Report Urges UN Intervention over Torture in Hong Kong, Exposes Systemic Human Rights Crisis under National Security Law
報告促聯合國介入香港酷刑問題，揭示國安法下人權保障的系統性危機
The Hong Kong Human Rights Information Centre published its Report on Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Hong Kong on 7 November, urgently calling on the international community, including United Nations human rights bodies, to intervene immediately. The report said that since the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law in 2020 and changes to the electoral system in 2021, public opinion and political representation from the democratic camp had been purged, while civil society and freedom of expression had been severely suppressed. The public has been unable to effectively monitor the exercise of public power, resulting in the systematic weakening of safeguards within Hong Kong’s institutions against torture and inhuman treatment and exposing different vulnerable groups to such treatment. Police abuse of power, pre-trial detention, abuse and mistreatment in prisons, and ineffective and non-independent complaints mechanisms have made police operations, prison detention and immigration detention potential settings for torture and inhuman treatment.
香港人權資訊中心於11月7日發表《香港酷刑和不人道處遇報告》，緊急呼籲國際社會，包括聯合國人權機構立即介入。報告指出自 2020 年《香港國安法》實施及2021 年進行的選舉制度變更後，民主派民意及政治代表被清剿、公民社會及言論自由被嚴重打壓，公眾無法對公權力作有效的監督，令香港本地制度內防止酷刑和不人道對待的保障措施被系統性地削弱，使不同的弱勢群體面對酷刑及不人道待遇的問題。警察濫權、審前拘留、監獄內的濫權及虐待、失效及欠缺獨立的申訴機制，令警察行動、監獄拘留及入境羈留成為酷刑及不人道對待事件的溫床。