ICRT Radio News
Date: 2019-01-19

A lawmaker from the DPP is voicing concern over possible security failings in
the area around the Presidential Office, after a report appeared in a Hong
Kong newspaper with pictures of a pro-Hong Kong independence student leader
allegedly meeting with an “emissary” of President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei
earlier this month.

Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao ran a front page story earlier this week,
claiming that Tony Chung Han-lam, a student leader of the pro-Hong Kong
independence movement Studentlocalism, met an “emissary” of Tsai’s to discuss
an “independence plot” at Academia Historica in downtown Taipei.

Speaking at a news conference, DPP lawmaker Lo Chih-cheng called the news
report “groundless,” but said it exposed security failures in the Bo’ai
Special Zone near the Presidential Office, because apparently a reporter was
able to secretly film a group of people without being challenged.

Although the report was false, Lo said such “lawless” behavior highlighted
security lapses in an area of Taipei where security is supposed to be tight.  [SOURCE]