According to Hong Kong media reports, former Labor Party legislator Fernando Cheung revealed on Facebook on November 28 that he had just visited former student leader and social activist Wong Chi-fung, who is currently in custody, and confirmed that he had returned from solitary confinement in a prison hospital to Lai Chi Kok Detention Center to await his sentencing on December 2.
Huang Zhifeng, a former secretary-general of the pro-democracy, self-determination “Hong Kong People’s Volunteers,” along with former Hong Kong People’s Volunteers cadre member Zhou Ting and former president Lin Lang-yen, appeared in court on November 23 to continue the trial in the June 21, 2019, siege of the Hong Kong police headquarters.
Huang Zhifeng and Lin Langyan also pleaded guilty after appearing in court, as Zhou Ting had previously pleaded guilty to inciting an unauthorized assembly and participating in an unauthorized assembly. The court announced that the three must be remanded in custody until the official sentencing on December 2.
After being sent to the scabbard at the Lai Chi Kok scabbard, corrections officers claimed that X-rays revealed a “foreign object” in his abdomen and he was placed in solitary confinement in the hospital’s single cell for 72 hours, according to Huang’s Facebook page. Since he was not allowed to see his own X-rays, he was unable to understand the situation.
Huang Zhifeng also said that the cell was lit 24 hours a day, and at night the lights were too bright for him to sleep. He was also not allowed to “go outside” in solitary confinement.
In a written interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Huang said that he did not expect a fair trial, but that he was not worried about himself, but about the 12 Hong Kong siblings who have been sent to China. The 12 Hong Kong youths were arrested at sea by Chinese armed police in late October while attempting to travel to Taiwan by boat and are now being held in Shenzhen.
Huang Zhifeng also said that the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong will not stop there, and that they will continue to fight for democracy outside of Hong Kong, including in Taiwan, where they are also fighting against Beijing, while in prison.
Former Hong Kong Public Opinion Chairman Luo Guancong, currently in exile in the UK, said on Facebook that by holding Huang Zhifeng in a place where he is not allowed to have contact with other inmates, the Correctional Services Department is trying to give Huang Zhifeng, who has been an advocate of prisoners’ rights in the past, a head start.
According to reports, Fernando Chang of the Labor Party also reportedly said that Huang was “doing fine” upon his return to the Lai Chi Kok Reception Center. Dr. Chang quoted Huang as saying that even in the face of the harsh crackdown on civil society, “as long as people’s hearts don’t die, when the time comes, there will be a movement. In addition, Huang urged everyone to take care of themselves, “People are in the movement,” he said.
On June 21, 2016, Hong Kong’s academic community launched an escalated campaign against the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance Amendment Bill, also known as “Operation 621”, in which students and citizens hope to blockade major buildings of the Hong Kong government and cooperate with rallies on the peripheral roads to stop the operation of government departments and force the government to respond to the “revocation of the June 21 Fugitive Offenders Ordinance”. The 12th demonstrations were defined as “riots” and “release the arrested demonstrators,” among other demands, with the Hong Kong Police Headquarters being one of the targets of the siege. Huang Zhifeng had repeatedly asked to speak with then Police Commissioner Lu Weicong.
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