19 Jan 2024法庭線#2839
壁屋懲教所羈留者受襲 懲教員等5男被起訴「傷人17」 全還押4月再訊
Pik Uk Correctional Institution in Sai Kung houses male convicted or remanded offenders aged 14 to 20. An 18-year-old remand detainee was allegedly prodded in the anus with a wooden stick, causing permanent injury. He reportedly required an artificial stoma and surgery. Following a police investigation, six men were arrested. Five of them, including a 33-year-old Pik Uk correctional officer, appeared at Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts on Friday (the 19th) and were charged with “wounding under Section 17”.
The five men were not required to enter pleas. The prosecution applied for an adjournment to allow police investigations to continue, and the defence did not object. Acting Chief Magistrate Lau Yee-wan adjourned the case to April 22. The first defendant, who was reported to be a civil servant, applied for bail. The prosecution objected, and the magistrate refused bail after consideration, ordering that he be remanded immediately. The other four defendants did not apply for bail and were also remanded.
The Correctional Services Department said it took the matter very seriously. After receiving the complaint, it immediately referred the case to police for follow-up and fully assisted with the investigation. It also ordered a Correctional Services Assistant II and a Correctional Services Assistant I involved in the case to suspend duty. The department said any staff member found to have committed an offence or disciplinary misconduct would be dealt with according to law, without leniency.
關押 14 至 20 歲男性定罪或還押犯人的西貢壁屋懲教所，有 18 歲還押者懷疑被人用木棍捅肛門致造成永久傷害，據悉需用人工造口、接受手術。警方調查後拘捕 6 男，當中 5 男包括一名 33 歲壁屋懲教員，周五（19 日）在觀塘裁判法院首提堂。
5 人暫毋須答辯。控方申請押後，以候警方繼續調查；辯方不反對。署理主任裁判官劉綺雲押後至 4 月 22 日再訊。報稱為公務員的首被告申請保釋，控方反對，官考慮後拒絕，下令他即時還押。另外 4 被告則沒保釋申請，繼續還押。
懲教署回覆指，十分重視事件，接獲投訴後已立刻轉交警方跟進，並全力協助其調查，以及勒令涉案的一名二級懲教助理及一名一級懲教助理停職。署方指，任何人員若干犯違法違紀行為，定必依法處理，絕不姑息。
13 Dec 2023獨媒#2662
唐英傑壓軸成無綫國安法節目「主角」 獄中受訪稱：諗埋咗一邊
TVB’s Jade channel broadcast the national security law information programme “With the Law, the Country Is Secure” last night, with Tang Ying-kit, the defendant in the first case under the Hong Kong National Security Law, as its finale “protagonist”. Wearing a brown prison uniform and shown side-on with his back to the camera, he said in an interview: “I had become one-sided in my thinking. My thoughts were influenced by the social atmosphere at the time, and I felt that, apart from using violence, it seemed there was no way to resolve (the problem).” Regarding riding a motorcycle into police officers, Tang said, “At the time, it was purely an impulse.” He also said that he had recently been given the opportunity by the Correctional Services Department to serve as a flag raiser at the founding ceremony of Lide Academy.
無綫翡翠台昨晚播出《有法安國》的國安法資訊節目，《香港國安法》首案被告唐英傑成為壓軸「主角」，身穿啡色囚衣，側身背對鏡頭接受訪問稱：「諗埋咗一邊，嗰個思緒呀，被當其時嘅社會氣氛影響咗，會覺得除咗用暴力，好似解決唔到（問題）。」對於駕駛電單車撞向警員，唐英傑就稱，「當其時就純粹興起嘅」，並提到近日獲懲教署給予機會，讓其在立德學院成立儀式上擔任升旗手。
7 Dec 2023法庭線#8778
載名畫《維納斯的誕生》書籍禁入收押所 鄒家成獲批司法覆核許可
Owen Chow, one of the defendants in the case involving 47 people charged over the pro-democracy primary election, disclosed on Facebook earlier that the Correctional Services Department had barred him from receiving a book containing the famous painting The Birth of Venus on the grounds that its content involved “nudity”. Chow applied for judicial review of the matter on Monday. Three days later, on the 7th, High Court judge Ko Ho-man granted leave and directed the parties to discuss a hearing date, tentatively scheduled for between March and May 2024.
47 名民主派初選案中被告鄒家成，早前在 Facebook 透露，他被懲教署以內容涉「裸露」為由，禁止收取一本載有名畫《維納斯的誕生》的書籍。鄒本周一就事件提出司法覆核，高院法官高浩文事隔 3 日（7 日）批出許可，並指示與訟雙方商議聆訊日子，日期範圍暫訂在 2024 年 3 月至 5 月之間。
5 Dec 2023法庭線#8753
載名畫《維納斯的誕生》書藉禁入收押所 鄒家成提覆核指懲教決定違憲
Owen Chow, a defendant in the case involving 47 pro-democracy primary election defendants, previously revealed on Facebook that the Correctional Services Department had prohibited him from receiving a book featuring the famous painting The Birth of Venus on the grounds that its content involved nudity. On Monday (4th), Chow filed for judicial review at the High Court, arguing that the department’s decision was unlawful, unreasonable and unconstitutional. He asked the court to quash the commissioner’s decision to reject the book and allow him to receive it.
