HONG KONG, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has strongly condemned out-of-context and fact-twisting reports on the court hearing of the case of Lai Chee-ying made by some foreign media outlets, including the U.S.-based Cable News Network (CNN).
Such reports attempted to mislead the public into believing that Lai Chee-ying did not receive the medical care he needed, in order to slander Lai Chee-ying's case concerning the national security law in Hong Kong as well as his custodial arrangements and the medical services provided to him, said a spokesperson for the HKSAR government on Friday.
During Friday's open court hearing, senior counsel representing Lai Chee-ying clearly presented to the court that the correctional institutions arranged daily medical checkups for Lai Chee-ying and that there had been no complaints at all regarding the medical care he received there, the spokesperson said.
Before attending court, Lai Chee-ying has been certified by medical doctors that he was physically and mentally fit for a court hearing. In fact, the spokesperson noted, doctors stationed at correctional institutions and specialists from the Hospital Authority regularly follow up on Lai Chee-ying's health conditions.
"The medical care received by Lai Chee-ying in custody is adequate and comprehensive," said the spokesperson.
