Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, May 5th—Deng Bingqiang, the Commissioner of Police of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said on the 5th that from June 2019 to April 15th, 2020, 8001 people were arrested due to storms and 1365 people were prosecuted, 566 The person was charged with rioting.
At the meeting of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Deng Bingqiang said that 3286 of the arrested were students, accounting for about 41% of the arrested. Among them, the number of middle school students arrested has increased dramatically since December 2019. The arrested youths are all victims. They were instigated to commit illegal acts, and were misled by false news to produce hatred against the SAR government and the police.
Deng Bingqiang said that some people continue to promote violence and abuse of lynching for people with different opinions for their political interests, which makes young people mistakenly feel that they can use violence by any means as long as they think they are correct, and shirk their responsibility to the government and the police.
The 2019 Hong Kong Public Security Briefing submitted to the Legislative Council by the Hong Kong Police Force showed that the number of crimes in the second half of the year due to the violent and illegal acts caused by the revision of the law increased the number of crimes in Hong Kong in 2019 to 59,225, an increase of 5000 from 2018 Rose 9.2%.