"I, Tung Chee Wah, do solemnly swearto serve as the" "Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China, and to support the Basic Law of the HKSAR of the People's Republic of China, and swear allegiance to the HKSAR of the People's Republic of China," "to perform my duty to the best of my ability and obey the law, to honestly serve the HKSAR, responsible to the Central People's Government, the People's Republic of China and the HKSAR" "Mr Tung (Chief Executive of the HKSAR), these juvenile offenders were very young when they committed their crimes" "Yet theirterms were more severe than those for adult criminals" "Really, Councillor?" "Why didn't you let me know earlier?" "In fact each of them wrote to you" "You were probably too busy to deal with it" "I wrote you three times too" "They've never given up on themselves." "They are all very industrious" "Help them to remit their sentences;" "give them a chance at a new life" "Do I have the right to remit sentences?" "Article 48 of the Basic Law states that our Chief Executive has the right" "Andrew Li (Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal) is a good judge, and has a high reputation in the realm of Law" "People are delighted he is the Chief Justice in the Court of Final Appeal" "Can I change the sentences he handed down?" "Are they religious?" "It would be betterforthem if they are" "That they at least have some mental support to cling to" "Year of 1985" "Be smart, won't you?" "We're supposed to be stealing copper!" "You didn't even bring a rope; what's the matter with you?" "How did you become the chief, huh?" "Useless!" "Chief!" "What?" "Look!" "Copper's so heavy, why don't we just go and rob them?" "Yeah!" "Chief!" "Why not?" "We fixed that chick!" "Let's go!" "Run..." "Mom, I'm going to a movie with my classmate, I'm going now" "Be home early!" "OK!" "What are you doing, Yue-ling?" "So sneaky!" "What are you hiding?" "Is this yours?" "I can't go in my uniform" "They'll laugh at me forthat" "Is that what you're worried about?" "You don't want your uniform;" "all you fancy are cheap dresses like this!" "And you make yourself look like a street kid" "Aren't you worried about getting raped?" "I can't let you wear it!" "I must cut it up!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Damn you!" "I spent so much effort bringing you to Hong Kong" "I work like a dog" "Yet you don't like school" "You damned girl, you really drive me nuts" "You damned girl, you really drive me nuts" "Two bodies were found this morning in Braemar Hill" "Aforeign couple was found dead in the bushes." "It was you who brought me to Hong Kong" "You said this was paradise" "People call me country girl in school" "People here are bad, including you!" "I even have to wear my uniform to go to the corner store" "Who is it?" "It's me, King!" "We worked on the same assembly line" "What do you want?" "This is Mr Leung, King!" "This is Miss Cheung!" "He's helping us" "The factory is very mean to us" "Why don't you go on strike with us tomorrow?" "I have stopped work, this is a strike" "Workers should fight forthemselves" "The factory and society won't understand exactly what you need... when you just stop going to work" "The factory wouldn't dare to exploit your rights... if all watch workers made a sit-in protest" "Take it away!" "I'm scared!" "Don't worry!" "Just hold the bag tight" "Do you want me to take you out to play?" "Yeah!" "I want to go to Ocean Park, to a movie and skating" "Fine... fine!" "Whereveryou want... as long as you're good" "You're the only person in Hong Kong who's nice to me, uncle!" "If you behave, I'll treat you even better" "Why are your panties so big?" "I don't have my own underwear" "They are somebody else's" "I'll buy you some if you behave" "Good afternoon, police confirm that the couple found dead in Braemar Hill... were Form 6 students at an English Foundation School" "Their parents are British, working in Hong Kong" "After learning the news, the dead girl's motherfainted, and the dead boy's father was very angry" "Whoever did this to my son and his girlfriend deserve a death penalty" "They'd be put to death, they're animals, they shouldn't be walking around!" "Villains are everywhere in Hong Kong, even adults are always getting taken" "I'll treat you very nicely if you're a good girl" "Don't tell Aunt Kim about us" "Will you treat me better if Aunt Kim dies?" "Will you treat me better if Aunt Kim dies?" "Will you treat me better if Aunt Kim dies?" "Will you treat me better if Aunt Kim dies?" "There have never been cheers of support, Hard work has not brought happiness" "Floating at the bottom of society, the heart didn't die of countless woes" "The anger in me... is like a lioness woken from sleep" "Walking the picket line together, ourfates are tied" "The moment we're fighting the battle together, the green mountain, the sea, and the sky" "This is the mark we leave in the world." "The cheers shake the sky" "My bladder has problems" "That goddamned group leader only lets me go to the washroom twice a day" "In fact this strike is a breakthrough forthe workers' movement" "We recruited many workers forthe sit-in protest in a very short time" "We object to the very unjust rules in the factory" "The anger in me... is like a lioness woken from sleep" "Walking the picket line together, ourfates are tied" "The moment we're fighting the battle together, the green mountain, the sea, and the sky" "This is the mark we leave in the world." "The cheers shake the sky" "Our protest is not mentioned," "Mr. Leung, only the Braemar Hill couple" "All the front-page headlines are taken" "There is really nothing about us" "Have you read them thoroughly?" "Yes, I did!" "The Braemar Hill murder has a hidden cause:" "McBrady's left shoulder was injured, leading to his and his girlfriend's deatl" "Cheung Yau-ming, aged 16, was charged with killing the British couple, John McBrady and Helen Hayes... in Braemar Hill on April 17, 1985." "The accused is guilty of murder... in Braemar Hill on April 17th 1985." "The accused is guilty of murder." "Since you're not an adult, you are to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" "Year of 1997, 6 months before Handover" "Don't cry!" "I'll feed you shit if you do!" "Stop crying!" "I'm really gonna feed you shit if you don't!" "I'll kill you if you don't stop!" "Cheung Yau-ming, I'm Yue-ling, your classmate at the Open University" "Having read your article in the student press," "I find your language very lively" "I don't know why I imagined you were a piano player... and wanted to write you a letter" "When I found out your address" "I realised you were a prisoner" "When I lost to you in the prose