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4 arrested for disorderly conduct

Police arrested four people after noticing that some individuals were displaying protest items that contained seditious wordings, chanting and committing unlawful acts in the vicinity of Causeway Bay since the afternoon of June 3.   Police announced the arrests in a statement and explained that upon investigation, they arrested the four individuals on suspicion of disorder in public places and doing an act or acts with seditious intention.   Additionally, four other people suspected of breaching public peace were brought to the police station for further investigation.   The force stressed that they are highly concerned about people attempting to incite and provoke others to commit illegal acts that endanger national security, public order and public safety.   Apart from stepping up patrols and enhancing intelligence-gathering, Police added that they will closely monitor the situation of various districts and strive to prevent and combat crimes. http://dlvr.it/Sq8xN8
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Electoral change objective clear

(To watch the full media session with sign language interpretation, click here.)   Chief Executive Carrie Lam today said the National People's Congress' deliberation on a decision to improve the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's electoral system aims to ensure that Hong Kong is administered by patriots.   Mrs Lam made the statement when speaking to the media this afternoon.   She said: "The improvements to the electoral system in the Hong Kong SAR are not designed to favour someone. They are designed to ensure that whoever is administering Hong Kong is patriotic.   "And this is only right in terms of political ethics - how could one who is governing a place not be patriotic to that country? It is inconceivable.   "So this is the objective of this exercise and I've made it very clear that the improvements only seek to ensure that it is patriots administering Hong Kong."   Mrs Lam noted that only when this requirement has been fulfilled can Hong Kong’s stability and prosperity be ensured, adding it will help safeguard the city’s constitutional order under the Basic Law and resolve the city’s deep-seated problems.   "Once Hong Kong people realise all these justifications, I'm sure that they will take these elections very seriously because by returning people who are patriotic, who are going to follow the ‘one country, two systems’, then Hong Kong will have a much brighter future in terms of economic development and prosperity."   Mrs Lam pointed out that Hong Kong people will continue to have a role in the future development of the city’s political structure and stressed it has to take place within the proper constitutional framework.   "What we are now seeing are deficiencies in the electoral system which could be exploited by people, including some external forces, and hence return politicians who may take advantage of their position to undermine governance, or even to undermine national security and development interests of the country.   “So when everything is now being restored to its proper constitutional order since Basic Law Article 45 and Basic Law Article 68 are being maintained and retained, then the chance will come, the time will come for Hong Kong's political system to continue to move forward in a gradual and orderly manner with a view to achieving that ultimate objective of universal suffrage in the selection of the Chief Executive."
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