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Topic: Cause and effect

Question: Have you caught up with the news about what is happening in Hong Kong?

Interviewer: You want all charges dropped against protesters who’ve been arrested and the government turned that down.

HK Protester: Yes.

Interviewer: But how could they do anything else if you are found to have broken the law? You should be punished the same way as the police shouldn’t you? So why are you above the law?

HK Protester: So why aren’t they punishing the police?

Interviewer: They have, in the past police have been held into court and punished.

HK Protester: We can not even identify the police because they are not showing their warrants because they are not showing the numbers when we cannot hold the police accountable when nobody can actually punish the police, it could be charing out creditors with rioting even though they are only participating in some peaceful marches, that is not reasonable.

Interviewer: You consider yourselves equal before the law with everybody else, do you?

HK Protester: We are equal before the law.

Interviewer: So why should you get an amnesty? Why? If you’ve broken the law and the HongKong Bar Association the HongKong law Society’s seen to indicate that you have broken, shouldn’t you be punished for breaking the law?

HK Protester: I believe asking for amnesty would be the best solution too.

Interviewer: I thought you’d be somebody upholds the rule of law in HongKong.

HK Protester: Yes we want to create a law-based society with fairness.

Interviewer: But at the same time you want an amnesty? You want to escape punishment for breaking the law and all kinds of things that are in a society, then what kind of society do you want to live in?

HK Protester: I would not say that is trying to escape from being punished when we have broken the law, I believe the reason why protesters are taking on the streets this is because we want the government to be accountable to us. We want the government to give concrete actions as most out demands, and I believe that’s why we are participating in peaceful marches, lawful marches, ever since June. However, the government the police had been accusing us has been arresting us for rioting, and when the reason why they’re arresting us is not reasonable at all, how can they charge us?

Interviewer: So you think breaking shops’ glasses and fighting people that don’t agree with what you are thinking is not breaking the law?

HK Protester: I think they are forced by what the government has done.

Interviewer: Anyway, thank you for your interview.

HK Protester: You’re welcome.