competition," "I read your article again" "Suddenly, I wanted to know more about you" "I only sent you an unsolicited letter" "I didn't expect you'd be willing to meet me so quickly" "Jail visit?" "That way!" "Your identification card, please!" "Who are you visiting?" "Cheung Yau-ming" "Do you know his number?" "67544" "I brought him some books" "Hard-cover books are not allowed" "OK!" "Here's your identification card!" "Thank you!" "None of these are allowed." "Put them in locker no. 13" "Thank you!" "Leave all metal stuff here" "Raise your hands." "Higher!" "OK!" "Take your keys back!" "Cheung Yau Ming" "I'm Cheung Yue-ling!" "I'm Cheung Yue-ling!" "Thanks for coming to see me!" "I wanted to come long ago" "But I was very busy" "You are not a local?" "I came from the Mainland in my teens, with my Mom" "I once tried very hard to learn Cantonese" "Because I wanted to be like a local!" "But now I find there's no need ljust want to be myself" "We are Chinese, after all!" "So do you speak Potunghua?" "What topic did you choose fortranslation?" "Law" "I feel a chill in my bones whenever I hearthe word" "I can't help it!" "We come across it here every day" "No wonder a lot of my friends here say... that every mother-and-son meeting is like a tragic movie" "What about you?" "Is it a comedy when you and yourfamily meet?" "I've been here for 12 years" "My family never came to visit me" "I think, they... already forgot about me" "When will you finish serving yourterm?" "Sorry, Yue-ling!" "I'm not very talkative" "Was it boring to spend 30 minutes with me?" "In fact, I started practising talking to myself... a few days before you came" "Ever since I came here at 16," "I have never had a chance to talk to women" "But I don't think this is the most important thing" "Because I often miss my family very much" "After meeting you, I suddenly think that... my family might have forgotten about me" "But I still remember what my natural mother looked like" "Yue-ling, I'm not the piano player of your imagination" "But I know how to make a drawing to rememberyourface" "That day you asked me when I would finish serving my term" "Out of the blue, I really couldn't answer" "Because I am detained at Her Majesty's pleasure," "I haven't been sentenced" "Fatt..." "Fatt" "What?" "Your English is good, why don't you send the Queen a letter?" "You think detained at Her Majesty's pleasure really refers to the Queen?" "The length of our jail terms depends on" "Chris Patten (Governor of HK)" "Yourtoothpaste, Ming!" "In Shek Pik Prison, there are several others detained at" "Her Majesty's pleasure" "Recently, prisoners like us, detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, are being bounced between departments of the colonial government" "Afterthe British leave Hong Kong, we are very worried about... what the SAR government will do with us" "So we really hope our sentences will be set before the Handover" "And we'll not be kept waiting for ever" "Name of the book International Human Rights Law" "Otherwise we really don't know what ourfate will be" "Do you remember how many letters you sent?" "A hundred-odd letters, the government kicks us around like footballs!" "What's the point?" "It's no use at all!" "The Handover (HK returns to China) is approaching" "Who'll care for us?" "67544, someone is paying you a visit" "May I help you?" "Hi!" "I would like to speak to the Councillor, Leung Chung-ken" "He's at a meeting, please wait for a while" "Mr. Leung!" "Mr. Leung, someone is here foryou" "OK, thanks!" "The 10th floor is too low, Mr. Leung" "Can you help me to get several stories higher?" "Getting you moved in was already difficult, Mr. Chan!" "Now that you have, and you find the level too low" "Go apply again to the Housing Authority yourself!" "How can your member of staff say that, Mr. Leung?" "I voted foryou" "Mr. Chan works at night and wants some quiet sleep in the daytime" "We should understand that" "That's the point!" "My vote is worth it!" "Councillor, Block B's pipes are still blocked, when will you help us?" "I will ask the Housing Department to follow up." "Don't worry!" "OK!" "Thank you!" "OK, time is running out" "The Councillor has a meeting to attend, we'll get back to you" "We'll follow up, not to worry!" "Thank you!" "Mr. Leung, I depend on you" "Don't worry!" "Thank you!" "Hi!" "Are you Mr. Leung?" "Yes!" "How can I help you?" "My friend wants me to give you this letter" "Fine!" "I seem to have received a copy too" "These people are worried about legal problems after 1997" "And the government hasn't yet given them determinate sentences" "I read it" "It's all about inhumanity, injustice, intolerance, all that jazz" "But they are all murderers, after all!" "They should have known they would be punished" "But prisoners are humans too!" "It's inhumane... if they are detained indefinitely" "And the International Court of Human Rights also ruled that... indefinite detention violates the law of human rights" "Don't they have a term?" "They are detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" "Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure... primarily gives mentally immature youngoffenders a chance to correct themselves" "Since the government still hasn't defined theirterm, detained at Her Majesty's pleasure has turned into indefinite imprisonment" "Some have been detained for 20 years and yet still don't know theirterms" "How many prisoners of this kind are there in Hong Kong?" "23!" "Tsing Yi (a Hong Kong community) has a population of 230,000, Mr. Leung" "Take a look at the information I've got here, Mr. Leung!" "All these are records of serious criminals in Hong Kong" "These adult criminals robbed a bank, and killed a cop" "The longest they got was 46 years" "After deductions of holidays and parole, actually they only need to suffer punishment for 23 years" "But those young offenders are detained indefinitely" "Also, look at this case, Mr. Leung!" "The court judged an armed fight in Yuen Long in 1987 to be a murder case" "The first accused was sentenced to death" "But he was an adult offender;" "the other 3 young offenders... were detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" "In 1990, the adult offender in that case received the Governor's amnesty... and was sentenced to 25 years" "After deducting 1/3 of it for holidays," "This adult offender's actual term was 18 years" "He will soon be released" "But the kids under his control have been detained for 10 years and yet still don't know about theirterms" "Ming, call all the detainees as soon as possible, notify theirfamilies... to meet in Leung Chung-ken's office on Sunday" "I didn't expect you to help" "I'm just a prisoner" "I