(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is consulting the public on Article 23 of the Basic Law. Among them, the longest detention period for extending the capture is considered.The Hong Kong Government may learn from the British practice and allow the police to prevent the arrested to prevent the arrests from consulting specific lawyers to prevent information leakage and endangering national security.
Comprehensive Ming Pao, Now News, etc., a key issue in Article 23 of the Basic Law is to consider the detention period of up to 48 hours of detention to the arrested.In the British National Security Law provisions, the empowering police officer or or above police officers can prevent the detention of the subjects from consulting specific lawyers and delayed the detention person to consult any lawyer.
The Hong Kong Security Director Deng Bingqiang said in an interview on Saturday (February 3) that he might learn from the British model and believe that the time for approval by courts to extend detention is more secure.If a lawyer and the arrested are doubtful, they can prevent the arrested by the lawyer, but it does not mean that the arrested person cannot see other lawyers.
Lin Dingguo, the director of the Hong Kong Law Department, also said that if there are sufficient reasons to believe that a lawyer may "ventilate the letter" or engage in the harmful national security behavior, it can prolong the discretionary period to prohibit both parties from contacting both parties.He said that the suspect must consider the lawyer who claims to see a lawyer, but in fact, the lawyer may communicate with him to communicate with the name of consultation, so as to continue to engage in acts that endanger national security.
Lin Dingguo also emphasized that the official will ensure that the defendant will not be unreasonably deprived of the defendant to consult a lawyer or seek basic rights to seek legal aid.
Li Dongguo, former director of the Security Bureau and a member of the New Democratic Party Legislative Council, believes that law enforcement officers will prohibit the suspect from seeing a lawyer without reasonable doubts, otherwise it will be easily appealing.
Senior barrister Tang Jiazhen said that the International Human Rights Convention mentioned that suspects have the right to find legal representatives, but they did not list as specified legal representatives, so the relevant practices are in line with the International Human Rights Convention.
