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We would merely say that, so far as we are concerned, the manner in which these allegations were made was not convincing and did not lead us to think that there was any justification for questioning the validity of the convictions against these young men, in respect of their activities before arrest, already recorded in the ns courts of law, or that the purpose of our Inquiry could properly include the reopening of the issues therein determined; we are in no sense a court of appeal from these convictions.
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360. He was born in Hong Kong in 1951 and lived with his mother and an elder sister at Canton Road. Shortly after he was born, his father went to the United States and is employed there, sending remittances to AU YEUNG's mother of about US$800 each year; his mother and sister also worked and between them earned approximately $250 a month. He said he attended a primary school for six years; then spent three years at one middle school and at the time of the riots was a student at a middle school in Wan Chai.
361. On the morning of the 5th April, a picnic arranged with some friends having fallen through, he took a joy ride around So Uk Village in a bus and then crossed the harbour to see a young man whom he had read about in the news- papers as being on a hunger strike. He thought that if the Star Ferry increased their fares, other prices would increase and thus lower the people's standard of living. Arriving at about 10 o'clock, he saw no sign of the hunger striker and went for a walk around the City Hall. When he came back SO Sau Chung was there. SO's request for newspapers and AU YEUNG's response have already been described in paragraph 88. He stayed there holding a newspaper with pictures and articles about SO until around 12 o'clock and then went away, had some tea and a walk, and came back to where SO was standing. A number of persons were standing with SO including a youth called LAM Siu Lok who had taken off his jacket with writing on it similar to that on SO's. SO then gave AU YEUNG a placard on which SO had written 'oppose to ferry increases-oppose to the end' and told him to stand and hold it so that people could see it. After standing there holding the board for a short while, at SO's suggestion he crossed the harbour with the board. LAM accompanied him. SO's reason was that they should not confine their activities to just the Hong Kong side.
362. On arrival at Kowloon, LAM mounted a rubbish box and started address- ing passers-by soliciting their support against the proposed Star Ferry increases and asking them to give their signatures. After LAM had been doing this for about half an hour, another young man named TAM Yat Sam (see para. 390) joined them. He was carrying a banner on which was written 'you are invited to sign your names'. TAM also had a blank exercise book to record the signatures of passers-by While doing that, a woman, unknown to AU YEUNG, came and offered him some more exercise books for signatures. TAM handed him an exercise book and he