was just a street kid before coming here" "Don't say that" "I grew up in an orphanage" "At nine, Dad and my stepmothertook me home... just so they could apply for bigger housing" "Then my stepmother gave birth to 3 children" "In a family of 6" "there were fights at home every day" "Maybe because I was too young" "I couldn't make any money to help them so they kicked me out" "The hope of my life is to find my natural mother" "My Dad scolded me... forthis and that" "So I didn't ask his help to look for my mom at all" "Later on I..." "later on I found myself a chief" "But they..." "They just said to rob" "Why not..." "Come back here!" "Still want to run?" "Hold her down!" "Why don't we phone her home for blackmail?" "Phone number?" "Bitch!" "Please let me go!" "Let us go" "What are you saying?" "What's phone number in English?" "You don't know?" "How should I know!" "Damn!" "Shit!" "How can we blackmail them without the phone number?" "All useless shit!" "Come on!" "Might as well!" "What the hell!" "Why can't you hold her down?" "They two will recognise us" "Kill him!" "Come on!" "Hold this, beat him!" "Shit!" "Come on!" "I'm warning you, no one can stay out of this" "I'll kill whoever doesn't beat them" "Come on, hold this!" "Hit him, hit him!" "I didn't expect Braemar Hill to cost lives" "What about you?" "What did you do 12 years ago?" "Very itchy!" "What an easy win!" "What?" "Look at your daughter!" "Damn you, get down!" "You damned girl, you even seduced your own uncle..." "Mom... stop..." "Damn you, I don't want a daughter like you." "Get out!" "Don't..." "I don't want a daughter like you." "Get out" "Let me put my clothes back on first" "You still need your clothes?" "Get out, out!" "Mom... open the door... open the door!" "Mom!" "Don't be like that, let me in!" "Mom..." "Stinky grass only grows out of a stinky pot" "The Organising Committee appointed by the Chinese government... decided on the 400 members of the Election Committee" "It's always the same group of people nominating our Chief Executive" "May I ask how can candidates' election platforms... avoid the limitations determined by the Chinese government?" "His Stinky grass only grows out of a stinky pot insulted both the Legislative Council and Councillors on the Election Committee" "How do you solve this, Mr Chairman?" "Please determine" "Councillor, do you wish to withdraw your statement?" "No, I don't!" "I've said it, I can't take it back" "It's him who Yue-ling got for us." "If you won't, please leave immediately" "And not to return today" "Will this stinky pot work?" "No matter how stinky he is, he's still a Councillor" "Among all the letters we sent, he's the only one willing to help" "The prisoners' families are all here" "Bring them in" "Come in!" "Let me introduce the Councillor, Mr Leung" "We all depend on him" "Hi, everyone!" "Hi, Councillor!" "We all depend on you, you must help us" "I'll try my best." "This is the list of detained prisoners" "Sign your name in the Next of Kin box." "Pass it over!" "Councillor, you must help me" "My son fought with someone he didn't know" "Just because he said, What are you looking at me for?" "It cost some lives" "I have no money for a lawsuit" "The Legal Aid lawyer said..." "It was a maximum of 10 years for detention at Her Majesty's pleasure" "So ljust asked him to plead guilty" "So he did and couldn't appeal" "What should I do?" "My younger brother was like that too, Councillor" "He quit school at 13, and became an apprentice in a garage" "The street kids asked him for money every day" "He didn't bring home any money, so I yelled at him" "One day, he went back to the garage for a saw, which was for self-defence" "Nobody expected it to turn out like this!" "Let me speak first!" "My younger brother is called Fatt" "One evening he was having midnight snack" "Some people kept staring at him" "He got agitated" "Those people were a gang and they were yelling" "He left in a taxi and felt more and more agitated." "So he returned... forced his way into the kitchen, grabbed a chopper and swung it" "My young brother didn't start it" "My family members are all very hot tempered" "When I learned about it, ljust grabbed my keys and hit him... and almost blinded him!" "We live in a wooden shack district, you know" "Mom scolds us everyday" "Dad has a tough time working in a hardware store." "So he loses his temper at home" "Look, Dad!" "Ain't I good?" "I finished the powder in one mouthful" "Good boy, Siu-chung!" "Dad, come on!" "We'll be late forthe movie!" "Sorry!" "I still have to go to a meeting ljust came home to pick something up, can't go with you!" "You promised and now you have to go to a meeting!" "You lied!" "Siu-chung!" "Leave me alone!" "Come out, Siu-chung!" "I want to calm down" "Why don't you go with him, Sau-yee?" "Our son said his Dad should go with him to watch Kolya" "The meeting is very important" "What else is new?" "So my Women's Association meeting is not important?" "I told you I had a meeting to attend today" "You always say you were idealistic" "So only you are and I'm not!" "Your son denies you when you become a Saviour" "Yue-ling!" "Are you not worried about losing your job helping me here?" "I quit" "You did?" "Yes!" "Don't worry!" "I always wanted to do something... not forthe sake of money or living" "Here is my chance" "Can I go with you to Stanley (prison) tomorrow?" "A Councillor is coming here today?" "Yeah!" "Be smart!" "Hi, Councillor!" "Hi!" "Poon, I'm an adviser here" "Hi!" "This is Miss Cheung Yue-ling, my assistant" "Hi!" "Hi!" "I advise all 6 prisoners detained at" "Her Majesty's pleasure" "They have arranged to meet with you" "This way, please!" "Thank you!" "It's OK, Miss Cheung, a special arrangement today" "This way, please!" "Thank you!" "It's Open Day today, Sir?" "So many visitors!" "What we have here today is a Councillor, not your mom!" "Councillor, Miss Cheung!" "Here are the diplomas I received forthe courses I studied" "Take a look!" "I'm now taking a correspondence course in Sociology at the Open University" "So I have both theoretical and practical knowledge fortoday's youngsters" "I was recommended as the adviser here to advise all prisoners" "Also, a youth centre helped publish my books" "There's only one thing..." "I want to do now" "I want to know how much longer I have to be stuck here" "I really want to get out of here!" "I want to tell all the youngsters about my experience" "Never violate the law" "I really wish you could help me" "Are they filming an educational TV program in there, Ming?" "Are you Chan Wing-fatt?" "Yes!" "What have you got to tell me?" "As far as I know, the Long Term Detention Review Committee (LTDRC) reviews my