{"id":22080,"date":"2012-11-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/11\/20121127_175047.shtml"},"modified":"2012-11-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:00:00","slug":"2-convicted-of-vote-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/11\/27\/2-convicted-of-vote-rigging\/","title":{"rendered":"2 convicted of vote-rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people, aged 46 and 26, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Kowloon City Magistracy today, for vote-rigging in the 2011 District Council Election.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Peter Law said the custodial sentences were appropriate as vote-rigging is a very serious offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They submitted applications for registration as electors in the 2011 Yau Tsim Mong District Council Election (King's Park Constituency) on July 16 last year, stating that a flat in Foo Tat Building, Mong Kok, was their only or principal residential address.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the occupant of the address confirmed the premises was being used for his business, and that he did not know the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They actually lived outside the constituency at that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have been released on bail, pending appeals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people, aged 46 and 26, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Kowloon City Magistracy today, for vote-rigging in the 2011 District Council Election.\u00a0Magistrate Peter Law said the custodial sentences were appropriate as vote-rigging &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}