Detained Hong Kong activist Owen Chow did not follow prison procedure over complaint form, court hears
A complaint form about Hong Kong prison officers filed by detained activist Owen Chow did not undergo a relevant “safety check,” a lawyer has argued in Chow’s trial over “carrying an unauthorised article out of prison.” Chow and his lawyer Phyllis Woo appeared at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday and Friday. They pleaded not guilty in March to the charge related to transporting an “unauthorised article” out of prison. The “article” in the case was a letter of complaint that Woo had allegedly been given while visiting Chow at the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre last May. The complaint, ...