November 21, 2019 "
Information
Clearing House" - Videos Shenzhen
police sent to the Global Times on Thursday
showed a former employee of the British
Consulate General in Hong Kong visited a
massage club three times before his
detention in August, and he told police he
chose not to inform his family as he felt
ashamed.
The videos came after Simon Cheng Man-kit,
the former employee of the UK's Hong Kong
consulate, claimed to have been tortured by
police but dodged the question on whether he
had solicited prostitutes during interviews
with Western media.
Cheng was seen visiting a club three times
between July and August, and each time he
checked into a room accompanied by a woman
and left shortly afterwards.
Video of surveillance cameras at the club
showed Cheng in a black polo shirt arriving
at the club at 5:52 pm on July 23, and he
went into a room six minutes later
accompanied by a woman. He left the club at
8:18 pm.
He visited the club again at 6:21 pm on July
31 in the same shirt and walked into a room
shortly after with a woman. He left the club
at 8:43 pm.
He went to the club a third time at around
6:40 pm on August 8, entered a room, and
left at around 9 pm.
Cheng, in an orange detention uniform on a
sofa, told police that he chose not to
inform his family because he felt ashamed
when asked why he refused to inform his
family and lawyers about the incident.
He said he was terribly ashamed of himself
as his friends would not have believed what
he did.
"I was ashamed to go back to see my
girlfriend and family," Cheng said in the
video.
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"I felt remorse and deeply shameful for
the incident, and I will correct my
mistakes and not repeat them," Cheng
said.
The two-minute video shows the opposite
of what Cheng previously claimed, which
is that he had done nothing regrettable
to the people he cherishes and loves.
The video shows Cheng's articulation was
natural and there was no sign that he
was coerced to recite the confession.
In a second video Shenzhen police
provided to the Global Times, two women
with their faces pixelated confessed
that they provided illegal sex services
to Cheng at his request and that Cheng
promised to offer more tips if they
provided the services.
Police stressed that there was no
torture in the case, and police
interrogated and detained him in strict
accordance with the law. And the health
check before his release on August 24
showed that he was in good physical
condition.
Cheng was given 15 days' administrative
detention by Shenzhen police for
violating China's regulations on public
security management. Police in Luohu
district said Cheng was detained for 15
days for soliciting prostitutes.
In a statement on Wednesday on his
Facebook account, Cheng denied the
accusations, saying that they were
obtained through an illegal process,
including torture, threats and coercion.
He said that "I got a massage for
relaxation."
When asked by the BBC whether he ever
solicited prostitutes, he dodged the
question by saying he did not want to
focus on the question because that was
exactly what the police wanted.
After the video of him visiting the club
went viral, Chinese netizens mocked
Cheng for humiliating himself as he
dared not answer the questions directly
when asked by the BBC journalist, then
was exposed a day later by another
video.
"A man soliciting prostitutes attempted
to turn himself into a victim of
political persecution by fabricating
stories for the Western world. That's
just hilarious," a netizen said.
Back in August, Western media
extensively reported on the case in
which Cheng "went missing" during his
trip to Shenzhen and linked the incident
to the situation in Hong Kong in an
attempt which observers said to
politicize the case.
On Wednesday's media briefing, Geng
Shuang, Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesperson, stressed that the Chinese
public security department guaranteed
Cheng's legal rights during his
administrative detention in August, and
that he had admitted his offences.
This article was originally
published by "Global
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