Benny Tai, Jimmy Lai and Joshua Wong among 30 Occupy figures targeted for arrest
Lawmakers, activists called to police headquarters 'to assist in probe'
More than 30 key figures of civil disobedience face prosecution after police initiated their first post-Occupy Central arrests yesterday over the mass sit-ins for democracy.
At least four pan-democratic party leaders-cum-lawmakers are on a list of people the police force is inviting to help with the investigations.
The Civic Party's Alan Leong Kah-kit, Labour Party's Lee Cheuk-yan and League of Social Democrats' Leung Kwok-hung were among those requested to visit police headquarters in Wan Chai, according to a police source. Once there, the source said, they would be arrested for instigating, organising or aiding and abetting an unlawful assembly over the 79-day protests.
Also listed were Occupy's organising trio - the Reverend Chu Yiu-ming and academics Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Dr Chan Kin-man - who turned themselves in last month.
"They are asked to go to the police headquarters to assist in a probe in connection with a case of unlawful assembly," the source said, adding they would be arrested and then granted bail.
"If they fail to come, we will visit them and make arrests."
Other big names include media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, Democratic Party legislator Albert Ho Chun-yan, People Power legislator Raymond Chan Chi-chuen and NeoDemocrat Gary Fan Kwok-wai.