Protests against undocumented boy, 12, ‘damaged social order’, CY Leung says
Chief executive says groups that protested against undocumented mainlander's effort to stay in city were 'destroying social order'
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying condemned "radical" activists yesterday for "destroying social order" by protesting against an undocumented mainland boy's effort to stay in the city.
Leung questioned whether the activists would be so concerned if the boy, 12-year-old Siu Yau-wai, was not from the mainland.
Yau-wai had lived in the city illegally for nine years, according to his grandmother, Chow Siu-shuen, 67. Chow brought him to Hong Kong at age three after his parents abandoned him, she said at a media conference organised by Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Chan Yuen-han on Thursday.
The case sparked several protests at the weekend, including one where about 40 people stormed Confucian Tai Shing Primary School in Wong Tai Sin, which had expressed interest in admitting the boy.
Then on Monday, more than 100 protesters marched from Causeway Bay to Immigration Department headquarters in Wan Chai, demanding the boy be returned to the mainland.
Leung emphasised the authorities would handle the case according to law.
