Legislators call for review of procedures in charging man over celebrity sex photos
Police came in for widespread public condemnation yesterday for their handling of the celebrity sex photos saga, including accusations that they had arrested a man just to try to stop further circulation of the pictures.
Legislators called for a review of procedures under which Chung Yik-tin, 29, was charged with publishing an obscene document before the picture in question was classified by the Obscene Articles Tribunal.
Nearly half the 687 respondents to a telephone poll by the Democratic Party said they were dissatisfied with what the police had done.
More than 70 per cent of the respondents said the police should clarify the definition of the law.
And 51 per cent believed the arrest of Chung - freed yesterday after the picture was classified as indecent, not obscene - was intended to intimidate the public to stop circulating the scandalous photographs.