A Hong Kong activist says she was twice forced to strip naked by police in an attempt to 'humiliate'' her while being detained for 10 hours on a visit to the Hunan hometown of June 4 dissident Li Wangyang, whose suspicious death last month sparked an outpouring of anger in Hong Kong.
Debby Chan Sze-wan, 31, and law student Benson Siu Kin-tao, 20, were stopped by three people they believed to be plain-clothes police officers as they took photographs outside Daxiang Hospital in Shaoyang where Li died last month.
Li, who was blind and deaf, was found hanged from a window with his feet still touching the floor.
'They [the officers] did not identify themselves and tried to take away our camera and phones,' Siu said. 'We attempted to run away but they followed and forced us to go into a police station.'
The pair were separated after being detained. Chan said a female officer ordered her to undress completely because the officer suspected her of 'having a recording device hidden on her body' after finding a camera and recording devices in her bag.
'I think because of my background as an activist, they forced me to strip in order to humiliate me.'
Chan said the officers had told them that they were suspected of immigration offences because they had not registered at the local police station immediately after arriving in the town. But Chan said all the questions were related to Li's death.
