In the early morning of December 16, Jimmy Lai, the leader of the Hong Kong rebellion, was strictly escorted by many police cars in Hong Kong to Grantham Hospital in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong Island for follow-up.
According to **, ** dispatched a number of police cars, motorcycles, heavy prisoner vehicles and buses to escort them, probably because it was too early or road traffic control was carried out, and there were no other social vehicles on the road.
At around 8 o'clock, the entire escort convoy arrived at the hospital, and it was reported that Hong Kong** personnel were also deployed inside and outside the hospital for strict defense.
Jimmy Lai underwent an hour-long follow-up visit at Grantham Hospital, and at around 9:15 a.m., the convoy returned along the same route. Hong Kong** has temporarily closed off traffic on Butterfly Valley Road, which leads to Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre. At about 9:30 a.m., the convoy arrived at the Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre.
Recently, Jimmy Lai, the ringleader of the Hong Kong riots, was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for two counts of fraud and is serving his sentence in Stanley Prison. However, just recently, Lai Jimmy was transferred to Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre because he is about to face a final trial.
It has been revealed that Jimmy Lai's serious case of conspiracy to endanger others will be tried at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts next Monday. To this end, the Ministry of Communications' escort team, anti-terrorism special unit, mobile unit and plainclothes officers of the National Security Department escorted them along the way, and reloaded all the way to Lai Zhiying to the Lai Chi Kok Reception Center for detention.
As a ringleader who has been engaged in reactionary activities in Hong Kong for a long time, Jimmy Lai's hidden secrets are closely related to foreign countries, so external forces are racking their brains to interfere in the process of his trial, and may even adopt means beyond ordinary people's imagination to achieve their ulterior goals.
Therefore, Hong Kong** has taken strict measures to guard Jimmy Lai, and for the upcoming final trial, Hong Kong** will also maintain a high degree of vigilance to prevent accidents.
Tang Ping-keung, Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that on the day of Lai's trial, Hong Kong** will step up patrols in the courthouse and surrounding areas, and deploy explosive search dogs to conduct security checks.
All must undergo strict checks, including those who enter the courtroom, who will be x-rayed and searched all over the body. Tang warned all involved, especially the so-called "observers," that if anyone attempts to interfere with a normal trial, or attempts to intimidate judicial officers, he will take immediate and decisive enforcement action.
In the past, these "observers" from many countries often interfered with the surveillance personnel, made loud noises, provoked judicial personnel, and even shouted loudly in the courtroom, affecting the trial process. And this time it is Jimmy Lai's final judgment, and he must make sure that nothing is possible.
What is ironic is that after repeated intimidation and threats by various external forces to destabilize Hong Kong, the so-called "rescue" operation ultimately failed.
Now, with Jimmy Lai about to face his final trial, Mark Clifford, a former director of Next Digital, claims to foreign media that Jimmy Lai is "ready to die in prison for his beliefs" and that "the Hong Kong authorities should not underestimate Jimmy Lai".
Is this to make Jimmy Lai keep silent during the trial and bite the secret?A person who has already secretly immigrated to the UK, but pretends to be Chinese in Hong Kong to do everything he can to sabotage, if such an act is called "faith", it is simply an insult to the word faith!
Mark Clifford, a former director of Next Digital, is not only the chairman of the anti-China group at CFHK in New York, but he also has ties to Jimmy Lai.
Now, he has come out claiming that Jimmy Lai should die in prison for his beliefs, which looks more like a threat to Jimmy Lai to keep him from divulging certain secrets.
But how could Jimmy Lai be willing to die in prison?He has been trying to escape and get his son to ask for help in the West.
Vice Chairman Leung Chun-ying refuted Mark Clifford's argument, saying that Hong Kong is as liberal today as it was during the British period, if not better. He accused Mark Clifford of being ignorant and naïve, full of hypocrisy and misleading.
Mr. Leung stressed that Mr. Lai had overestimated his ability to rise above the law with the British citizenship he acquired in 1997 and the support of the United States, but now he needs to pay the price for his misjudgment.