CE tight-lipped on Snowden case as lawmakers urge government to tread carefully
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying remained tight-lipped about the Edward Snowden case while lawmakers urged the government not to tarnish the city’s image when handling the case.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in New York remained tight-lipped about the Edward Snowden case as he has since it began, while a couple of lawmakers urged the Hong Kong government not to tarnish the city’s image when handling the case.
In a interview with Bloomberg Television in New York City, Leung was asked whether the government would take any action and whether it would comply if the US issued a warrant for Snowden’s arrest.
“I cannot comment on individual cases … I can only say that we follow existing laws and policies,” Leung said.
He declined to discuss further on these laws and policies, or whether Hong Kong, alone, could decide on the extradition of Snowden, adding: “We do not comment on or discuss any of these cases.”
I cannot comment on individual cases
Asked how the “one country, two systems” principle applied to legal cases, Leung only said: “We have a different set of laws in Hong Kong; we have a different judicial system that is prescribed in our constitutional document called the Basic Law.”
