Following the termination of the service by the payment platform PayPal earlier, the then Deputy Secretary-General of the Social Mining Company, Huang Yongzhi, social activists Liang Yingli and Zhou Nuoheng, three protesters against the development of the Northeast New Territories outside the Legislative Council in 2014, accused the police of beating and defeated the lawsuit. The parties involved in online crowdfunding have also been terminated by another payment platform, Stripe. Liang Yingli quoted Stripe on FB as saying that “after review, it is considered that it has exceeded the range they can support”, and also pointed out that “Stripe can only serve low-risk merchants.”
In 2014, a demonstration against the pre-funding of the development of the Northeast New Territories broke out outside the Legislative Council. Four of the protesters, including Huang Yongzhi, Zhou Nuoheng, Leung Wing-lai and Zhou Zhenyu, said after the rally that they were chained by the police and taken to a police car, beaten and abused, and illegally detained. , and subsequently filed a civil claim against the police. The District Court sentenced 4 claimants against the lawsuit in 2020, 3 of them including Wong Wing-chi, Zhou Nuoheng and Leung Wing-lai through online crowdfunding, and the three are required to pay the legal costs to the Department of Justice on October 18 this year. 600,000 yuan is owed.
Liang Yingli posted on Facebook today (14th) that the crowdfunding platform “gogetfunding” they used made credit card donations through the payment service provider Stripe, but the three received a notice from the online crowdfunding platform Stripe on Tuesday (11th) that they would be terminated. To collect funds for their crowdfunding, Liang Yingli quoted Stripe as saying that “after review, it is considered that it has exceeded the scope of their support”, and also pointed out that “Stripe can only serve low-risk merchants.”
Liang Yingli quoted Stripe as saying that all funds raised through the crowdfunding platform will be returned to the donor’s credit card account within five working days. “The current situation in Hong Kong is that even online crowdfunding doesn’t seem feasible,” he said. He thanked everyone for their help, but also felt embarrassed, “Now we can only find another way to solve it. Thanks to the friends who donated, paid attention, and reprinted before.”