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Swiss and Hong Kong Falun Gong Practitioners Win Appeal: Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Revokes Conviction | ... (824 words) |
 | The spiritual movement was lawful in Hong Kong, but the authorities accused and arrested the demonstrators for assaulting and obstructing the police during a protest outside China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. |
| The court ruled that the police’s arrest was illegal and, therefore, the convictions of obstructing and assaulting police officers against Falun Gong practitioners should be quashed. |
| The Court of Final Appeal said as the police’s arrest was illegal, every action that the police took against the practitioners in the police station should not be treated as the execution of police’s formal duties. |
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High Court (Hong Kong) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (198 words) |
| The High Court of Hong Kong was part of the English legal system and a lower court under the Supreme Court. |
| After 1997, the Supreme Court was renamed High Court, which comprises of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance. |
| The current location of the court is at 38 Queensway in the old location of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. |
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