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Full Name: Dr. Asmat Hayat ALVI
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DO NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH IN HONG KONG

 

Double Standard in Justice System

By: Dr.Asmat Hayat ALVI.

Public of HKSAR is really very furious at Justice System of Hong Kong; after the most lenient sentence on earth is handed down to a woman by a magistrate.

Public is justified to say that the sentence handed out to Amina Mariam Bokhary is far too soft and too lenient. Because, Amina Mariam Bokhary repeated the same offence of slapping & insulting a police officer for third time. Each time she walked out without any custodial sentence.

Amina Mariam Bokhary is a niece of a Court of Final Appeal judge Kamal Bokhary; belong to very rich and influential family. She assaulted a police officer in public without any provocation in January.

In every civilized society; Judiciary is considered the last line of assurance that the rule of law is alive and well.

If Judiciary is lenient to an elite class person and harsh to lower class person for same kind of offences. It means a lot for public.  

If some underage or first time offender is given sentence of community service; it’s called justice & treatment. But previous record of Amina Mariam Bokhary is not so.

The magistrate pointed out that Bokhary is well educated and comes from a "good family."  Off-course; she is. In that case she should behave like an educated & mature person; instead her behavior is worst than any illiterate and any uneducated savage.

People who watch her confrontation with a police officer & her act of slapping him; on TV Channels this January, are right to say that Amina Mariam Bokhary manners were not civilized.

Keeping in mind; the charge of assaulting a police officer in the execution of duty is not a charge of assault on an ordinary person. A police officer is a person duly appointed to represent law and order in any society. It means an attack on a police officer while doing job is therefore, a challenge as well as an assault against society and authorities.

Amina Mariam Bokhary was previously awarded two times same kind of lenient sentences for similar crimes of assaulting police officers in public. To me, awarded seems an appropriate word because; if we go through record of courts of HKSAR of last ten years, most of ordinary persons were given custodial sentences for same kind or minor charges. This is called Double Standard.

The magistrate mentioned that he is being lenient after hearing medical evidences that Amina Mariam Bokhary is patient of depression. If this is true; people of Hong Kong hope, if Amina Mariam Bokhary will repeat assault on anyone for fourth time. In that case she should be handed over to some psychiatry or mental hospital for her Mandatory Treatment for her long lasting illness. Because; she is a patient of depression since 2002; when she was handed community service sentence for assaulting a police officer. It is a medical fact that some patients of depression are permanent threat to public; as they can harm anyone at any time; if not treated properly.

Aug 09, 2010.

 

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