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【🚫 #撤回逃犯條例修訂 聲明】
極權司法威脅全球在港人士 不容移送中國大陸法院受審

【Retract the Changes to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance】
Authoritarian Judiciary Threatens Global Citiznes in Hong Kong Protest Against Extradition Allowing Trial in Mainland China
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保安局日前建議修訂《逃犯條例》，容許將身處香港的任何國藉人士引渡至中國大陸接受審訊。根據修訂，只要被中國政府定性干犯《逃犯條例》所包括的罪行，在取得特首和香港法院同意後，就會被送到中國大陸受審，無須經過立法會審議。

香港政府的修法建議，旨在為中國對付異議人士鋪路，更邁開司法融合、侵蝕香港法制的䐚步，將香港人送上專制法庭的審檯。中國透過香港張開獠牙，更是對台灣以至全球在香港過境、逗留或旅遊的人士，造成人身威脅，國際社會應審慎考慮修例影響。

當今中國司法體系由黨國機器及意識形態控制，人民並不享有公平公開的司法權利及法律審訊程序。不論對付官場政敵，還是異見人士，被消失、被誣告、律師被抓甚至遭酷刑對待，中國政府以法律為政治武器的惡行早已為世界所指斥。香港實不應把疑犯移交不符國際人權法標準的地方，更不消說兩地法制本不相同。

不僅香港人無法受到普通法法制的保障，全球來港人士皆承受被中國報復性拘控的風險。自加拿大拘捕華為公司財務長孟晚舟，中國遂報復性拘捕三名在中國加拿大公民。中國政府的舉動為是次修法蒙上陰影，香港淪為國際角力的「人質交換場」，便利獨裁中國反制國際圍堵，是香港人所不容許的。

然而首當其衝的，仍然是港台兩地反抗中共強權的異議人士，《逃犯條例》本身包含「叛變性行為」、「違禁品進出口」、「非法使用電腦」等罪行，令政府易於羅織罪名。中國政府向有以「經濟犯罪」對付國內維權人士的積陋，早已臭名遠播。惡法之下，誰都有可能是下一個林榮基、下一個桂民海、下一個李明哲 —— 下一個極權司法的受害者。

香港眾志強烈要求香港政府撤回移送在港人士到中國法院受審的《逃犯條例》修訂，必須循合理且受民主監督的方式，解決當前台灣謀殺案的引渡工作。同時，我們呼籲香港人與國際社會嚴正表態反對法例修訂，以法治尊嚴為念，莫縱容港府將在港人士出賣到極權司法的利爪之下。

香港眾志
2019年2月17日

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The Security Bureau recently suggested changing the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, allowing Hong Kong suspects to be extradited to Mainland China where they would be tried in Court. According to the proposed changes, should the Chinese government confirm that the individual has offended any of the terms stated in the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, after getting permission from the Chief Executive and the Hong Kong Court, the individual may be extradited to Mainland China to await trial without deliberation in the Legislative Council.

The Hong Kong government’s proposition to change a current law is an attempt to prepare to entrap oppositional voices for China, and is a step towards judicial integration and eroding Hong Kong’s legal system, allowing Hong Kong citizens to be subjected to an autocratic Court. China’s threat to Hong Kong also places people from Taiwan and other parts of the world who pass by Hong Kong in jeopardy. The situation merits attention from the international community.

The current Chinese judicial system is controlled by the Party and its ideology, Chinese citizens do not enjoy fair and open trials. Individuals, such as the Party’s political opponents and activists, have be “disappeared”, falsely accused, lawyers have been arrested and even tortured. Its behaviour has been been condemned by the international community. Hong Kong should not hand over suspects to places that do not meet the standards of international human rights law, let alone to a legal system that is completely different from our own.

Not only would Hong Kong people not be protected by the common law system, but people from all over the world would be exposed to the risk of retaliatory detention in China. Since the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, in Canada, China has retaliated and arrested three Canadian citizens in China. The Chinese government’s move has casted a shadow over the revision of the law. Hong Kong would deteriorate into an international hostage exchange ground, aiding dictatorial China in countering international pressure is something that Hong Kong people cannot tolerate.

However, the first to bear the brunt will be the dissidents of China’s powers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Fugitive Offenders Ordinance itself includes offences such as mutiny, smuggling and unlawful use of computers, making it easy for the government to sue these dissidents. The Chinese government has long been notorious for the accumulation of "economic crimes" against domestic activists. Under the new law, anyone may become the next Lam Wing Kee, the next Gui Minhai, and the next Lee Mingche - the next victim of the “totalitarian justice”.

Demosisto strongly urges the Hong Kong government to retract the changes to be made to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance which would allow extradition to Mainland China, and to instead follow a reasonable and democratically-supervised manner in resolving the current extradition relating to the Taiwan murder case. At the same time, we encourage Hong Kong citizens and the international community to voice out their opposition against the proposed changes in order to protect the dignity of Hong Kong’s rule of law and their own citizens.

Demosisto
17th February 2019