2016 articles re campaign of Fr John Wotherspoon to stop drug mules coming to Hong Kong

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Dec 27, 2016 to January 31, 2017: Report on my trip to Southern Africa and Dubai, to visit the families of inmates in HK and to do publicity about the danger of drug trafficking to HK

Dec 7, 2016: Decision of Court of Appeal - many references to campaign

Dec 1, 2016 - HK News: More women being recruited as drug mules’

Oct 13: Article in HK media -"01"- about this website's anti-drug campaign & my work for the poor in HK: Here (in Chinese, with several photos)

Hardcopy Here

Sep 11: Report in Chinese on page one of Oriental Daily (HK's largest-selling paper) about v2catholic.com's anti-drug campaign

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On line reports of above articles:
Video
Report 1
 
Report 2 - re recovery after prayer by mother of pop star Dicky Cheung - and re weekly gathering for the poor at Yau Ma Tei.
Report 3
- re letter writing campaign of African inmates to warn others not to bring drugs to HK
Editorial

Whole report also here

An English translation of the Oriental Daily reports - thank you Teresa!  (Editorial is hard on asylum seekers ... not my words...)

Aug 27: Report in Oriental Daily

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July 17: 

On-line: Stay away: letter writing by South American inmates in HK is deterring drug trafficking, says prison chaplain

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April 29: Mention of the campaign in 14 and 15 of this Court of Appeal statement

April 22: Praise for campaign in this statement of the Court of Appeal (at end of statement)

April 4, 2016- BBC video report (3 mins) about East African drug mules going to HK ...and my anti-drug campaign

January 27, 2016: Case summary, praising campaign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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