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‘I’m happy to take pictures with you, judge’: more suspected illegal photography in Hong Kong courts
Woman has mobile phone confiscated after High Court hears she was spotted snapping pictures during Occupy protests trial, just days after similar incident
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A woman had her mobile phone confiscated by a Hong Kong judge on Wednesday after it was reported she had taken pictures inside a courtroom during a trial related to the city’s 2014 Occupy protests.
The woman – who gave her surname as Tong – said she had captured the images in the interests of “transparency”.
The High Court heard she had been spotted snapping photos while prosecutors were playing footage that opened their case against five men accused of contempt for their actions during a court-ordered clearance of Mong Kok demonstrators on November 25, 2014.
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The alleged incident was the fourth suspected case of courtroom photography in as many months.
When confronted with the allegation, the woman replied: “Today is a public hearing … What is the definition of a public hearing?”
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