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Written by: Ling Yide
2020-11-04 00:56
Last update date: 2020-11-04 06:40
On May 8 this year, some netizens launched the "Central and You Sing" activity. They sang in the atrium of the International Finance Center (IFC). Police officers used pepper spray to disperse them.
Among them, the reporter Deng Zemin, who was then a member of the HKBU editorial board, was arrested during the interview.
The police said that the 21-year-old man arrested in the case has been charged with one count of "obstructing police officers from performing their duties" and one count of "resisting arrest" and will appear in Eastern Magistracy on November 6.
The editorial board of the Hong Kong Baptist University Student Union issued a statement on Deng Zemin's prosecution, stating that Deng Zemin was calm and in good spirits. On the day of the incident, he was interviewing as a reporter and wearing a press card, but he was surrounded by police officers and uniformed on the ground; The police prosecuted Deng Zemin in an attempt to liquidate student reporters and increase the legal risk of student reporters' interviews on the frontline. They criticized the police for repeatedly obstructing student reporters' interviews and arbitrary arrests. At present, they are still interfering in the fourth right on the legal level.
At about 1 p.m. on the day of the incident, dozens of people sang "May Glory to Hong Kong" and chanted slogans in the atrium of the IFC shopping mall.
Deng Zemin, who was still a reporter on the HKBU editorial board, was present at the interview. He was accused by the police of refusing to be investigated and clamoring loudly. He was put on the ground and subdued. He was arrested that day for "misconduct in a public place." During the interview at Cityplaza, he was also arrested for this crime.
The editorial committee of the Hong Kong Baptist University Student Union issued a statement on Facebook on Deng Zemin’s prosecution.
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