. why do you think there still appears to be so much support for the protest movement even when some of the activists have been frankly than july's ing and throwing molotov cocktails as seen in some recent polls there are concerns

about protesters use of vandalism and some violence but the number of people who are concerned about police brutality and police excessive force is way higher so there was a one recent poll which said 40 percent of people thought protesters were using too much violence but compared to the 70 percent or above thought that the police were using excessive violence and force so there's a lot of concern about that and obviously there's a disparity in the sense that protesters who are using illegal force will be arrested tried and dealt with according to the law but the concern about the police side of the equation is that the police seem to be getting away with whatever they want to do. the extradition bill which originally kicked off protests months ago has now been withdrawn there are rumors leader kerry lamb will step down so are protesters are you satisfied oh it's probably too little too late but this this

time if the bill have it withdrawn at the beginning of the protests then maybe it would have satiated some people but by this time about 4 and a half months in isabel a lot more than the extradition bill now it's about police brutality overall it's about unaccountable government and people are realizing that what they really need is structural reform. within their own thank you. thank you. that's our show for today you can find more on our web site b w dot com for asia and on facebook and twitter as well please let us know what you think about what we cover and what you would like to see. leave you with pictures what pictures of this year's soccer off prize recipient. thank you for watching see you next time i.

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