Question:
Minister:
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Seriously, I could not make a definitive comment on a
specific case like this which awaits proper procedural
treatment in the courts.
Well,
excuse me Sir, but this case doesn't. He has been
given an amnesty, so that he doesn't have to go before
procedures in the court.
However the circumstance of
I quite understand your point.
the decision by a legal officer will indeed have bearing
on the court procedure, and I mustn't speak entirely for myself here because I shall not be engaged in those procedures,
I must therefore bend over backwards to be absolutely fair
and not to say anything which might prejudice one way or
another what is after all a trial
What I would say
about this or any similar case is this: at the end of the
day, ladies and gentlemen, what has happened here is
detection, conviction, and shame, and the more cases there
are of that having happened and been seen to have happened,
the quicker you and I will see Hong Kong in the situation
that we think it is entitled to.
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