Striking Hong Kong students ‘indoctrinated with police hatred’, Casino queen Pansy Ho tells United Nations in Geneva
- Ho tells UN Human Rights Council that supporters of the demonstrations tried to silence her
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, Pansy Ho Chiu-king, chairwoman of the Hong Kong Federation of Women and daughter of Macau casino kingpin Stanley Ho Hung-sun, said protest supporters had tried to silence her.
“By speaking out here at the council, I am aggressively chastised by these self-proclaimed freedom fighters who hide behind face masks and anonymous accounts online,” Ho said.
“Vicious threats and provocative remarks have been used to incite harassment and defame me, my family and my businesses in an attempt to silence me in presenting a different perspective of the truth.”
She described Hong Kong pupils as being “indoctrinated” with “police hatred” and into organising mass school strikes, adding: “We will not tolerate child exploitation and we call for the international community to reprimand those organisers and influencers.”
Pansy Ho is the major shareholder in MGM China, which controls one of Macau’s six casino licences, and was ranked 16th on the Forbes list of Hong Kong’s 50 richest people last year, with an estimated fortune of US$4.8 billion. She is the second richest woman in Hong Kong, according to Forbes.