《陳情書》在831七週年悼念會上傳誦
美國香港人會館（US Hongkongers Club）
撰文：關永傑
上一位被稱為“香港的女兒”的，是香港著名歌星梅艷芳。
如果說梅艷芳是香港從小漁村發展成為亞洲金融中心的輝煌歷程見證者，那麼鄒幸彤，則是見證了香港從高度自由、文明與法治的巔峰，到被中共正式接管後，經濟萎靡，並且公民權益日益破敗、令人悲愴的沒落時代。
但她們有一個共同點：無論時代如何改變，都沒有放棄對良知、公義、自由與尊嚴的堅守。
根據公開資料，鄒幸彤出生、成長於香港。自幼她便跟隨母親到維多利亞公園參加“六四”燭光悼念。2003年，她以香港高級程度會考5A的優異成績進入英國劍橋大學，後來繼續攻讀地球物理學博士，研究方向涉及喜馬拉雅山、青藏高原的地質運動與地震。
然而，2008年的汶川大地震改變了她的人生。當一些同行看到的是一堆難得的地震研究數據時，她首先看到的，卻是無數失去生命和家園的人。但更令她失望的是，科研並不能獨立於政治環境而存在，中共政府因政治、維穩等因素撤走了青藏高原上的地質數據收集站，她原本的科研道路因此難以繼續。
她開始意識到：自己真正關心的，也許不應該是冰冷的科學數據，而是數據背後一個個活生生的人。於是，她放棄了已近在咫尺的博士學位，回到香港。
如果說魯迅當年因為“學醫已救不了中國人”而棄醫從文，那麼鄒幸彤走的，是一條相似卻屬於這個時代的道路——科學確實是有助推動社會進步，但現實中卻有很多人被遺棄在原地，於是，她便選擇去幫助那些正在現實中受苦的人。
2010年回港後，她曾在支聯會（香港市民支援愛國民主運動聯合會）工作，後來轉為義工，並參與中國內地勞工權益工作。那時她發現自己的法律知識不足，於是她再次發揮她那超強的學習能力，從頭開始讀法律，最終成為香港執業大律師。2014年，她當選支聯會常委；2015年底，成為支聯會副主席。
她本來完全可以選擇另一種人生。憑她的學歷和能力，她可以成為一個生活優渥的專業人士，可以遠離政治，可以擁有穩定、體面而且安全的中產生活。
但她沒有，因為她無法對苦難袖手旁觀。
2021年，香港國安法實施後，支聯會被迫解散。鄒幸彤也因此被捕、長期羈押。2026年8月21日，香港高等法院裁定支聯會、李卓人及鄒幸彤“煽動顛覆國家政權罪”罪成。法院認定，支聯會“結束一黨專政”的行動綱領構成相關犯罪意圖。
但真正震撼世界的，可能不是8月21日的判決，而是她8月28日的陳情。
在香港法律程序中，這原本應該是“求情”階段。然而，鄒幸彤在法庭上明確拒絕使用法律術語中的“求情”（Mitigation），而堅持使用“陳情”。她強調自己無罪可求，所做的一切是為了守護歷史記憶。
陳情書重點總結：
1.拒絕求情，堅稱無罪：她認為悼念六四無罪，真正需要求情和認罪的是那些掩蓋歷史、打壓自由的人。
