The families of 10 Hong Kong people who were sentenced to prison ranging from three months to seven months for allegedly crossing the border, including 18-year-old student Guo Zilin and 29-year-old surveyor Li Zixian, regardless of the inconsistent official statements and confusing procedures, decided to go north today (3) to try to visit the two people who were admitted to prison in Shenzhen.
Assistance to the families of 12 Hong Kong people Zou Jiacheng said that most of the families because of the lack of judicial injustice and lack of transparency in the mainland, do not see the chance of a successful appeal, and even worried about the completion of their sentences, the appeal has no results, so they tend not to appeal. The families of two of the imprisoned Hong Kong people are homesick and will go to Shenzhen today, hoping to visit the prison as soon as possible to meet with their loved ones who have been away for more than four months. Part of the official lawyers to the families that there are video visit arrangements, but did not provide details.
The remaining 10 people, including Deng Kai-yin and Qiao Ying-yu, were sentenced to three and two years in prison respectively for organizing others to cross the border, while the remaining eight people, including Li Yu-hsuan, were sentenced to seven months in prison for border-crossing.
Zou Jiacheng told Apple Daily that most of the families tend not to appeal, preferring their relatives to complete their sentences as soon as possible, one can allow family visits, the second is unknown once the appeal procedures to engage in how long, more importantly, is not confident in mainland justice, “most of the families tend to (relatives) serve their sentences, not to appeal … … because the (mainland) judicial system does not see the legal protection after the appeal, but also do not feel that the sentence can be reduced, the family does not want to engage in these administrative things, I think it is very annoying, do not know how long to engage in, may feel that after sitting (prison) still can not handle the appeal, in addition, the mainland justice is not fair, the second is very repetitive, no transparent information, so we do not want to appeal.” The family hopes to visit the prison as soon as possible.
A number of family members hope to visit the prison as soon as possible, some of them start today. Zou Jiacheng said, Guo Zilin’s family and Li Zixian’s mother, today in Hong Kong to obtain Wuhan pneumonia virus test report will start to travel to Shenzhen. But Zou said the current visit information is extremely confusing, such as the family took the Hong Kong test report to Shenzhen arrangements, how to deal with the report, the procedure is not clear.
Zou Jiacheng also revealed that there is an official lawyer revealed that there is a visual visit arrangement, but no details, “in the end to the family to go to Shenzhen, the first visual way, or Hong Kong can already do visual visits?” He pointed out that there are family members therefore decided to go to Shenzhen first to complete the 14-day quarantine, for personal visits or in the mainland to make visual visits to prepare.
A mainland lawyer analysis, 10 imprisoned Hong Kong people appeal space is very little, the future will not change anything. He pointed out that the eight shorter prison terms of Hong Kong people if not appealed, as has been detained for many hours, the remaining sentence of less than three months, is expected to serve their sentences in Yantian Detention Center, the Prison Authority can coordinate to allow relatives to carry out remote video visits.
The lawyer said that, in general, the defendant sent to prison after a month, the prison will notify the family, the mainland family can apply for a meeting, but this case because of the Hong Kong family, they would have gone directly to the prison to apply for a meeting can be, but now said no, so he suggested that the family first through the Immigration Department and the mainland authorities to coordinate visiting arrangements, otherwise if the person has been in the mainland, it will delay a lot of time.
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