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721 Incident | The police detained 13 more people over the Yuen Long incident for picking up debris at the West Rail Station and clashing in the southern border

2020-08-26T09:58:17.893Z


The police today (26) arrested at least 16 persons for the "7.6 Restoration of Tuen Mun Park" and the "721 Incident" last year. Democratic legislators Lin Cheuk Ting and Xu Zhifeng were both arrested. Among them, Lin Cheuk Ting was suspected of participating in the "7.21 Incident" riot last year. The arrested person is now being detained for investigation. The police will hold a press conference at the headquarters of the New Territories North Region at 3:30 this afternoon to explain the case.


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Written by: Deng Bailiang, Huang Weimin, Peng Kaixin, Chen Leilei

2020-08-26 15:08

The last update date: 2020-08-26 17:48

The police today (26) arrested at least 16 persons for the "7.6 Restoration of Tuen Mun Park" and the "721 Incident" last year. Democratic legislators Lin Cheuk Ting and Xu Zhifeng were both arrested. Among them, Lin Cheuk Ting was suspected of participating in the "7.21 Incident" riot last year. The arrested person is now being detained for investigation. The police will hold a press conference at the headquarters of the New Territories North Region at 3:30 this afternoon to explain the case.

7.6 After the restoration of Tuen Mun Park, demonstrators surrounded men and forced cell phone photos to be deleted

The Senior Superintendent (Criminal) of the New Territories North Region, Chen Tianzhu, explained the facts of the case. The first case was about the "Recovery of Tuen Mun Park" on July 6 last year. He said that after the public procession ended that afternoon, some demonstrators were still gathering at the Tuen Mun Police Station on Pui To Road. Until 9 pm, the demonstrators surrounded a man, claiming that he had previously photographed the appearance of the demonstrators, including the 71st Legislative Council incident, and the demonstrators forced him to hand over his mobile phone and delete the footage. Later, someone claimed to intervene in order to coordinate the incident and asked the victim to delete the photo, saying that the police should not be asked to pursue the demonstrator. Finally, someone opened the umbrella array, forcibly snatched the phone and deleted the data.

After in-depth investigation, the police arrested 3 men and 1 woman today, aged between 27 and 43, including Lin Zhuoting, Xu Zhifeng, a male chef surnamed Zeng and a female social worker surnamed Zhong. Three men were suspected of attempting to obstruct justice, Xu Zhifeng and Zhong Nu were also involved in dishonest computer access and criminal damage, and Zeng Nan was involved in illegal assembling with other unknown persons. The police strongly condemned the blatant bullying and attempts to obstruct justice, which may prevent the police from continuing to investigate criminal acts.

(Photo by Huang Weimin)

The second case is the "Yuen Long 721 Incident." Chen Tianzhu defined last year's "Yuen Long 721 Incident" as "a confrontation and gathering of people with different opinions near Yuen Long and West Rail Station" Violent conflict incident.". Chen pointed out that the police carried out another arrest operation today and arrested 13 men, aged between 26 and 48, with occupations including councillors, bank vice presidents, answerers, social workers, cooks, warehouse clerks, drivers, etc. Some of them have triad backgrounds. .

Chen Tianzhu stated that the Yuen Long conflict is divided into four parts , of which the second and third parts are the main parts of the arrest today:

Part 1: From the afternoon to the evening of 721, a group of people dressed in white gathered in the area of ​​Jidi and Fung You North Street in Yuen Long. At about 10 p.m., someone reported that he was attacked by multiple people and injured his back.

The second part: occurred in the Yuen Long West Rail Station. According to the closed-circuit movie, at 10:40 that night, several people holding wooden signs with slogans chased a woman in black into the toll area of ​​the station, and people from both sides continued to join. One side attacked with slogans, wooden signs, sticks, etc., and the other side responded with a long umbrella. The conflict returned to calm after about 1 to 2 minutes.

The third part: Until a few minutes later, some congressmen arrived in the lobby to broadcast the live webcast, so people gathered in the station. A few minutes later, a white-clothed man entered the non-toll area of ​​the subway station. The two sides immediately screamed at each other, threw objects at each other, chanted slogans, etc., and a man wearing a yellow back shirt was attacked outside the gate, and the two sides clashed. It deteriorated sharply. Some people in the station used fire hoses and fire extinguishers to spray, and finally attacked the stairs leading to the platform and inside the carriage.

Part Four: In the early hours of that night, two more groups of people clashed at the exit of Yinglong Wai, Yuen Long Station. The incident developed into the middle of the night when a large number of people in black poured into the surrounding village of Nanbian and confronted the villagers.

Police accused of arresting "another faction" today

Chen Tianzhu continued that the police had arrested 44 people in the "721 Incident" earlier, and 8 of them were charged with riots and conspiracy to injure people. Of the 44 persons arrested, 7 were involved in the clash at the chicken farm, 18 were involved in the conflict in the Yuen Long station, 4 were in the conflict in Yinglongwei, and 15 were involved in the conflict in the village of Nanbian.

The arrest by the police today involved people from another faction. Of the 13 arrested, 7 were involved in the conflict in Yuen Long Station, and 6 were involved in the conflict in Yinglong Wai and Nanbian Wai. In the incident, 31 injured persons contacted the police for investigation.

(Photo by Huang Weimin)

According to the police, a group of demonstrators gathered outside Tuen Mun Police Station at about 8:30 pm on July 6 last year. During this period, many people surrounded a man, alleging that he used his mobile phone to photograph the demonstrators and someone took the man's mobile phone. , And delete the data in the phone. After further investigation, officers from the New Territories North Regional Crime Squad arrested 3 men and 1 woman in Sha Tin, Western District, Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun respectively today (26), aged between 27 and 43, including Lam Cheuk Ting and Xu Zhifeng. Suspected of "intent to obstruct justice", "access to computers with criminal or dishonest intent", "criminal destruction" and "illegal assembly". In addition, regarding the "721 incident", the police detained 13 men, aged between 26 and 48, and Lin Zhuoting was involved in the 721 riot.

7.21 Incident | On the night of the reorganization, Lin Zhuoting called the police before arriving on the scene. Zeng urged people in white not to do anything

7.21 Incident | Police arrested Lin Zhuoting for involvement in the 721 riot and attacked the chef to denounce the absurdity: want to add crime

Police arrested 16 people for the 7.6 recovery of Tuen Mun Park and the 721 incident this morning. Lin Cheuk Ting was arrested in connection with the 721 riot

Members of the Legislative Council Xu Zhifeng and Lin Zhuoting were reportedly arrested by the police this morning 

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