Sou case neither ‘politically motivated’ nor ‘unique’

Although it was not mentioned by any of the media who attended the press conference yesterday, Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak sought to explain and reaffirm once more that the pending case of lawmaker Sulu Sou, (in which he is accused of aggravated disobedience to the authorities), is “not politically motivated.” Wong made this case after the closing of the topics on the agenda.

“We are fulfilling the law, we are not targeting any person of association in particular. Our actions are the same for every citizen,” he said.

Wong pointed out that Sou’s case is  one in a total of 14 similar cases from 2014 until the present.
According to the figures cited by the Secretary for Security, “a total of 37 men and 10 women have been accused of the same crime in 14 different cases since 2014 until now.” He noted that the police have sent many of these cases to the Public Prosecutions Office. He also noted that Sou’s case related to a demonstration in which “Pearl Horizon” caused damage to an office. However, this case has also been forwarded to the judiciary authorities by the police.

Referring to previous cases where demonstrators assaulted police officers, Wong said that the officers have decided to “drop the charges over the people [that assaulted them] due to feeling pity for them and their situation, but still the cases of disobedience have been forwarded.”

When questioned by the media as to how many of these incidents occurred during the demonstrations, the secretary said, “[from the 14] 12 of these cases are referred to occurrences during several street demonstrations.” He noted that the two remaining ones occurred on construction sites.