Some defendants among the 47 charged of “conspiracy to subversion” were asked by national security police to come to police HQs at 2pm to pick up their committal bundles. @owenchowkashing didn’t get the notification but still came to check things out as tmr is ddl for prosecution
Ricky Or, man in blue shirt, has got four stacks of documents the prosecution prepared against him. Each stack has four packs of paper. Or said police told him it’s about two cardboard boxes of A4 paper in total.
Barrister Lawrence Lau, who is both a defendant and defense lawyer in different cases under #NSL , has also got four stacks of bundles. So was Winnie Yu, ex founder of the Hospital Authorities Employees Alliance.
So far it seems standard for every defendant called in to get four stacks of documents from the prosecution. This is half of what Shun Lee was given. Just to give you a sense of the weight.
It turns out that @owenchowkashing also has four stacks of documents to pick up but national security police said they “couldn’t find him”. If he didn’t come on his own, what would happen?
To move bundles for three people, a trolley is needed.
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#Thread about Chow Hang-tung @zouxingtong and Gwyneth Ho @KwaiLamHo , the vertiginous Wednesday and the less-discussed legal fights they have been devoting to.
It was more or less expected but still fictional than fiction that five hours before Ho was due to appear in court...
...national security police arrived at her counsel Chow's chamber and impatiently rang the doorbell.
Chow who worked overnight in the chamber for Ho's application did not immediately answer - like how she handled the police's letter demanding HK Alliance to empty its bag.
Instead, Chow started two - not so successful as she concluded in police custody - FB live, telling the world that police was at her door, and made a series of public posts, beading the last free moments she had, such as...
HK Alliance is going to hand in a letter of response to the national security police saying that they won’t submit materials as demanded because HK Alliance is not a foreign agent and police chief can’t simply make such demand according to his “reasonable doubt”.
Standing committee member of HK Alliance since the group’s founding Tsui Hon-Kwong today submitted an application for judicial review against the national security police’s letter to HK Alliance in his own capacity.
It wasn’t long before the HK Alliance reps finished handing in their letter and leaving the police HQs. Chow Hang-tung @zouxingtong said police warned they should follow the law and she told them to do the same. “It only applies to foreign agents, not any random target,” she said
#NOW in the public transport terminus under Yuen Long MTR station, police officers wearing rather bulky vests are standing on guard.
Three young men from TSW Connect, including resigned district councillor Lam Chun, set up a street booth in the public transport terminus under Yuen Long Station. Police jotted down their personal info and reminded them of anti-gathering ban.
Police gave first public warning of gathering ban after a representative of the Confederation of Trade Unions arrived and was about to join the street booth.
#NOW League of Social Democrats opened a street booth on the Great George St, a vibrant commercial lane leading to Victoria Park. Two plain clothed police reminded them to “follow laws in HK”. Chan Po-ying an LSD veteran said “we’ll talk about history and CY Leung will be cited”
Displaying Wen Wei Po front pages back on June 4 1989 and CY Leung’s open condemnation of the bloody crackdown, LSD’s Raphael Wong said, “Beijing loyalists, is this fake news too? Is CY Leung smearing the central authority?”
Half hour to the usual moment of lighting a candle, more are off from work and out on street, taking candles distributed by the League of Social Democrats. How many of them will be lit tonight?
#BREAKING A few changes - including some alarming ones - in the latest print of #NSL Reader Beijing gifted all HK teachers and schools to read. The book’s leading author is Wang Zhenmin, ex legal affairs chief of the Liaison Office.
1. Most alarming one - in the section about cases in HK’s jurisdiction, 1st print said other regulations in HK’s existing laws concerning national security “of course shall be followed” but the line is gone in 2nd print ...
(L: 1st print; R: 2nd print)
...instead 2nd print listed 3 ordinances in HK laws deemed “concerning national security offences” including the Crimes Ordinance, the Official Secrets Ordinance and the Societies Ordinance, and said if they contradict with #NSL, #NSL shall prevail.
In terms of length of gov backdrop slogan, HK is surely developing.
#FINALLY#CarrieLam said Election Committee election will be held in September, LegCo election in December and Chief Executive election next March.
Lam's gov is set to table bills for local legislation for the election overhaul in mid-April and have them passed by end of May.
#JUSTIN All members of the Candidates Qualification Review Committee will be "principal officials of the SAR government", #CarrieLam said, as they must be "balanced, impartial and not afraid of sanctions".
The committee will take over the tasks of returning officers.