The writ stated that the rejected book was a Chinese translation of German author Dietrich Schwanitz’s work, titled “Education: What You Need to Know About History, Literature, Art, Music, Philosophy and World Cultures”. Correctional officers had placed a notice reading “Nudity! Return!” on the page featuring The Birth of Venus.
The writ said that when Chow had previously been refused books, the department had proactively explained the reasons. This time, however, it only replied to his inquiry that he could not receive the book because it contained “indecent content”, without specifying which part of the content was involved, leaving him surprised. Chow had complained to correctional officers but received no follow-up. He subsequently complained to the Office of the Ombudsman and wrote to Legislative Council members Kwun Ho-ming and Tik Chi-yuen for assistance.
47 名民主派初選案中被告鄒家成，早前在 Facebook 透露，他被懲教署以內容涉「裸露」為由，禁止收取一本載有名畫《維納斯的誕生》的書藉。鄒周一（4日）向高等法院提出司法覆核，指懲教署的決定非法、不合理且違憲，要求法庭頒令撤銷署長拒入書的決定，及容許他收取有關書藉。
入稟狀指，該本被拒書藉為德國作家 Dietrich Schwanitz 的中譯書《教養：關於歷史、文學、藝術、音樂、誓學與世界風俗文化，你必須知道的事》，被懲教人員在《維納斯的誕生》畫作頁面貼上「裸露！退！」標記。
入稟狀提到，鄒過往被拒入書，署方都會主動交代原因，惟今次署方在他查詢下才覆「涉猥褻內容」不能收取，未有指明涉哪部分內容，令他感到詫異。而鄒曾向懲教人員投訴，惟未獲跟進。他之後再向申訴專員公署投訴，及去信立法會議員管浩鳴、狄志遠求助。
5 Dec 2023獨媒#8759
中槍「健仔」亮相無綫國安法資訊節目 稱參加懲教更生計劃後學會免遭煽動及唆擺
Tsang Chi-kin, who was shot in the chest by police during the Tsuen Wan clashes on October 1, 2019, earlier admitted to riot, assaulting a police officer and perverting the course of justice, and was sentenced to 47 months in prison. TVB Jade broadcast a national security law information programme titled “A Lawful Nation” last night, in which Tsang said that after taking part in the Correctional Services Department’s “Reason Along the Way” programme, he had learned to think carefully before acting, “to avoid being incited and instigated by others.”
在2019年10月1日荃灣衝突中，被警方開槍射中胸口的「健仔」曾志健，早前承認暴動、襲警及妨礙司法公正罪共被判監禁47個月。無綫翡翠台昨晚播出名為《有法安國》的國安法資訊節目，曾志健亮相其中，稱在參加了懲教署推出的「沿途有『理』」計劃後，學會在做事之前諗清諗楚，「避免唔好俾人煽動同埋唆擺」。
17 Nov 2023獨媒#8659
露宿者小欖囚室衣服纏頸亡 陪審團一致裁自殺 倡懲教勿以閉路電視代替親身巡視
Sham Shui Po homeless man Lai Man-sap, a Vietnamese national, was remanded at Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre in 2020 in connection with possession of dangerous drugs. During his detention, he wrapped a pair of trousers around his neck in a protective cell. His condition deteriorated sharply after he was taken to hospital for emergency treatment, and he was eventually certified dead. The Coroner’s Court continued the inquest today (17th). After Coroner Chau Chi-wai gave directions in the morning, the jury retired for about two hours and unanimously concluded that the deceased had died by suicide. The jury recommended that the Correctional Services Department increase the number of correctional officers to share Siu Lam’s daily workload. It also recommended that checks on people in custody at intervals of no more than 15 minutes be strictly enforced, and that CCTV observation not be used as a substitute for in-person checks.
深水埗越南籍露宿者黎民十於2020年涉管有危險藥物，還押於小欖精神科治療病院，期間在保護囚室內用長褲纏頸，送院搶救後情況急轉直下，最終證實死亡。死因庭今（17日）繼續研訊，死因裁判官周至偉早上作出引導後，陪審團經約兩小時退庭商議，最終得出死者死於自殺的結論。陪審團向懲教署建議增設懲教助理人手，以分擔小欖的日常工作，並建議需嚴格執行不多於15分鐘巡視在囚人士，不可以閉路電視觀察取代親身巡視。
28 Oct 2023獨媒#8559
被指阻撓鄒家成寄信申訴無法收書 懲教：無事實根據
The National Security Department on Tuesday (24th) arrested Chow Ka-shing, who is remanded in custody in the primary election case involving 47 people, and two lawyers, alleging that they took unauthorised items out of a prison. Chow’s social media said that, because Correctional Services had barred him from receiving books, he intended to write to The Ombudsman to complain, but his letters of complaint were often unable to be delivered because of obstruction by correctional officers. He therefore changed to sending the letters through a lawyer. The Correctional Services Department told the media that the allegations were completely unfounded and had no factual basis, stressing that any person in custody who is dissatisfied with the treatment at an institution or has any complaint about their personal rights may lodge a complaint through multiple channels.
