Politics
Written by: Luo Jiaqing Wu Wu'an
2020-03-26 15:27
Last updated: 2020-03-26 18:38The chairman of the Democratic Party ’s Central and Western District Council, Zheng Liqiong, was arrested by police late last night (25th) and arrested by the police on suspicion of committing an “inciting act”. After being detained overnight at Kwai Chung Police Station, Zheng Liqiong was released on bail of 10,000 yuan this afternoon.
Democrats have held a press conference today (26th). Chen Shuzhuang, the convener of the democrat conference, said that the new District Council has only been in operation for a few months, and three District Council chairmen have been arrested, questioning the government's "public gambling, indiscriminate arrest, and indiscriminate reporting. The Citizen Party Kuo Rong-kuo pointed out that the crime of inciting intent is an outdated colonial ordinance that conflicts with the existing human rights law and freedom of speech ordinance, questioning the government's apparent political prosecution and intent to create white terror.
The legal profession Guo Rongzheng said that the police's use of the seditious intent of Article 9 of the Criminal Regulations is an outdated colonial law. The last use was 1952. He emphasized that the United Nations had long stated that the regulations should be repealed and questioned the government's use of the regulations to suppress dissidents. Guo Ronghua also said that in general, anyone who violates the temporary injunction order will be charged with contempt of court, but the government has used this "rusty" ordination, which shows the political motivation behind it.
Yang Yueqiao criticized the police for vaguely answering even the seditious content reproduced by Zheng Liqiong. The police accused the police of "pulling for the sake of pulling" to create white terror. They believed that the government's purpose was to "deterrify Zheng Liqiong, to deter the Central and Western District Council, and to deter Hong Kong people. " Yang Yueqiao asked in turn what Zheng Liqiong had done wrong and asked the police to arrest her early in the morning.
Chen Shuzhuang believes that the government's use of inciting intent is "the gangster tries the pot", "this time try the next one, and then get 23 pieces of legislation"; Democrat Legislative Councillor Tu Jinshen said that inciting intent is like "Hong Kong "Existing Article 23" emphasizes that this is a bad law in the colonial era, and believes that the government wants to use this case to test whether the "Existing Article 23" can be accepted, and the court's decision will become the legislation of Article 23 of the Basic Law in the future. Blueprint.
Zheng Liqiong was released on bail of 10,000 yuan and left Kwai Chung Police Station in the afternoon accompanied by Legislative Councillors Xu Zhifeng, Tong Junyu and several members of the Central and Western District. Zheng Liqiong told reporters at the scene, thank you for your concern, the case has been referred to a lawyer, Xu Zhifeng pointed out that Zheng Liqiong is currently weak.
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