Dates set for arrests of three Occupy Central leaders and media boss Jimmy Lai
Occupy's Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Dr Chan Kin-man and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming have been told by police to attend Wan Chai police station between January 22 and 24.
Police have set dates for the arrests of the three co-founders of the Occupy Central protest movement and pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying as efforts continue to bring those behind last year's road blockades before the courts
Occupy's Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Dr Chan Kin-man and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming have been told by police to attend Wan Chai police station between January 22 and 24, Chan said. Lai, founder of the Chinese-language , meets police on January 21.
The four are the latest in a series of participants in the 79-day protests asked to attend police stations later this month.
The visits would result in arrest, Chan said. He expects the trio to be charged with instigating, participating in and organising an unlawful assembly.
The three Occupy leaders and several other pan-democrats made a high-profile surrender to police last month.
They were not arrested and were told police needed more time to gather evidence.
"We want to reiterate that we aimed to fight for democracy and justice through the civil disobedience campaign," said Chan. "We do not fear prosecution."
Civic Party leader Alan Leong Kah-kit, the Labour Party's Lee Cheuk-yan and the League of Social Democrats' "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung are among the sit-in participants to receive similar instructions from the police this week.
Tens of thousands of people joined the sit-ins, but after the last site in Causeway Bay was cleared on December 15, police commissioner Andy Tsang Wai-hung pledged to focus on the "principal instigators".
He said the investigation would be completed within three months.
Meanwhile, 14 people charged with obstructing bailiffs during the Mong Kok sit-in had the charge withdrawn in Kowloon City Court yesterday. Principal Magistrate Peter Law Tak-chuen awarded costs to them.
