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2020/12/03 24 hour corner
【2020. 12. 3 Hong Kong】
Who would dare keep people up to five shifts? The Hong Kong government “opened a new crime” and detained Li Zhiying in court in April … What is the dispute?
“Li Zhiying cannot pay for security … I will be detained in court until April 16 next year!” Next Media and Apple Daily founder Li Zhiying were arrested again by Hong Kong police on Thursday and two senior executives from the group. In addition to several felony charges under the Act, another “Fraud” case was filed. The case was opened at the Hong Kong West Kowloon Magistrate before the third afternoon, but was tried by the Hong Kong Government Department of Justice. He was also responsible for the settlement of the dispute about the violation of the National Security Law by Next Media, “Judge appointed for the case of the National Security Law” Su Huide. Li Zhiying’s request for bail was rejected and the police investigation was unknown, and the defendant had no way of responding, and was detained at the scene until retrial on April 16, 2021. Although Li Zhiying, whom Hong Kong government considers a thorn in the flesh, is currently on trial, the controversial arrest warrant for Su Huide has once again triggered the political condemnation of “white terror” in public opinion, but what is the ” crime of fraud “of which Li Zhiying was charged? What happens? Why is it that news that directly pushes people forward still makes Hong Kong society extremely sad and stunned?
▌ Summary of the above situation: “Li Zhiying arrested: Hong Kong version of the national security law killed seven senior executives … Hong Kong Apple Daily suffered a” beheading operation “>
Li Zhiying, 71, was summoned by Hong Kong police on the afternoon of December 2 along with Zhou Daquan, COO of Next Media, and Huang Weiqiang, CEO. Originally the procedure was supposed to take place in August this year, the Hong Kong government accused Li Zhiying of violating the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law”, but the Hong Kong police charged subsequently three people with additional charges of “fraud”. They went to trial overnight and went to the West Kowloon Magistracy on the morning of the 3rd.
However, Trial Judge Su Huide, after simply declaring the allegations, immediately announced a “new trial at another date” because the police still needed further investigation. During the period, Su Huide approved the bail of Zhou Daquan and Huang Weiqiang, but it was surprising. Li Zhiying was not allowed to pay guarantees, and was detained in court on the grounds that “the suspect is at risk of flight” until the second hearing on April 16, 2021.
Currently, Zhang Jianhong, CEO of Hong Kong Next Media, has confirmed that he will appeal Li Zhiying’s refusal to be released on bail. However, although the decision to detain Li Zhiying has yet to be condemned, it is the second wave of Hong Kong opposition leaders to have lost their personal freedom in just 24 hours after Zhou Ting, Huang Zhifeng and Lin Langyan and other “three children”. Coupled with the recent large-scale liquidation of “Hong Kong Cable News”, the relocation of non-governmental journalists, pressure and the raging waves of multiple assaults in just one week, this has also made Hong Kong people even more desperate.
But what exactly is the “crime of fraud” Li Zhiying is accused of? As of the afternoon of the 3rd, neither the Hong Kong Police nor the Justice Department have provided further explanations. Did they just use a short press release to accuse Li Zhiying and his cronies of alleged violations of allowing subsidiaries to “borrow the Apple Daily’s address to operate”?
According to the complaint filed by the Hong Kong police, Li Zhiying and Zhou Huang, the two presidents, were suspected of defrauding the “Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Company” (the park management unit, an administrative agency under the jurisdiction Hong Kong government) between 2016 and 2020, and transferred Li Zhiying privately. The private company “Ligao Consulting Company” was registered at the same address as Apple Daily in the park. This action violated the leasing rules of the public science and technology park and had a deliberate intention. As a result, “it made the science and technology park enterprise suffer disadvantages or a considerable degree of possibility Sex will suffer.”
In fact, the cross-connection between Li Zhiying, Next Media and Ligao Consulting has been a long-term “controversial case” pursued by the Hong Kong-based media. Ligao is a consulting company established by Li Zhiying in 1988, and Hong Kong Next Media was included and established two years later. However, skeptical views believe that Li Zhiying has set the Ligao Company’s registration and operating address in the Apple Daily storage area for many years, and used it to illegally exploit the loopholes, so that Ligao can enjoy the “Low income established by the Hong Kong government for investment in the park”. .
In short, the Hong Kong police believe that Li Zhiying’s private company, Ligao Consultants, can use the Apple Daily company’s land contract to avoid renting and thus profiting illegally; but what benefits did Li Zhiying and Ligao Consultants get? What appears to be a civil or administrative dispute, why should the director of the Hong Kong Police Department of National Security, the Hong Kong Government Department of Justice and the “appointed judge for national security law” be used to treat it together? The high profile of the incredible situation is also highly doubtful.
Hong Kong police argued that due to the confidential identity of the accused Li Zhiying, he currently has several felony charges under the National Security Act; the fraud charges recently indicted on the 2nd were also suspected of being forced to register Hong Kong Next Media and Apple on August 10 this year. Information “obtained separately” from the headquarters of the Daily News. Therefore, the entire investigation of the case will be handled according to the specifications of the “National Security Law Team”.
Although the statements and relevant police arrangements have made the outside world highly suspicious, in the current “special political atmosphere” in Hong Kong, the public did not expect to have a logical statement. However, according to a report by the South China Morning Post, after the Hong Kong police confirmed the charges against Li Zhiying and the three other individuals for fraud, the Hong Kong Government Department of Justice specifically appointed and organized the “judge designated for national security law cases “Su Hui Tak to hear the case, but unexpectedly. Although the public narrative of the crime from the Hong Kong police was not very significant, So Hui-te still rejected Li Zhiying’s request for security and directly imprisoned him on the grounds that “the case is serious … Li Zhiying can flee or commit another crime. ” 13 days a month, until the next court hearing.
The reasons for the removal of Judge Su Huide caused a great deal of confusion among Hong Kong’s opposition to public opinion and the liberal media. On the one hand, I don’t understand “How come Li Zhiying is committing fraud again now”? Second, it is impossible to determine what Su Huide meant. Does this mean that the fraud case on the 3rd will still be related to Li Zhiying’s Department of Homeland Security? Third, when Li Zhiying was previously charged with violating the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law” with a felony (the crime of colluding with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security, “it was not released from bail. Why the high-rise building location and rental problem which I don’t know why is so serious? Until bail is denied and detained for 4 months? All kinds keep happening of confusion, dissatisfaction and doubts, but the majority of opinions directly condemn the Hong Kong government, the Hong Kong police and the Hong Kong judges: they have completely entered the field of white terror thinking of “political trials” and the “convicts”.
In essence, Li Zhiying will not only spend Christmas and New Years in a detention center … until April next year. With personal freedom and privacy restricted, there will be the heaviest life sentence in the future. The crime of endangering national security by foreign forces has to face litigation, so when it is difficult to protect yourself, it can be difficult to continue to support and lead the beleaguered Hong Kong One Media.
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