Shenzhen detainees jailed for up to three years

AsianXpat0 · 30-12-2020, 06:11 PM

The usual catch-all for things they don’t like is/was “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. I don’t think there are specific offences and penalties specified https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/2015nsl/

Plus what you are referring to seems to be what some of the 12 are alleged to have done? Still not NSL-worthy even by HK standards, but that’s for HK courts to decide.

MABinPengChau · 30-12-2020, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by mrgoodkat:

Passing through waters of a different nation isn't legally a border crossing. Only landing actually is. Otherwise you couldn't sail a container ship from Vietnam to Korea without getting arrested in China. So the Chinese charges are complete and utter bullshit.

Except we know that China has a very umm, unique perspective on its borders. "Border crossing with Chinese characteristics..."

drumbrake · 30-12-2020, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by hkaneshiro:

put differently, if this was say a mainlander who came to hkg to participate in what these guys did, then then went back to the Mainland.. you think they would not be charged under some nsl law?

The mainland cops / military who were drafted into the HKPF to destroy the city have not been charged with anything on their return.

shri · 14-01-2021, 10:00 AM

Arrests in HK under NSL.

https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1...025018880?s=20

and

https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1...776361473?s=20

Coolboy · 14-01-2021, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by shri:

Arrests in HK under NSL.

https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1...025018880?s=20

and

https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1...776361473?s=20

Surely, no one sane believes the NSL is just targeting a few...

AsianXpat0 · 14-01-2021, 10:43 AM

Maybe it’s just me, but I would have thought the Mainland-based dance instructors allegedly illegally crossing the borders would be more of a threat to “national security” given the ongoing pandemic, than the 11/20 or whatever number it allegedly took for people to leave for Taiwan. Heartening to see taxpayer money so well used and for such good purpose as the usual justifying one’s own existence kicks into increasingly higher gear.