國安處於周二（24日）拘捕因初選47人案還柙的鄒家成及兩名律師，指他們將未經授權的物品攜離監獄。鄒的社交媒體指，因他被懲教禁止收取書籍，有意寫信向申訴專員公處投訴，投訴信件卻經常在懲教人員阻撓下無法送達，於是改透過律師寄出信件。懲教署回應傳媒指，有關指控純屬子虛烏有，並無事實根據，強調任何在囚人士如對院所待遇感到不滿，或就個人權益有任何投訴，可透過多個渠道作出投訴。
26 Oct 2023獨媒#8537
國安處拘捕鄒家成及其律師共3人 指「將未經授權的物品攜離監獄」
The Police National Security Department said it arrested three people on Tuesday morning (October 24) on suspicion of taking unauthorised items out of prison. Owen Chow, who recently pleaded guilty to rioting and is remanded in custody in the primary election 47-person case, was identified as one of those arrested on his page that evening. The other two were his lawyers. The post said Chow had earlier been barred by the Correctional Services Department from receiving books and intended to write to the Ombudsman to lodge a complaint, but the letter was prevented from being sent, so he sent it through his lawyers instead.
警方國家安全處表示，周二（10月24日）早上拘捕3人，罪名為「將未經授權的物品攜離監獄」罪。日前承認暴動罪、並因初選47人案還柙的鄒家成，其專頁晚上表示鄒為被捕人之一，另兩人為其律師。帖文稱鄒家成因早前被懲教署禁止收取書籍，有意去信申訴專員公署投訴，惟信件被阻撓送出，故改為透過律師寄出信件。
23 Sept 2023獨媒#8407
懲教指名畫《維納斯的誕生》「裸露」拒入書 鄒家成：正考慮司法覆核
Writer PazuPazu Kong recently wrote that he had intended to give German writer Dietrich Schwanitz’s book *Education* to a friend in prison, but the book was returned because the famous painting *The Birth of Venus* in it was deemed to contain “nudity”. Chow Ka-shing, who is remanded in custody in the 47-person primary election case, posted on social media in the evening, confirming that the Correctional Services Department had barred him from receiving the book *Education*. He was quoted as saying that he was “currently considering seeking cultural justice through judicial review”.
作家Pazu薯伯伯日前撰文表示，原欲將德國作家史汪尼茲的《教養》一書交予在囚朋友，但因書中名畫《維納斯的誕生》被指「裸露」而遭退回。正因初選47人案還柙的鄒家成，其社交媒體傍晚發文，確認是鄒被懲教署禁止收取《教養》一書，又引述鄒表示「現時正考慮循司法覆核途徑，尋求文化公義」。
25 Aug 2023獨媒#8256
太平紳士巡院所收投訴數字創歷史新低 年報首次採用「黑暴」一詞
The Administration Wing has published the latest annual report on Justice of the Peace inspections. The number of complaints received by Justice of the Peace during visits to designated institutions last year fell by more than half from 108 in 2021 to just 42, the lowest figure on record since the first inspection report was published in 1999. The 20 more serious complaints, involving issues including staff misconduct, medical care and food supplies, were referred to the Correctional Services Complaints Investigation Unit. Eleven could not be traced and nine could not be substantiated. Justice of the Peace satisfaction with correctional facilities remained at 100%. The report specifically quoted some Justice of the Peace as praising the facilities of “smart prisons”. For the first time, the annual report also used the term “black violence” to describe people imprisoned in connection with the anti-extradition bill protests, and quoted Justice of the Peace as affirming the Correctional Services Department’s work on national education, psychological support and values reorientation.
行政署發表最新一份太平紳士巡視年報，去年太平紳士在巡視各指定院所期間接到的投訴，較2021年大跌超過一半，由108宗下跌至只得42宗；亦是1999年首份巡視年報以來，有紀錄以來的新低。較嚴重的20宗投訴，涉職員行為不當、醫療和食物供應等問題，轉介懲教投訴調查組，結果有11宗無法追查，9宗無法證實。太平紳士對懲教設施的滿意度，繼續是100%。年報特別引述部分太平紳士對「智慧監獄」設施表示讚賞；太平紳士年報亦首次採用「黑暴」形容因反修例事件入獄的人士，年報引述太平紳士肯定懲教的國民教育、心理及價值觀重整工作。
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