2.寧做罪犯，不背叛良知：她表示如果法庭必須判刑，她寧願在體制中做一個“永遠的罪犯”，也絕不背叛自己的良知。
3.守護真相與記憶：她強調點燃燭光是為了對抗遺忘，不能讓威權抹殺歷史。
4.對香港法治的質問：她直言如果法律淪為剝奪人民基本權利的工具，那麼這種法律就已經失去了公義。
此陳情書一出，即在網絡快速傳播。八九學運領袖之一、“中國人權”執行主任周鋒鎖先生發推文力薦：“……她的法庭陳情書字字千鈞，值得鏤之金石。世界各地的抗議者都應該接力朗讀——這是一篇屬於我們時代的民主自由宣言。”
這是一份寫給歷史的陳情書。法律可以限制人的身體，卻未必能夠控制人的思想；牢籠可以讓一個人失去自由，卻不能強迫一個人相信謊言。
梅艷芳被稱為“香港的女兒”。1989年，她站出來聲援八九民運，並在六四鎮壓後深度參與並支持“黃雀行動”，為營救學運人士出錢出力。她用自己的名望和財富，幫助那些身處險境的年輕人逃出生天。
而鄒幸彤沒有梅艷芳那樣耀眼的舞台，卻選擇站在另一個時代的風暴中心，在謊言成為政權基石，效忠威權成為主流，爭取自由反而會成為罪犯的當今香港，她堅持不背叛自己的良知。
梅艷芳，是從香港的輝煌中站出來的人；鄒幸彤，則是在香港的自由不斷收縮之後，依然不肯低頭的人。一個用財富和影響力，一個用自己的專業、青春乃至自由，她們卻共同守護著同一樣東西——香港人的良知與尊嚴。
當一個人擁有足夠的能力去選擇安逸的時候，她仍然選擇了責任；當她擁有足夠的條件遠離政治的時候，她仍然選擇面對不公；當她終於無法逃避要面對高牆和牢獄的時候，她仍然沒有背叛自己的良知。
在剛剛過去的舊金山灣區“831”七週年紀念活動中，我們悼念那些因為爭取自由、權利與尊嚴而身陷囹圄，甚至失去生命的香港人。
七年前，只有七百萬人口的香港，竟然有數次上百萬人走上街頭表達訴求，場面之宏大，震撼了世界。
七年後，鄒幸彤的一紙陳情書，卻帶來了另一種震撼——從街頭的集體吶喊，走向了個人的精神堅守。
8月31日，我們依然能看到太子地鐵站口有人手持白花默站，期間有人高喊“831我們要真相”等口號；港鐵車廂內，有人在站點路線圖太子站位置貼上“法治已死”貼紙；由於當天香港下雨，更有人撐起印有“撐自由，反惡法”字樣的黃雨傘出現在太子地鐵站出口。隨後，有多名在封鎖線內情緒激動的市民被強押上警車。
831灣區傍晚的海邊，寒風蕭瑟。我們也在這裡默站、獻花，在感懷過往中抒發情感，並摯情回應周鋒鎖先生的倡議，分別用普通話與廣東話朗讀鄒幸彤的陳情書。對於在場每一位關心香港、熱愛香港，並為那片土地此刻所經歷的苦難而感到無比憤恨的人來說，我們心中都翻湧著一種幸存者的內疚，同時，也感受到跨越地域的苦難共鳴。
編輯：鐘然 校对：毛一炜 翻译：沈美花
（陳情書全文，圖片內容來自網絡，關永傑搜集整理，旨在傳播，無經營用途，如有侵權，請通知刪除）.
