Oiwan update: TELA and OAT won't answer her questions

Published: July 27, 2007, 12:28 pm

Tags: censorship, citizen media, hong kong, oiwan

Oiwan Lam's indecency hearing is now likely to take place in September - postponed from August, which is good because it gives Oiwan more time to prepare. (For details and background on her case please click here, here, here, here, and here. Oiwan's personal statement about the case is here.) Oiwan has been trying to get more information from the Obscene Articles Tribunal so that she can prepare for her hearing with them. On July 17th she wrote them a letter asking the following questions: Where is the venue of the meeting which did the classification? Who had attended the meeting? Apart from the principal adjudicator and two committee members? How were the two adjudicators designated? Selected by the Registrar of OAT? Rotated according to the committee members' list? Or by computer random selection? Had there been an actual voting? If there is, what classification is opined by the two adjudicators? What is the opinion of the principal adjudicator? If no voting

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