Overseas Network, April 11th. Huang Zhifeng, the then secretary general of the disbanded "Hong Kong Independence" organization "Hong Kong Zhongzhi", and former member Zhou Ting, due to dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong police's application to the court for a warrant to check the content of their mobile phones, will apply for justice in 2020. Review.
The Hong Kong High Court rejected their application for judicial review permission on the 11th.
According to RTHK and "Dongwang" reports, in 2019, Huang Zhifeng and Zhou Ting were arrested by the police on suspicion of inciting others to surround the police headquarters. The police applied to the court for a warrant to check the contents of their mobile phones and take screenshots as evidence.
Hong Kong judges have issued search warrants four times, allowing the police to search their electronic products and view the contents of their mobile phones, and allow the police to go to Facebook's headquarters in Hong Kong to check the account information of Zhou Ting's page.
The two were dissatisfied with this and filed an application for judicial review with the High Court in April 2020, asking the court to rule that the judge's issuance of the search warrant and the police's execution of the search warrant were "unlawful and unconstitutional".
On April 11, the Hong Kong High Court rejected the application for judicial review permission and ordered Huang Zhifeng and Zhou Ting to pay 66,000 Hong Kong dollars in legal fees.
The applicants for judicial review in this case, Huang Zhifeng and Zhou Ting, and the proposed respondent, the Commissioner of Police, did not send representatives to appear in court.
Huang was sentenced to 13.5 months in prison, while Zhou was sentenced to 10 months in prison, the report said.
Both have now served their sentences, but Huang has to be remanded in custody for other cases.
(Overseas Network Yang Jia)