在鄒幸彤那法理清晰、風骨凜然的文句中，我們看到了堅韌與希望，她彷彿在召喚：牢籠鎖不住思想，香港人追求自由、勇於抗爭的精神不會泯滅，只要還有人在傳誦，只要還有人在傾聽，這粒種子就會不斷傳播下去。
“結束一黨專政，建設民主中國”，這是和平理性的表達，絕不是罪。強權的紅線，從來都不是我們的底線；有些真相，不能遺忘；有些自由，值得用一生去守護。
香港的燭光雖然已被禁止，但它並沒有熄滅。
燭光如海
人心成濤
粉身拍岸
不平不休
香港831事件七週年舊金山灣區悼念會現場圖片與內容摘要
（上圖為當天活動派發的民間傳單，其內容主要是對多年來網絡上流傳的社群輿論及大眾訴求進行的摘要與收集。儘管這些針對當年具體衝突傷亡的激烈措辭，在法律層面上至今缺乏官方確鑿的證據支持，但它們在網絡與民間的廣泛存在，恰恰折射出一個無可爭議的現實：由於政府當局在事件處理過程中的信息不透明、僅公開部分監控片段，其回應完全無法讓公眾信服，從而引發了社會大眾長期的、巨大的質疑。本文將這份傳單作為現場檔案予以完整記錄，並非為了進行司法意義上的事實定論，而是為了留存這段因強權掩蓋真相而衍生出的民間集體記憶符號，以及大眾對真相未竟的追問。）
支聯會五大綱領之一：結束一黨專政。
悼念會現場，灣區的傍晚時分氣溫驟降。
831七週年悼念會主持人施臻營（左）、關永傑（右）。施臻營指出，“831事件”至今已過去七年，但太子站當晚的監控畫面仍沒有全部公開，真相至今未明。她提到，今年前往太子站悼念、手持鮮花的民眾仍會被警方帶走或封鎖限制，反映出香港自由空間依然在持續收窄。對此，她呼籲外界不要遺忘，應持續關注和支持目前仍被關押的香港抗爭者。
主持人關永傑補充道，長期生活在中國大陸的高壓環境下，並且一直接受著愚民、弱民教育，許多內地民眾在潛移默化中已對強權產生了麻木與畏懼。相比之下，香港人受惠於昔日正常的文明教育與法治傳統，其基因里自帶對基本權利的敏感與捍衛精神，因此在2019年展現出了震撼世界的抗爭勇氣。然而，香港人當時顯然低估了中共政權的邪惡與殘酷程度，誤以為理性的訴求能換來正常的反饋，但迎來的卻是暴力的鐵腕鎮壓。運動期間，全港離奇出現了大量“無遺書的高空墜樓”以及“雙手被捆綁的全裸浮屍”等多發且疑點重重的非正常死亡案件。儘管當局一概將其定性為“無可疑”，但這些無法自圓其說的恐怖現實，徹底暴露了強權的殘酷面目，也印證了抗爭者當時面對的是何等龐大、何等邪惡的國家機器。
與會者為近年來在香港抗爭運動中失去自由甚至犧牲生命的香港人靜默一分鐘。
中國民主黨舊金山黨部主席、六四幸存者方政先生（坐輪椅者）表示，2019年後香港法治環境發生重大變化，因此流亡海外的港人快速增加，舉辦紀念活動，有助保存歷史記憶，更重要的是傳承抗爭精神，讓更多人認清中共的本質，加入到推翻一黨專政的行動中去。
美國香港人會館館長Bruce 發言，他首先感謝冒著寒風前來參與悼念會的同仁，只要美國香港人會館還存在，相關紀念活動就不會停止，永遠不會忘記那些在抗爭中失去自由的人。他同時強調，中共目前內憂外患，垮台只是時間問題。
醫院精神科心靈關顧師Cindy牧師（右，左為普通話翻譯者）指出，移居海外港人的精神創傷並未因離港而消失。目前灣區當地已有由牧師、精神科專家及心靈關顧師組成的團隊持續提供支援。她並鼓勵社區大眾發揮專長與能力，給予受創者最實質的陪伴與協助。
首次來參加香港831活動的中國民主黨黨員張繼順表示，一直都非常敬佩香港人的勇氣與抗爭精神，提醒自己關注歷史及認清真相，不要被中共的謊言所欺騙，要堅守良知，並希望與香港人站在一起。
就讀UC Berkeley的梁啓駿將「831事件」定性為2019年香港局勢的分水嶺。他回顧721元朗襲擊41天後警方在太子站的執法，痛批政府不僅沒有履行保護人民的基本責任，反而成了國家暴力的施害者。他指出，如今紀念831的核心意義在於：除了追尋歷史真相，更要讓獄中的手足知道，他們的犧牲從未被大眾遺忘。
徐同學（去年畢業於UCLA）在香港油尖旺區長大，小學離太子站僅需步行10分鐘。這種地緣親近感，讓她在新西蘭看到“831事件”影像時深受震撼。她回憶自己當時氣得雙手發抖、眼淚直流。雖然當時已身處海外，但這場經歷成為了她成長和看待香港政局的重要分水嶺。時隔七年，畫面依然歷歷在目，曾參與過2019年街頭活動的她直言，那些震撼至今無法忘記。
中國民主黨黨員劉武平來自廣州，他表示香港在過去30多年一直堅持紀念六四，令他十分感動。
華語青年挺藏會創辦人段荊棘，普通話朗誦《鄒幸彤陳情書》。
美國香港人會館成員施臻營，廣東話朗誦《鄒幸彤陳情書》。
梁啓駿演奏《這地》，他補充說，這是《願榮光歸香港》團隊創作的第三首歌，他引用網上一評論：“終有一日，我要升旗時唱《榮光》，步操時唱《不屈》，為烈士紀念碑獻花時唱《這地》！”
之後，全體齊唱《願榮光歸香港》。
在樂聲伴奏中，與會者為831太子站事件點燃燭光並獻花。
Hong Kong’s Daughter — Chow Hang-tung
Her “Statement of Mitigation” Recited at the 831 7th Anniversary Memorial
US Hongkongers Club
By: Guan Yongjie
Abstract: Chow Hang-tung has faced long-term suppression due to her persistent defense of democracy, freedom, and the rule of law. This article reviews her life journey and the 7th anniversary memorial events of the “831 Incident,” showcasing the perseverance of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures in safeguarding historical memory and human dignity.
The last person to be called “Hong Kong’s Daughter” was the famous Hong Kong pop star Anita Mui.
