In a post published on her Facebook, Chin Sze Man described personal encounters with the police where she was threatened. She also described how the police threatened other detainees, including females, with sexual abuse, rape and staged suicide with their bodies dumped at sea.

Chin Sze Man’s full post:

Seeing this photo reminded me of my experience.

That night at a parking lot, myself and another man, a fellow protester, were the only people there. Teams of riot police rushed in to surround us, shouting abuse at us. It was so loud that I could not hear clearly what was being said, but they all looked at me as if I had killed their families.

In my panic, I failed to answer a question posed by a female riot police officer. Seeing this, a male riot police officer yelled at me in intimidation “Why didn’t you answer the question that Madam just asked you? Do I have to take you to San Uk Ling for you to answer the question?”

The female officer who first asked the question then said into my ear “When you get taken in, I won’t know what the colleagues taking over will do to you.”

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The next day, while sitting on a metal chair awaiting my third full body search, I was joined by two other girls who were also arrested the night before. One of the plainclothes officer there tried to make conversation with the duty officer, saying “We caught three female roaches?” The duty officer replied “Yep, feel free to rape whoever takes your fancy”

This sent chills down my spine.

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A good friend of mine was arrested the other day and taken into a police vehicle. The police said to her “Do you believe when I say that I’ll put some rocks in your rucksack and toss you into the sea?”

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The police would casually say these kind of things, because when they are in their environment, they are a bunch of barbaric monsters who are a law unto themselves. They can do and say whatever they like without any consequences.

Fellow protesters live each day in fear of their lives. This is not exaggerated.

Section 3, Part I of the Police (Discipline) Regulations (Cap 232A)

(2) The offences against discipline are—

(c) conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline;

(j) making a statement which is false in a material particular in the course of his duty or in connexion with the discharge by the police force of any of its duties or functions;

(m) conduct calculated to bring the public service into disrepute.

Section 24, Part IV of the Crimes Ordinance (Cap 200):

Certain acts of intimidation prohibited

Any person who threatens any other person—

(a) with any injury to the person, reputation or property of such other person; or

(b) with any injury to the person, reputation or property of any third person, or to the reputation or estate of any deceased person; or

(c) with any illegal act,

with intent in any such case—

(i) to alarm the person so threatened or any other person; or

(ii) to cause the person so threatened or any other person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do; or

(iii) to cause the person so threatened or any other person to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(13 of 1920 s.2 incorporated)

Facebook (Story in the victim’s words)

The Stand News (Article)