12 Hong Kong residents｜Tang Kai-yin still serving sentence on mainland; Li Yuet-sen and six others plead guilty after returning to Hong Kong; CHEUNG Chun-fu and three others await trial or plea
12港人｜鄧棨然仍在內地服刑 李宇軒等7人回港後認罪 張俊富等4人待開審及答辯
In August 2020, 12 Hong Kong residents allegedly fled to Taiwan but were intercepted and detained by the Guangdong maritime police while en route. Ten of them were charged on the mainland with offences including organising others to illegally cross the border, and were sentenced to between seven months and three years’ imprisonment. Nearly two and a half years after the incident, Li Yuet-sen and 10 others have been transferred to Hong Kong, while Tang Kai-yin, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, remains in custody on the mainland. He spent this Lunar New Year at Conghua Prison in Guangzhou and is expected to complete his sentence around August this year. The 12 face various charges in Hong Kong, including national security, arson, rioting and assaulting police offences (see table in the article). Li Yuet-sen, CHEUNG Chun-fu, Cheung Ming-yu and Yim Man-Him face the most serious charges, for which a conviction carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Of the 11 who have been transferred to Hong Kong, Li Yuet-sen and six others have pleaded guilty; Zheng (1957) Li has been remanded pending sentencing, while the other six have been sentenced. As for the remaining four, the cases against CHEUNG Chun-fu, Cheung Ming-yu and Yim Man-Him have been committed to the High Court and are awaiting trial dates. QUINN Moon, who faces charges including making and possessing explosives, has not yet entered a plea. In addition, apart from Li Yuet-sen and Tang Kai-yin, who has not returned to Hong Kong, the other 10 face charges of perverting the course of justice over the flight incident, with eight having pleaded guilty.
2020 年 8 月，12 名港人涉嫌潛逃到台灣，途中被廣東海警截獲拘留，當中 10 人在內地被控組織他人偷越邊境罪等罪，被判囚 7 個月至 3 年。事發至今近兩年半，李宇軒等 11 人已先後被移交香港；而被判囚 3 年的鄧棨然則仍在內地服刑，在廣州從化監獄度過今個農曆新年，預料他約於今年 8 月刑滿。 12 人在香港分別面對國安、縱火、暴動，以及襲警等罪（見內文表），當中李宇軒、張俊富、張銘裕及嚴文謙面對的控罪最嚴重，罪成最高可判囚終身。已移交香港的 11 人之中，李宇軒等 7 人已認罪；李正還押候判，其餘 6 人已判刑。 至於餘下 4 人，張俊富、張銘裕及嚴文謙 3 人的案件已交付至高等法院，待排期審理。喬映瑜面對製造及管有爆炸品等控罪，案件尚未答辯。此外，除李宇軒及未回港的鄧棨然外，其餘 10 人因潛逃事件，被控妨礙司法公正罪，當中 8 人認罪。