Over 10,000 people were arrested during the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition movement. But the number of people who have been prosecuted is less than 3,000. The Department of Justice committed the low number of resolved cases was due to “insufficient evidence,” “no immediate need for follow-up,” or “cases still under investigation.” The question remains, how to treat these unresolved cases?
Even in some prosecuted cases judges questioned the DoJ regarding, “insufficient evidence.”
On Nov. 23, Tik Chi-yuen, a self-claimed “unbiased” legislative councillor, quoted the Secretary of Justice Lam Ting-kwok after an Ante Chamber meeting on the same day, “Lam said they might seize proceedings and close most cases from the 2019 Hong Kong Protests.”…