The 12 Hong Kong people who were intercepted by the Guangdong Coast Guard while trying to sneak across the border into Taiwan have been detained for 39 days and have not been able to meet with their families and their lawyers. “The Chinese government is seeking approval from the mainland judicial authorities for the arrest. Some of the families of the detained Hong Kong people went to the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government (LOCPG) this morning, saying that the LOCPG’s statement was rubbing salt into the wounds of the families, asking the authorities to return their children, but also blaming the Hong Kong government for its inaction and warning Hong Kong people that what their children are going through today may be what they will face in the future.
After the expiration of the 37-day detention period for prosecution, the Liaison Office issued a statement yesterday, saying that the 12 arrestees “have committed crimes with clear facts and the applicable law”, and that the case is being handled in accordance with the law and has been submitted to the judicial authorities for approval and arrest. However, people with ulterior motives took the opportunity to spread rumors and incite an illegal parade on the Internet during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow, making a “ridiculous” demand for the release of the 12 people. The “sword is hanging high”, and those who run amok are not allowed to act rashly.
The article went on to say that a handful of radicals had planned the “Moonlight Nights” operation on the Internet, instigating attacks on police stations, encouraging the illegal purchase of firearms, bows and arrows and other lethal weapons, and terrorist attacks on police officers, describing the incitement as a blatant defiance of Hong Kong’s national security laws and Hong Kong’s laws, and the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) firmly supported the police’s decisive enforcement of the law.
In the evening of the same day, the police announced that they had arrested three men for allegedly posting messages in social groups to incite others to participate in the illegal assembly, arson, and assault on police officers of “Operation Moonset”. The three men are between 19 and 30 years old, and two are students.
Family Petition Urges Detained HK People to See Family Lawyers
This morning, six family members of the 12 Hong Kong people detained by China, accompanied by legislator David Chu and others, petitioned outside the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, surrounded by “water horses”. They carried moon cakes and placards reading “Give me back my children” and “No to government-appointed lawyers” and shouted slogans demanding the release of the 12 Hong Kong people along the way.
Among the twelve detainees, half of the lawyers appointed by their families were pressured to give up, but it was unclear whether they were represented by lawyers.
Among them, Kai-Yin’s mother even refuted Chief Secretary for Administration Matthew Cheung’s appeal to the families not to dwell on the issue, saying with a choked voice, “We have lost our son and our family. The wife of another detainee even said that the family did not want to “stir up trouble” (i.e., stir up trouble), and that the incident was not just about the 12 of them, but about what Hong Kong people will have to face in the future.
The family reiterated that they would like to meet with Matthew Cheung and Secretary for Security Lee Ka-chiu, and urged the Hong Kong government to arrange for the family’s lawyer to meet with them, rather than the “government-appointed lawyer,” and for the Marine Department to release the radar records of the area around the Ninepin Islands at the time of the incident.
The family left the mooncakes outside the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the hope that the Liaison Office would assist in forwarding the mooncakes to the families in the detention center, and that they would receive news of the 12 Hong Kong people as soon as possible.
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