Pompeo believes that the 12 Hong Kong people are only fleeing tyranny and have not committed any crime.
The 12 Hong Kong people have been detained in Shenzhen‘s Yantian Detention Center for nearly four months, but their families or their lawyers have not been able to meet with them. In a Twitter post, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on the Chinese government to immediately release the 12 Hong Kong residents, criticizing the Chinese government for turning Hong Kong into “East Berlin.
He said that the so-called “crimes” involving the “12 Hong Kong people” were just “escaping tyranny. He said, “Now the Chinese Communist Party is turning Hong Kong into the East Berlin of yesteryear, forcefully blocking people from seeking freedom elsewhere.
Pompeo has repeatedly spoken out on behalf of the 12 Hong Kong people, expressing concern that they have not been able to meet with the lawyers appointed by their families, and saying that the 12 people only believe they have freedom and rights and have not committed any crimes.
East Berlin was the capital of the East German government after it was established in 1949. The Soviet-controlled East German government prevented people from fleeing to West Berlin, which was controlled by the West, and blocked rail and road access to West Berlin. 1961, the East German government tried to isolate West Berlin from the Berlin Wall, and people who crossed the border were shot by East German soldiers.
Shenzhen Yantian District People’s Procuratorate recently announced that the defendants Deng Kai Ran and Qiao Ying Yu, suspected of “organizing others to cross the border”; Zheng Zihao, Yan Wenqian, Zhang Mingyu, Zhang Junfu, Huang Weiran, Li Zixian, Li Yuxuan, Guo Zilin and eight others, suspected of “crossing the border”, were prosecuted to Shenzhen Yantian District People’s Court according to the law. Shenzhen Yantian District People’s Procuratorate held a hearing on a later date, without public hearing, said the decision was made in accordance with the law.
The family of the Hong Kong people involved earlier said that they received a call from an official lawyer from mainland China, who refused to disclose the names and qualifications of the lawyer, but only asked the family to confess to the charges in Hong Kong on behalf of the arrested people, the family questioned the qualifications of the Chinese lawyer, and that the Hong Kong people involved may be forced to confess by the Chinese Communist Party.
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