26 Jun 2024Yahoo#3736
大埔前區議員文念志移英 透露教育局出信指曾涉案件 重新考慮成為教員資格
Former Tai Po district councillor Nim Chi Man posted on social media today (26th), saying that they had left Hong Kong to start a new life in the United Kingdom. Nim Chi Man was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in one case and 240 hours of community service in another. They said that, after completing all the sentences, they decided to leave Hong Kong. They considered Hong Kong “a place that makes it very difficult for me to continue living happily” and, referring to having suffered severe depression, said they believed leaving Hong Kong was a good opportunity for their physical and mental state to recover and for them to regain happiness and calm.
Nim Chi Man said one of the reasons that truly made them feel they “had to leave” was receiving a letter from the Permanent Secretary for Education in March this year, stating that the Education Bureau would reconsider their eligibility to become a teacher because they had previously been involved in two cases.
The Education Bureau told this publication that it does not comment on individual cases. It reiterated that it attaches great importance to teachers’ professional conduct and has always maintained a rigorous and effective teacher registration system to ensure that all teachers permitted to teach in schools are suitable and proper persons, and to prevent unsuitable people from becoming teachers.
大埔前區議員文念志今日（26 日）在社交平台發文，表示已離開香港，在英國展開新生活。文念志曾因兩宗案件分別判囚 3 個月及 240 小時社會服務令。他指自己完成所有判刑後，已決定離開香港。他認為，香港「是一個很難令我繼續愉快地生活下去的地方，」提到自己曾患下嚴重的抑鬱症，「相信我離開香港是一個很好的契機，令我身體回復開心平靜。」
文念志指，其中一個真正令他「非走不可」的原因，是今年 3 月收到一封由教育局常任秘書長寄出的信件，指他由於曾涉及兩宗案件，因此會重新考慮他成為教員的資格。
教育局回覆本網指，不評論個別個案。局方重申，十分重視教師的專業操守，一直透過嚴謹而有效的教師註冊制度，確保所有獲准在學校任教的教師均為適合及適當人選，並防止不適當的人士成為教師。
5 Dec 2023法庭線#8757
周庭稱曾隨國安警到深圳換准離港 警未回應是否屬實 學者指可加條文外條件
Former Demosisto deputy secretary-general Chow Ting was arrested in 2020 over alleged violations of the National Security Law and has been released on bail without being charged to date. On Sunday (the 3rd), she, who is in Canada, announced that she had decided not to return to Hong Kong to report, and alleged that police had required her to “return to the mainland once” as a condition for approving her departure from Hong Kong. The government and police issued statements on two occasions condemning her, saying they would make every effort to pursue her in accordance with the law. Police said they had restricted her departure under the powers in Schedule 2 to Article 43 of the National Security Law, and subsequently returned her travel document.
The Court Watch examined the provisions in Schedule 2, which state that when restricting a person under investigation from leaving Hong Kong, police may require the person to deposit money, surrender documents again and report. They do not mention the imposition of other security conditions. The reporter asked police whether Chow Ting’s allegation was true and under which provision police had required her to return to the mainland and treated this as a condition for approving her departure. Police responded orally that reference should be made to the government statement and provided no further comment.
Simon Ngai Man Young, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, said in an interview that he would not comment on Chow’s case. He said the intention of Schedule 2 was clear and that it allowed police to impose “conditions other than those listed in the provisions”. Senior Counsel Ronny Tong Ka-wah said the details of the conditions could be determined according to the circumstances of the case and should not be interpreted narrowly. Legal commentator Edward Wong Kai-yeung i said that Chow’s reference to “returning to the mainland once” appeared, at least on the face of it, to fall outside the scope of the powers in Schedule 2, adding that if it concerned a mandatory requirement of bail conditions, only the court had the discretion to deal with it.
前香港眾志副秘書長周庭於 2020 年被指涉違《國安法》被捕，准保釋至今未被起訴。身處加拿大的她周日（3 日）宣布，決定不回港報到，又指稱警方曾要求以「返一次大陸」作為批准離港的條件。政府及警方兩度發稿譴責，指會全力依法追捕周。警指根據《國安法》第 43 條附表二的權力，限制她離境，其後發回旅行證件。
《法庭線》翻查，附表二條文註明警方就限制受查人離港，可要求繳存款項、再次交出證件及報到，惟未提及可加其他擔保條件。記者向警方查詢，周庭所指是否屬實、警基於哪項條文要求她返內地並視為批准離港的條件等。警方口頭回覆，着參考政府聲明，沒有補充。
港大法律學院教授楊艾文接受訪問時指，不評論周案，附表二意圖清晰，允許警施加「條文中列出以外的條件」。資深大律師湯家驊指，條件細節可因應案情而定，不應狹窄地解釋。法律評論員黃啟暘則指，周所指「返一次大陸」，至少表面看來不在附表二的權力範圍中，又指若涉保釋條件的強制事項，只有法庭有酌情權處理。
5 Dec 2023獨媒#8760
李家超：周庭出賣誠信、自我製造光環 行為可恥
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu told reporters before an Executive Council meeting that, in relation to the Agnes Chow incident, the government would make every effort to pursue the “fugitive”. He criticised Chow for “betraying her integrity, making up claims and finding excuses to deceive people’s sympathy, and trying to create a halo around herself”, saying her conduct was shameful. He said the police’s attempt to handle the matter leniently had been met with deception. He also said foreign forces had continuously attempted to interfere in Hong Kong affairs, and that Hong Kong people must not forget the pain of 2019.
行政長官李家超舉行行政會議前見記者，被問到周庭事件。他指會全力追捕「逃犯」，又批評周庭「出賣誠信、砌詞搵藉口去欺騙同情、嘗試自我製造光環，行為係可恥」，警方嘗試寬大處理換來瞞騙。他又指外國勢力一直嘗試干預香港事務，港人不能忘記2019年的痛楚。
4 Dec 2023獨媒#8748
國安處譴責周庭公然表示棄保潛逃 籲「不要選擇走一條不歸的路」
Agnes Chow, a former member of the now-disbanded Demosistō, said on social media yesterday that she had gone to Canada to study and had decided not to return to Hong Kong. The Police Force’s National Security Department issued a statement strongly condemning her open declaration of absconding from bail, and urged Chow to “turn back from the brink, not choose a road of no return, and bear the name of a fugitive for the rest of her life.”
已解散的香港眾志前成員周庭，昨日在社交媒體表示已到加拿大留學，並決定不會回港。警務處國家安全處發稿，嚴厲譴責公然表示棄保潛逃行為，籲周庭「懸崖勒馬，不要選擇走一條不歸的路，一生背負逃犯之名」。
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