Tsang Hing-kwong, a Hong Kong citizen diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, was unexpectedly held for questioning on arrival in Macau on Jan. 11. He was accused of “seditious (online) remarks” and was deported the same evening.
Tsang recounted the incident in a Facebook post on the afternoon of Jan. 13. he recalled taking the ferry from Hong Kong to Macau on the morning of Jan. 11, arriving at Taipa Pac On Terminal at around 11:45 a.m., but failed to check himself through one of those automated electronic custom checkpoints as he usually does.
Customs officers took him into a room where he had to surrender his HK ID card and told him that he would be handed over to the judiciary police.
About an hour later, he was escorted to the Cotai Judiciary Police Station, where interrogation by two judiciary police officers started around 3 p.m.
Tsang mentioned in his post that police questioned if a certain Facebook account belonged to him and then took pictures of his “Octopus payment card for people with disability” and “follow-up hospital appointment slip.”
Macau Police: ‘A Small Punishment as a Serious Warning’
By 7 p.m., Tsang was denied entry to Macau and made to return to Hong Kong by the HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Shuttle Bus at his own expense and told that this was a “small punishment, but a serious warning” that should he make any future political remarks, “Macau will not welcome you.” and threatened him with “further actions” if it happened.Making The Deportation Public
Tsang said that his trip to Macau was purely for leisure, and he had not participated in any political activities in Macao.Tsang felt he might not be able to set foot in Macau again in the future. “I can hardly believe a 2nd or 3rd-tier person (in the back row, not a high-profile figure in the frontline) like me was also targeted!” he exclaimed.
Many netizens were amazed at his being led away by the police for questioning. Some of them left a message saying, “There is absolutely no point going to such a fascist place anymore.”
Looking through Tsang’s posts in recent months, some of them are screenshots of news reports from Macau Television, which were used to satirize the current situation. There are also mockeries on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Hong Kong’s pro-communist camps, and other media remarks.
Famous for Lone Protest in 2012
In 2012, a then 36-year-old Tsang protested against the two free TV stations for following CCP instructions and obstructing the licensing of “Hong Kong TV.” Five hundred people were supposed to turn up ATV operation, but he was the only one who showed up. Netizens ridiculed him for being “one against a hundred,” while others praised him for his courage and commitment to what he says he will do.In Aug. 2013, ATV was fined HK$1 million (US$128,000) by the Communications Authority of Hong Kong due to the infiltration and interference in its operation by the CCP forces. Tsang went to Tai Po ATV headquarters in person, popped open a bottle of Pepsi cola as champagne, and drank ecstatically.
Tsang came to Hong Kong from the mainland when he was a child. He was the only son in his family. He was sentenced to observe a “binding over” order for a year for committing some minor offenses when he was in Secondary 5. The psychiatric report submitted to the court at that time confirmed that he had Asperger’s syndrome and had problems socializing and communicating with others. He had to receive psychiatric treatment, took medication for a long time, and later even suffered from depression.
The Epoch Times has made an inquiry about the incident with the Macau Judiciary Police and is awaiting a reply.
