Elderly petitioners scuffle with police

About a hundred parents from the Family Reunion Association rallied at the entrance of the Legislative Assembly building yesterday to petition the Chief Executive to allow their adult children residing in the mainland to move to the MSAR.
The group of petitioners demanded to enter the AL building to listen in on the CE’s Q&A session with lawmakers and to deliver the petition letter to him. Being barred by the police for “not registering the rally in advance”, and with no government representatives coming out to communicate with them, the group of middle aged and elderly protestors attempted to storm the entrance.
Jostling then occurred between several of them and the police, during which, three petitioners reported feeling unwell and were sent to the hospital, while one woman was arrested for “having allegedly committed the crime of aggravated disobedience.”
The Public Security Police stated it would transfer the arrested woman to the Public Prosecutions Office today. The arrest also provoked ten to twenty association members to rally outside the police station demanding the release of the detainee, with some of them even kneeling down in front of the police at one point. BY