In September 2008, the SAR authorities handed Yongjun Zhou (周勇軍) to the Mainland authorities where he was then immediately arrested and detained for previous fraud charges. Zhou lived abroad in the US. He came to Macau (where HK officials found him) on a fake Malaysian passport in hopes of eventually visiting his parents in the Mainland. His girlfriend and lawyer held a conference yesterday (12 Oct 2009).
It was the first time a Tiananmen dissident was transferred back to China without any extradition arrangements with the Mainland Government. The Hong Kong government said that it could not comment on individual cases but that its immigration department "handles all entry applications in accordance with the law and immigration policy having due regard to individual circumstances".
There is no rendition agreement between Hong Kong and the Mainland, which creates difficulty in applying the law from both systems in cross-border crimes. China and Taiwan has reached such an agreement in the 1990 Quemoy Agreement. Put simply, ambiguity exists where the Mainland may have jurisdiction over Hong Kong citizens who have partly committed crimes on the mainland. Hong Kong does have a right under the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance to refuse to hand over PRC nationals.
I believe that this will not be the first case of its kind. It will be listed down in articles and legal journals as another breach of Human Rights by the SARG. My summer internship has involved learning and seeing the Immigration Department make unreasonable one decision against potential refugees after another. This time, he act of handing over, whether in the form of a deportation order or something else, is surely open to challenge, and the CE should give disclosure.
References(all accessed on 13 Oct 2009):
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrNt5vm0MW0fKqbNZIuhdSp3i_Gg
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DjOHAosZ__gC&pg=RA1-PA118&dq=hong+kong+mainland+extradition+law&lr=#v=onepage&q=hong%20kong%20mainland%20extradition%20law&f=false
2009年10月13日 星期二
HKSARG's decision to transfer Tiananmen dissident to Mainland
2009年8月4日 星期二
Save RTHK 撐港台行動：立法保障獨立公共廣播
支持港台的團體選擇在七一遊行，是為了表達中央政府因為跟香港對傳媒的立場和角色看法有分歧而出言干涉，直接抵觸香港回歸時「一國兩制」的承諾。
與遊行背景有關的剪報：
一名在港台任職已達十年的合約員工表示，他們每年合約屆滿之時，都擔心未能續約，「每年十月我都好驚，以往更曾有同事須每半年續約」。他坦言，因憂慮未能續約，處理敏感的節目內容也要特別「小心」。
撑港台運動成員麥燕庭表示，政府陰乾港台，令人擔心即使日後能成立真正獨立的公共廣播服務機構，本身擁有公共廣播經驗的港台也無法轉型，政府成立什麼模樣的機構，大家都要無奈接受。她並表示，會在其他場合支持港台員工今次行動。
助理廣播處長戴健文回覆本報查詢時重申，港台一貫的立場是希望政府盡快就公共廣播服務檢討諮詢公眾，港台管理層亦與商務及經濟發展局保持溝通。曾出任公共 廣播服務檢討委員會委員梁天偉則表示，政府沒再找委員討論，檢討可謂「胎死腹中」，相信政府年底也不可能啟動公眾諮詢。他並直言，港台正被「陰乾」。
【原載自 2009 年 7 月 22 日《信報財經新聞》】
因公共廣播服務檢討一拖再拖，香港電台的公務員人數亦逐年下挫，反證員工及泛民主派對政府正「陰乾」港台之憂慮。本報從港台取得的數據顯示，屬港台部門職 系的公務員人數已低見三百二十八名，與三百一十三名合約員工之比例幾乎是一比一，比例之高，在政府部門中極為罕見，嚴重影響港台發展。
「香港專上學生聯會」於2009年6月26日（星期五）發起「堅拒政治打壓 捍衛港台自主」遊行，要求特區政府回應近期左派人士又向香港電台施壓的事件及 堅拒政治勢力直接或間接干預香港媒體的運作；並讓香港電台獨立自主，脫離政府部門行列，成為受公帑資助的獨立公共廣播機構。
【原載自 2009 年 7 月 16 日《信報財經新聞》】
事態進展：
<撐港台運動的希望與挑戰> - 談及撐港台運動的緣起
http://www.inmediahk.net/node/226623
＜正在公共廣播＞－香港電台節目製作人員工會
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立法會議事備忘錄 ﹣政府當局向事務委員會簡介就公共廣播服務包括有關香港電台前景的事宜進行的公眾諮詢和開放電台／電視頻道供公眾使用的課題
http://www.legco.gov.hk/database/chinese/data_itb/itb-rthk.htm
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