(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) Hong Kong's largest large -scale case involved in the National Security Law "Democratic School 47 Case" on Thursday (May 30) was decided on Thursday (May 30).Success, the two were released innocently.
Comprehensive Ming Pao and Duan Media reported that after a 118 -day interrogation, the Hong Kong High Court involved 16 of the 47 defendants from the "Pan -Democratic Primary Selection Case" on Thursday morning to make a judgment.Lawyer Liu Weicong and former Citizen Party Councilor Li Yuxin were not established, and the remaining defendants were all crimes.In addition, 31 people, including Dai Yaoting, former associate professor of the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong, and Huang Zhifeng, a member of Hong Kong's Zhi Zhi, have previously pleaded guilty.
The Department of Justice of Hong Kong said that they would appeal on the two who were convicted and applied for the cancellation of the bail of the two.The judge finally approved the bail of the two, and the case was closed until June 25.
This case is the largest arrest launched by Hong Kong since its implementation of the National Security Law in June 2020.Four7 defendants from different spectrums from Hong Kong Democratic camps include legal scholars, journalists, former Legislative Council members, former district councilors and social workers.
The Hong Kong Democratic School conducted primary elections for the legislative council for the year in 2020 to select the most successful democratic candidates for the election.According to the control, the defendant involved in the case was accused of organizing or participating in the primary election, conspiring to threaten the use of force, or other illegal means to obtain half a seat of the Legislative Council.Under the state power.
53 democratic primary participants were arrested by the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force in January 2021. 47 of them were sued in March of the same year.EssenceThe case began in February last year and completed the case in December.
According to the Hong Kong National Security Law, the crime of subverting the state power is divided into three -level penalties after the crime of subverting the state power.For the sentence, other participants can sentence in prison for less than three years.
It is reported that Hong Kong police have deployed a large number of police alert outside the court. About a hundred people have lined up at 8 am to wait for the audit, including consulate representatives such as Britain, Canada, the United States, Japan, and the European Union.
The EU condemns the "political motivation" of relevant cases, marking "the basic freedom and democratic participation of Hong Kong's basic freedom and democratic participation", and said that they will pay close attention to the human rights situation of Hong Kong.Australian Foreign Minister Huang Yingxian said that one of the crimes became the defendant Wu Zhengheng as an Australian citizen, and the Australian side focused on the ruling.She also said that Australia strongly opposed Hong Kong's continued use of the National Security Law to arrest and pressure democracy and opposition groups.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning responded at a press conference on Thursday that the central government has firmly supported the performance of law enforcement and judicial organs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, punished various types of hazards of Guoan, and resolutely opposed individual countries to interfere with Chinese internal affairs, discredit and discredit and discredit Chinese affairs, discredit and discredit and discredit Chinese affairs.Destroy the rule of law in Hong Kong.
Mao Ning said that Hong Kong is a social rule of law, and the basic principles must be based on the law and illegal law. No one can engage in illegal activities with the banner of democracy and try to escape legal sanctions.
