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[SCMP] After 9 arrests, police still have not sent sex photos for ruling

Scarlett Chiang and Agnes Lam
Feb 18, 2008



[size=2]Police have not sent any of the celebrity sex photos at the centre of the three-week-old scandal to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for classification, although nine people have been arrested and three of them charged, it emerged yesterday. [/size]
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[size=2]The revelation came two days after one of the three men charged - Chung Yik-tin, who faced a count of publishing an obscene article - was released after spending two weeks in jail after the charge was withdrawn after the tribunal ruled the image in his case, provided to it by a newspaper, was indecent, not obscene.[/size]
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[size=2]Adjudicator Mervyn Cheung Man-ping said the tribunal had not received any photos from police. "As far as I know, we received only five photos from a newspaper and two magazines from the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority." [/size]
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[size=2]Mr Cheung said the tribunal took only two to three days to make a preliminary classification and the police should trust its classification because the tribunal was headed by a judge. [/size][size=2][/size]
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[size=2]"The tribunal has been set up for 27 years and we make the decision in front of a judge," he said. "It should be far more reliable than the police consulting individual adjudicators." [/size][size=2][/size]
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[size=2]Assistant Commissioner of Police Vincent Wong Fook-chuen said the force had consulted people, including adjudicators, who "don't understand why [the photograph] is indecent and not obscene". [/size]
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[size=2]Democrat lawmaker James To Kun-sun said: "Police should learn a lesson and send all the problematic images to the tribunal after Chung Yik-tin's case." [/size]
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[size=2]Senior counsel for the government told Mr Chung's hearing on Friday the charge was being withdrawn because the possibility was low that the tribunal's final classification of the photo would rule it "obscene". [/size]
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[size=2]The counsel did not indicate the source of the photo on which the tribunal had made its interim classification. [/size][size=2][/size][size=2][/size][size=2]The "indecent" photo showed a woman, alleged to be Canto-pop star Gillian Chung Yan-tung, with singer-actor Edison Chen Koon-hei. [/size]
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[size=2]When asked whether any photos had been sent to the tribunal for classification, a police spokeswoman refused to comment because of legal proceedings. A spokeswoman for the judiciary said she would not comment on individual cases. [/size][size=2]Meanwhile, eight members from the League of Social Democrats protested at police headquarters in Admiralty yesterday, demanding a police apology for Mr Chung. [/size]
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[size=2]Legislator "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung said he would help Mr Chung if he wanted to seek compensation for his two weeks in jail. [/size][size=2][/size]
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[size=2]Edison Chen's management said the company was still arranging for the man at the centre of the affair to return home from the United States. [/size][size=2][/size][size=2][/size]
[size=2]TVB [color=#000000](SEHK: [url=http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/template.PAGE/page.company_profile/?companyId=0511.HK&s=business&ss=scmpIR]0511[/url])[/color] received more than 200 complaints against last night's appearance of Gillian Chung, her first performance since the scandal erupted. Most complainants said it was inappropriate for Chung to perform at the charity show, which raised money for victims of the mainland's recent snowstorms. [/size]
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[size=2]An online survey also recorded more than 2,400 votes in support of the statement: "We don't need artists like this [Gillian Chung]. Please do not poison our young generations." [/size]

[[i] 本帖最後由 hks_sing 於 2008-2-18 20:03 編輯 [/i]]

I THINK HK POLICE IS unless...
because they arrests people for no reason...

[size=1]i wonder if the photos have not been justified by Obscene Articles Tribunal, what title they use when they arrest those people?[/size]
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