case every 2 years" "My file is thick and heavy" "They get a secretary to go over my file, write a conclusion, and that is just how the Committee members determine my fate" "Neither just, objective, nor accurate" "This is the bureaucratic system that determines ourfate" "I hope what I said was useful" "I'm a teacher" "I discovered he's even smarterthan my students" "Also their legal knowledge is more detailed than many Councillors'" "Certainly!" "That is what most concerns them" "They study law day and night, talk about human rights and freedom" "Yet they neverthink about what the victims' families feel" "Come in, you two!" "Go overthere" "This is the Councillor, this is Miss Cheung" "I'm Wong Yuk" "I'm Cheung Yau-ming Hi!" "Sorry!" "It should be this file" "OK!" "Sit!" "Mr. Leung, may I say something?" "By all means!" "I'd rather Hong Kong was the same as the Mainland" "Why?" "So I can be shot once and for all, and my mom won't need to cry every visit" "I don't know how long I will be detained here" "I stay alive simply because I have a mom at home" "If something happened to her," "I'd commit suicide!" "The kids are pretty well behaved" "Yes!" "Cheung Yau-ming rarely talked" "He's the only one detained at Her Majesty's pleasure... who has no family to fight on his behalf for a defined term, as his family has never come to visit in the past 10 years or so" "I once helped him to get in touch with his family" "He wants to look for his mom so badly too" "But no luck!" "The Braemar Hill case really shook the whole society that year" "The news was on airfrom time to time, and newspaper reports" "Ming said he was forced to commit the crime" "I believe him." "He was so young, just a teenager" "He's been studying very hard these years" "He plans to get out early and turn over a new leaf" "Why do you want to help him?" "You are not related to him!" "Don't know!" "Probably because no one cared for me in my childhood" "I fully understand those feelings" "I grew up in a wooden shack district" "The environment was really bad there" "The power supply was stolen from the streetlights" "Fires occurred very easily and it was very hard to escape" "My mom brought me from the Mainland;" "since then she changed completely" "She became very bad tempered, and was afraid of this and that" "What about you?" "Why are you helping him?" "The European Human Rights Court ruled that indefinite detention is illegal" "Why must there be at Her Majesty's pleasure?" "Because in special cases, it is not forthe court and judge to set the sentence" "The sentence is set by non-judiciary people or organisations" "In that case, there's no point in raising money for a lawsuit?" "The Governor only has about 4 months left here" "These 23 young offenders were created by colonial law" "The colonial government must deal with them before leaving" "What if the Hong Kong-British government... hasn't determined the sentence before the Handover?" "According to article 48 of the basic law, the Chief Executive of the SAR has the right to grant amnesty" "But Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure might change to..." "Detained at the Chief Executive's pleasure afterthe Handover, which means double jeopardy forthe same crime" "That is against the human rights law!" "Mr. Leung!" "I came here to consult, it's so nice to bump into you" "Your wife urges you to sign the divorce papers" "Tell her I won't!" "Who is it?" "Siu-chung?" "What's the matter?" "I rememberyour birthday!" "But I have to go to a meeting on your birthday" "I'll buy you a big ice cream cake sometime, OK?" "Don't get upset!" "All right?" "Bye!" "Mom, may I help?" "Be careful, Siu-chung, don't dirty Mom's things" "Be a good boy, go play yourself, OK?" "Mom's busy" "Come on, go!" "Yeah..." "I remember!" "We have a meeting today." "Yes!" "I'll be there on time" "You go collect everyone, and get the papers ready." "Right!" "Dad!" "Lt's Sunday today, go play with me!" "I'll call you back, OK!" "Bye!" "Dad has to go to a meeting today, and can't play with you" "How about next week?" "How can you do this to me?" "I won't go with you when Mom divorces you" "Why did you tell our son things like this?" "Why not?" "Hasn't our son the right to know what's happening between us?" "What is happening between us?" "I respect what you do, and so you must respect me too, right?" "I can't be bothered, you just keep saying the same thing" "I must rush to Central for a demonstration!" "Why don't you spend some time with our son?" "Don't go, will you?" "What are you talking about?" "I've met about 20 young prisoners lately" "I'm really worried!" "Good foryou!" "Isn't he your son too?" "Siu-chung!" "Mom has some work to do." "Do what Dad will ask you to, all right?" "All right!" "Bye, Mom!" "Siu-chung!" "What?" "Will you go with me to the meeting?" "No!" "We'll eat out afterthe meeting" "I want steak and a banana split!" "Whateveryou want" "But you must take your medicine first." "Have you?" "Yes!" "You have?" "Get out, Siu-chung!" "I want to ask you something" "You haven't taken it; why did you say you had?" "Lying is wrong, you know that?" "Put your hand out" "Dad hit you." "Are you mad at me?" "Do you still love Dad?" "Do you?" "You're silent... means you don't, right?" "Right!" "Why?" "You never spend time with me" "Many people need Dad's help lately" "When I finish helping them, I promise..." "I'll take you out every day, OK?" "I'm sorry, can you sign for me?" "I'm illiteracy" "You go ahead!" "The bill, please!" "Are you going?" "Stay for a while!" "Gentlemen, I've talked to the Secretary for Security" "He said prisoners who are detained at Her Majesty's pleasure... are to be managed by the Chief Executive of the SAR" "I told you the British were unreliable" "As I said, they are disregarding their responsibilities" "The police will shoot the kids any time afterthe Handover" "What will happen to my son?" "I beg you!" "Save my son!" "Don't cry, Madam!" "You make me feel lost" "We want to have a demonstration at the Governor's House" "A demonstration is necessary" "But you must understand that we are now appealing for serious offenders" "Not only are we challenging the bureaucratic structure, but we're also challenging society's resentful attitude towards prisoners" "So if we want success, you must be persistent to the end" "We'll organise a signature campaign on the street" "When enough signatures are collected, we'll submit them to the Governor" "No!" "I can't let people know my son is in jail" "Me neither!" "I told people my son runs a business in Shenzhen" "A quarter of Hong Kong families have members in jail" "If we stand out, we might gain sympathy" "The thing is, many people pretend to