- Title: Hong Kong police condemn killing rumors as "malicious slander"
- Date: 11th October 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (OCTOBER 11, 2019) (REUTERS) POLICE OFFICIALS ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTING SUPERINTENDENT, HONG KONG POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANCH, KONG WING-CHEUNG, SAYING: "Certain people spread malicious comments online to slander the police and stir up grievances in society. For example, there are rumours accusing the police of killing a female protester and disposing her body in the sea. Not only is such rumours totally false, but it is also very cruel and disrespectful for the family of the deceased. We express regret about such irresponsible remarks. We reject any attempt to discredit us." VARIOUS OF NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTING SUPERINTENDENT, HONG KONG POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANCH, KONG WING-CHEUNG, SAYING: "About the last question, on the female student of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, previously because we do not even have the very basic information about her allegations, including for example the day, time, or location, of the allegation, who (was) allegedly involved in the allegation, so we have encountered great difficulties to even to initiative a very basic investigation for the allegation." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS
- Embargoed: 25th October 2019 10:42
- Keywords: Hong Kong police rumors protest China news conference
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0NIB7R
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- Story Text: Hong Kong police on Friday (October 11) denounced rumours of murdering a female protester and disposing her body as "malicious slander" aimed to "stir up grievances" in society.
"Not only (are) such rumours totally false, but it is also very cruel and disrespectful for the family of the deceased. We express regret about such irresponsible remarks. We reject any attempt to discredit us," said Kong Wing-cheung, acting superintendent of the police's public relations branch.
Kong said that he could not comment on a recent accusation of police sexually assaulting a female university student, citing "great difficulties" in initiating an investigation due to lack of "basic information".
What began as opposition to a proposed extradition law, that could have seen people sent for trial in mainland courts, has grown into a broad pro-democracy movement and a serious challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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