People's Daily reported that the Shenzhen police has officially arrested the 12 #HongKong people trying to escape to #Taiwan, under the charges of organizing illegal border crossing. Worth noting that they have been detained for almost one month before they were "arrested."
This case marks a clear example of #HongKong citizens being tried by Chinese law, as it is typical for Chinese authorities to detain defendants for a long period of time before official charges are finally announced. This is especially true for high-profile cases like this one.
I have written about so many human rights cases in #China where the individual will first be arrested and detained without official charges for month and during that period, they will often be detained at an unknown location for up to six months. This is called RSDL.
Then an official notification with real charges will be sent to the defendants' family members. However, the notification is mostly for bureaucratic purposes. This is the Chinese rule of law, where the real time in detention is much longer than the actual jail sentence.
Human rights lawyer @yuwensheng was detained for more than 900 days before he was finally given a jail sentence. Think about how long his family has to live with the unknown.
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