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Written by: Lu Leqian
2021-06-18 11:04
Last update date: 2021-06-18 11:12
Former Legislative Council Member Chen Shuzhuang and Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprise Food Store Alliance Convener Lin Ruihua met at a bar in Mong Kok in April last year. The case involving violation of the gathering order was ruled today (18th) in the Kowloon City Court.
Magistrate Zheng Nianci pointed out that Chen Weicai, as the operator of the bar involved, failed to take the temperature of the participants and arranged for each person to sit in a table of four. He was found guilty of failing to follow the instructions of the Director of the Food and Health Bureau and was fined 5,000 yuan.
Regarding the remaining charges, Zheng Guan accepted that the defendants were explaining the content of the barring order at the time, and that they met the exemption requirements of "to spread information that helps prevent and control specified diseases" in Article 599G, so he ruled that Chen Shuzhuang and others were involved in violation of the restrictions. Juling was not guilty of charges and other crimes.
The three defendants are the bar leader Chen Weicai, the former Legislative Council member Chen Shuzhuang, and the convener of the Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprise Food Store Alliance Lin Ruihua.
Three people were charged with denying four subpoenas. Among them, Chen Weicai was accused of operating the "HANDS" bar on Tai Nan Street, Mong Kok, where prohibited groups gathered from April 2 to 3, 2020, and knowingly permitted the ban. Group gathering.
He was also charged for failing to follow the instructions of the Director of the Food and Health Bureau, failing to take the temperature of people entering the bar, and for accommodating more than 4 people at the same table.
Chen Shuzhuang and Lin Ruihua were charged with participating in a banned group gathering in the bar on the same day.
Case number: KTS526408-526411/2020
Chen Shuzhuang involved in violation of restrictions on gathering orders, Lin Ruihua denied that the gathering was a rallying meeting, Chen only explained the legal responsibility
Chen Shuzhuang and other female inspectors involved in violation of restrictions stated that the police had received more than one hundred complaints involving Chen and submitted serious cases for follow-up
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