If Anita Mui was a witness to Hong Kong’s glorious journey from a small fishing village to an Asian financial center, then Chow Hang-tung is a witness to a tragic era—one where Hong Kong plummeted from the peak of high freedom, civilization, and the rule of law into a decline marked by economic stagnation and the daily erosion of civil rights following its official takeover by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Yet, they share one common trait: no matter how the times changed, neither ever abandoned her steadfast commitment to conscience, justice, freedom, and dignity.
According to public records, Chow Hang-tung was born and raised in Hong Kong. From a young age, she followed her mother to Victoria Park to attend the June 4th candlelight vigils. In 2003, with an outstanding result of 5 As in the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination, she entered the University of Cambridge in the UK, later pursuing a Ph.D. in geophysics focusing on tectonic movements and earthquakes in the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
However, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake altered the course of her life. While some of her peers saw a rare set of seismic research data, what she saw first was the vast number of people who had lost their lives and homes. Even more disappointing to her was that scientific research could not exist independently of the political environment; due to political and stability-maintenance considerations, the CCP government removed geological data collection stations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, making it difficult for her original research path to continue.
She began to realize that what she truly cared about might not be cold scientific data, but the living, breathing individuals behind those numbers. Thus, she gave up her near-complete doctorate degree and returned to Hong Kong.
If Lu Xun abandoned medicine for literature in his day because “studying medicine cannot save the Chinese people,” Chow Hang-tung embarked on a similar path belonging to this era—science indeed helps drive social progress, but in reality, many people are left behind; therefore, she chose to directly assist those who were suffering in real life.
After returning to Hong Kong in 2010, she worked at the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance), later becoming a volunteer and participating in mainland Chinese labor rights work. Realizing her legal knowledge was insufficient, she once again leveraged her extraordinary learning capability to study law from scratch, eventually becoming a practicing barrister in Hong Kong. In 2014, she was elected a standing committee member of the Alliance, and by late 2015, she became its vice-chairperson.
She could have chosen an entirely different life. With her academic background and capability, she could have become a prosperous professional, stayed clear of politics, and enjoyed a stable, respectable, and safe middle-class life.
But she did not, because she could not stand by and watch suffering with folded arms.
