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Written by: Lu Leqian, Lin Yingxian, Zhou Haoyi
2021-03-02 10:42
Last update date: 2021-03-02 12:14
The 47 Panmin people who participated in the "35+" primary election last year, including Dai Yaoting, Cen Aohui, Liang Guoxiong and others, were accused of conspiring to subvert the state power in the West Kowloon Court yesterday. Tang, although everyone came to the court early in the morning, the court session did not formally start until 4 pm. After that, the applications were processed in a marathon manner. Until 2 am, the female defendant Yang Xueying fainted. After that, several defendants were unwell to be sent to court .
The Magistrate finally agreed to adjourn the case and continue this morning (2nd).
Except for those sent to hospital, the remaining defendants were escorted to detention centers such as Lai Chi Kok at about 4 a.m., and were returned to court at about 9-10 a.m. this morning. There are still about 26 defendants whose bail applications are still pending. Processing, "Hong Kong 01" will follow up the latest situation.
[12:12] The former chairman of the Democratic Party, Emily Liu, dressed in black, came to support her. She criticized the prosecution's application yesterday to adjourn the case for three months before the trial, so that the police continued to investigate the principle of disregarding the principle of procedural justice and innocence. Outrageous, I believe that all 47 lawyers should be allowed to speak, and I hope that the judge will make a ruling independently, fairly and justly.
She pointed out that Hong Kong people will definitely fight for Hong Kong's future with great dignity. She hopes that the central government will respect the promise of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and give Hong Kong people a high degree of autonomy, freedom, personal safety and the rule of law.
She sent a message to Hong Kong people not to give up, "Do you know what happened to Burma and Thailand? Many people are shooting a lot of bullets." She hoped that Hong Kong people would try their best to fight for it.
However, she emphasized that she has always supported peaceful, rational, non-violent and non-vulnerable methods of resistance, and will fight with dignity and perseverance.
[11:34] A large number of citizens continued to line up to watch the hearing in the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts this morning, but the crowd was significantly lower than yesterday.
Reborn, the Consul General of Sweden in Hong Kong, appeared in line at nearly 11 o'clock this morning, and was arranged to enter the court soon.
He said that the purpose of being present for two consecutive days was to follow up the case, describing that yesterday's hearing was very long.
When asked what he would like to tell Hong Kong people, he emphasized that we need to follow up the case to show the public's concern about the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
Regarding the comments made by the representative of the British Consulate in Hong Kong yesterday on the independence of the judiciary in Hong Kong, Rayborn said he did not want to speculate, and reiterated that today’s arrival is to show that they are monitoring the case and are also concerned about the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
[11:00] The number of people waiting to attend the court outside the West Kowloon Court has decreased significantly, and there are only about dozens of people outside the court.
Although the court has scheduled a hearing at 11:30 in the morning, the situation at the scene does not seem to be ready.
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[10:00] Another group of defendants who spent the night in the Lai Chi Kok Detention Center yesterday, including Huang Zhifeng, Hu Zhiwei and many others, also got on the prison car and escorted to the West Kowloon Court at about 10 o'clock in the morning.
The court is tentatively scheduled to continue processing each person's application at 11:30 in the morning.
[9:00] The first defendant, Dai Yaoting, also needs to appear in the Court of Appeal for the "Nine Sons of Occupy", so he had to prepare to get on the prison car before 9 o'clock, and first appeared in the Court of Appeal, according to the instructions of Guan Su yesterday. After that, Dai needs to return to the West Kowloon Court to continue to attend the court case.
Dai Yaoting and Huang Zhifeng left the Lai Chi Kok Detention Center this morning. (See the picture below for details)
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The case did not start until about 4 pm yesterday, but it was not until 8 pm that the application for bail of the defendants was processed. However, the progress was slow. At 10 pm, only lawyers with less than ten defendants made their remarks. The prosecutor Yang Meiqi That is, she suggested that she got up at 6 o'clock in the morning and went to court at 8 o'clock in the morning. She proposed that the case should be postponed until Tuesday. However, due to opposition from all sides, Guan Su also stated that she wanted to continue, but also said that she understood that everyone was hungry. The defendant and the lawyer had a meal first, and the prosecutor was also allowed to "put a meal" at 11 pm.
However, the hearings continued without rest. Some lawyers also had other hearings today, and they also left early and handed them over to other members of the lawyers’ team for handling. At about 2 am, the female defendant Yang Xueying was still fainted when she wanted to sue the prisoner. On the contrary, Chief Magistrate Su Huide stated that he originally wanted to continue, but due to the lack of physical strength of the defendant, he decided to postpone it.
However, at 3 am, Lin Jingnan, the founder of AbouThai, and Tan Kaibang, a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council, were also unwell and had to be escorted to Caritas Medical Centre by ambulance.
By nearly 4 a.m., the defendant Liang Guoxiong "Chang Mao", who was over 60 years old, was also unwell and sent to hospital.
Except for these 5 people and Xu Zijian, who had been admitted to the hospital but did not go to court, the remaining more than 40 defendants are under the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
Several defendants had to be taken to Caritas Medical Centre by ambulance in the early morning. (See the picture below for details)
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47 defendants in the case. (See the picture below for details)
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Case Number: WKCC 813/2021
35+ Primary Election|The case was heard until 2 am and several defendants were unwell and sent to the hospital to continue today at 11:30
35+ Primary Election|Yang Xueying, Lin Jingnan, Tan Kaibang, Liang Guoxiong are sent to hospital in the early morning and the hearing needs to be postponed
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