{"id":84270,"date":"2016-03-08T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=84270"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:48:33","slug":"lee-po-case-causes-more-harm-than-mong-kok-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/lee-po-case-causes-more-harm-than-mong-kok-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Po case causes more harm than Mong Kok unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lee Po case causes more harm than Mong Kok unrest<\/div>\n
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By Chris Yeung<\/div>\n
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Beijing may not like it, to face it, or even hear about it. The plain truth is that the missing bookseller saga has inflicted more damages than the Mong Kok unrest to Hong Kong, contrary to what Zhang Dejiang may prefer to believe.<\/p>\n

It has come as no surprise that Zhang, a Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member with special responsibility for Hong Kong affairs, has made scathing attack against the alleged rioters in the Mong Kok clashes.<\/p>\n

Speaking after a meeting with Zhang in Beijing on Sunday Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying quoted him as saying he was \u201cshocked\u201d and \u201cfelt distressed\u201d by the riot. Zhang, who is chairman of the National People\u2019s Congress, reportedly said Hong Kong is a civilised society with rule of law. The eruption of violence in the Mong Kok unrest, Zhang said, would damage the city\u2019s rule of law and international image.<\/p>\n

Leung said at the press conference he had already conveyed people\u2019s concern about the bookseller case to the mainland authorities promptly. He said he had not raised the case at the meeting with Zhang.<\/p>\n

As Zhang talked highly of the vital importance of rule of law at the Beijing meetings, the quiet return of two staff of the ill-fated Causeway Books, who went missing on the mainland last year, in Hong Kong has raised serious questions about rule of law under the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d policy.<\/p>\n

Full article:<\/p>\n

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