In 2021, after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the Alliance was forced to disband. Chow Hang-tung was subsequently arrested and detained long-term. On August 21, 2026, the Hong Kong High Court ruled that the Alliance, Lee Cheuk-yan, and Chow Hang-tung were guilty of “incitement to subvert state power.” The court determined that the Alliance’s operational platform to “end one-party dictatorship” constituted the relevant criminal intent.
However, what truly shocked the world was perhaps not the verdict on August 21, but her statement on August 28.
In Hong Kong’s legal procedures, this was supposed to be the “plea in mitigation” stage. However, Chow Hang-tung explicitly refused to use the legal term “mitigation” in court, insisting instead on using “statement” (陳情). She emphasized that she had no guilt to plead for, and that everything she did was to guard historical memory.
Summary of the Statement:
1. Refusal to Plead for Mitigation, Maintaining Innocence: She maintained that commemorating June 4th is not a crime, and that those who truly need to seek leniency and admit guilt are those who cover up history and suppress freedom.
2. Preferring to Be a Criminal Over Betraying Conscience: She stated that if the court must sentence her, she would rather be a “perpetual criminal” within the system than betray her conscience.
3. Guarding Truth and Memory: She emphasized that lighting candles is to combat forgetting, and that authoritarian power must not be allowed to erase history.
4. Questioning Hong Kong’s Rule of Law: She stated frankly that if the law becomes a tool to deprive people of their fundamental rights, then such law has lost its justice.
Once this statement was released, it spread rapidly across the internet. Zhou Fengsuo, a leader of the 1989 student movement and Executive Director of “Human Rights in China,” posted on X strongly recommending it: “…Her court statement carries immense weight, worthy of being carved in stone and gold. Protesters around the world should read it in relay—this is a declaration of democracy and freedom belonging to our era.”
This is a statement written for history. The law can restrict a person’s body, but it cannot control their mind; a cage can deprive a person of freedom, but it cannot force a person to believe lies.
Anita Mui was called “Hong Kong’s Daughter.” In 1989, she stepped forward to voice support for the 1989 democracy movement, and deeply participated in and supported “Operation Yellowbird” after the June 4th crackdown, contributing both funds and effort to rescue student movement figures. She used her fame and wealth to help those young people in danger escape to safety.
While Chow Hang-tung did not possess Anita Mui’s dazzling stage, she chose to stand at the center of the storm in a different era. In today’s Hong Kong, where lies have become the cornerstone of the regime, loyalty to authoritarian power has become mainstream, and striving for freedom makes one a criminal, she insists on not betraying her conscience.
Anita Mui was someone who stepped forward from Hong Kong’s glory; Chow Hang-tung is someone who refuses to bow down even after Hong Kong’s freedom continues to shrink. One used wealth and influence, while the other uses her profession, youth, and even freedom—yet both guard the exact same thing: the conscience and dignity of the people of Hong Kong.
When a person has sufficient capability to choose comfort, she still chooses responsibility; when she has sufficient conditions to stay away from politics, she still chooses to confront injustice; when she ultimately cannot avoid facing high walls and prison, she still does not betray her conscience.
During the recent “831” 7th anniversary memorial event in the San Francisco Bay Area, we mourned those Hong Kong people who were imprisoned or even lost their lives for striving for freedom, rights, and dignity.
Seven years ago, in a Hong Kong with a population of only seven million, over a million people took to the streets on several occasions to express their demands—a grand scene that shocked the world.
Seven years later, a single statement from Chow Hang-tung brought another kind of shock—transitioning from collective shouts on the streets to an individual’s spiritual stance.
On August 31, people could still be seen standing silently holding white flowers at the exit of Prince Edward MTR Station, with some shouting slogans like “We want the truth for 831”; inside MTR carriages, stickers reading “The Rule of Law is Dead” were placed over the Prince Edward station mark on route maps; as it was raining in Hong Kong that day, some even opened yellow umbrellas printed with “Support Freedom, Oppose Evil Laws” at the Prince Edward MTR exit. Subsequently, multiple citizens who became emotional within the police cordon were forcibly taken away in police vans.
