Comprehensive Hong Kong media reports, a media founder Lai Chi-ying, involved in assisting the escape of the earlier sentenced in the mainland Lee Yu-hin, was arrested in Stanley Prison on Tuesday night (16). He was charged with “conspiracy to collude with a foreign power” and “assisting a criminal”. A 29-year-old paralegal, Chan Tsz-wah, was also charged with similar offences and was escorted to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday afternoon (17) for arraignment. Some commentators believe that the authorities are endlessly sniping at Lai Chi-ying, and that the crackdown will only intensify.
A number of Hong Kong media reported that the charge alleges that Lai Chi-ying in the period from July 1 last year to February 15 this year, with 29-year-old lawyer’s assistant Chen Zihua, Lai Chi-ying’s assistant Mark Simon, is serving a prison sentence in the mainland of Li Yu xuan, has been exiled overseas “to fry Ba” Liu Zu Di and others conspired to request foreign or foreign institutions They are accused of conspiring to request foreign countries or foreign organizations or persons to impose sanctions, blockade or take other “hostile actions” against the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the People’s Republic of China.
Lai Chi-ying was also charged with conspiring with Lee and others to assist Lee to leave Hong Kong for Taiwan between July 2020 and Aug. 23, 2020.
The report said the police arrested Lai Chi-ying on Tuesday night at Stanley Prison for allegedly “conspiring to collude with foreign countries or forces outside the country to endanger national security” and “conspiring to assist criminals”, which means Lai Chi-ying is suspected of assisting the criminal in the 12 Hong Kong people case, Lee Yu-hsuan, to abscond to Taiwan.
In an interview, Hong Kong law doctor and current affairs commentator Samp said that the authorities have been prosecuting Lai Chi-ying layer by layer, and endlessly, which is to put pressure on him and hope to intimidate Hong Kong people.
I think we all expect that the Chinese Communist Party will use different charges to prosecute him again and again, so that he will be in a very unstable state, facing long-term, continuous interrogation, imprisonment, this way of operation, maybe not only for Lai Chi-ying, may be for other young people in prison, will take the same way? I think this is a possibility. I think the crackdown will intensify, not ease.
The case of Lai Chi-ying, who was also involved in the illegal assembly of the 8.18 “flowing assembly”, was charged with “organizing and participating in an unauthorized assembly”, and he went to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court in a prison van on Wednesday morning to answer the case. The defendant involved in the same case, Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, questioned the reason why the police chose to make the arrest before Lai Chi-ying applied for bail at the High Court.
Lee Cheuk-yan said: we see the Time is very clear, he (Lai Chi-ying) is about to be released on bail, the arrest was made, of course, we do not know the content, the problem is that he said those events, are a long time ago, why in the near future to court on the prosecution? It seems that in order to bail and design an arrest, trying to keep him out.
Lai Chi-ying was charged with fraud in early December last year, and then denied bail by a national security judge, during which he was remanded to scabbard in Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre, and was charged with “colluding with foreign countries or forces outside the country to endanger national security” by the police during the remand on December 11 last year, becoming the first person in Hong Kong to be charged with this crime.
The Court of Final Appeal earlier ruled that the High Court trial judge Lee Yun-teng’s decision to grant bail to Lai Chi-ying was wrong, and Lai Chi-ying will go to the High Court on Thursday (17) to apply for bail again on the case.
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