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Written by: Xiaobin Bin
2019-12-11 17:05
Last updated: 2019-12-11 17:05The Wall Street Journal reported today (11th) that the five-member international expert group of the IPCC decided to resign. The Chairman of the IPCC, Mr. Liang Dingbang, responded this afternoon that international experts have now completed "phased work", so they withdrew first and denied that they had resigned.
A government spokesman responded this afternoon, noting that the IPCC said that its task force dealing with review work will carefully consider the recommendations of the international expert group when writing the report, and will make every effort to submit a fair and just report that reflects the facts of the incident. The government will closely monitor the results of the review and carefully study all the recommendations of the review report before deciding to take any follow-up action.
The IPCC has an international expert team of five members to assist in reviewing the relevant police work and procedures of anti-revision legislation in Hong Kong. (Photo / Photo by Li Zetong)
A government spokesman said that the IPCC is currently proactively reviewing large-scale public events in recent months in accordance with the Independent Police Monitoring Complaints Committee Ordinance, in particular its power under section 8, and is making every effort to issue a first review of the review in early 2020. Periodic report. The Chief Executive and the Police Force have shown their full support and co-operation in the review.
The IPCC set up an international expert team earlier to advise the IPCC on the review work. The authorities stated that they noted that the IPCC said that its task force dealing with the review will carefully consider the recommendations of the international expert group when writing the report, and will make every effort to submit a fair and just report that reflects the facts of the incident.
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The government will closely monitor the results of the review and carefully study all the recommendations of the review report before deciding to take any follow-up action. Authorities again called on the public to give the IPCC time and space to complete this complex review.
The Wall Street Journal reported today (11th) that the five-member international expert group of the IPCC decided to resign. The Chairman of the IPCC, Liang Dingbang, pointed out that international experts have now completed "phased work", so they have withdrawn first and denied that they had resigned. (Profile picture)
The Wall Street Journal reported today (11th) that the international expert group decided to resign. The report quoted the International Expert Group as saying that the IPCC lacked sufficient investigative powers to meet the expectations of Hong Kong citizens. The Group could not coordinate with the IPCC to effectively support the research report, so the Group decided to resign.
The report quoted Clifford Stott as saying they suggested that the IPCC should be empowered to summon and protect witnesses, collect evidence, and more. The report also stated that the expert group believes that the credible report of the police and police committee is very important, especially when the government has not clearly stated whether to establish an independent investigation committee.
The IPCC has an international expert team of five members to assist in reviewing the relevant police work and procedures of anti-revision legislation in Hong Kong. (Photo / Photo by Liang Pengwei)
Liang Dingbang responded in the afternoon that he expected to release a "factual report" in early January next year and make the facts collected by the IPCC public. The report will continue to be carried out in the future. There are still 3 to 4 reports in the future. Evidence search and factual report.
Liang Dingbang emphasized that the five-member international expert group did not resign, but that they had completed "phased work", so they withdrew first.
The five chairmen of the IPCC Panel are Sir Denis O'Connor, former Chief Inspector of the Queen's Police Inspectorate. The remaining members include: Judge Colin Doherty, Chairman of the Independent Investigation of Police Conduct in New Zealand, and New South Wales Law Enforcement and Action Director Hon Michael F Adams QC, Professor Clifford Stott, Dean of the Institute of Natural Sciences, University of Kiel, UK, and Gerry McNeilly, former chairman of the Canadian Citizenship and Enforcement Association.
Full statement of the five-member international expert group of the IPCC
In November 2019 the International Experts Panel (IEP) visited the Hong Kong Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) to assist them in the development of their 'Thematic Study' on the protests, confrontations and policing. While we assess that meaningful progress had been made in data collection and analysis, we ultimately concluded that a crucial shortfall was evident in the powers, capacity and independent investigative capability of IPCC.
Given the scale and complexity of events subject to its Thematic Study, we determined that addressing at least the capacity and investigative capability shortfalls, would be necessary in order for the IPCC to begin to meet the standards citizens of Hong Kong would be likely to require of a police watchdog operating in a society that values freedoms and rights.
Since then, dialogue with the IPCC has not led to any agreed process through which the IEP would be able to effectively support the Thematic Study any further at this stage. As a result, the IEP has taken the decision to formally stand aside from its role . As a group we remain committed to supporting and engaging with the IPCC, if and when it develops the necessary capabilities and provides its draft interim report on the protests, confrontations and policing of events between June and September 2019.
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