On the evening of August 31, the wind at the Bay Area seaside was bleak and cold. We also stood silently and laid flowers here, expressing our feelings while reflecting on the past, and responded with deep emotion to Mr. Zhou Fengsuo’s initiative by reading Chow Hang-tung’s statement in both Mandarin and Cantonese. For everyone present who cares about and loves Hong Kong, and feels immense indignation over the suffering that land is undergoing at this moment, a sense of survivor’s guilt surged in our hearts, alongside a resonance of suffering that transcends geographical boundaries.
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Within Chow Hang-tung’s legally coherent and principled prose, we see resilience and hope. She seems to call out: a cage cannot lock up thought, and the spirit of Hong Kong people pursuing freedom and courageously resisting will not be extinguished. As long as someone continues to recite it, and as long as someone continues to listen, this seed will keep spreading.
“End one-party dictatorship, build a democratic China”—this is a peaceful and rational expression, absolutely not a crime. The red line of authoritarian power has never been our bottom line; certain truths cannot be forgotten, and certain freedoms are worth guarding with a lifetime.
Although Hong Kong’s candlelight has been banned, it has not been extinguished.
Candlelight like the sea,
The hearts of the people turn into waves,
Crashing against the shore,
Relentless until justice prevails.
On-site photos and summary of the 7th Anniversary Memorial for the Hong Kong 831 Incident in the San Francisco Bay Area
(The image above shows a community flyer distributed at the event that day. Its content is primarily a summary and collection of community opinions and public demands that have circulated online for years. Although these intense expressions regarding specific casualties from the conflicts back then still lack official, conclusive evidence to support them at the legal level to this day, their widespread existence on the internet and among the public accurately reflects an undeniable reality: because of the government authorities’ lack of transparency during the handling of the incident and their choice to release only partial CCTV footage, their response failed completely to convince the public, thereby triggering long-term and immense public skepticism. This article records this flyer in full as an on-site archive, not to reach a definitive judicial conclusion on facts, but to preserve this symbolic collective memory born out of authoritarian suppression of truth, as well as the public’s unfinished quest for the truth.)
One of the five operational goals of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China: End one-party dictatorship.
支At the memorial event, temperatures dropped abruptly in the Bay Area as dusk fell.
Shi Zhenying (left) and Guan Yongjie (right), hosts of the 831 7th Anniversary Memorial. Shi Zhenying pointed out that seven years have passed since the “831 Incident,” yet the CCTV footage from Prince Edward Station that night has still not been fully disclosed, leaving the truth obscured to this day. She noted that people holding fresh flowers who went to Prince Edward Station to mourn this year were still taken away by the police or cordoned off, reflecting that the space for freedom in Hong Kong continues to shrink. In light of this, she called on the outside world not to forget, and to continue paying attention to and supporting the Hong Kong protesters who remain imprisoned.
Co-host Guan Yongjie added that having lived long-term under the high-pressure environment of Mainland China and subjected to education designed to dull and weaken the populace, many mainland citizens have subtly developed numbness and fear toward authoritarian power. In contrast, Hong Kong people benefited from normal civil education and rule-of-law traditions of the past, possessing an innate sensitivity to and drive to defend their fundamental rights within their DNA; thus, they demonstrated world-shaking courage in their resistance in 2019. However, Hong Kong people at the time clearly underestimated the extent of the CCP regime’s cruelty and malice, mistakenly believing that rational demands could yield a normal response, only to be met with a violent iron fist of suppression. During the movement, an unusually high number of bizarre, highly suspicious non-natural death cases abruptly emerged across Hong Kong, including “high-altitude falls with no suicide notes” and “completely naked floating corpses with hands bound.” Although the authorities categorized every single one as “non-suspicious,” these terrifying realities—incapable of being logically explained away—thoroughly exposed the cruel face of authoritarian power and proved just how immense and evil a state machine the protesters were facing at the time.
