Protesters arrested while fleeing Hong Kong: families fear Chinese system
Relatives of 12 Hong Kong people detained in Guangdong after trying to flee Hong Kong during a press conference in Hong Kong on September 12, 2020. DALE DE LA REY / AFP
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In Hong Kong, the families of 12 young demonstrators, whose boat was intercepted at sea on August 23 by the Chinese coast guard as they tried to flee to Taiwan, addressed the press on Saturday, September 12.
They call on the Hong Kong authorities to intervene with China.
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From our correspondent in Hong Kong,
Florence de Changy
It has been three weeks since families have heard from their relatives, young people who for the most part were prosecuted in Hong Kong for their participation in
various protests
.
They were on parole and allegedly tried to escape
Hong Kong
justice
by taking the risk of leaving by sea on a boat chartered by them.
Hooded, masked, and hidden behind dark glasses, the parents of six of the twelve young people
arrested by the Chinese coast guard
off Hong Kong had difficulty in hiding their concern.
“
We are very worried about the situation, for their rights, their health, their status.
And, will their rights, even under Chinese law, be protected?
Said Jamie To, lawyer, MP for the pro-democracy camp and one of the organizers of the press conference.
"
There is a big risk that families lose all contact with the detainees
"
Especially since the Chinese lawyers that the families had managed to mobilize announced that they had been dissuaded from defending young Hong Kongers.
"
I think the biggest problem for families at the moment is that the Chinese government is trying to impose court-appointed lawyers on them and not lawyers chosen by the families,
" said MP Chu Hoi Dick.
"
There is a big risk that families will lose all contact with the detainees and that this case will fall into a black hole and that we will have more news for months or even years, like so many other rights cases. of man in China
”, continued the elected official.
However, at the end of the day, the Hong Kong immigration service announced that the young people were in good health and that families could pass the drugs to the three young people under medical supervision.
► See also: Hong Kong: 12 people arrested fleeing to Taiwan by boat
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