hate criminals like us" "So that others think they have nothing to do with criminals" "I'll do it only if reporters conceal my face" "If you're worried people will recognise you, wear a hat, sunglasses, or coveryourface" "But many people must participate in the demonstration." "We must have enough" "You enjoy crying so much!" "Why don't you cry in front of the reporters?" "Take charge of liaison with the families forthe demonstration, Wai-chun!" "OK!" "I'll go check the information to see if it's any help" "Thank you!" "Lying dead in the bushes, clothes torn... the woman was sexually... horrible death grimace," "Stop..." "Hold her down..." "Help..." "Let me go." "Grab her hands!" "What are you doing?" "Grab her hands!" "Oh my God..." "Awoman was gang-raped... brutal..." "further investigation" "Open her legs!" "Grab her hands!" "Stop yelling, jerk!" "Whoever did this to my son and his girlfriend deserve a death penalty." "They'd be put to death, they're animals, they shouldn't be walking around!" "Determination of juvenile offenders sentences" "We're going soon, why isn't Yue-ling here?" "Don't know!" "I called her and there was no answer" "We are not waiting for her, let's go!" "Be careful, don't get it wrong!" "It doesn't seem OK here!" "Make it more colourful" "What does May day here in the picture mean, Ming?" "It's not May day, it's Mayday" "If you are in danger at sea and need help." "It means Help!" "Mayday means help" "This is useful!" "Right!" "We need mayday" "Now, the local news" "Legislative Councillor Leung Chung-ken... went with many families of prisoners detained at Her Majesty's pleasure... to march from Hennessey Rd in Causeway Bay to the Governor's House demanding determination of juvenile offenders' sentences" "Britain is responsible!" "Juvenile offenders have rights too!" "Human rights are not to be stepped on!" "Britain is responsible!" "Juvenile offenders have rights too!" "Fight for immediate determination of sentence!" "Juvenile offenders are not trash!" "Human rights are not to be stepped on!" "Fight for immediate determination of sentence!" "Save some time for us, Ken!" "Dealing with criminals of this kind will get you nowhere" "Do whateverthe Secretary for Security says, Ken!" "Why bothers doing all this?" "We're off the train soon (replaced afterthe Handover)." "We've much to do!" "In fact, we all received letters like that" "Prisoners always want people help to reduce their sentences" "We are not judges, and 60% of Hong Kong people want the death penalty" "You're siding with serious criminals;" "it doesn't go with public opinion" "Why irritate 3 million voters for the sake of about 20 people?" "I understand what you're saying" "But I still want to do what I think is right" "Fellow citizens, a group of juvenile offenders, who the court sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, ask the HK Government to determine their sentences as soon as possible... from humanitarian and human rights standpoints" "So that they can plan theirfutures and re-enter society" "Please come and sign your name to support them, to enable their sentences to be determined as soon as possible." "Please come and sign your name to support them, to enable their sentences to be determined as soon as possible to enable them to prepare forthe future and re-enter society" "Please come and sign your name" "Councillor, I support you" "Thank you..." "I support you in everything you do" "But not when you support murderers" "You don't understand, Mister!" "Those teenagers were not mature... when they committed crimes." "They didn't know what they were doing" "It's torture forthem... to wait endlessly in jail" "The worst is, they can't appeal... without determined sentences" "It's extremely unfain'to them!" "What kind of Councillor are you?" "Recently some kids set fire to a karaoke bar and many people died" "How can you set those juvenile offenders free?" "I sent many letters to the Government... to ask if the young offenders who are detained at Her Majesty's pleasure... could have their sentences determined before the Handover" "But the government always gave bureaucratic answers" "Many letters have been sent to the government" "Shit!" "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "Stop fooling around!" "Who are you?" "None of your business!" "Stop!" "Stop... calm down..." "According to the latest social survey... 42% of high school students have nobody to discuss their problems" "34% of those whose parents don't understand them..." "Move aside!" "I have business to do!" "I would give him a good lesson if you didn't stop me" "I can't stand you people anymore, what did you think you were doing?" "We were having a peaceful demonstration, and you two fought?" "Did you ever care about how people would look at us?" "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have raised my voice" "But I'm telling you, you were very wrong!" "Mr. Leung, you don't need to say sorry." "They were wrong!" "Mr. Leung isn't related to us at all" "He has no obligation to help us" "My picture was in the news in the last demonstration." "Now they stay away!" "It was just that my voice was a bit loud" "Look at this chef!" "He hid his choppers right away" "So we must restrain ourselves" "Otherwise we won't be able to save ourfamilies" "It's OK, Wai-chun!" "Don't lose your cool" "Have you located Yue-ling?" "No!" "I called her many times, there was no answer" "Dad scolded me" "I didn't ask him to help after all" "Why are you beating this boy?" "I'm teaching my son a lesson." "What has it got to do with you?" "That's no way to treat your son!" "If you beat him like that, he'll go to jail in the future" "His going to jail has nothing to do with you either!" "Don't you dare not to listen to me..." "I won't dare any more" "Stop!" "He's your son, don't you know?" "What's going on?" "Sir, he's beating his son!" "Why?" "I was teaching my son a lesson" "That's not an excuse." "You tied him up?" "Let him go or I'll press charges against you for child abuse" "Long time no see!" "Hi!" "Your hand's injured?" "Yes!" "Are you OK?" "Mr. Leung said you were sick, I was worrying about you" "You haven't come for a long time, I thought something happened to you" "You have done so much for me" "You were sick, and I couldn't even pay you a visit" "Please let me go back in, I still want to see him!" "No!" "You can't go back in once you've come out!" "Come again next week!" "Ming!" "Stop shouting!" "Sorry!" "Sorry!" "Sorry!" "Mr. Leung, the photocopier has broken down again" "Get someone to fix it tomorrow!" "Mr. Leung, I'll resign if we continue with the criminals' case" "My relatives gossiped about me when they learned I work for