Former Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, who was beaten and left bleeding in the July 21 incident in Yuen Long, was arrested this morning by ICAC officers who broke into his apartment. This is the second time since the 7.21 incident that Lam Cheuk-ting was allegedly arrested for political reasons. The authorities accused Lam Cheuk-ting, who was once the ICAC’s investigation officer, of disclosing information about the identity of people under investigation on 7.21 to the public or part of the public between 2019 and July 2020.
Although the ICAC declined to disclose the identity of the person under investigation, Lam suspected that the ICAC might have arrested him on the basis of his allegations of “misconduct in public office” against some of the police officers who handled the 7.21 incident on that day. He questioned whether this was a distortion of the original intent of Section 30 of The prevention of Bribery Ordinance to arrest him indiscriminately, criticizing the ICAC for having degenerated and become a tool of political suppression by the government. In other words, it is believed that the ICAC arrested Lam because he sued the police officers for misconduct.
On his Facebook page, Lam uploaded a video of his arrest by the ICAC, showing his arrest by a former colleague (an ICAC investigator), who told him through a metal gate that he wanted to arrest him, “You are suspected of having disclosed to the public or a section of the public the identity of a person under investigation by the ICAC between December 2019 and July 2020, in breach of You are suspected of violating Section 30 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance by disclosing the identity of a person under investigation by the ICAC to the public between December 2019 and July 2020. When Lam asked about the disclosure of the identity of the person under investigation, the investigator refused to answer and said he would caution Lam and later bring him back to ICAC headquarters for the case.
Lam Cheuk Ting responded at this point that: “you (investigator) called me that day, I have spoken clearly, you and I know that the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, section 30, is related to the disclosure of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance under the reported crime, I have never done, I am accusing a lot of police 7.21 public officials misconduct, not the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, section 30 Now the ICAC has degenerated into a tool of the regime’s suppression, you and I are from the academy, very clear about this ordinance, today the ICAC is so translated, purely because of political reasons, today to me this arrest, it is clear that the ICAC has fallen time, once again cited the fall of Hong Kong.
The clip saw two men and a woman investigators into the house, had asked whether the video can not be refused, after Lin Zhuo Ting said to call, three investigators sat down to wait. At about 9:20 a.m., the private ICAC car in which Lam Cheuk-tin was riding drove into the ICAC headquarters in North Point.
Under Section 30 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, it is an offence to disclose the identity of the person under investigation. Under section 30(1), any person who, knowing or suspecting that an investigation is taking place in relation to any Part II offence alleged or suspected to have been committed, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, discloses to the public, a section of the public or any specified person the identity of the person under investigation or the fact that the person under investigation is under investigation or any particulars of that investigation, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of HK$20,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
Former Democratic Party legislator Lam Cheuk-ting was arrested in connection with last year’s “March for the Restoration of Tuen Mun Park”, and he was accused of participating in the July 21 riot last year.
The police arrested 13 people for rioting in connection with the 7.21 Yuen Long incident on August 26 this year, including Lam Cheuk-ting, who was attacked and injured by the men in white and has been demanding a thorough investigation of the incident, turning the plaintiff into the defendant. Lam and six other men were charged with rioting, the case was arraigned in the West Kowloon Court on December 21, the defendants continue not to have to plead, the prosecution submitted a referral document, the case will be transferred to the District Court for trial, and on January 5 next year in the District Court arraignment. It is known to the prosecution that the entire riot occurred between 10:45 pm and 11:02 pm that night, the crime process only 17 minutes, the seven defendants accused of provoking the white man, but the white man in the street and the MTR station before the gathering and beating incident is not mentioned, even after the police, ignoring the police officers advised him not to go to Yuen Long, as evidence of his guilt.
The original bail conditions include the temporary permission to leave Hong Kong for official business, but Magistrate Rod Chuen tightened the bail conditions, issued an order that Lam Cheuk Ting bail period can not leave Hong Kong, and must surrender travel documents.
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