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Hong Kong Customs officers suspected of framing an Indian youth
On January 14, 2022, an Instagram user, named “azmat_karavan,” claimed he witnessed how officers from the Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department (C&ED) “framed an ethnic minority youth” in Hong Kong.
According to the post, the witness saw an “undercover agent”, who was carrying a cardboard box, approach an individual, whom he described as a South Asian man and asked him to sign for the items.
The witness said the man — reportedly named Ashuk Kumar — responded by saying the goods did not belong to him and said he did not want to receive the parcel.
But he eventually signed for the box after the parcel holder kept asking for his signature — shortly afterwards, a group of customs officers emerged and arrested the man.
In a nine-minute video, a group of plainclothes officers, who said they were from Customs, appeared to surround an ethnic-minority man on Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po.
In a statement from the C&ED released a day later, Customs “immediately conducted a surveillance operation on the delivery and arrested a 34-year-old male consignee under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance” “to combat the sale of counterfeit goods”, stressing that “all operations are conducted with fairness, impartiality and professionalism based on facts and evidence” and denouncing “any such irresponsible remarks regarding the allegation of so-called "planting of evidence" by Customs posted on social media platform”.
Sources: InMediaHK; HK Free Press; Statement from Customs #Jan15
https://bit.ly/324uJWK
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/17/hong-kong-customs-condemn-unfounded-rumours-over-planting-of-evidence-on-southeast-asian-man/
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202201/15/P2022011500452.htm
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Hong Kong Customs officers suspected of framing an Indian youth
On January 14, 2022, an Instagram user, named “azmat_karavan,” claimed he witnessed how officers from the Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department (C&ED) “framed an ethnic minority youth” in Hong Kong.
According to the post, the witness saw an “undercover agent”, who was carrying a cardboard box, approach an individual, whom he described as a South Asian man and asked him to sign for the items.
The witness said the man — reportedly named Ashuk Kumar — responded by saying the goods did not belong to him and said he did not want to receive the parcel.
But he eventually signed for the box after the parcel holder kept asking for his signature — shortly afterwards, a group of customs officers emerged and arrested the man.
In a nine-minute video, a group of plainclothes officers, who said they were from Customs, appeared to surround an ethnic-minority man on Pei Ho Street in Sham Shui Po.
In a statement from the C&ED released a day later, Customs “immediately conducted a surveillance operation on the delivery and arrested a 34-year-old male consignee under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance” “to combat the sale of counterfeit goods”, stressing that “all operations are conducted with fairness, impartiality and professionalism based on facts and evidence” and denouncing “any such irresponsible remarks regarding the allegation of so-called "planting of evidence" by Customs posted on social media platform”.
Sources: InMediaHK; HK Free Press; Statement from Customs #Jan15
https://bit.ly/324uJWK
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/17/hong-kong-customs-condemn-unfounded-rumours-over-planting-of-evidence-on-southeast-asian-man/
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202201/15/P2022011500452.htm
#Framing #Plotting #Customs #Discrimination #EthnicMinorities