#hk12

Twelve Hongkongers arrested on 23 August 2020 by the Chinese coast guard were formally arrested on 30 September – two for allegedly organizing people to cross the border between Hong Kong and China and the other 10 for allegedly crossing the border. Having been detained for more than 45 days without access to their families and family-appointed lawyers, the 12 individuals remain at imminent risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

CHENG Tsz-ho (鄭子豪), CHEUNG Chun-fu (張俊富), LIU Tsz-man (廖子文), QUINN Moon (喬映瑜), TANG Kai-yin (鄧 棨然), LI Tsz-yin (李子賢), LI Yu-hin (李宇軒), WONG Wai-yin (黃偉然) and four other individuals were intercepted by coast guard officers from mainland China after leaving Hong Kong on a speedboat on 23 August 2020.

 On 30 September 2020, Yantian District People’s Procuratorate announced that it has approved the arrest of the 12 Hongkongers. This means that the 12 individuals could remain in custodial detention for three months or more while the case is investigated further by the police. QUINN and TANG were arrested for allegedly “organizing other persons to secretly cross the border” and the ten others for “secretly crossing the border”. 

The families have been urging the mainland Chinese authorities to ensure the rights of the 12 individuals, as well as calling on the Hong Kong government to provide more information.

 On 20 September, some family members of the 12 detained individuals demanded the Hong Kong Police Force to provide more information about the arrest of the 12 individuals as the families believed that the Hong Kong police took part in the arrest operation. . According to the families, the Hong Kong police asked them questions about their campaigning efforts for the release of the 12 and how the families organized themselves. The police did not provide additional information and asked them to seek help at the Immigration Department. 

According to an article by Hong Kong Secretary for Security John Lee and a government response to a media inquiry about the alleged violation of the rights of the 12 individuals, the Hong Kong government has made clear it has no intention of interfering with “the law enforcement of other jurisdictions”.  

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Judging by the editing, I think the final four is gonna be Joy, Jason, Melanie, and Rochelle. Not sure about who's going to be 5th or 6th. Possibly Sandra at fifth to continue the "chicks who don't know how to communicate with their team" trend from last year's fifth placer. 6th place depends on when the merge is. Last year, they merged after 6th, but usually black team starts at 6th place.

Judging by what I've seen based on talent and consistency levels, I think the final six SHOULD be Joy, Jason, Anton, Melanie, RoRo, and Richard. It could still be that final four I mentioned earlier though.

Rochelle is the second strongest girl in the group at this point. Melanie has kinda been dethroned. I don't remember the last thing Melanie did besides fight Kashia. Joy is still the best though <3

I think Joy and Jason are final two. And Jason got a really big winner's edit in episode 10 when he was talking about how Azul was going to handle Ralph being temporarily out of commission, so he has a high shot at winning. I think Joy has less stacked up against her than Jason because she's a lot less of a ragebox than he is, but I think Jason's been edited more as the winner at this point. Also, he's calmed down on the anger recently.

I still want it to be Joyton in the final two, but judging from what we're seeing, I think Anton's ego and lack of filter might hinder him from winning or even getting a black jacket. :( I really don't think he's any cockier than Melanie (who I still love) or Kashia (who I don't really know how to feel about), but I've seen him get kinda... much. But I still love Anton and his sassiness. And quite honestly, if you didn't think Anton calling Scott a hemorrhoid was funny, you probably don't have a real sense of humor because that shit was hilarious and I do like Scott. Just realistically, I'm seeing him more as the seventh placer at this point, which sucks, because last year, I lost my favorite at 7th place and it almost ruined the whole season. And 7th place curse has been going on since Vinny was 7th place in HK8 (in both HK and Masterchef adult and junior. Vinny, Derrick, Natalie, Brian, Felix, Anthony, Jordan, Sofia, I've never forgotten any of you), so I would love for this to not happen. I guess if they merge at 5, he could be 6th place and join the last two long term villains, but idk. hate on his personality all you want, he deserves a black jacket wayyyyyyyyyy more than Scott, Gabriel, Kashia, and Sandra. He's too talented and (usually) too professional and too good of TV to deserve less than at least a black jacket.

That all being said, there is no doubt in my mind that Anton would SLAY the expediting challenge, so if he goes home because Rojo decided to get strategic, I wouldn't blame them. He'd be a terrifying opponent in final four.

Scott is really cute, but people keep saying Scott is gonna win because "he knows what he's doing" but there hasn't been an episode yet where Scott knows what he's doing so I don't know what's wrong with people. The only way I see him getting to top six is if there's a family visit and they bring out babies because I was told he's a dad and babies get ratings.

Gabriel can only hang onto his glimmer of TV potential by nominating Ralph instead of himself for so long. Just because he beat Queen Joy in one challenge does not make him worthy of black team. Anton fucked up on a halibut like literally everyone on this goddamn show has before. He didn't try to cook two chicken breasts and make them look like salmon instead of chicken. Gabe sucks. I'm sad he's still there over most of the people who went before him.

Sandra may be decent at times, but she's still the one who bumped boobs with Joy and lost her hearing for that service (episode 6!). She isn't winning this competition.

Ralph's an idiot. I understand he was sick and no one deserves to go home when they're sick, but was it actually that hard to relocate to a different room if Gabriel's snoring was that bad? or ask for earplugs? I know what it's like to not be able to sleep for an entire night, but he could've taken a goddamn nap after the gastro pub or something that didn't need medical. I think he's a stronger chef than Gabriel and Scott and should probably be there over both of them, but he's obnoxious and I won't miss him.

I wish Anton was on HK11 so he could throwdown with Zach because Zach is a moron and an actual complete waste of airtime. Anton is much better at cooking and TV than ~Grant Banks~ is, no doubt. Anton <333

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yeah.

Also yay Joy had a really good episode tonight too <333 maybe she'll prove me wrong and make it to black team :)

Next week looks scary since I'm rooting for Jason too though :( Please be careful, Jason :(

But here, have some gifs of the worst opening ever. I picked the only segments I thought were cool. It's pretty bad when you downgrade from the Transformers and the Gulliver's Travels one. :/

Anton is probably my favorite (well, he's tied with Jason, but he's super professional so he'll probably take over), and Melanie is my favorite girl. Scott's just super good looking, I just don't think he'll make it to black team. :( But I liked his segment.

I also love Jason and Jessica and I like Richard and Joy, but I hated their segments idk this is a bad opening haha.

Also why am I one of the few that finds him adorable?