Cheung Tze-keung and the 17 other Hong Kong men held in Guangzhou should be brought back to the SAR for trial, say human rights and church groups.
Nobody has the right to take other people's lives.
Police Commissioner Eddie Hui Ki-on and the Security Bureau have said they would not seek thesurrender of the 18 suspects because many of the offences were planned and committed on the mainland. Police Officer Receives Death Sentence for Smuggling A high-ranking Chinese police officer has been sentenced to death for smuggling cigarettes in the southern province of Guangdong, the China Daily said Monday. The Guangdong police squadron head Chen Youxian was sentenced after being found guilty of smuggling and harboring cigarette traffickers, the daily said, without saying whether the sentence had been carried out. Two other police officers, identified as Luo Yicheng and Wu Jianxiong, were sentenced to 10 and two years in jail, respectively. Chinese President Jiang Zemin has ordered the People's Liberation Army to divest all its business interests.