Police raid So Uk Estate polling station, demand covering of finger-tip-sized “Liberate Hong Kong” wording on fai chun
警昨夜突襲蘇屋邨票站 要求遮蓋揮春上手指尾大小「光時」字眼
The pro-democracy Legislative Council primary election was held yesterday and today. Power for Democracy announced that 234,547 people voted electronically on the first day. Voting ended at 9pm yesterday, but half an hour later, nine uniformed police officers searched the Kowloon West constituency polling station at the Mutual Aid Committee of Cherry Building, So Uk Estate. They took photographs and filmed inside the station, and said that even the finger-tip-sized “Liberate Hong Kong” wording on the fai chun could provoke improper intentions or actions among passers-by. Ming Kei (SFC:AMR955) Chan, the Association for Democracy and People’s Livelihood’s community organiser for So Uk, criticised the police for “making too much of the matter” in searching the polling station, stressing that the association would not easily submit.
民主派立法會初選在昨日和今日舉行，民主動力公佈首日電子投票人數為234547人。昨日投票於9時結束，惟完結後半小時，9名軍裝警員到位於蘇屋邨櫻桃樓互助委員的九龍西選區票站搜查，期間在票站內進行拍攝和錄影，又指揮春上只有「手指尾」大小的「光時」字眼即使字體可能會引起路人不當的行為意圖。民協蘇屋社區主任陳銘基批評，警方「上綱上線」搜查票站，強調民協不會輕易就範。