criminals!" "Yeah!" "The Handover is coming, by then you won't be a Councillor anymore" "Won't it be better if we work against the provisional Legislative Council?" "Offenders have no right to vote anyway!" "What are you two doing?" "Those British throw these kids aside like trash" "Is it right?" "Doesn't it violate human rights?" "You can't calculate the result, you should do what you must do!" "What are you doing here?" "You disappeared when we needed helping hands the most" "I will still help them without you" "I was very afraid after reading about the Braemar Hill case" "Didn't you know what people you were helping in the first place?" "Use stronger colour" "More colourful!" "Detained at Her Majest's pleasure" "Juvenile offenders have rights too" "Juvenile offenders are not trash!" "Fight for immediate and specific sentences" "Juvenile offenders have rights too!" "I'm sorry, Ming!" "I once thought of giving you up, not helping you any more" "Please forgive me!" "When I read about the case of the Braemar Hill couple" "I was really frightened" "I can't believe the person I see now... did such a brutal thing" "Actually, I'm no betterthan you" "I once committed a crime too" "I wanted to kill my Aunt 12 years ago" "Only I was not arrested" "So I'm still free to go anywhere" "Although I realise there is no excuse for our crimes," "I fully understand your childhood suffering" "I don't know what's in your mind, Ming" "But I feel that if we could go back into the past," "I wouldn't want it to happen to me again" "Because I'm afraid I would still make the same mistake" "We demand specific sentences as soon as possible!" "Juvenile offenders have rights too!" "We demand specific sentences as soon as possible!" "We object to endless imprisonment!" "We demand specific sentences as soon as possible!" "We object to endless imprisonment!" "Juvenile offenders have rights too!" "We object to endless imprisonment!" "We demand specific sentences as soon as possible!" "Wait!" "Mr. Leung has something to say" "Ladies and gentlemen, anyone who violates the law... should receive reasonable punishment" "But nowadays in Hong Kong, we emphasise law and order, and human rights" "Yet we have ignored 23 young criminals detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, and imprisoned them indefinitely" "All these newspaper clippings are about juvenile delinquents" "Do you think they are worth helping?" "I personally think that juvenile offenders are products of a sick society" "We keep saying that teenagers are bad in this orthat way" "They are vain, waste money, and have sex all the time" "But probably many adults might have forgotten that we went through these immature stages while growing up too" "On one side we complain about teenagers become more and more careless" "But on the other, we are creating a world of corruption... to seduce teenagers into bad ways" "I find this ridiculous and very unfair" "Why didn't you insist when the LegCo Chairman expelled you, Mr. Leung?" "Was your phrase Stinky grass only comes from a stinky pot problematic?" "You were the first one on record who got chased out... after pointing out the undemocratic election at a colonial meeting" "You should have been proud of yourself and insisted on staying" "Why did you do what the Chairman said?" "I don't think it's appropriate to discuss this mattertoday" "To Governor Patten" "Governor Patten reviewed the 23 cases detained at Her Majesty's pleasure... yet they still haven't been given specific sentences and he decided to free 4 who had been jailed fortoo long" "He also confirmed the sentences of 2 who had been jailed for over 15 years" "The rest of the cases are to be handed over to the SAR government" "Thank you, Mr. Leung!" "I finally got confirmation of 26 years' imprisonment" "You're welcome!" "26 years!" "The sentence is even longerthan for adult criminals" "He can apply for parole now" "After holidays, he can be out in a month" "This is not right!" "That means... the government was forced to decide on longer sentences" "If not, then if someone was already jailed for longerthan he should be, how could the government pay him back?" "It's good, with a given sentence, there is hope 23 of us fought for determination of sentence" "And Chris Patten only settled 5 of the Stanley (Prison) cases" "Over here in Shek Pik (Prison), only Kwok-leung got it" "What about the 17 of us?" "Chris Patten is a politician" "You want 10, usually he'll just give you 3" "I'll try my very best before the Handover" "I'll help the best I can" "Prisoners have human rights too!" "Human rights are not to be stepped on!" "Determine the sentences immediately!" "Ho Mo See of Radio Television Heung Kong now continues her report... on the last meeting before the Handover, outside the Legislative Council" "Why didn't they mention about us?" "So far, the meeting has been going on for over 10 hours" "Many Council members at the meeting are beginning to look tired" "Many groups are holding sit-in protests outside the Council" "They think the Provisional Legislative Council is illegal" "Council members have just finished a debate on the tobacco bill... before the break" "When will it be ourturn, Fatt?" "How should I know?" "Even so, you people won't be free in the next second!" "Next is the Security Branch review of the long-term imprisonment bill" "Chairman, fellow Councillors" "First of all, in orderto provide a sentence review..." "It's ourturn!" "Quiet, everyone!" "We suggest confirming the LTDRC... as a legal organisation" "Due to the nature and purpose of detained at Her Majesty's pleasure," "The verdict is now discretionary life sentence" "We can't equate detained at Her Majesty's pleasure and discretionary life sentence... because they are two totally different things" "Discretionary life sentence virtually means a life term" "But detained at Her Majesty's pleasure is just waiting to be sentenced" "Waiting for a generous penalty... absolutely does not imply a life term" "If teenagers under 18... also sufferthe penalty of an implied life term, then how does a juvenile offender differfrom an adult criminal?" "Criminals under 18 with the death penalty... were detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" "Obviously young offenders should not be handled the same way as adults" "Even if an adult is sentenced to death, the Governor always changes it to life" "If we now equate detained at Her Majesty's pleasure with discretionary sentence for life, don't we just go back to where we started?" "Why are we doing this?" "Do you want to ignore the very reason of... young criminals' immaturity, which is so much worth considering?" "Please take a look at the criminal record