Judicial review application by photographer Lee Wing Ho reveals police abuse of warrants to illegally search phones.
//there was something not quite right about the warrants. First, Lee wasn’t served with them. Second, the warrants authorized the police to search the 22nd floor of police headquarters. Why would the police seek a warrant to search their own premises?
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Lawyers representing Lee therefore inferred that the police “having arrested and confiscated a large number of smartphones and electronic devices from a number of suspects on different occasions and having brought them to the 22/f of Police Headquarters” sought two warrants “to access all of them without conditions or limitations.”//
Read the full article by Mary Hui here: hong-kong-police-use-vague-warrants-to-crack-into-phones
