The Hong Kong police carried out a major arrest operation again on January 14. 11 people, including a Kowloon City councilor and lawyer Wong Kwok-tung, were arrested in the early morning, and they were accused of being involved in assisting 12 Hong Kong people to abscond. The picture shows Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and lawyer Huang Guotong. (Song Bi Long / Epoch Times)
The Hong Kong Police Force carried out another major arrest operation today (14). 11 people, including a Kowloon City councilor and lawyer Wong Kwok-tung, were arrested in the early morning, allegedly in connection with assisting 12 Hong Kong people to abscond.
At 6:23 a.m. local time on January 14, Huang Guotong posted on Facebook that at 6:10 a.m., he was taken away by the National Security Division officers at home, temporarily do not know to which police station, said it will be updated.
In addition to Huang Guotong, the former deputy secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS), He Jiehong, also posted on Facebook that at 6:15 a.m., her mother, Ms. Zhang, was arrested by the police and is now at the Tsuen Wan Police Station.
According to Hong Kong media reports, the Hong Kong Police Force National Security Division officers arrested a total of 11 people this morning, including eight men and three women, they are accused of assisting 12 Hong Kong people to abscond.
In late August last year, 12 Hong Kong people were intercepted by the Guangdong Marine Police and detained at the Shenzhen Detention Centre, and on December 30, the Shenzhen Yantian Court handed down its verdict on the case of the 12 Hong Kong people, in which Deng Kai-yin and Qiao Ying-yu were sentenced to three and two years in prison respectively; Li Yu-hsuan and eight others were sentenced to seven months in prison; and two other underage Hong Kong people were not prosecuted and were handed over to the Hong Kong police.
During the anti-China movement, Mr. Huang provided free legal advice to many of those arrested, and assisted Hong Kong people in exile in Taiwan to launch the “Umbrella” program, opening an “Umbrella” restaurant in Taipei to enable exiled Hong Kong people to work and earn their own living in Taiwan.
On October 16 last year, the “Umbrella” restaurant in Taipei was harassed by someone who viciously threw feces at it. Taiwan police intervened to investigate and arrested and charged four people with public insult, injury and vandalism.
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party has escalated its crackdown on Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong police have been making arrests of almost all pan-democratic legislators and many pro-democracy activists, prompting strong condemnation from the international community.
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