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Task force to review facilities at San Uk Ling Holding Centre, where Hong Kong protesters say police abused them
- Border district commander announces decision as lawmakers and members of the press visit controversial detention centre in the New Territories
- Centre was closed last September after 30 of 53 protesters arrested on August 11 and detained there were later hospitalised, six with fractured bones
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A task force will be formed to review facilities at a controversial Hong Kong detention centre where anti-government protesters have repeatedly alleged they were abused while in police custody, with lawmakers from rival camps complaining the venue lacks essential facilities.
Border district commander Fung Siu-lan announced the task force as legislators and members of the press were allowed to visit the San Uk Ling Holding Centre in the remote Man Kam To area near the city’s border with mainland China for the first time on Tuesday.
Police stopped detaining protesters at the centre last September after 30 of the 53 protesters arrested on August 11 and detained there were later hospitalised, six with fractured bones.
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Following allegations of ill treatment by police at the centre, Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced in her first community dialogue in late September last year that the force would stop using the facility to detain arrested protesters.
Fung said there were still no plans to reopen the venue.
To handle a large number of people arrested in demonstrations, police sent a total of 182 arrestees to the facility between August 5 and September 2 last year. The facility can accommodate about 200 detainees.
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