By Shirley Lau Hong Kong, Mar 24 (EFE).- An American lawyer deported from Hong Kong after serving a prison sentence said Thursday that the territory was a police state controlled by Beijing, adding that rights were not respected. Samuel Phillip Bickett, who left detention Tuesday where he spent four and a half months for assaulting …
An American lawyer working in Hong Kong lost his appeal Tuesday and was jailed for assaulting a plainclothes policeman when he intervened in a confrontation between the officer and members of the pub…
An American lawyer working in Hong Kong lost his appeal Tuesday and was jailed for assaulting a plainclothes policeman when he intervened in a confrontation between the officer and members of the pub…
A US lawyer working in Hong Kong yesterday lost his appeal and was jailed for assaulting a plainclothes policeman when he intervened in a confrontation between the officer and members of the public three years ago.
The confrontation occurred toward the end of the huge and often violent democracy protests that rocked the territory. At the time, Hong Kong’s 30,000 police officers were allowed to carry retractable batons during off-duty hours to protect themselves during a period when the popularity of law enforcement had plummeted.
Samuel Phillip Bickett, 37, thought he was breaking up a fight inside a Hong Kong subway station