in front you" "The prisoner's number is 47628" "The LTDRC reviewed his case in January, 1992" "He was only 15 when the crime was committed" "Before that he was clean" "The LTDRC complimented... his studies and his performance in jail" "They encouraged him to keep working hard and make a new life" "But up to today, he still hasn't had his sentence determined" "How can he keep working hard and make a new life?" "How can our so-called civil society... continue to jail a youngster who wants to correct himself like that?" "Is it fair?" "Your so-called discretionary life sentence... is just an excuse to avoid responsibility, to keep your hands clean and leaving him to indefinite imprisonment" "In April, 1993, the Legislative Council amended the law to repeal the death penalty" "Anybody of any age, as long as he is guilty of homicide, will be sentence for life" "Now that this bill has been drafted, based on legal procedures and processes" "The humane spirit has absolutely not been ignored" "As for murderers who harm society, discretionary life sentence is the most humane sentence" "The Law has the responsibility of protecting society" "We can't easily let go of them" "Although we repealed the death penalty" "But in your heart, the view of A life for a life is still deeply held" "If this is really the case, let me give you a piece of advice" "That our government of justice and principle, as well as our noble Councillors, stop playing tricks and stop fooling those boys" "What trick?" "The Attorney General already made the LTDRC a legal organisation" "Isn't this progress?" "We shouldn't waste any more time on this issue" "I don't think so" "If detained at Her Majesty's pleasure is understood as discretionary life sentence" "It is not only wrong in terms of legal usage, but the result is also very serious" "That year, according to the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Article 70 since the judge couldn't sentence young criminals to death, he sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" "Here's another case" "An adult criminal 58304 committed murder, and was sentenced to death" "The LTDRC recommended life imprisonment" "Later his sentence was changed to 30 years" "He committed murder again in jail, and was sentenced to death again" "And the LTDRC again recommended a sentence of 34 years" "After deducting holidays, he's actually required to spend 22 years in jail" "But the boys have already been jailed for more than ten years... and are just in exchange for discretionary life sentence" "What kind of logic is this?" "A society of law and order demands rationality" "That cannot be harmed simply because someone becomes emotional" "Rationality?" "What you said was an unfeeling kind of rationality" "What you all say is just penalty, penalty, still penalty" "Can penalties solve all problems?" "We are not cleaning up Hong Kong now" "We can't just put something we considertrash aside... and expect all problems to be solved" "Haven't you attracted enough attention, Leung Chung-ken?" "Although the Security Branch ordinances are not so great, they are betterthan none" "The government did well this time by drafting the bill immediately" "Just accept what we passed" "We won't be Councillors anymore in 10 hours or so" "Are you comfortable handing this bill to provisional Legislative Council?" "After all Councillors voted, the result of the Security Branch Life Term Review Bill has come out" "The Life Term Sentence Review Bill suggested by the Secretary Branch... were passed in the Legislative Council by a majority vote" "And the 6 amendments moved by Councillor Leung Chung-ken were vetoed" "Prisoners have rights too!" "Human rights are not to be stepped on!" "Determine the sentences immediately!" "Human rights are not to be stepped on!" "Determine the sentences immediately!" "The wind of autumn sobs over Hong Kong's dream." "Everything is changing at home" "I lost my youth to my ardent faith." "Ourfates differ as we part for separate destinations" "Two generations pass, half a lifetime goes, yet nothing is gained" "Recalling the painful past in autumn, spring flowers wither, tarnished red" "I, Tung Chee Wah..." "Sobbing in the wind of autumn over Hong Kong's dream." "Remembering the past, and it is difficult to forget" "Nothing is left on awaking from the dream." "I can't imagine how my home will look after all the hardships" "The feelings of our country are painful." "Here I see Hong Kong again" "We wander around abandoned in another country like lost leaves" "We will return to the Legislative Council" "Yes..." "Say with me!" "We will return" "We will return" "We will return to the Legislative Council" "We, as part of China, have already started the journey of fighting for democracy" "This is not an easy journey." "It is difficult" "Now Victoria Harbour sky is sparkling... attracting almost 400,000 people in both sides of the harbourto see" "Together celebrating Hong Kong's return to the motherland" "Remember, Yue-ling?" "I mentioned to you before... about the hill that I see from the window of my cell" "Every time when I look at it, when I can't see what's behind it" "I feel frightened, and am horrified" "I can see nothing ahead of me" "I don't know how to spend the rest of my life" "After discussing our case, they gave us back discretionary life sentence" "Detained at HM's pleasure changed to detained at the CE's pleasure" "Is that Leung Chung-ken reliable?" "Don't say that, he has already tried his best" "We're going to have a hunger strike" "You go and notify the press!" "Don't lose control, it might affect the judge's sentence" "Mr. Leung said, although he's no longer a Councillor" "They won't have special arrangment for me to see you." "I won't come so frequently... because I don't want to shorten yourfamily's visits" "In fact, my mom is old" "I don't want herto exhaust herself coming here" "She's your mom, after all" "The Chief Justice will suggest a sentence... based on your case and your performance in jail overthe past years" "The Chief Executive will give you a determinate sentence... based on the suggested sentence" "Don't worry!" "I'll send a letter of appeal to the Chief Executive" "Thank you!" "We'll say goodbye here, Mr. Leung!" "I want to take a walk here." "OK!" "Ming:" "I recalled the hill that you mentioned before the hill you can see from the window of your cell" "I went up there to look on your behalf today" "What's behind it is a reservoir with a very nice landscape" "I hope one day you can come... to see the beautiful scenery of the reservoiryourself" "Let me get off, please!" "Don't give me trouble even if you want to kill yourself" "Have you read today's