Participants observed a minute of silence for the Hong Kong people who have lost their freedom or even sacrificed their lives in the Hong Kong protest movement in recent years.
Mr. Fang Zheng (in the wheelchair), Chairman of the San Francisco Branch of the Democracy Party of China and a Tiananmen Massacre survivor, stated that the rule-of-law environment in Hong Kong underwent a major shift after 2019, leading to a rapid increase in Hong Kong people fleeing into exile overseas. He noted that holding commemorative events helps preserve historical memory, and more importantly, passes down the spirit of resistance, allowing more people to recognize the true nature of the CCP and join the movement to overthrow one-party dictatorship.
Bruce, President of the US Hongkongers Club, delivered a speech thanking the attendees who braved the cold wind to participate in the memorial service. He stated that as long as the US Hongkongers Club exists, such commemorative events will not cease, and those who lost their freedom in the struggle will never be forgotten. At the same time, he emphasized that the CCP is currently facing internal and external troubles, and its collapse is merely a matter of time.
Rev. Cindy (right, left is the Mandarin interpreter), a psychiatric spiritual care practitioner at a hospital, pointed out that the psychological trauma of Hong Kong people who have relocated overseas has not disappeared simply because they left Hong Kong. Currently in the Bay Area, a local team consisting of pastors, psychiatric experts, and spiritual care practitioners is providing ongoing support. She also encouraged the broader community to leverage their expertise and abilities to offer the most concrete companionship and assistance to those suffering from trauma.
Zhang Jishun, a member of the Democracy Party of China participating in the Hong Kong 831 event for the first time, expressed that he has always deeply admired the courage and spirit of resistance of the Hong Kong people. He reminded himself to stay attentive to history, recognize the truth, avoid being deceived by the CCP’s lies, uphold conscience, and stand together with the people of Hong Kong.
Leung Kai-chun, a student at UC Berkeley, characterized the “831 Incident” as the watershed moment of the 2019 Hong Kong situation. Reflecting on the police law enforcement actions at Prince Edward Station 41 days after the July 21 Yuen Long attack, he harshly criticized the government, stating that instead of fulfilling its fundamental duty to protect the people, it became the perpetrator of state violence. He pointed out that the core significance of commemorating 831 today lies in this: beyond pursuing historical truth, it is crucial to let imprisoned comrades know that their sacrifices have never been forgotten by the public.
Ms. Xu (who graduated from UCLA last year) grew up in Hong Kong’s Yau Tsim Mong District, with her primary school located just a 10-minute walk from Prince Edward Station. This geographical proximity made the impact particularly profound when she saw the video footage of the “831 Incident” while in New Zealand. She recalled shaking with rage and crying uncontrollably at the time. Although she was already overseas, this experience became a major turning point in her personal growth and how she viewed Hong Kong’s political landscape. Seven years later, those images remain vivid in her mind; having participated in street movements in 2019, she stated frankly that the shock from back then remains impossible to forget.
Liu Wuping, a member of the Democracy Party of China from Guangzhou, expressed that he was deeply moved by Hong Kong’s steadfast commemoration of the June 4th movement over the past 30-plus years.
Duan Jingji, founder of the Chinese Youth for Tibet Alliance, reciting “Chow Hang-tung’s Court Statement” in Mandarin.
Shi Zhenying, a member of the US Hongkongers Club, reciting “Chow Hang-tung’s Court Statement” in Cantonese.
Leung Kai-chun performed “This Land” (Zhe Di). He added that this was the third song created by the team behind “Glory to Hong Kong,” quoting an online comment: “One day, when raising the flag, I will sing ‘Glory’; when marching, I will sing ‘Indomitable’; and when laying flowers at the martyrs’ memorial, I will sing ‘This Land’!”
Afterward, all participants sang “Glory to Hong Kong” together.
Accompanied by music, participants lit candles and laid flowers for the 831 Prince Edward Station Incident.
