Hong Kong version of the Cultural Revolution: Correctional Services Department refused to approve Hu Zhiwei to go to his father’s funeral only to arrange video way to participate

In Hong Kong, former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai, who is returning to scabbard, applied to the Correctional Services Department earlier to attend his father’s funeral service on Friday, but the department decided not to approve the application on security grounds and only arranged to participate by video. Some prisoners’ rights groups said the arrangement was not humane. (Fang Dehao reports)

The Correctional Services Department said it noticed that the date, time and location of the funeral service were widely reported by social media, and there were also calls on the Internet for support on the day of the funeral service. After a security assessment, it decided not to approve the application in order to protect the safety of correctional officers, inmates and members of the public.

Wu was arrested for violating the National Security Law of Hong Kong for his participation in the Legislative Council primary election last year.

The founder of the prisoners’ rights organization “Stonewall Flower” and former member of the Legislative Council, Shao Jiazhen, told Hong Kong’s Apple Daily that the Correctional Services Department has always had guidelines for handling prisoners’ mourning, “wearing what shirt, tying waist refinement, etc., there are arrangements, guidelines, a little will not be chaotic”, he also He also believes that if the Department approves Hu Zhiwei to go out to mourn, and calls on the outside world not to be present, the outside world will also agree, so questioned the Department not to approve Hu’s application “is a political issue, is willing to do the problem.”

For the Department said it is committed to the development of intelligent prisons, and arrangements for Hu to participate in the funeral ceremony in a visual way, Apple Daily quoted Shao Jiazhen said, is not close to humane, the so-called intelligent prisons “may only use the phone, across a mon (screen) to see, so low-intelligence thing is ridiculous, point intelligent prisons are not compared to humane prisons. He stressed that “yellow and blue is the color, but it is life and death is human life.”