newspaper?" "Here!" "Read this article" "Where's Mr. Leung?" "In there!" "Mr. Leung..." "Yes?" "Come!" "Come and read this news" "The families of the Braemar Hill couple were in deep grief" "After 12 years, their hatred has healed and they can forgive; so they sent the CE a letter begging for mercy" "This letter will help us a lot" "Yes!" "We have hope now this time!" "Good news... good news, come on!" "Turn the tap off!" "Come..." "Look..." "The Braemar Hill couple's father... wrote the government a letter, and forgave Ming's ignorance" "He also begged for mercy and for reducing his sentence" "This is just great..." "Don't get excited too soon!" "You can't get out of here right now, can you?" "I'll be out of here earlierthan you, at least!" "Braemar Hill parents ask Chief Executive for mercy for Cheung Yau-ming" "Mom:" "This is your daughter, Yue-ling" "I read about the Braemar Hill couple's families in the newspapertoday" "They wrote the CE a letter asking for clemency forthe murderers" "I didn't expect them to learn to forgive after 12 years" "While I have been mad at you forthe last 12 years" "I have a good friend who hasn't seen his mom since he was very small" "He wants to see his mom so much" "That is the biggest hope in his life" "And I... have a mother I can see any time, yet all these years I didn't want to come home to see you" "Mom!" "Mom!" "This dress is so torn, and you haven't thrown it away, Mom?" "You liked that dress so much" "How can I throw it away?" "Don't you want to know where I have been forthe past 12 years, Mom?" "You'd have told me long ago if you wanted to" "There's no point in asking you... if you didn't" "I first worked at an electronics factory" "Then I met a man who was about 20 years olderthan me" "He paid for my school, just like my uncle" "I realise what happened between me and uncle..." "I didn't understand then!" "I hated Hong Kong very much when you wanted to take me here" "I don't want to hurt you" "But no one can change... what happened in the past" "Mom, I'm fine now" "And now I feel... we should live together" "I also very much want to drink the soup you make!" "Fine!" "The soup is getting cold." "Come on, drink quick!" "Drink some more..." "Very delicious!" "Delicious!" "Drink more!" "July of 1998" "Sit!" "We sent foryou today... because your sentence reports have arrived" "The warden will announce them to you himself in a moment" "Come in!" "Good morning, Sir!" "The offenders are all here!" "Send them in one by one!" "59827, go in!" "Don't be nervous!" "You are not sentenced to death!" "60132, go in!" "Lmpossible!" "Those guys are ripping me off!" "They've been ripping me off for 10 years or so!" "Calm down..." "Don't mess up!" "Sit!" "I want to get out of here!" "You've been ripping me off for 10 years or so!" "Isn't it enough?" "Tung Chee Wah (Chief Executive of the SAR), you are senile!" "Been ripping me off forten years!" "Let me out..." "I can't believe this!" "Next!" "Go in, 67544!" "Good morning, Sir!" "Sit!" "67544, Andrew Li of the Court of Final Appeal has looked into your case" "He recommended a minimum term of 30 years" "The CE, Tung Chee Wah, already agreed to his recommendation" "You will have no benefits or holidays in these 30 years" "Neither can you apply for parole" "During this period of time," "The LTDRC will review your case every 2 years and will consideryour actual term" "I want to appeal" "You can't appeal since this is an executive decision" "You may try if you insist" "You may go!" "People find 20 years or 30 years very reasonable" "What they don't know is these terms are different from other offenders" "The word minimum was added for no reason" "Isn't minimum term the same as endless waiting?" "Mr. Leung, phone!" "Speaking..." "Thank you!" "Correctional Services Department called... and said those kids became emotional" "So the prison is breaking the rules to allow unrestricted family visits" "You have strong opinions, Fatt!" "In a situation like this, what can we do?" "Pick someone to commit suicide, to tell the government we are unsatisfied" "I'll do it!" "No!" "You're a prison social worker, the inmates need you" "Let me go!" "No!" "You want to break your mom's heart?" "I ended up here because I helped our Chief..." "Now I really want to do something foryou guys" "You cannot do this!" "You're the only one left" "Don't fight, my term is the longest" "Let me take up the demonstration!" "To the families of the Braemar Hill dead:" "This is one of the Braemar Hill offenders, Cheung Yau-ming" "I understand one Sorry can't remedy anything" "But I still want to say, Sorry!" "At the time, I thought I was just stealing with our Chief" "I didn't expect it would take human lives" "The Chief gave me a rod" "He said I should strike with it a couple of times... to show that everybody's involved" "Otherwise he'd kill me" "I understand one should be penalised if he commits a crime but I find this minimum term of 30 years is already not a penalty, it's a ruin" "However," "I still thank foryourforgiveness... after suffering the loss of children" "Now I give my life... to apologise to you!" "Ming..." "Why are you doing that?" "Ming!" "Ming..." "Don't!" "Ming!" "Don't, Ming!" "Don't... don't..." "Ming, don't die!" "Don't do that!" "Let me out!" "Is anybody out there?" "Help!" "Ming!" "God!" "Ming!" "Ming..." "Sir, please!" "Sir!" "Sir!" "Help!" "Sir!" "Something's wrong with Ming, quick!" "How's Ming, Fatt?" "How's Ming?" "What are you doing, Cheung Yau-ming?" "Nothing!" "Ming..." "Ming, are you all right?" "I'm OK!" "Are you OK, Ming?" "You scared the shit out of me!" "I'm OK!" "Are you OK?" "OK?" "We're OK!" "How do you feel?" "Sorry!" "You know you scared me to death?" "That's good!" "Don't be like that, damn you!" "It's not yourfault!" "You scared me to death!" "Now we feel worse than having a death sentence, please come and rescue us..." "Please, please" "What's wrong?" "I spent so much time and energy and still can't help them" "Well, at least they know... there are still people like you who care forthem, right?" "Yue-ling, time is just" "Whether happy or unhappy, it will pass after all" "30 years, 10,950 days" "I'll count every day" "I nearly killed myself yesterday" "But I didn't!" "Because I believe that..." "I'll meet my natural mother one day" "I'll study hard" "I promise you, I'll get highest grades" "I hope to see you... at the awards ceremony" "We'll shake hands then" "I promise you!" "Who are you looking for?" "Hi!" "I'm helping my friend to look for his mother" "Looking for a mother?" "My friend is called Cheung Yau-ming;" "his mother is called Poon Yau-lin" "I don't know this person" "They used to live here" "I have a picture here, look..."