The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government issued a statement on Tuesday (May 16).Cases.
According to the Sing Tao Daily of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Government stated that Li Zhiying and other relevant personnel were arrested and prosecuted because they were suspected of fraud, colluding foreign or overseas forces to harm national security and other criminal crimes, and newsFreedom has nothing to do.Any country, organization or individual attempts to use political forces to interfere with Hong Kong's judicial procedures in order to promote the judicial trial they should escape from the judicial trial of any defendant, which is to destroy the rule of law in Hong Kong and be condemned.
Statement stated that Hong Kong is a society of rule of law, and the basic law guarantees that Hong Kong residents are equal in front of Hong Kong law.All cases will not be treated differently due to the occupation, political concept or background of the people involved.However, individuals or organizations who advocate a certain background should not be sanctioned by law for their illegal acts and activities, which is equivalent to giving it a special right to violate the law and completely violate the spirit of the rule of law.
The statement emphasizes that the freedom of pressing in Hong Kong is respected and guaranteed, but it is not absolute. When exercising relevant rights, it will be limited by laws and reasonable purposes to achieve reasonable purposes.Public order.The Hong Kong Human Rights Act clearly stipulates that the exercise of freedom rights has special responsibilities and obligations.The "responsible journalism assignment" has been clearly established in international jurisprudence of human rights. The court has also emphasized that journalists have obliged to comply with all laws, including criminal laws, like other people.
The Hong Kong Government reiterates that no one is allowed to interfere with the judicial procedures of the SAR and strongly condemn it.
Li Zhiying has been arrested by the police for suspected violations of the Hong Kong National Security Law, fraud and illegal assemblies since August 2020, and was sentenced to imprisonment for some charges.
Li Zhiying's crime of "colluding foreign or overseas forces to endanger national security" involved in the National Security Law is still interrogating.At the end of the year, whether overseas judges approved overseas judges to deal with the National Security Law, and power was in the hands of the Chief Executive.
