As of December 12, 12 young people in Hong Kong have been detained for 112 days. Their families held a press conference again. Some of the family members received letters from their son instructing his parents to confess the charges in Hong Kong on his behalf. The family members questioned that the son was not voluntary and feared that he would be forced to write a confession under torture.
Nearly four months after 12 Hong Kong youths were arrested by Chinese Communist Party police when they fled to Taiwan in August, the case has drawn wide international attention. Earlier, the family members received the first personal letter from 12 Hong Kong people, but the content was the same and they were suspected of writing it involuntarily. Former Members of the Legislative Council, Mr James To and Mr Eddie Chu, together with the families of the 12 Hong Kong residents, held another press conference on Saturday (December 12) to update them on the latest situation.
Li’s father said he received a second letter from his son on June 26, asking his family members to plead guilty on behalf of the suspect in Hong Kong, but under Hong Kong law, they have no right to plead guilty on behalf of the suspect who is not in Hong Kong. He questioned Mr Lee’s forced confession: “In a letter home, my son asked me to find a Hong Kong lawyer to plead guilty on his behalf to the crimes committed in Hong Kong. I think the judicial system in China is different from that in Hong Kong. Why does he mention in his letter that he wants me to find a lawyer to confess the crimes committed in Hong Kong on his behalf?”
Li added that Li made it clear before he left that he had refused to plead guilty, challenged his coerced confession and denied Li a fair trial. Li’s mother worried that her son had been tortured into writing letters.
Huang Weiran mother said repeatedly with thegovernment-sent lawyers call, have asked other detained in Hong Kong, Hong Kong people involved in the case of: “I feel very strange, why thegovernment-sent lawyer asked so much. He claimed that Hong Kong’s case is not involved this time on behalf of my son’s case, but why is he on the phone over, again, very flexors, very long (endless) gas, said more than a hour telephone, are all around it, made me confused.”
Huang’s wife said that she had not received the second letter, but the official sent a lawyer to inquire about another arrested man, Huang Linfu (known as “Vietnamese boy”) and the relationship between Huang Wei and Huang Linfu and Qiao Yingyu, who was involved in the crime of organizing cross-border movement. Wong too frankly does not care about other people’s situation, only care about their own family.
Tu Jinshen, a former Democratic Party lawmaker, spoke on behalf of the family of Huang Linfu, the only minor arrested in the case. He quoted Huang’s mother as saying that she received a local phone call from Hong Kong but could not communicate because Huang’s mother could not understand Mandarin, and the call was subsequently unavailable. Huang mother hopes that the Vietnamese consul in Guangzhou can visit Huang Linfu in Yantian detention center.
In addition, another arrested deng chuan ran mother said earlier after notice of the bank of China, the means of deng chuan ran the bank of China account has been canceled, cheque payments within the registered permanent residence can retrieve, is must to get by oneself, family members who ask the reason of the bank of China to cancel the account, bank side to “business administrative decision,” said prevarication.
The families made three demands, including insisting that lawyers be appointed by the families to meet and represent the 12 Hong Kong residents; Ask for a public hearing and inform family members of the date of hearing in advance so that they can attend; Ensure that Hong Kong residents have the right to communicate so that they can receive letters from their families and contact them by phone.
The families also prepared four Christmas cards for the Hong Kong people to send their wishes to the 12 Hong Kong residents through the cards to wish them an early return home.
Four Christmas cards were prepared for the Hong Kong people to send their wishes to the 12 people in Hong Kong for their early return home.
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