[Now News Channel]The disbanded branch association refused to submit information to the National Security Department of the police. The former vice chairman Zou Xingtong and three others were convicted. The case was postponed to next Saturday for intercession and sentencing.
Zou Xingtong was escorted to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court by a prison car, while Deng Yuejun and Xu Hanguang, who were released on bail earlier, arrived at the court by themselves.
The National Security Department of the police accused the Stake Association of being a foreign agent the year before and cited the details of the National Security Law to ask the Standing Committee to hand over information, but they refused to submit. Five people were accused of failing to comply with the notification requirements to provide information.
The defense earlier claimed that the stake is not a foreign agent, and disputed whether the police issued the notice is legal and necessary.
The National Security Law designated judge Luo Luoquan ruled that the factual testimony of the defense is accepted, but speculative statements are not accepted. He also said that foreign agents in Hong Kong are a new concept, and there is no list of foreign agents. Strict criteria must be defined It is impossible.
The Stake Association has been organizing activities around the June 4th incident for many years, contacting local and overseas organizations, and believes that during the police investigation, it is necessary to ask them to submit information. The police are not a fisherman casting a net, but restraint.
The information that the police asked them to submit, including the accounting records and employee documents of the stake association, was not old and was not difficult to obtain. However, the defendants successively issued open letters to the police and held high-profile press conferences, indicating that they would not submit them. Man is guilty.
The defense requested immediate intercession in court, but the judge said that he hoped to hear the written intercession of the three defendants first, and decided to postpone the intercession and sentencing until the 11th of this month.
As for the other two defendants in the same case, former Standing Committee member Liang Jinwei and former secretary Chen Duowei pleaded guilty earlier and were sentenced to three months in prison. They have now served their sentences.
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