Zou Xingtong, the former vice-chairman of the disbanded branch association, and four former standing committee members were accused of refusing to provide relevant information about the organization’s activities to the National Security Department, and were charged with the crime of failing to comply with the notification requirements for providing information. Defendants Liang Jinwei and Chen Duowei pleaded guilty earlier and were sentenced to three months in prison. The remaining three, including Zou Xingtong, Deng Yuejun and Xu Hanguang, pleaded not guilty. The case started in the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court in mid-July last year. Chief Magistrate Luo Quanjin ( 4) All three defendants were found guilty.
The three defendants on trial, including former vice-chairman Zou Xingtong (37 years old, a barrister), former Standing Committee members Deng Yuejun (53 years old, unemployed) and Xu Hanguang (72 years old, retired), were charged with the crime of failing to comply with the notification requirement to provide information , refers to them on September 8, 2021, as the secretary of the stake association in Hong Kong or the person who manages or assists in the management of the organization in Hong Kong, and has been granted the forty-third law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security served a notice under the Implementing Regulations, but failed to comply with the provisions of the notice. Two other defendants in the case, Liang Jinwei (36 years old, former chairman of the Kwai Tsing District Council) and Chen Duowei (57 years old, a truck driver) pleaded guilty as early as May last year and were sentenced to three months in prison.
Case No.: WKCC 3633/2021
