Hong Kong protests: police release man after complaint filed to court alleging officers would not say who arrested him or why
- Unnamed man made urgent bid at High Court to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, after he was arrested on Jordan Road at about 4pm on Sunday
- Lawyer says officers told his client that he had been arrested for unlawful assembly only after he was brought to police station
Hong Kong police released a man after he filed a complaint to the court on Monday alleging the force refused to tell him who had arrested him and what he was being held for.
The man, whose lawyers declined to reveal his identity, made an urgent bid at the High Court to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, after he was arrested on Jordan Road near Nathan Road at about 4pm on Sunday.
His lawyers said he passed by the area during a stand-off where anti-government demonstrators hurled petrol bombs at a police station and set up barricades in the shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui.
He was not wearing any protective gear commonly used by protesters.
At the hearing that started at 5pm on Monday, a government lawyer told Mr Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming the applicant would “be released forthwith”, after the man’s counsel Hectar Pun Hei SC complained that his client had neither done anything suspicious nor carried any weapons at the time.
Chow subsequently ordered the application be adjourned sine die, or indefinitely. He made no orders concerning the application.