Burst
Written by: Huang Diwen Yu Ruijing
2020-01-03 21:36
Last updated: 2020-01-03 22:51On the New Year's Day parade the day before (1st), the police arrested 287 people and some of them were taken to the North Point Police Station. Mr. Chen, who was detained for more than 42 hours, was released on bail at 7 pm. He recalled that he was detained for more than 40 hours. All the arrested people were arranged to sit in a covered parking lot, and it was difficult for everyone to fall asleep. Eight people went to the toilet and had a long waiting time. He claimed that he had not been physically or verbally insulted in the police station, and the police had distributed blankets and three meals of ham daily. He believed that "nobody is humane. The requirements are different ", but he said that he had witnessed the arrest of persons with reduced mobility and street sleepers, and considered that" absolute arrest! "
Mr. Chen was detained for more than 40 hours before being released on bail. (Photo by Yu Ruijing)
Mr. Chen stated that at about 8 pm on the evening of January 1, he was about to leave by car in Causeway Bay. The riot police officers arrived at the scene, saying that he was involved in an illegal assembly. Mr. Chen explained to the police that he “passed the car”, but the police said that “reasonable According to Mr. Chen, all the arrested persons were required to change to grey shirts and pants in the early morning of the 2nd, and then punched their fingers and confessed. He quoted the police as saying that evidence was needed to be collected. The shirts, socks, rucksacks, rucksacks and cell phones worn at the time of the arrest were confiscated, and the phones could not be retrieved until the case was completed. The police did not ask him to unlock the phones.
Detained in covered car park
He recalled that the police was using a covered parking lot as a temporary detention place to separate several areas with iron horses. Each area detained 40 to 50 people, and each person was issued a plastic stool. No one is lying on the ground. He claims that he was not physically or verbally insulted in the police station and that the police allowed the arrested person to talk. He said that the police provided meals daily, "has three meals of ham" and provided blankets to keep them warm. For all detainees who need to change to gray shirts, he frankly said, "I have enough cold clothing to walk me away, it is good enough." As far as he knows, the clothes brought by the families of the arrested can be transferred to the arrested. .
Regarding someone who said that the police officer prevented the arrested person from going to the toilet and communicating with the outside world , he said that due to the large number of arrests, the police could only allow 5 to 8 people to go to the toilet at one time, and only one phone. "5 minutes for more people You have counts, and the resistance is normal. "
The day before (1st) New Year's Day parade, police arrested 287 people in Causeway Bay. (Profile picture)
Witnessing crutches, street sleepers arrested "absolutely arrested"
Regarding the arrest of hundreds of people that night, Mr. Chen considered it "absolutely an over arrest". He recalled that there was a family beside him on the night of the arrest. At that time, his mother was holding a cane and his father was a retiree. He also said that a street sleeper was seen at the scene, holding his own belongings, and shouting to the police, "I am really a street," and the police ignored it. They were then boarded in different police cars. He did not know where the street sleeper was going.
New year's day parade
